Hello All, my name is Kai Hamann. I�m located in Munich/Germany and since 15 years working as a primarily technically oriented freelance journalist and author for photography and computer related subjects. Other activities I consider important are tech. marketing and assigned/self assigned work on photographs with techniques like drum scanning and cyanotyping (mostly self-interest but it�s getting more and more serious). I hope that I can contribute a bit to this very professional forum which I�m monitoring since several months.
RE. WinXP/PS 7/RAM: The excess RAM not directly usable for Photoshop can be configured as a RAM disk and assigned as primary scratch disk for Photoshop. As the temporary Photoshop files have to be deleted when leaving PS it�s no problem that this kind of storage is valatile and it is much faster than a hard drive. I just tried it with older RAM disk drivers I like very much for PCs running Win 95 (pls. search for FU_RD19 in the net) but they seem not to be able to plug into the XP RAM or file management. A fast search for "RAM disk" in conjunction with "Windows XP" has shown that there are several RAM disk drivers compatible with XP. If you consider the high prices for RAM drives built as expansion cards it�s really worth to give a software RAM disk a try to make excess RAM a valuable asset. Good luck and have a nice day Kai =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
