[FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers
Gillian Densmore
gil.densmore at gmail.com
Sun Oct 14 16:38:52 EDT 2018
And or Tempfiles and what ever windows calls swap. And that's assuming it
does. I simply don't know.
On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 1:52 PM Roger Critchlow <rec at elf.org> wrote:
> I'd wonder how much space you've allocated for browser caching.
>
> -- rec --
>
> 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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