To anticipate and prevent
This evening on my way home I looked up at the sky and thought “a storm is coming”. It wasn’t anything overt that really gave it away, its simply that once you live somewhere long enough you learn the weather. Of course this evening we got some lightning, the part that was surprising is that…
The key with Vista is extreme RAM usage. A “clean” install of Ultimate ed w/ no other software running will take between 600 and 700 MB of RAM. Shutting down all non-essential services and even a few really important services will leave the machine at 400MB of RAM usage. I’d suggest that machines run with…
DSL is defenetly faster… ::GRIN:: And I got 574KB/s downloading a file last night.
I signed up for DSL a bit over a year ago, and recently got a notice saying my “introductory” offer was expiring. Yippy! No more contract for me! So last week I called SBC/ATT/LocalTeleco/AssRape’rs… but not till after I checked their website. Apparently they are now offering 3-6Mbit down DSL, for decent prices. So upgrade…
Show this weekend was actually decent. Its as small as I remember, but this time around it seemed to have more “useful” stuff, not a bunch of antiques. Granted there was only 2 decent tables of new guns, I did find a Beretta 96. If I had the spare money I would have bought it…
Well, tomorrow the Crossroads of the West gun show is in Reno, in the convention center. While I’m not going to be impressed, or probably even finding anything of interest, I’ll go. I’ve found previously that this show is mostly collectibles, relics, and antiques. Oh well, maybe something of interest will show up (a Katana…