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    Quote Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon
    if i get a new pc, what processor has a longer life?
    A bigger one.

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    ^
    especially if you bought a nice second hand monitor for 1500 baht.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog
    A bigger one.
    what sizes do they come in though?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon
    if i get a new pc, what processor has a longer life?
    My thump rule is to never buy the fastest cpu, there is a price to pay for top notch performance that I consider is too high.

    The second fastest or the third fastest comes with a rebate and will still be modern in 3-4 years time.
    Buy lower performance and you'll have to replace it quicker, you can't get a low price and a long lifespan at the same time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lom
    can't get a low price and a long lifespan at the same time.

    you say that and I'm here posting on my original processor, fuk only knows what it is, but it can't be a very high spec given it's age.

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    I was shocked at the price of HDD when I was last in Panthip I think you can get a TB disk for about 5 or 6000baht, awesome.

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    Quote Originally Posted by melvbot
    I think you can get a TB disk for about 5 or 6000baht, awesome.
    hard drives are silly cheap nowadays.

    never thought I could make use of a terrabyte, but with the amount of media I have stored on various devices, it would come in very handy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon
    you say that and I'm here posting on my original processor, fuk only knows what it is, but it can't be a very high spec given it's age.
    Yes but I also here you say : I can't use the latest Azureus, can't user the latest FireFox.
    I was in the trade for over 10 years, can you guess how many hundred times I met customers who said: I'm only gonna use it for.... I'm only gonna run this small app..
    And three month later coming back asking: Why can't I do this, why can't I run that..

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    Quote Originally Posted by lom
    I can't use the latest Azureus, can't user the latest FireFox.
    I can use both.

    must admit that firefox isn't right though.....for whatever reason FF3 works absolutely fine for days and then starts having this pain in the arse slowdown where it is eating near 100% of my resources.

    i'd understand if it happened all the time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon View Post
    must admit that firefox isn't right though.....for whatever reason FF3 works absolutely fine for days and then starts having this pain in the arse slowdown where it is eating near 100% of my resources.

    i'd understand if it happened all the time.
    Similar for me with FF, it can sit there quite happily using an acceptable amount then wham its peaking at 100% with 3 tabs open. At one point yesterday FF3 was using 248mb of memory with 2 tabs open.

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    Quote Originally Posted by melvbot
    Similar for me with FF
    so, it's probably not the spec problem that lom says it is.

    a google of firefox 3 memory leak indicates it's a cross board problem.

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    I'm counting 16 tabs open right now without any problem.
    I'd guess the memory leak problem is also hardware dependent.



    Edit: 16 tabs using 331Mb of memory, still plenty left
    Last edited by lom; 20-11-2008 at 10:54 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon
    a google of firefox 3 memory leak indicates it's a cross board problem.
    It is, yes. Firefox said that they had fixed it when FF3 was released, but they lied.

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    It seems to happen across the board without much rhyme or reason, of the places Ive looked people on Linux, Mac and Windows have the problem, different computers with different specs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by melvbot
    It seems to happen across the board without much rhyme or reason, of the places Ive looked people on Linux, Mac and Windows have the problem, different computers with different specs.
    I guess I'm just very lucky then.

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    about:config

    These arent extensions these are tweaks for how Firefox behaves.

    If you type "about:config" in the address bar (without the quotes) it will bring up a page asking you if you want to continue and TO BE CAREFUL. Altering random values in here can mess your Firefox right up so dont mess around but dont be scared of it, if you change nothing then nothing will happen.

    The warning page




    This is the geeky looking page where all the values are


    Dont be scared as long as you dont change anything nothing will happen.

    If you do want to change things then read on.

    For example you can set Firefox to open search results in a new tab instead of the current one.

    If you type this into the FILTER at the top of the page

    browser.search.openintab

    It will bring up this. This means when you type into the search box and hit enter, Googles (or whoever you have as your default search) results will open in the current page

    The STATUS=DEFAULT and VALUE=FALSE




    If you double click anywhere on the text it will change to this



    The text will now look bold, the STATUS will be USER SET as you have set this yourself and the VALUE will have changed to TRUE.
    Now if you type in the search box and hit enter the results will open in a new tab and not the current window.

