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Windows XP and its search feature- Win7 above does not have it. Yahoo Geocities- simply miss it. and also Yahoo in general. My current yahoo mail is chock a bl
by hoof_marks 10y ago
Windows XP and its search feature- Win7 above does not have it.
Yahoo Geocities- simply miss it. and also Yahoo in general. My current yahoo mail is chock a block with spam mails. plus their ads.
Xerox Ventura desktop publishing software- that was cool when book publishing was required.
Motorola T90/91 basic mobile phone. superb and handiest phone used. Current Moto is smart but not unbeatable.
Most importantly old BSNL (India) Landline tariffs- you could talk for hours and still the billing would come per call-wise. Simple unbeatable !!
Non- Microsoft Keyboards- here they are out of market. THe MS keyboards go out of tune/get stuck over time.
Softwares that would never needed to update- These days it is a harassment to see every software on my PC requiring to update. Now its gone to mobile phones. God knows what is it that they do in updates.
Tap water- 2 decades ago we would drink water straight from the tap or just plain filtered. Its impossible now. The water is too contaminated and needs added filtration devices at home/work. or bottled water.
Paper bags at the grocery shop. They've vanished giving place to cheap plastic bags. And many products are now using plastic wrappings that would come with paper ones.
A more silent neighbourhood- these days its high intensity horn blaring.
- an_account_name 10y agoPer-call billing sounds crazy - there should never have been a time in circuit switched or packet switched networks when that would have correctly captured costs.
- Turing_Machine 10y agoI don't know about the OP's situation, but at one time most phone calls were completed by a human operator looking up circuit numbers and physically connecting the two customers using a patch cord. I suspect that under that model, the operator's time was the dominant cost involved in placing the call.
- Turing_Machine 10y agoIIRC, the pricing model was something like this: 1) The customer paid a fixed monthly charge for having phone service at all. This covered the capital costs of the wiring to the customer's premises. 2) On top of that, the customer paid a per-call fee. This covered the cost of having a woman (usually) ask what number you wanted, locate the proper jack, and physically plug your circuit in to the circuit of the person you wanted to reach. It's probably no coincidence that the local service operator was one of the first parts of the phone system to be automated away (nor is it surprising that phone companies continued the per-call charge long after its justification went away :-)).
- messel 10y agoRead this again with the voice as Nick Offerman
- govg 10y ago> BSNL Tariffs They have the unlimited thing now right, where you can make calls at night and they're free? > Tap water Are you talking about India or the US?
- lucb1e 10y ago> Are you talking about India or another country? Fixed that for you. I believe there are several other options besides the US.
- hoof_marks 10y agotrue India.
- martinml 10y agoI miss the search feature in Windows XP too. But Agent Ransack is a very good replacement and it even integrates with the file explorer. Try it!
- fsloth 10y agoYes! Agent Ransack has become an indispensable tool in my daily work. With SSD and Agent Ransack i can do searches over ludicrous number of gigabytes within a heartbeat and usually find whatever it was. Yes, there are gnu tools for windows but from usability point of view Agent Ransack is way better (if we presume the tragick default cmd.exe as the command line, at least)
- hoof_marks 10y agoWow it has Regexp. Let's see how it goes. Looks good. Thanks.
- stephenr 10y ago> "just plain filtered" ... "needs added filtration".. Wut?
- anexprogrammer 10y agoWhat's wrong with your tap water? Don't they have the same safety standards to meet? UK tap water is great (Well, outside of Greater London where it's basically limestone slurry). I've never bought bottled or filtered aside from the brief time I was in London. At least two brands of UK bottled water were bottling northern tap water and selling it. Business idea I wish I had thought of!
- tluyben2 10y agoDutch tap water is great too. Joy to drink.
- BjoernKW 10y agoIf I'm not mistaken he's talking about India. It's common advice (for travellers at least) to only drink bottled water in India.
- pmontra 10y agoIf it's India they have a problem of arsenic contamination of groundwater, plus bacterial contamination of surface water.
- anexprogrammer 10y agoHe mentions 2 decades ago it being fine, so I presume not India. The advice to only drink bottled in India was common 20 years ago too.
- hoof_marks 10y agoIndia, Calcutta. But now all over India hardly one will be drinking tap water straight away. Some filter process is always done at point of drinking. These days its so sad to find every shop ordering a container of filtered drinking water. Earlier it was available through taps. Now no one trusts tap water.
- x0x0 10y ago
- jamesrcole 10y ago> Tap water ... > Paper bags at the grocery shop ... > A more silent neighbourhood ... Just out of curiosity, what area or country do you live in?
- vshan 10y agoI presume India, since he mentioned BSNL.
- marincounty 10y ago"> A more silent neighborhood..." I haven't figured out if I changed or my neighbor's for loudness? In my neighborhood, it seems like when ever the economy heats up, like in the Bay Area; residents order more junk from Amazon, trim everything, use blowers for just the sake of irritation, hire handymen who take a whole summer to put in a 10 X 20 deck, and are just irritating loud? I'd rather have Metal Heads playing at level 11 than these hypocritical earthy home owners. I'm actually looking forward to a slight drop in the local economy. It's almost like they need a project, a package to be delivered daily--after all they would have to talk to each other without that daily distraction? (I miss the Internet of pre 2008. Why? You could find more information for free.)
- freshyill 10y agoTap water varies greatly even over a small area. New York City, for example, is extremely proud of the quality of its water, which comes from reservoirs upstate. I noticed it was good before I ever found out that it's something they like to boast about. In DC, however, the chlorine is over the top, especially at times when they're flushing the lines. I find that most places are somewhere in between these two extremes, even just outside the cities, where different municipalities have their own reservoirs and sources. As for paper bags, why not just use a reusable bag. In many places in the US, plastic bags are taxed (5¢ or so), with the funds going to clean up rivers. It's led to a major change in behavior.
- hoof_marks 10y agoTrue in states near the Himalayas like Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh the water is drinkable and pure. Down below at the plains it gets contaminated. Organized shops charge here an extra for the plastic bag. Majority of grocery shops hand out ultra thin plastic bags which will choke the rivers and environment. But important thing is public attitude. The attitude now is to collect as many of these bags as one can. So there you go. If the municipal corporation enforces a separate charge or ban, things will shape up. I do use a reusable bag. I've stopped using plastic bags.
- awqrre 10y agoI don't do any updates on mobile unless I have a reason (apps usually degrade over time)... but I do do my Ubuntu updates.