Down to the second xpost too-- impressive.
I'll be in my bunk.
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Lee - Jan 26, 2007 5:07:41 am PST #392 of 25496
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Gudanov - Jan 26, 2007 5:12:35 am PST #393 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping
I can't get Excel to open any files I've created in the past week. Excel just thinks about it for a while and then crashes. I can open older files just fine and I've opened the recent files on another computer without a problem. While on the other computer, I saved the file under a different name but my computer still wouldn't open it. WTF?
Sounds odd enough to maybe be a virus, OTOH, it's almost never actually a virus. Sort of like the first diagnosis on House.
Gudanov - Jan 26, 2007 5:18:27 am PST #394 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping
Microsoft's anti-spyware software appears to have locked up on my work computer. I like my Windowless home computer.
BTW, if you want to try the Enlightenment desktop, Ubuntu is the way to go. Insanely easy to install and get running.
Gudanov - Jan 26, 2007 5:29:25 am PST #395 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping
Anyone having bad slowdowns with Firefox 2.0.0.1 under Windows (XP in my case)? I've switched to Opera because of the slowdowns I kept having with Firefox. At home, I haven't had any problems with Firefox 2.0.0.1 under Linux.
tommyrot - Jan 26, 2007 5:31:55 am PST #396 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Anyone having bad slowdowns with Firefox 2.0.0.1 under Windows (XP in my case)?
No.
I'm running Firefox 2.0.0.1 on my work computer (XP, current on updates).
I forget - is 2.0.0.1 more or less of a RAM hog than before?
Gudanov - Jan 26, 2007 5:39:41 am PST #397 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping
I forget - is 2.0.0.1 more or less of a RAM hog than before?
Dunno. It's weird, FireFox was working fine for a while after the last update. I don't remember adding any new extensions right before I started having problems. I reinstalled it, but that didn't fix it. I did run the updates to IE 7, and Media Player 11 about the same time, but I doubt that would be a problem. Got 2GB of RAM and plenty of free drive space on the partition with the swap file.
DXMachina - Jan 26, 2007 5:50:45 am PST #398 of 25496
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Anyone having bad slowdowns with Firefox 2.0.0.1 under Windows (XP in my case)?
Me, neither.
In similar news, I spent 45 minutes on the phone with my mom last night trying to diagnose the slowed to molassesness of her computer. She suspects it is AVG, which has been bugging her to pay for it. I gave her the URL for AVG-free 30 days ago, and I suspect she downloaded the pay version by mistake, but even so, that shouldn't slow her machine to a crawl. (Although if it stopped working, then perhaps the machine got massively infected.)
It's so slow that the Start button is unresponsive, so we couldn't get to the control panel to try add/remove. I even managed to teach her how to boot into safe mode, but it was just as bad. She's taking it to the nice fellows at the computer repair shop today.
§ ita § - Jan 26, 2007 5:55:09 am PST #399 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Thanks, DX. I'll make those changes on my machines ASAP.
esse - Jan 26, 2007 6:04:58 am PST #400 of 25496
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Anyone having bad slowdowns with Firefox 2.0.0.1 under Windows (XP in my case)?
Totally. I really really regret upgrading. I keep having to crash the process because I can't do *anything* if I use FF as heavily as I normally do. Is there an easy way to downgrade?
tommyrot - Jan 26, 2007 8:05:24 am PST #401 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
How to setup and manage multiple Firefox profiles for the same user: [link]
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If you share a computer with family members or roommates, or if you simply browse for different reasons - like work, blogging, school research, or play - you may want to use different Firefox settings each time you sit down to surf. Luckily, the Firefox profile manager can manage multiple browsing personalities for a single user on the same desktop.