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BitMeter2, Help!! Yellow
I installed BitMeter2, free and very powerful.
It shows a graph with red indicating downloads, green indicating uploads, But what does YELLOW mean? I looked in Help, and found a page that explained that red indicated downloads, green indicated uploads, which I had figured out myself, but searching for the word "yellow" found nothing. Any ideas? What else is there but up and down? Sideways? Enemy spying? (I was curious how much data I was using, now that I got the wifi receiver so that I can use the phone as a hotspot if the home internet ever goes out. it turns out, so far, I'm using about 15 gigs a month on the PC (including playing webradio about 8 hours a day, sometimes 2 stations at the same time, so I can switch back and forth.) Which means that the 5 gigs that come with the phone can run the home computer for about 10 days. I've never been without home internet for more than a day, and that only once, so this is fine. On the phone, not counting a foreign trip, it's the first month I've had data, so maybe I'll get used to it and use more in the future but this first month, I'm 14 days in and I've only used 50Megs.) |
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BitMeter2, Help!! Yellow
micky wrote:
It shows a graph with red indicating downloads, green indicating uploads, But what does YELLOW mean? The overlap of green and red? |
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BitMeter2, Help!! Yellow
On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 18:40:44 +0100, Andy Burns
wrote: micky wrote: It shows a graph with red indicating downloads, green indicating uploads, But what does YELLOW mean? The overlap of green and red? +1 I use Bandwidth Monitor 3.4 and it defaults to the exact same color scheme. |
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BitMeter2, Help!! Yellow
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Wed, 8 Aug 2018 18:40:44 +0100, Andy Burns
wrote: micky wrote: It shows a graph with red indicating downloads, green indicating uploads, But what does YELLOW mean? The overlap of green and red? I think we covered that in the 2nd grade and it doesn't work that way. But there are other reasons too. I forget.... Right now it's all red with a tiny bit of yellow. No green every since you posted. What did you do? |
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BitMeter2, Help!! Yellow
micky wrote:
Andy Burns wrote: micky wrote: what does YELLOW mean? The overlap of green and red? I think we covered that in the 2nd grade and it doesn't work that way. it's software, it can obey the rules for mixing pigments, or the rules for mixing light (where red+green does equal yellow), or it could invent its own rules and have flashing cyan/magenta for the overlap if it wanted to. |
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BitMeter2, Help!! Yellow
In article , Andy Burns
wrote: what does YELLOW mean? The overlap of green and red? I think we covered that in the 2nd grade and it doesn't work that way. it's software, it can obey the rules for mixing pigments, subtractive primaries are magenta, yellow and cyan. or the rules for mixing light (where red+green does equal yellow), yep. or it could invent its own rules and have flashing cyan/magenta for the overlap if it wanted to. if it flashed fast enough it would additively mix in the viewer's brain and appear as blue. |
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BitMeter2, Help!! Yellow
In article , micky
wrote: But what does YELLOW mean? The overlap of green and red? I think we covered that in the 2nd grade and it doesn't work that way. yes it does: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/vision/imgvis/addspotl.gif https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...llumination.jp g https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Hbxy1W9O_Wk/hqdefault.jpg |
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BitMeter2, Help!! Yellow
micky wrote:
I installed BitMeter2, free and very powerful. It shows a graph with red indicating downloads, green indicating uploads, But what does YELLOW mean? I looked in Help, and found a page that explained that red indicated downloads, green indicated uploads, which I had figured out myself, but searching for the word "yellow" found nothing. Any ideas? What else is there but up and down? Sideways? Enemy spying? (I was curious how much data I was using, now that I got the wifi receiver so that I can use the phone as a hotspot if the home internet ever goes out. it turns out, so far, I'm using about 15 gigs a month on the PC (including playing webradio about 8 hours a day, sometimes 2 stations at the same time, so I can switch back and forth.) Which means that the 5 gigs that come with the phone can run the home computer for about 10 days. I've never been without home internet for more than a day, and that only once, so this is fine. On the phone, not counting a foreign trip, it's the first month I've had data, so maybe I'll get used to it and use more in the future but this first month, I'm 14 days in and I've only used 50Megs.) Here is a screenshot. http://www.snapfiles.com/screenfiles/bitmeter3.gif The left-most spike has a "green top" and a "yellow bottom". That means green was higher than red, so the top is green, and where the red would be is yellow. Many of the red spikes on the right, the red is winning. Where the green would be (a flat line on the baseline), overlaps with the red pixels (which might be partially flat line too). So the bottom line is yellow as a result. It's debatable (a "taste" thing), whether this idea is better than the Windows perfmeter view where one waveform simply covers up the other, and the user then "guesses" that the second or nth line is exactly underneath. Paul |
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In article , NONONOmisc07
