What? Femto gets no love?
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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DXMachina - Apr 25, 2005 4:18:10 pm PDT #2592 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
P.M. Marc - Apr 25, 2005 4:33:31 pm PDT #2593 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I used to use pico a lot before I moved my site, on account of being v. v. lazy.
Post-moving, I've been HTML Kit's bitch, and would kill for a Mac port.
Gris - Apr 25, 2005 5:47:42 pm PDT #2594 of 10003
Hey. New board.
ND, did you not see my post? vim is pretty much vi. I mean, there's improvements, but no different than the ones that have been made to emacs since the original vi days.
Nano's totally better than pico.
You know what metric unit thingy I love? The angstrom. Because it completely ignores all the rules of the metric system. It doesn't even end in "meter." Plus, it makes me really wish "angst" was a standard metric prefix. I'd love to have just a few angstliters of water. Or measure my weight in angstograms.
SailAweigh - Apr 25, 2005 5:57:42 pm PDT #2595 of 10003
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Hey! I'm wondering if one of you tech whizzes can give me a clue as to what's going on with my 'puter. It won't let me open Word anymore. Most of the time it hangs up and I have to reboot to do anything at all. Only one time did I get a message saying I didn't have enough memory to open it. I've still got over 5 Gig of hard drive space left and I've got 128 M of RAM. When I pull up my System Performance it says I've got 54% of my resources free. Is this normal? Any idea what the problem is?
dcp - Apr 25, 2005 6:12:21 pm PDT #2596 of 10003
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
54% seems pretty low for just after a re-boot. Do you know what other programs you have running that are using up your resources? You can use Process Explorer to find out. [link]
SailAweigh - Apr 25, 2005 6:27:48 pm PDT #2597 of 10003
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Downloaded the process explorer, but I don't really know what I'm looking for. Any hints as to what all the gobbledy-gook means? It says that system idle is using about 95% of the CPU? Does that make sense?
evil jimi - Apr 25, 2005 6:33:18 pm PDT #2598 of 10003
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Nope, That's way too high. My XP box is jumping between 0-8% and that's with Azureus, ICQ, MuM, InCD, WordWeb, AsusProbe, and Opera running.
Strike that, I misread the post. What OS are you using, SailAweigh?
dcp - Apr 25, 2005 6:35:45 pm PDT #2599 of 10003
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
I just did a quick test, launching Word used 5% of my system resources, but opening a relatively small document briefly required 51%.
Hil R. - Apr 25, 2005 6:35:55 pm PDT #2600 of 10003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
SailAweigh, I was getting some stuff like that when there was some spyware on my computer. Have you tried running SpyBot and AdAware to see if they catch anything?
dcp - Apr 25, 2005 6:41:56 pm PDT #2601 of 10003
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
The number in the "CPU" column in the "system idle" row is the percentage you have to spare. Higher is better.
Each line in the display that shows a number in the CPU column is a program that is using CPU cycles.