Am 29.07.2005 um 14:26 Uhr schrieb Andy G:
So, information is redundant if it's on the web and available for every
user, but it's not redundant if you have it in an application which
some
users may not want, or be able to use??
Interesting argument you put forward there....
Andy
O.K., I really did not want to stir up any emotions. No flame bait
here, just some clarifications. Redundancy, by definition, means that
you find the same things in more than one place, no matter in which
form, be it viewable online only or downloadable to use on your
computer as you please. That said, I readily concede that there may be
hardware and (system) software challenges, but the point I tried to
make is, why waste bandwidth, why waste webspace? The position of going
online for every bit of information is as least as questionable as the
one I put forward, to use your words (I'm post-war generation, so
please bear with my avarice. And, uh, the war I mean was WW II.) What
is more, the info on the web is an elusive treasure, it's there and
then it's gone. Many things may be at several places at the same time,
so you just can go to another URL when the first one you used is gone.
But some info sometimes is gone for good, and that is one reason I
prefer having MacTracker, GURU and the like. And my hard disks. The old
Macs won't change any more nor will the printers, so for basic info
something I can download to my HD is just fine. I can still dive into
the web if I want to go more into detail and maybe I'll get lucky,
maybe not (I still don't know what the heck is wrong with this
LaserWriter II NTX I have). And for the latest discoveries about the
oldest Macs I'm subscribed to some LEM lists ;-) .
/rant on: I may have a museum, but I don't live in a museum. As I wrote
in another post to an LEM list lately, we are in 2005, and if you still
surf the 'net seriously to gather important information that will
decide how you make up your next day's schedule, a 14.4 modem on a
68000 just may not be adequate, and it's your own decision. Live is too
short to drink bad wine, and as much as I like to play with my Compacts
equipment, I do the real work on today's machines.
/rant off
The web may be here forever, but at what price? And will your favourite
websites survive? Are you always willing (and able, anywhere, anytime)
to access the net to get some itsy bitsy detail about how the LC 575
differs from the LC 580? I am not, I don't have the time (and the money
- I can't have ADSL in my neck of the woods - and prefer spending the
saved Eurocents for some new old hardware). So, I still swear by
MacTracker that is available on my G4, my wife's and my son's iBooks
and my daughter's iMac that are all on our home WLAN. And you don't
have to have the latest version installed, no need to have 4.2b if you
aren't interested in the very latest hardware issued by our favourite
maker. I doubt there were pre-PPC versions of MacTracker, I rather
think there was no 68k version and that this was the reason I clung to
GURU 2.9 for so long. Willi, I'd be glad to send it to you if you can't
get it at Newer Technologies' website, it's really useful, albeit not
quite as informative as MacTracker. Every bit of progress has its
price, like stepping up to a PowerPC (BTW, the 6400 I'm playing with at
the moment came with 7.6.1 - your newest OS! But I am upgrading it with
more RAM, a bigger HD and OS 9.1 to make the best use of the USB card I
plugged into it. When I plan using a machine seriously, I go all the
way to make it compatible with my workhorses.)
Don't get me wrong, I'll never advocate barring info to be presented on
the web, only the imagination some people might get down to business
spending hours and days collecting information made me think it would
be a waste of time since you could have all this info from the web
already.
Cheers, OM
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