[extropy-chat] when will computers improve?

[Mike Lorrey]

Something else I have noticed: when you have one browser window on a
YABB SE supported forum, and another browser window on Friendster,
images will fail to load and eventually the browser will crash.

Other things:
I used to have lots of problems with Corel applications, especially
Ventura. Comes from running large documents that are several versions
old and have been compiling edit relics for quite a while, at least in
part (Doing a "Save As" to a new name rather than just saving cleans
this up handily). I've found spell checkers that would crash the whole
machine if you asked them to spell check a certain 12 character text
segment (this one really entertained the techs at Corel for a while),
and I've found image frames that decide to take a hike and you can only
herd them in if you expand your page size to 36" width, and when you
try to delete them, your system crashes...

I am also convinced that lots of OS crashes are not the fault of the OS
or any programs installed. They are the fault of the particular
combination of hardware you have installed on the motherboard,
particularly the video card. Companies like Dell and Gateway are able
to minimize their support costs because they limit the different models
of hardware components they sell, and they do extensive R&D to find out
what combinations are most stable. Mom & Pop PC maker down the street
typically doesn't have the resources, unless they just clone what the
big boys are doing.

Home builders are in similar circumstances. They want the best of this,
that, and the other, but don't have a knowledgebase of testing to
demonstrate what works well together.

--- Kevin Freels <kevinfreels at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, but I've been there and done that. I have a program called
> process
> explorer that actually shows me all the process going on. Nothing
> there but
> my drivers, etc as described and stuff that needs to be there. I did
> just
> reduce my fonts from some 50 or so to about 25. We'll see how that
> goes.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike Lorrey" <mlorrey at yahoo.com>
> To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 7:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] when will computers improve?
> 
> 
> > Keep an eye on all those TSRs that run down on the right hand end
> of
> > the task bar. They tend to pile up a lot. I have also noticed, at
> least
> > in XP, that many such programs that you install that should display
> an
> > icon down there don't, though the programs are running if you bring
> up
> > the task list in task manager.
> > Another thing that east resources are fonts. If you are not a
> graphic
> > designer, you really don't need a thousand and one fonts.
> Minimizing
> > your fonts down to a few dozen saves tons of resources.
> > Still another thing is a funky desktop image and lots of sounds and
> > animations on your icons and cursor actions. Get rid of em.
> >
> > --- BillK <bill at wkidston.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> > > On Fri Dec 19, 2003 05:29 pm Kevin Freels wrote:
> > > > Once I have my soundcard driver, mouse driver, video card
> > > > driver, ZoneAlarm, DSL (EnterNet 300 which sucks all by
> itself),
> > > and
> > > > Norton AV running, I get resources available of 68%.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Sounds excessive to me.
> > > I have Win98, 256MB memory, and when I load all the drivers, plus
> > > Nvidia
> > > graphics drivers plus Cable Internet, Sygate Personal firewall,
> AVG
> > > antivirus and Mozilla Mail and Browser, I have resources
> available of
> > > about 83% GDI, 80% USER and 80% SYSTEM.
> > >
> > > I usually have lots more than this running quite happily.
> > >
> > > Try different software?
> > >
> > > BillK
> > >
> > >
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Mike Lorrey
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                                       - Gen. John Stark
"Fascists are objectively pro-pacifist..."
                                       - Mike Lorrey
Do not label me, I am an ism of one...
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