[Year 12 IT Apps] Study design - 56Kbps modem

[Mark KELLY]

No, I mourn the *56 bps* modem - the long-standing typographical error in
the past 2 study designs!  :-)

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Robert <robert at yinnar.com> wrote:

>  So sorry to see the demise of this wonderful device - I assume Mark that
> you meant 56Kbps, 56bps would be a tad slow even by the standards of
> yester-year. Gee I am getting old! How many of you "out there" started with
> 300bps modems?
>
> I still have the delight of using a 56Kbps modem for access when down at
> Yinnar. It works well although a tad slowly, especially when people send you
> emails with photos with file sizes of 1-4 MB.
>
> Brings up a different issue. The waste and cost to us all of sending
> oversize or useless data over the internet.
>
> Useless as in spam. It costs us all. Clogs up the network.
>
> Oversize as in the example of emails with photo attachments. Used to be
> that I would resize photos to 640x480, when that was the normal screen
> resolution, and save as jpg files at 70% quality to make sure that the files
> I sent were of a reasonable size. Not so any more. My rels take photos on
> their 10MB cameras and send them to me as high quality jpegs.  I can't even
> view them directly onscreen as they are far too  big. I don't want to print
> out high quality A4 prints from all these photos, so why send them to me at
> this size?
>
> Enough of the rantings of an aging, not yet old, fart.
>
> Robert Hind (Semi-retired)
> Ashwood and Traralgon
> robert at yinnar.com
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Mark KELLY <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au>
> *To:* Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List<itapps at edulists.com.au>; Year
> 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List <sofdev at edulists.com.au>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 24, 2010 4:50 PM
> *Subject:* [Year 12 IT Apps] Study design - legislation
>
> Interesting to see that the glossary extends the legislation list to now
> include:
> - sections of the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006
> - Parts of the Spam Act 2003
>
> It's also interesting to see protocols are back in the Key Knowledge for
> networking after a 4 year layoff.  I'm glad.  I liked protocols.
> Topologies are still missing, however.
>
> Sadly, the familiar 56bps modem has been removed from the study design
> after an 8 year run.
>
> --
> Mark Kelly
> Manager - Information Systems
> McKinnon Secondary College
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Mark Kelly
Manager - Information Systems
McKinnon Secondary College
McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204, Victoria, Australia
Direct line / Voicemail: 8520 9085
School Phone +613 8520 9000
School Fax +613 9578 9253
kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au

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