On Fri 25 Nov 2011 16:32:15 NZDT +1300, C. Falconer wrote:
more ram is actually an environmentally friendly activity
And its astonishingly cheap these days.
That depends. If you have a new enough box with DDR3, yes. Otherwise,
not so much. DDR2 mobos are still very common, and the memory
On Fri 25 Nov 2011 15:51:45 NZDT +1300, Derek Smithies wrote:
The list has been quiet, time to start some correspondence on Pet
peeves,
The summer hole...?
On asking the store
attendant that you want more memory, they will look at you and try to
tell you that there is enough
memory in
On 25/11/11 22:51, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
On asking the store
attendant that you want more memory, they will look at you and try to
tell you that there is enough
memory in the box for your task at hand..
I don't quite understand your problem (maybe that's why it's a pet
peeve?). If you know
My form of entertainment is when you buy a computer or some peripheral and
they try to up-sell you an anti-virus program.
I pretend to be interested and ask them if they have a Linux version.
My pet peeve is web pages that have many hundreds of images in them. Haven't
they heard of CSS?
On 26/11/11 09:04, Derek Smithies wrote:
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As far as shop assistants go, I lost all faith in them a while ago.
A shop assistant is not necessarily a salesperson.
Rob
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On 25/11/11 4:32 PM, C. Falconer wrote:
Derek Smithies wrote, On 11/25/2011 03:51 PM:
more ram is actually an environmentally friendly activity
And its astonishingly cheap these days.
I put 8GB of RAM in my current work desktop machine, htop tells me
nearly all of it is allocated. Partly
Now that others have mentioned 'upselling'
I haven't heard one salesperson mention the sad fact: you're going to
put a few years worth of photos etc on this drive, and then it *is*
going to fail, so you need some form of backup
External hard drive? DVD writer? Amazon S3 subscription?
...
