Flea, that's normal. was it loading fast?
Simon: Captain's a good fighter, he must know how to handle a sword. Zoe: I think he knows which end to hold.
'Shindig'
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tommyrot - Sep 15, 2010 9:28:07 am PDT #14892 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Liese S. - Sep 15, 2010 9:28:27 am PDT #14893 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Nope, that seems pretty normal. Is there anything else showing an active CPU usage percentage when you are experiencing the slowness?
flea - Sep 15, 2010 9:31:44 am PDT #14894 of 25501
information libertarian
NYT loaded normally, which is to say a bit slower than most sites but not too bad. The machine is not doing the bad hanging right now, since I rebooted it before I started bugging you guys. I will look tomorrow at the usual time, before I reboot.
Liese S. - Sep 15, 2010 9:33:35 am PDT #14895 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yeah, you wanna see what's running during the actual problem time. Let us know then, and we'll see what we can deduce.
flea - Sep 15, 2010 9:34:05 am PDT #14896 of 25501
information libertarian
Thank you!
le nubian - Sep 15, 2010 10:41:08 am PDT #14897 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
flea,
I would recommend purging (if you can, your history, cookies, and caches).
even better, I think it is time you created a new profile. You need something fresh and clean:
tommyrot - Sep 15, 2010 7:58:28 pm PDT #14898 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Kmart starts selling a $190 Android-based netbook
Computers don't get much cheaper than this: Kmart is now selling an Android-powered netbook by Augen for a mere $190. With a 10.2-inch screen, 1024x600 display and weighing in at 1.8lbs, it looks about how you'd expect a netbook to look.
Of course, for that cheap, you're getting a machine that's slower than most high-end smartphones. It's got a 800MHz ARM11-based chip and a mere 256MB of RAM. There's 2GB of storage on board, although that can be expanded via an SDHC memory card slot. Overall, it might be worth upping your budget a bit and getting something a touch more powerful, but then again, you can't really argue with a sub-$200 netbook.
Typo Boy - Sep 15, 2010 8:08:23 pm PDT #14899 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Umm a lot of standard Netbooks in the $220 range. An Android netbook needs to be either cheap or more powerful than described.
Laga - Sep 16, 2010 9:46:35 am PDT #14900 of 25501
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
We recently transferred some old home movies to DVD and Mom wants me to upload some clips to youtube. Will I need to buy video editing software to do this?
Jessica - Sep 16, 2010 9:55:42 am PDT #14901 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
No - you can rip the video files with Handbrake and upload them straight from there. If there isn't a setting called "YouTube" any of the various Quicktime formats will work.
[eta: Actually I'm not sure if Handbrake will let you select clips or just whole chapters. If you're on a Mac MPEG Streamclip is my preferred way to clip out DVDs because you can set in/out points wherever you want.]