Posted by Estella on August 29, 2006, at 23:44:03
In reply to Re: stupid computers, posted by llrrrpp on August 29, 2006, at 10:32:11
Hrm. Not sure that I'm on X I might be on the previous one. Damned work computers and hierarchies that means students get the old hand-me-downs of the profs.
> are you running OSX? if so, go to the little blue apple in the upper corner of the screen, and select SOFTWARE UPDATE from the drop-down menu...
I'll try all that anyway because I haven't done anything like that.
Its fully possible that I need updates because they tend to want to update at inconvenient times so I tell them to go away (bad bad me).
> Finally, how much memory do you have? If your mac only has 256 (or less) mb of memory (RAM) then some things are going to be slow to load.
No earthly idea. It runs okay on Safari it is just starting up firefox that is a nightmare. Maybe... I should look into the new indicator situation on my laptop a little more. I think the trouble with my desktop (mac) is it is storing a cache somewhere I don't know about and hence it isn't loading the babblepages it is retrieving them from memory. It is a pain in the *ss when I'm replying to threads and my post doesn't show up after reloading. I go home and check the boards and there are sometimes about 5 posts to the thread before my post that I never saw before I responded. Crappy computer :-(
THanks. I'll do what you suggested at some point.
Maybe tonight or tomorrow :-)
poster:Estella
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