@bigfoot.com says... But what does YELLOW mean? Go to settings; Appearance: colours: and it is explained that Yellow indicates Overlap, which is the colour used to draw the parts of the main graph where upload and download bars overlap |
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BitMeter2, Help!! Yellow
On 08/08/2018 12:13 PM, micky wrote:
I installed BitMeter2, free and very powerful. It shows a graph with red indicating downloads, green indicating uploads, But what does YELLOW mean? I looked in Help, and found a page that explained that red indicated downloads, green indicated uploads, which I had figured out myself, but searching for the word "yellow" found nothing. Any ideas? What else is there but up and down? Sideways? Enemy spying? Mixing red and green light gives you yellow. Perhaps this means both upload and download. I often do something like that on my website, when I want to use color to indicate more than one thing, as in: thing 1: red thing 2: green both things 1 and 2: red + green = yellow (I was curious how much data I was using, now that I got the wifi receiver so that I can use the phone as a hotspot if the home internet ever goes out. it turns out, so far, I'm using about 15 gigs a month on the PC (including playing webradio about 8 hours a day, sometimes 2 stations at the same time, so I can switch back and forth.) Which means that the 5 gigs that come with the phone can run the home computer for about 10 days. I've never been without home internet for more than a day, and that only once, so this is fine. About 4 years ago, I was without home internet (cable) for almost a week because of a storm that messed up the wires. I used a mobile hotspot. Everything wired was out, but cell service was fine (other than in the first hour or so, when it was too busy). I could even use it a little at night, when the generator wasn't running. On the phone, not counting a foreign trip, it's the first month I've had data, so maybe I'll get used to it and use more in the future but this first month, I'm 14 days in and I've only used 50Megs.) I've watched more Netflix this month, the ISP says I've used 92.6GB since July 10. -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power or reasoning." -- Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary, 1764 |
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BitMeter2, Help!! Yellow
On 08/08/2018 12:40 PM, Andy Burns wrote:
micky wrote: It shows a graph with red indicating downloads, green indicating uploads, But what does YELLOW mean? The overlap of green and red? BTW, that's how they make multicolor LEDs. Yellow is red and green together. Full color LEDs have blue too, so can make any color -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning." -- Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary, 1764 |
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BitMeter2, Help!! Yellow
On 08/08/2018 04:27 PM, Andy Burns wrote:
micky wrote: Andy Burns wrote: micky wrote: what does YELLOW mean? The overlap of green and red? I think we covered that in the 2nd grade and it doesn't work that way. it's software, it can obey the rules for mixing pigments, or the rules for mixing light (where red+green does equal yellow), or it could invent its own rules and have flashing cyan/magenta for the overlap if it wanted to. It could, although that would be less obvious than yelllow being a mix of red and green. BTW, my grandmother was more familiar with paint (subtractive color mixing) where yellow IS a primary color. -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power or reasoning." -- Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary, 1764 |
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BitMeter2, Help!! Yellow
Mark Lloyd wrote:
BTW, my grandmother was more familiar with paint (subtractive color mixing) where yellow IS a primary color. What I remember of poster paints at primary school, is that all mixtures tend towards brown |
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BitMeter2, Help!! Yellow
On 08/08/2018 04:42 PM, nospam wrote:
[snip] if it flashed fast enough it would additively mix in the viewer's brain and appear as blue. Yes, which is actually what that (2 wire) multicolor LED is doing. Red on one polarity, green on the other. You get yellow with AC (fast alternating red and green). -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power or reasoning." -- Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary, 1764 |
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BitMeter2, Help!! Yellow
On 08/08/2018 04:42 PM, nospam wrote:
[snip] I think we covered that in the 2nd grade and it doesn't work that way. yes it does: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/vision/imgvis/addspotl.gif https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...llumination.jp g https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Hbxy1W9O_Wk/hqdefault.jpg Some people don't know there are two different systems, for different situations. Additive mixing (multiple light sources), as those linked images (I liked those) show uses red, green, and blue. Red + green = yellow in that system. This is what you see on your monitor, and what cameras use. Subtractive mixing (light filtering) as you learned in 2nd grade uses magenta, yellow, and cyan, and yellow is a primary color. Some people (somewhat incorrectly) call magenta and cyan, red and blue. These are NOT the same red and blue used in additive mixing, and can make it more confusing. This is what happens with paint, ink, or toner. BTW, My dictionary actually lists a third set of "primary colors", a set of 8 called "psychological primaries". This is ALL 6 or the above (red, green, blue, magenta, yellow, cyan) plus black and white. -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning." -- Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary, 1764 |
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