[FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers

[Roger Critchlow]

I'd wonder how much space you've allocated for browser caching.

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On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 1:00 PM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com> wrote:

> Maybe indexing by the system or Outlook, or a large swapfile.   If you
> suspect something is gone bezerk fire-up task manager and watch what is
> happening.
> Indexing might asymptotically reach a maximum but had not because you had
> run out of space.
>
> On 10/12/18, 11:34 PM, "Friam on behalf of Nick Thompson" <
> friam-bounces at redfish.com on behalf of nickthompson at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>     Ok, folks, .... the mystery continues.
>
>     Of the 12 G I freed up on my computer moving stuff to the external HD
> and deleting stuff AND deleting the trash AND cleaning up system files,
> repeatedly, all but 5 G had been replaced 24 hours later!  I had done
> nothing on the machine in the meantime but answer email.
>       Are you SURE that there is no way that some program has gone berserk
> an is busily cloning stuff on my HD?  Are there any programs that are prone
> to that sort of thing?  Outlook?  Firefox?
>
>     Just double checking.
>
>     Nick
>
>     Nicholas S. Thompson
>     Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
>     Clark University
>     http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Marcus
> Daniels
>     Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2018 9:44 PM
>     To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> friam at redfish.com>
>     Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers
>
>     How about $10 a gallon gas and $2000 / month rent?  I'd settle for
> that.
>
>     On 10/11/18, 12:14 PM, "Friam on behalf of Nick Thompson" <
> friam-bounces at redfish.com on behalf of nickthompson at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>         Thanks, Barry,
>
>         But we Puritans think that currency inflation is one of the wages
> of sin, and if we spend less money, the world will returned to an earlier
> State of Grace.  I still remember 25 cent gasoline on Ashby Avenue in
> Berkeley.  That's what gasoline SHOULD cost.
>
>         Nick
>
>         Nicholas S. Thompson
>         Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
>         Clark University
>         http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
>
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Barry
> MacKichan
>         Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2018 12:36 PM
>         To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> friam at redfish.com>
>         Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers
>
>         This may not be any consolation, but these “dollars” you speak of,
> thanks to inflation, are what we used to call in our childhood, “dimes”.
>
>         --Barry
>
>
>         On 10 Oct 2018, at 12:30, Nick Thompson wrote:
>
>         > I HATE to spend more than 1K for a computer.  It seems a mortal
>         > injustice, an assault upon my mongrel puritan soul.  But perhaps
> it's
>         > time to suck it up?
>         >
>
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