On 12/31/2015 07:48 PM, crankypuss wrote:
NY wrote:

"J G Miller" wrote in message
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On Thursday, December 31st, 2015, at 10:43:09h +0000, NY noted:

As you say, wireless is fine for almost all purposes

Never attempt firmware upgrades on devices connected by WiFi
and not ethernet.

Quite. And ideally, only update firmware if you have a fully-charged
battery or else are running off UPS-backed mains.

And we all follow that rule slavishly, don't we, children? :-)

I happen to follow it because there's really no choice; all of my
electricity is battery-backed, even when I'm running off generator
instead of solar. The wifi imprecation, not so much; wifi is about the
best connection I get unless I'm staying in a hotel that provides an
ethernet cable,

Thought of ethernet over powerline?

*AND* I'm using my old Acer 32-bit machine that actually
*HAS* an ethernet port to attach the cable to. Newer laptops, as you
might have noticed, seem to have fewer ports overall, so they can beat
their chests about how slim their device is. snort

The wast majority of thin laptops do still have ethernet, tables is a
different question even if they may be thicker than the laptop.

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//Aho