Posts by Russell Brown
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Come to that, I don't "want to spend $80 a month just for internet". Whatever speed I get from Telecom and a 3G cap is fine for my browsing.
You're no use at all to the unbundling ISPs. They pay a per-line rental rate, and the non-premium "ordinary" broadband services don't bring in enough to provide a viable margin.
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Oh, and can someone write me a script to replace all instances of "your mum" with "a mainstream consumer"?
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This has made me think of one of the great Public Address readers, the late Dorothy Dean of Bluff.
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Making assumptions about someone's technical ability based on their age or gender is a non-trivial issue - the IT industry has enough trouble with sexism without compounding it in the way it approaches the rest of the world. I still get angry when I think about buying a printer off a sales clerk who directed the answers to all my questions to my male companion.
I had to talk my mum through Eft-Pos, years after it was introduced -- she was just used to cashing cheques. It doesn't mean she's stupid, just used to doing things other ways. I also provided phone support on the digital picture frame I got her for Christmas -- although she did work out that unplugging it seemed to fix its glitches.
But this is a real issue for mainstream devices. The reason everyone loved MySky when it launched here was that the same gear had gone through multiple iterations in Britain and it was really user-friendly. The Topfield works, but it isn't quite fit for a mass-market device that you're expecting people to self-install.
Ditto for the Orcon deals. Your Mum (alright, my Mum) probably doesn't want to spend $80 a month just for internet, she doesn't need the extra speed and she won't use 10GB a month. It doesn't mean she's incompetent or something, it's just not the deal for her.
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... but when you're asked to fix a system that's been really rooted, it's for a man who should have asked for help earlier but didn't.
That's so true.
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WTF? I thought we were past this sort of stereotyping these days. Bad Russell! Go sit on the naughty step and have a long think about what you've said. Time starts now...
Sigh ... alright, not deals for your mum and dad, then. My point related to generation, not gender.
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Most of the time you're really careful about this Russell, but if you're serious about making sure that this is always a good place for women to come, please don't insult our intelligence.
Jeez, lighten up. I think I use the phrase because in the back of my mind I have my Mum (my Dad's not with us any more). It's not an insult, just shorthand for the average, perhaps older non-geek consumer.
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1. Anyone know where (roughly) the Ponse exchange is? I'm in Crummer Rd and interested in roughly how far away I am.
Summer Street. I'd think you were good to go.
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Ahem.
Heh.
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Can't you assign a static address to the gadget? If your router is on 192.168.0.1, you should be able to assign anything else on 192.168.0.x (that another machine isn't using), using your router address as the gateway, and the appropriate subnet mask (255.255.255.0 in the example given)
Seeing as you asked ... I'm damned if I can work out what key to press to edit a static IP address to what it needs to be.
Gateway address = 192.168.1.1
Manual IP address = 192.168.11.xxx
I can press a number key and set that, but I can't see a way to reduce the number of digits between the dots.
And I actually don't think it's seeing my router -- perhaps because the cable passes through the wireless hotspot in the lounge, although that doesn't seem to be a problem for the Xbox 360.
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