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Phones and pads connect to the infrastructure even if the data spigot isn't enabled. But it could be, so I would pop the SIM out or disable all data until you sort out who is going to pay for the service. Better to know that's part of the gift and not feel bad to have to make that up later.

daviesgeek

Actually it is EDGE, but it's still connected

@bmike Yeah, I turned it on like once. Besides that, there's no need for 3G for us. I know that my grandfather probably doesn't know who's paying for it.

It was an iPad 1 that he was given quite awhile ago. So old, in fact, that it was running iOS 3.2

bmike

Hey @JavaAndCSharp - try not to conflate your choice of OS and your constraints with overarching judgements of what is truly "huge, slow or ugly". Both yo mama and the dozens don't work so well here.

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Q: Is there any way for me to make Safari take up less disk space?

I am a web developer, and as such, I have to have Safari on my Windows PC. It's not a very good fit with Windows, as it's huge, slow, and ugly. While I can tolerate ugly and slow, I can't really live with the huge part. It's a hundred four megs, which is absolutely fantastically huge. Right behi...

Although in chat - it might work better.

"Yo OS so slow, it can't run a hundred meg app even when it has an SSD."

err - or maybe not so much...

Kyle Cronin

I'm also skeptical of the premise of that question - 100MB is not a lot, even on an SSD, and is comparable to Chrome and Firefox

jrg

Yo OS is so slow, it can't run anything even when it has a SSD.

Nah, that don't work either.

daviesgeek

10:33 PM

@KyleCronin Google Chrome 18.0.1025.142 = 330.6 MB

Kyle Cronin

yeah

if you're a "web developer" you need to have the appropriate tools to develop for the web

that includes Safari

daviesgeek

Yup.

Kyle Cronin

if that means you need to buy a bigger SSD, so be it

bmike

Does windows now allow apps to sit on spinning HD and let the SSD just speed the operation? I think I recall windows using flash as an "accelerator" to store cache files on faster storage.

Kyle Cronin

I had heard about that a few years ago, something about using USB thumb drives to speed the OS

which sounded backwards to me, but whatever

jrg

10:36 PM

Yeah, at this point doing that doesn't make a lot of sense

because most machines have enough RAM to just do it there.

Kyle Cronin

ReadyBoost

ReadyBoost is a disk cache component of Microsoft Windows, first introduced with Microsoft's Windows Vista in 2006 and bundled with Windows 7 in 2009. It works by using flash memory, a USB flash drive, SD card, CompactFlash or any kind of portable flash mass storage system as a cache. Overview Using ReadyBoost-capable flash memory (NAND memory devices) for caching allows Windows 7 and Vista to service random disk reads with performance that is typically 80-100 times faster than random reads from traditional hard drives. This caching applies to all disk content, not just the page file o...

Android users - are you seeing these scammy ads? What app is triggering them? http://twitpic.com/93wqht

Tweeted by joshuatopolsky on March 31, 2012 at 10:33 PM

I'd just like to say, I'm so glad I bought my iPhone 4 instead of the Droid Incredible

daviesgeek

@KyleCronin Absolutely!!

Kyle Cronin

Android has just gotten worse and worse over the last 2 years

daviesgeek

@KyleCronin Just out of curiosity, how much do you pay per month for your service?

Kyle Cronin

~$50-$60/month usually

daviesgeek

10:44 PM

Ouch. Is that for unlimited data, or do you have a cap?

Kyle Cronin

2GB

daviesgeek

I see.

Kyle Cronin

for an individual with an iPhone, that's not a bad price, comparatively

daviesgeek

I've considered getting an Android device and an iPod touch and share the 3G/4G connection, but I'm not sure it's cheaper

Kyle Cronin

yeah, you don't want to do that

daviesgeek

10:46 PM

@KyleCronin IIRC, that's a little less than what we pay for a landline, basic cable, and internet.

Kyle Cronin

@daviesgeek combined? if so, that's pretty amazing

usually the combos are $80+

daviesgeek

Yes, combined. However, I may be remembering wrong.

Kyle Cronin

I think $80 is the absolute lowest I've seen, and it was a short-term promotional kind of deal

but it could be different where you live

daviesgeek

Yah, what we got was a promotional deal, but we found out how to extend it.

The awesomest thing for me was the Internet and getting a speed bump

@TimothyMuellerHarder 36secs!!!!!!!! That's a record for me!

daviesgeek

11:44 PM

A: How can I change scroll direction in Snow Leopard?

commented: That picture might make a nice addendum to the answer on the linked question. Perhaps at the end with the mention of tiger through snow leopard and the free bit :-)