[LiveBrianD]

What are some of the most annoying geeky things you've seen? For instance, see the attached.

[coastie65]

LiveBrianD, on 03 April 2012 - 01:07 PM, said:

What are some of the most annoying geeky things you've seen? For instance, see the attached.
browser toolbars.png

That just took the prize hands down.

[LiveBrianD]

It was also a big pain while setting that up - IE started getting really slow after I installed a few toolbars. It took quite a while to start with all that there, or create new tabs. IE + toolbars was using about 1GB ram all by itself! (I gave the vm 2GB) It was hogging the CPU while starting. (well, one core anyway - I gave the vm a dual-core CPU)

[bcappel]

Ha! That is great! I hate toolbars.

[coastie65]

LiveBrianD, on 03 April 2012 - 01:55 PM, said:

It was also a big pain while setting that up - IE started getting really slow after I installed a few toolbars. It took quite a while to start with all that there, or create new tabs. IE + toolbars was using about 1GB ram all by itself! (I gave the vm 2GB) It was hogging the CPU while starting. (well, one core anyway - I gave the vm a dual-core CPU)

I thought about the slowness with all those tool bars. I only have the MSN tool bar.

[LiveBrianD]

Here you go:


Edit: Right now, I have about 1.5GB RAM used total, normally about 400-500MB when nothing's open.

This post has been edited by LiveBrianD: 03 April 2012 - 04:25 PM

[coastie65]

I'm using about 1.9 Gb of ram, but as usual I have a bunch of stuff open.

[LiveBrianD]

XP uses quite a bit less than Win7 does though.

[mjd420nova]

Out of habit, when I generate a system, update the OS, I make a complete image and a bootable recovery disk. WINXPPRO took Two DVDs, almost 9GB. This new system, took one recovery disk and four DVDs, almost 17GB. The XPPRO would run well with 2Gb RAM but WIN7 won't, not with more than one window open. I actually had one older lady who had half the screen filled with toolbars and wanted a bigger monitor. One broker I know has multiple screens, two filled with NYSE tickers he can move around and highlight or change colors and a third work screen that sets up all the data. His CPU is an i7 his boss liked so much, he got one of his own for home.

[techie4fun]

LiveBrianD, on 03 April 2012 - 01:07 PM, said:

What are some of the most annoying geeky things you've seen? For instance, see the attached.
browser toolbars.png

Holy Crap. That's crazy.

[LiveBrianD]

Well, does anyone else have something to compete with that?

[crazy4laptops]

LiveBrianD, on 04 April 2012 - 12:36 PM, said:

Well, does anyone else have something to compete with that?

This is probably a close second It was an accident when I tried to remote control my own Mac. Needless to say, I crashed the system (oops!)

http://img34.imagesh...picture1url.png

[crazy4laptops]

coastie65, on 03 April 2012 - 04:51 PM, said:

I'm using about 1.9 Gb of ram, but as usual I have a bunch of stuff open.

In my browsing, Firefox has passed 4.5GB of RAM usage (image-heavy sites with flash in multiple tabs and windows)

Gotta love having 8GB of ram!

[Evildave]

mjd420nova, on 03 April 2012 - 05:51 PM, said:

Out of habit, when I generate a system, update the OS, I make a complete image and a bootable recovery disk. WINXPPRO took Two DVDs, almost 9GB. This new system, took one recovery disk and four DVDs, almost 17GB. The XPPRO would run well with 2Gb RAM but WIN7 won't, not with more than one window open. I actually had one older lady who had half the screen filled with toolbars and wanted a bigger monitor. One broker I know has multiple screens, two filled with NYSE tickers he can move around and highlight or change colors and a third work screen that sets up all the data. His CPU is an i7 his boss liked so much, he got one of his own for home.

Switch to external USB hard drives for this purpose.

They're WAY more convenient (no need to sit and feed it disks), and you have room for many such partition snapshots with a $90 two terabyte drive.

Also, partition your windoze drive to be a smaller, reasonable size. For OS+Apps, maybe 32GB will be sufficient for all of them. 64GB for sure. Then your work & media can go to a different partition (or drive) by moving 'My Documents' over there. This will keep the OS partition backups down to a manageable size, so you don't have to overwrite them. Then not only can you backup your work and media, you can make a new snapshot whenever you make a 'big change' to the OS partition, like installing or upgrading major software packages. This way, you can try to restore very recent versions of windoze and your applications together, but if you have to use the wayback machine on an older backup, you can. Saves hours and hours on recovery when windoze melts down, even if it only breaks down in a small way. No need to diagnose. No need to 'clean an infection' Just overwrite it.

