I was loading up my brother's phone with some music the other day, stuck it over FTP because why not (and also the MPT/PTP stuff is probably worse than bluetooth in terms of potential/problems it is designed to resolve and annoyances of the final reality).
Anyway loaded up the player (whatever thing samsung bundles) and nothing. No auto scan of directory, no way I could see to force a manual scan, closing the application did nothing, several people on the internet . Rebooted the phone and it came back up. I grumbled and muttered bad things but carried on with my day.
On IRC someone came looking for help with a Wii USB loading issue (think one of the emulators did not support the file system the USB loader did).
It did however get me to recall how crusty some of the stuff was.
Today most remember the original DS as something what needs WEP or no security on their wifi, back when there were lists of routers it worked on; in the UK despite them partnering with BT (the former nationalised telco and current dominant one) their voyager routers, the precursor to the homehub abominations, did not work.
Short version a lot of the rough edges of tech have been filed off, especially in the non laptop mobile computing world, and owing to the way human memory works it may feel far further in the distant past than it actually was. In this thread try to recall some of them, when they might have been solved and indeed how they were solved. I say how as a lot of the solutions have been to add pointlessness on top of it rather than solve the baseline issue.
Anyway loaded up the player (whatever thing samsung bundles) and nothing. No auto scan of directory, no way I could see to force a manual scan, closing the application did nothing, several people on the internet . Rebooted the phone and it came back up. I grumbled and muttered bad things but carried on with my day.
On IRC someone came looking for help with a Wii USB loading issue (think one of the emulators did not support the file system the USB loader did).
It did however get me to recall how crusty some of the stuff was.
Today most remember the original DS as something what needs WEP or no security on their wifi, back when there were lists of routers it worked on; in the UK despite them partnering with BT (the former nationalised telco and current dominant one) their voyager routers, the precursor to the homehub abominations, did not work.
Short version a lot of the rough edges of tech have been filed off, especially in the non laptop mobile computing world, and owing to the way human memory works it may feel far further in the distant past than it actually was. In this thread try to recall some of them, when they might have been solved and indeed how they were solved. I say how as a lot of the solutions have been to add pointlessness on top of it rather than solve the baseline issue.