What is offline mode? Enable, disable, work on different devices and applications. Statuses online and offline, what is it

Initially, online and offline (“on line” and “out of line”) are English technical terms denoting the state of special electronic equipment, but by now they have entered many languages of the world as commonly used words.

The word "offline" is often used by Russian speakers in the context of using the Internet; the adjective is also used offline. Thus, the phrase “offline media” means “traditional media,” that is, any media other than online media. "Offline communication" usually means "traditional communication", that is, any communication that does not involve Internet communications, for example, correspondence via paper mail, personal or telephone communication (it should be noted that in the case of IP telephony, which acquires everything increasing popularity, voice telephone communication ceases to be “offline” in the usual sense of the word).

Sometimes a slang expression synonymous with the word “offline” is used “ in real life", that is, "not on the Internet."

The term “offline” is also used to refer to the “offline” state of some software, for example, Internet messengers or browsers. The expression “send a message offline” in relation to ICQ means sending a message to a user who is not currently online ( not "online" / « not online"): it will only receive it after it connects (" will go online»).

ChromeOS and other webOS

Since online-only operating systems are advertised with such monstrous force, some clarification is necessary. For educational purposes.

Yours is a personal thing. You can store private data on the disk. All the things you don't want to show to anyone. However, these days there is an intensive washing of the gray matter between the ears, propaganda of “cloud” operating systems, ChromeOS and others like them.

The bottom line is that to work with such an OS you need to be constantly online, because nothing is stored on the computer at all. Everything is in the cloud, on the Internet. Even the most private things. And you never know who has access to the files, who is viewing them, so that a new WikiLeaks does not arise. A warrant is only needed to search household items, including computers.

But the owners recently took and gave all the personal data of European users to the US intelligence services. According to the laws of the European Union, they did not have the right to do this, but they gave it anyway, since they are an American company and cannot disobey their masters. And how can you then trust them and use their ChromeOS?

But the attitude towards confidentiality is not so bad. Few people today respect privacy even without “clouds”. The real problem is functionality that is tied to the network almost one hundred percent, except for a short-term cache in case of connection failures.

Let's give a small but concrete and quite real-life example. You urgently need to print a document, but you don’t have access to it. The provider has a fire, flood, earthquake, hurricane, magnetic storms, financial crisis, mice chewed through the wires. You never know what can happen. Well, since the printer in ChromeOS works exclusively through a “cloud” proxy process, offline printing will not take place.

Email can be used... partly offline. Yes, no need to rub your eyes in amazement! An Internet connection is required only in two cases:

to receive messages;
to send letters.

However, there is one catch: you need a postal one. For example, Mozilla Thunderbird. Let's consider it.

Do you work on multiple computers? One - for example, in the editorial office where you work as a journalist, the second - on your table at home, the third - a netbook with which you go on business trips. Therefore, it is more convenient to carry mail with you on a flash drive. So, go to, find in the “Applications” section there a portable version of Thunderbird (Russian-language - via the “Languages” link), download and unpack it onto your removable media. Flash memory in a regular mp3 player will do, why not.

If there is only one computer, then it is advisable to acquire a regular version that is permanently installed in the system. You should only get it from http://www.mozilla.org/ and nowhere else! (Nowhere at all!)

Connect to the Internet and launch Thunderbird for the first time. The program will prompt you to create an account. She will configure the parameters for connecting to servers herself. And downloads the mail.

That's it, you can disconnect from the network! That is, go offline. Calmly read the correspondence, delete what is unnecessary, and respond to what is necessary. All your replies, all new letters after clicking the send button will be saved in the “Outbox” folder. (Before pressing, the buttons are added to “Drafts” as you write.)

Outbox is a secure storage facility where messages will wait patiently until they reach the Internet. Once you're online again, your mail will be sent immediately after you launch Thunderbird.

Now let's look at the settings. In the program menu: “Tools” -> “Account Options” -> “Copies and Folders”. There, by default, it most likely states that drafts, sent letters and templates should be stored on a server on the network, and not in the program itself. Well, someone really wants to control your correspondence, what can you do?

Therefore, you need to set the switches in such a way that everything is stored only in local folders. Instead of “Sent”, located at your e-mail address, you should simply indicate “Poisoned”. And also simply “Drafts”, “Archive” and “Templates”. Those in front of which this address is not displayed.

That's all, now you can actually use email partially offline, connecting to the network only to receive and send messages.

In addition to email, people use instant messaging clients. In the post-Soviet space - most often ICQ. Some people need (or just want) to stay online all the time so that they can be contacted at any time. Some people do not want to be distracted by idle chatter, tearing themselves away from more important matters.

It will probably be useful for everyone to know that ICQ can be removed from autorun. Go to settings and uncheck the option that launches the program when you turn on the computer.

The fact is that ICQ can work like regular email. We wrote a message to a person who is offline - he will receive it as soon as he connects to the Internet and launches his copy of the program.

Therefore, there is absolutely no need to sit and wait for a person to appear online and his “daisy” to turn green. Write and let me know when you can chat with him.

Conclusion

There is no need to live online all the time. Often, work requires concentration, and pop-up notifications about new messages are at first simply distracting, and then begin to irritate. And in general, many interesting things exist offline, including real life.

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Good afternoon Tell me, please, what is meant by the term “offline n-database”? I hope very much for your help. Best regards, Maria

This is a database that does not require the Internet to access. For example, saved on a computer.


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