Hi Neville, 
that´s nothing to worry about. It wasn´t a serious mistake at all.
And your expert and professional input into a vast array of topics makes up for your “blunder” a thousand times… 
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Cheers from Rosika 
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Alexander Pope, poet of the Enlightenment, lent a famous line from his 1711 treatise An Essay on Criticism to the US Institutes of Medicine’s report on patient safety:
To Err is Human….. but to really screw it up needs a computer.
Question is where did he get a computer in 1711 ?
Back to the future part foss.
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Hi Paul,
Sorry no time machine. I check both the internet and AI for the saying and came up with this.
From Co-pilot;
“Original proverb: The phrase builds on Alexander Pope’s famous line from An Essay on Criticism (1711): “To err is human; to forgive, divine.”
The internet seems to back this up.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/05/26/computer-error/
The modern saying seems to come from Paul R. Ehrlich. Again from the web.
Again AI agreed and said it “first appeared in print in the Farmer’s Almanac in 1978” Although the saying is attribute to Paul Ehrlich, AI said “its exact origin remains uncertain”.
Side note.
I did not add the boldness.
It was much easier using AI then the internet for the information.
AI gave way more info then what was asked for and not really needed.
Weather the source is the web or AI consider if the info sounds correct and it does not hurt to verify the information.
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No, I did not. If a notice was sent, I did not see it.
If you want to (as a control test), you can change this posting and I will look for a notice.
I removed the line… Neville
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Thats easy look below
See its not here…. its behind you. Pantomine time. Ha ha ha
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Hi Howard,
I removed the line… did you get a notice?
Sourav sometimes edits my topic title or category … I get a notice then
Regards
Neville
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Yes, saw were you had made the change.
The first time, I did not know what Foss was trying to tell me.
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Thanks Howard.
I would have been alarmed if you had not received a notice… that would have meant I could change your post without you ever knowing !
I have just posted the Christmas message topic. Your help has been acknowledged.
Regards
Neville
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Here in the U.S.A., specifically in my home town (Toledo, Ohio), Cable TV services usually also offer Broad Band Internet over their Cable line which they then put on fiber. And there are multiple ISPs that offer fiber-based Broad Band Internet where the fiber runs all the way to the local (in my home) router/modem. I use ATT-Fiber-300 here (rated at 300mbps up-and-down), at a cost of about $55.00(US)/month.
Sadly, rural areas don’t yet get quality fiber service. Like you they must rely on either ADSL or Satellite services, the former of which is woefully inadequate, and the latter of which in horrifically expensive. You’d think our governments would step in and run fiber to small towns/less populated parts of our countries to improve the situation for these communities. Hopefully, fiber Internet becomes common enough that this happens, and soon!
Ernie
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Back in the late 80s the cable company arrived in the UK and just targetted the council housing estates as thats where they were going to make money. At that stage the University where I taught were asked to provide lessons on informatics to the residents. I décline the offers although very attractive to my department I was concerned we would just have a high drop out raté and users signing up just to get the cable service, switch it on a few times then abandon it.
There was lots of funny money splashing around from europe to fund it. My department was paid by bums on seats, I wanted to convert to qualifications and something worthwhile, my opposite number in electronics bit the hand off but then got into all sorts of difficulties with numbers glad I had said no.
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The solution used in Australia for rural areas is fixed wireless links to a local tower and cable from there. Ours does up to 100Mbps for downloads. Very remote areas use satellite.
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I get that. I’m thinking that all those cable companies that started out in the beginning didn’t really understand how to run that sort of business, and the few who did, were only in it for the money, but I suppose that we can’t expect anything more than that, not from commercial companies, at least. If you ask me, the world needs to find a better way to run an economy than getting money. I sorta like the credit system I see on Star Trek. You do a job because you love doing it, and you ‘earn’ credits enough to live well. Everybody has what they need. Nobody goes hungry. Nobody has to live homeless. That sounds like utopia to me!
Ernie
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100mbps Down’s not too terrible, if that’s what you get in real life, and mot a theoretical maximum, but satellite’s laggy, and very expensive, at least if yours is similar to what we get here. If you ask me, what’s really needed is a better, less expensive method to get Broad Band Internet to users eveerywhere so everyone can have the same opportunities, regardless their income!
Ernie
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It depends on how busy the local tower is. We usually get at least 50Mbps in the daytime. It is all relative. We used to have ADSL on a 12Km line… about 4Mbps maximum.
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Then that’s a very notable improvement. I had an ADSL account with ATT before I decided to switch to Fiber, and I noted an equally significant speed/reliability improvement then too. As I understand it, Fiber requires less maintenance than copper, and it provides more reliable and faster communications at a lower cost for the infrastructure materials, even after the installation costs are included, but I may have that wrong, so if so, please correct me with correct information.
Ernie
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I think wireless is superior to Copper and optic fibre, from the mainrenance point of view. Any cable in the ground can be dug up or flooded. We had a case here where someone put in a dam and cut a fibre optic line … the whole local town lost its telephone link.
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Such events can occur, and services like Star-Link Mobile are fairly reasonable, while avoiding high lag rates (from the articles HughsNet comparison: Starlink’s low-Earth orbit enables a round trip to consume only 0.02 to 0.04 second.), according to an article I read today in the latest Ask Woody newsletter (the free version), which also reported a price of $50.00(US)/month for their Roaming plan (intended for use in RV’s, etc., or for frequent travelers, etc.), but you should check their website for all the details.
Ernie
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I think with Starlink I would worry they might operate at a low cost to consumer even though it may lose money for a few years. They could eliminate a lot of competition that way and then jack up prices. Like YouTube TV.
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Since I neither know, nor respect the mind of Elon Musk, I have no idea of what to expect from the company in the coming years, so I have no arguments, either way. What I do know is that the mobile level looks fairly attractive to me now, because I’m trying to cut my living expenses without sacrificing too much along the way. I just reduced my ATT Fiber Internet service from Fiber-500 @ ~$75.00(U.S.)/month to Fiber-300 @ ~$55.00(U.S.)/month. I’ll know the actual savings when I receive my next bill. If my savings are less, I probably will take a serious look at StarLink, even though I seriously dislike all those NEO’s in orbit, playing havoc with the quality of observations from Earth bound telescopes, because they’re already there, and they won’t be getting removed any time soon. The one thing I will be looking at very closely, if my savings (mentioned above) aren’t what I’m expecting, will be whether the price for that travel service is per computer, or for my current home Network.
Ernie
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When I said
I really meant fixed wireless, not the mobile network, and not Satellite like Starlink.
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