Posted by finelinebob on August 30, 2006, at 1:04:15
In reply to Re: stupid computers » llrrrpp, posted by Estella on August 29, 2006, at 23:44:03
> > 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...
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> I'll try all that anyway because I haven't done anything like that.If you're running Safari, you're running OS X.
Go to that Blue Apple in the left corner of the menu bar and choose the first item: About This Mac. It will tell you what version of the OS you're running, and how much RAM you have.
> 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).
Updates can be scheduled. Schedule yours for some time you won't be on and leave your machine on. That, or if you know you're going to be off the machine for a while, bring up Software Update and just run it. If you have to, download one thing at a time. Security fixes first -- not so much because someone has an exploit out there for it, but because other software often depend on the fixes.
> > 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.
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> No earthly idea. It runs okay on Safari it is just starting up firefox that is a nightmare...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 :-(Sounds like RAM if Firefox is choking. How about your connection speed? Broadband?
And remember, there are other people posting (especially in prime time) besides you. You refresh the page, and they beat you to it because they said less or started earlier, but didn't post by the time you loaded the page.
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