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O.T. Computer Cleaning Maintenance:
There's another thing I've noticed
about Yahoo. Sometimes when I backspace nothing happens, even when I click nothing. It sometimes takes two clicks to return to the main page. Now that's not right. They put so many ads etc on these days it boughs everything else down. It sure would be nice to go to clean news page with nothing but news instead of all this junk. I've tried to personalize Yahoo before but didn't see much difference. |
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O.T. Computer Cleaning Maintenance:
I noticed another thing today, kind of hard not to.
I opened a story about the elections and had a couple of other tabs open at the time and it froze everything so that I had to open device manager and close all the tabs. They definitely have done something to make the site user unfriendly. Also I get tired of reading the same news day after day but that's all sites nowadays but Yahoo sure has more than its share of negative stories. Robert |
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O.T. Computer Cleaning Maintenance:
Mark Twain wrote:
I noticed another thing today, kind of hard not to. I opened a story about the elections and had a couple of other tabs open at the time and it froze everything so that I had to open device manager and close all the tabs. They definitely have done something to make the site user unfriendly. Also I get tired of reading the same news day after day but that's all sites nowadays but Yahoo sure has more than its share of negative stories. Robert The Yahoo site uses scrolling technology. As you scroll down the page, old articles are pulled in. The intention, is to make the page look "infinitely long". As this is happening, the Flash windows are also affected. As you scroll down, there is a need to load new Flash windows. Now, a smart design, would be to unload and disable the previous Flash windows further up the page (the ones you can no longer see). This would conserve resources. Off to the right hand side, new advertising resources (animated GIF or Flash) are added too. I've seen a few other websites that use this technique. The web page does not load (entirely) on invocation. As you scroll down, more content is pulled up from the archives. The material at the top of the page is fresh. But if you scroll down long enough, you'll hit some pretty old material (a first-person story about Noah's Ark perhaps) :-) Paul |
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O.T. Computer Cleaning Maintenance:
That seems such a waste of resources especially
considering they run the same stories day after day. Its not even news anymore but more like a rag sheet with whatever bring in the biggest headlines no matter what is may be. I had to chuckle over your last sentence. *L* btw,, I heard that 95% of Google employees are H1B from India. Would you know if that's true? Robert |
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O.T. Computer Cleaning Maintenance:
Mark Twain wrote:
That seems such a waste of resources especially considering they run the same stories day after day. Its not even news anymore but more like a rag sheet with whatever bring in the biggest headlines no matter what is may be. I had to chuckle over your last sentence. *L* btw,, I heard that 95% of Google employees are H1B from India. Would you know if that's true? Robert There are some numbers here. The ones at the top of the list, are the companies that replace North American IT staff with Indians. Google is 17th in the list, but that's a rating on direct hires, versus using some Indian company in a subcontract. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H1B_visa Paul |
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O.T. Computer Cleaning Maintenance:
It really bothers me that these companies
hire these people and subcontract and outsource instead of hiring very capable Americans all for the sake of greed. Robert |
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O.T. Computer Cleaning Maintenance:
Mark Twain wrote:
It really bothers me that these companies hire these people and subcontract and outsource instead of hiring very capable Americans all for the sake of greed. Robert We had a funny case here, where a bank fired all their IT staff, and used a company from the top of that list, to fill the positions. But before the staff were fired, their last job definition was to train the new hires who would be taking their jobs. Anything to save a buck. Paul |
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O.T. Computer Cleaning Maintenance:
Unfortunately, that has been happening
everywhere or they just outsource the entire operation to India as you say, just to save a buck never thinking of the long term effects but only short term profits. Robert |
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O.T. Computer Cleaning Maintenance:
Remember when I was talking about
the whine I get from the 8200 housing tabs in the back and every so often I have to mess around with them to get it to stop whining. I think I may have a possible solution although I haven't tried it as yet. Since there's no room to slip a thin piece of insulation in-between I thought I would scrap a small amount of beeswax onto the tabs which may insulate them. As I said, I'm a pipe smoker and I use beeswax on pipe stems that are either too tight or too loose. It works for both. So I may just open up the 8200 today and give it a try. If it works it would make the 8200 much quieter Robert |
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I just applied the beeswax to all the
tabs on the fan housing. So we'll see if that takes care of the whine. I'll say this, it sounds allot quieter now than before.I just hope it stays like this. Robert |
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Well, it didn't work. The 8200 stayed quiet
most of the night but just now I heard the whine again. Its possible the heat from the computer was enough to soften the beeswax and thus plastic against metal again. You'd think that those who designed the computers would realize this and provide for it. Robert |
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O.T. Computer Cleaning Maintenance:
Mark Twain wrote:
Well, it didn't work. The 8200 stayed quiet most of the night but just now I heard the whine again. Its possible the heat from the computer was enough to soften the beeswax and thus plastic against metal again. You'd think that those who designed the computers would realize this and provide for it. Robert I use old bicycle tube rubber for dampening. As long as it's not put in a place where it will get hot. Paul |
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