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From: HIA	2/5/2005 2:06:33 PM
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Like sands through the hourglass so are the days of our...? I guess that line knocks you over whether you stayed home on the weekend or went out. I think it's from the book 'The Bell Tolls for Thee'... Well, I see the XP HG sometimes on internet disconnect, sometimes on document clear, and see it on the Works appointment calendar. I also sometimes see a progress bar flash when deleting a small text file. Sometimes in 'My Computer' I get an icon flash. The last time I saw something like this was on a 20-year old Mac pulled out of the basement... In general XP seems to need a daily re-boot but also seems to be very busy just after the re-boot... XP runs applications very well but does not run itself as well ? RAM ? If XP uses too much RAM it begins using the harddrive as virtual ram and so more RAM might help... Integrated graphics ? Possibly... Processor speed ? No the processor is very fast... Harddrive speed ? No the harddrive is very fast... Pinball ? The Pinball game might be gumming up the RAM ? (High score 6.3 million) ----------------------------------------------------------- By the way where is a brilliant non-commerical chess game ? One thing is apps that are both for L'nux and W'ndows with the W'ndows app being a compressed size of 10 to 30 MB. What that may be is an app developed for L'nux on the L'nux C compiler and then the compiler installed on W'ndows with the use of emulation libraries. The disappointment is the emulation and the fact that each time you install a similarly developed app you have made yet another installation of the L'nux C compiler on the computer... Something available for both L'nux and W'ndows because it is developed for the Java (application) runtime would be a better idea. Or if the .Net runtime is ported to L'nux then apps written for the .Net runtime could run on both L'nux and W'ndows... -------------------------------------------------------------- Automatic update of XP SP2 ? Sure but first you get the .NET 1.1 SP1 at about 10 MB and then after that you get several security updates including one critical update and those all total (as expected) about 4 MB... Did I have .NET 1.1 SP0 to begin with ? -----------------------------------------------------------

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