How How How (Tablets)

I have a tablet and a PC in the same room and a data cable that can connect one to the other. How do I send files from one to the other using the cable ? 

Do I log on from one computer to the other ? Do I mount one of the computers as a device on the other ? Do I run a run a server on one and a client on the other ? Or do I detach the cable and send an internet email that goes from one computer to my isp and then on to the mail server I use somewhere in California and back again ? Answers later on,after I have updated my PC desktop userland and  possably my entire system because someone has written a mystery piece of software that crashes  on multi-tasking systems.

Why Why Why ?(tablets)

Advertising has got me and now I am in possesion of a new ‘@tab’ brand android tablet. Not the brand I would normally chose, but it does the job as well as any tablet but does not have a mobile phone device. I am now tied to WIFI to do computing on the move. And I am tied to these  ‘you have got to have this’ apps  that my sister and friends tell me about. Not a happy stance. 

Why Why Why ?

Old Gadget Blues

I have an old usb trackerball that is almost as old as usb. Today it did not work without unplugging it from its usb to ps2 adaptor and plugging it into a usb hub. I tried software updates and replacing the adaptor, still no luck. I did not want to lose a port on my usb hub to my trackerball. I hoped that it would work ok after powering down and leaving it then powering back up later, with the trackerball in its adapter.  This worked! I hope it was just a bug in D-bus and not the need to get a new input device.

New Gadget blues

I have a new sound output gadget baught at The Great Yorkshire Show ( mostly for farmers ). I plugged it into my system with no batteries, it needs batteries. It ran for a time. I switched it off. Needless to say, now my ordinary speakers don’t work, neither does the new gadget!

I am not blaming the product’s vendor because I need to try it with batteries now – then I will start grumbling.

The ogg of war

There is this simple ogg vorbis player called “ogg123”. In previous versions it used to play music files. You just typed “ogg123 filename.ogg” and it played it. Or to play a directory full of them “ogg123 *”  Simple!

Now it refuses to play some quite normal files complaing about corrupt files. They are not corupt and play just fine in several other players. Its not that it desn’t work, it can play some oggs, but not all, and won’t say why. 

Talking Tablets

As I understand, on a chinese whispers basis, Notion ink, the company that came out with the swanky looking, high spec, Adam Tablet, is due, at the end of this year, to produce a budget android tablet called the Adam II.

I want to buy one! But I have already got a computer! Why Why Why ?

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