I recently did a complete Win XP reinstall on my home PC -- reformatted the hard drive, the whole 9 yards. I also installed some memory intensive apps (the latest Adobe and Macromedia suites) and upgraded my ram with two 1GB sticks. Since then, the 'puter has been crashing a lot. Is it fair to say the memory is probably the culprit? What's the best way to test this? Should I take out 1 stick and try running for a while, and then take out the other stick and do the same? Are there any applets that can test for this?
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Jon B. - Jan 10, 2006 5:32:58 am PST #6393 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
tommyrot - Jan 10, 2006 5:36:11 am PST #6394 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Jon, I assume you've installed all the Windows updates too?
Yeah, I'd do the RAM swapping thing you've described. Norton Utilities might also be of use for testing the RAM. I don't know if there area any good alternatives to Norton out there.
eta: Before you do the RAM swapping thing, I'd pull both RAM sticks and re-seat them carefully, and then see if that helps.
Tom Scola - Jan 10, 2006 5:43:41 am PST #6395 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
There might be some tests you could run from the BIOS.
Gudanov - Jan 10, 2006 5:48:07 am PST #6396 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
Wow. It looks...exactly like what Windows has looked like for about a decade, except for making it look more superficially like Mac.
It also looks like KDE.
Jon B. - Jan 10, 2006 5:50:04 am PST #6397 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Thanks for the tips, Toms.
Tom Scola - Jan 10, 2006 5:51:04 am PST #6398 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
It looks like a parody of the Mac interface. Apple has been backing away from the more cutsey aspects of their UI lately.
tommyrot - Jan 10, 2006 6:22:31 am PST #6399 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
OK, so I got an xsl template with a bunch of stuff, including this
<xsl:value-of select="notes" />
It works fine, except it's ignoring carriage returns. How do I get the output to include carriage returns for this particular node?
Tom Scola - Jan 10, 2006 6:24:55 am PST #6400 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
According to the XML Specification, carriage returns are stripped from the XML document before processing occurs.
Betsy HP - Jan 10, 2006 6:29:40 am PST #6401 of 10003
If I only had a brain...
Screenshots of the new Windows.
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tommyrot - Jan 10, 2006 6:30:29 am PST #6402 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
According to the XML Specification, carriage returns are stripped from the XML document before processing occurs.
Yeah, I knew that was a dumb question.