[LiveBrianD]

crazy4laptops, on 08 April 2012 - 01:56 PM, said:

LiveBrianD, on 04 April 2012 - 12:36 PM, said:

Well, does anyone else have something to compete with that?

This is probably a close second It was an accident when I tried to remote control my own Mac. Needless to say, I crashed the system (oops!)

http://img34.imagesh...picture1url.png

lol.... I've VNC'd myself before, but it's not like the system crashed or anything. (barely any CPU usage) http://dl.dropbox.co...NC%20myself.png

[LiveBrianD]

crazy4laptops, on 08 April 2012 - 02:00 PM, said:

coastie65, on 03 April 2012 - 04:51 PM, said:

I'm using about 1.9 Gb of ram, but as usual I have a bunch of stuff open.

In my browsing, Firefox has passed 4.5GB of RAM usage (image-heavy sites with flash in multiple tabs and windows)

Gotta love having 8GB of ram!

Wow... In Windows, you've got the 2GB ram limit anyway. (unless you go for the 64-bit build) I also have 8GB RAM, and the only way I can use it all up is with virtual machines.

[crazy4laptops]

LiveBrianD, on 08 April 2012 - 04:34 PM, said:

crazy4laptops, on 08 April 2012 - 02:00 PM, said:

In my browsing, Firefox has passed 4.5GB of RAM usage (image-heavy sites with flash in multiple tabs and windows)

Gotta love having 8GB of ram!

Wow... In Windows, you've got the 2GB ram limit anyway. (unless you go for the 64-bit build) I also have 8GB RAM, and the only way I can use it all up is with virtual machines.

When I remote controlled my own mac, that was the Leopard OS, Apple has since fixed that bug (probably because of me)

Yeah, it was hard work to use up 4GB of ram, but in late 2011, I was triggering some sort of memory leak in FF7/8 and it would run slow and eat up 2GB of memory very quickly. I started out with 4GB on my Mac, but the pagefile and FF didn't get along, so I upgraded to 8gigs so that it would be happy (then I got photoshop)

[coastie65]

LiveBrianD, on 08 April 2012 - 04:34 PM, said:

crazy4laptops, on 08 April 2012 - 02:00 PM, said:

coastie65, on 03 April 2012 - 04:51 PM, said:

I'm using about 1.9 Gb of ram, but as usual I have a bunch of stuff open.

In my browsing, Firefox has passed 4.5GB of RAM usage (image-heavy sites with flash in multiple tabs and windows)

Gotta love having 8GB of ram!

Wow... In Windows, you've got the 2GB ram limit anyway. (unless you go for the 64-bit build) I also have 8GB RAM, and the only way I can use it all up is with virtual machines.

Actually you can run up to 4 Gb in 32 Bit, but it will only use 3.0 - 3.5 Gb. That is unless the MOBO is restricted to 2 Gb.

This post has been edited by coastie65: 08 April 2012 - 05:26 PM

[LiveBrianD]

coastie65, on 08 April 2012 - 05:25 PM, said:

LiveBrianD, on 08 April 2012 - 04:34 PM, said:

Wow... In Windows, you've got the 2GB ram limit anyway. (unless you go for the 64-bit build) I also have 8GB RAM, and the only way I can use it all up is with virtual machines.

Actually you can run up to 4 Gb in 32 Bit, but it will only use 3.0 - 3.5 Gb. That is unless the MOBO is restricted to 2 Gb.

I should've been more specific - I meant the 2GB limit for individual programs.

[waldojim]

crazy4laptops, on 08 April 2012 - 02:00 PM, said:

coastie65, on 03 April 2012 - 04:51 PM, said:

I'm using about 1.9 Gb of ram, but as usual I have a bunch of stuff open.

In my browsing, Firefox has passed 4.5GB of RAM usage (image-heavy sites with flash in multiple tabs and windows)

Gotta love having 8GB of ram!

You have a 64bit version of firefox? If not, I am curious how it managed that, with a flat limit of 3GB... That could be interesting to see.