    There are loads of these tweaks here

    Optimizing Firefox 3 Hacks And Tweaks

    If you see ones you think might be useful type the first 2 words like

    browser.tabs

    into the FILTER and it will narrow down the amount of results.

    To change it back from VALUE=TRUE to VALUE=FALSE double click the text

    DISCLAIMER

    Always double check that you are altering the right value as it can mess up Firefox and Im not responsible for any of that, OK?
    The Geek Shall Inherit The Earth

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    Im switching to Camino for a bit, which is OS X native but built around the Gecko rendering engine. Its new release has a small feature that I love in FF even though its nothing major. When you add a pic to a post the pic appears as an image while youre composing the thread instead of being a URL.

    It uses less CPU, doesnt support many extensions which doesnt matter to me and if anything seems a bit quicker.
    FF3 hasnt done it for me at all with its leaky memory and maxing out CPU usage for the sake of looking a bit more Mac like. Tried it for a couple of releases but that CPU thing just bugs me.

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    This is a Windows only plugin for managing all the Microsoft updates

    WindizUpdate

    • No personally identifiable information is collected from your computer.
    • No more unwanted spyware -- Microsoft Internet Explorer can finally be removed from your computer (if that were possible).
    • It lists just the updates you need. If an update has been superceded by a newer one, it will not ask you to install the older one.
    • Using enhanced data from MBSA, WindizUpdate will find more security patches needed for your O/S than the "other" website.
    • If there is a security issue with a component that is not yet installed, it will not ask you to update it. For example, if you have not installed hyperterminal, it will not update it.
    • It is not restricted to just Microsoft products. Software from other vendors can also be updated.
    • Upgrading to the latest version of Internet Explorer is not considered a Critical Update!
    • Works on Windows versions no longer supported by Microsoft -- Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 95
    • Our plugin is not an ActiveX control.
    • Integrated download manager with error detection -- you can cancel downloads at any time, and the next time you wish to install the cancelled update, it will continue from where it left off. Only corrupted sections of the file are redownloaded.
    If you are still not convinced that WindizUpdate is the site for you, please check out our page titled "do we need to say any more?

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    Quote Originally Posted by melvbot View Post
    This is a Windows only plugin for managing all the Microsoft updates

    WindizUpdate
    • No personally identifiable information is collected from your computer.
    • No more unwanted spyware -- Microsoft Internet Explorer can finally be removed from your computer (if that were possible).
    • It lists just the updates you need. If an update has been superceded by a newer one, it will not ask you to install the older one.
    • Using enhanced data from MBSA, WindizUpdate will find more security patches needed for your O/S than the "other" website.
    • If there is a security issue with a component that is not yet installed, it will not ask you to update it. For example, if you have not installed hyperterminal, it will not update it.
    • It is not restricted to just Microsoft products. Software from other vendors can also be updated.
    • Upgrading to the latest version of Internet Explorer is not considered a Critical Update!
    • Works on Windows versions no longer supported by Microsoft -- Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 95
    • Our plugin is not an ActiveX control.
    • Integrated download manager with error detection -- you can cancel downloads at any time, and the next time you wish to install the cancelled update, it will continue from where it left off. Only corrupted sections of the file are redownloaded.
    If you are still not convinced that WindizUpdate is the site for you, please check out our page titled "do we need to say any more?


    Just been nerding around and it looks like support for this is being discontinued, only found the bladdy thing yesterday as well.

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    This isnt aything to do with Firefox but its made by Mozilla, I put it here as its Win/Mac/Linux and a few more people might notice it.

    This is Songbird, Mozillas answer to iTunes. As its made by the FF people its supposed to be extensible so could be some interesting stuff come out for it if it takes off.

    Songbird - Open Source Music Player

    System specs are as below

    System Requirements

    Windows

    • Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista
    • 1.5 GHz Pentium 4 or comparable
    • At least 512 MB of physical RAM
    • At least 150 MB of available space on your hard drive
    • 16 bit sound card (Recommended: 32 bit Sound Card)
    • Speakers or headphones
    Mac

    • Mac OS X 10.5 or later
    • Macintosh computer with an Intel x86 processor
    • At least 512 MB of physical RAM
    • At least 200 MB of available space on your hard drive
    Linux

    The Songbird QA team tests Songbird on Ubuntu 8.04 32-bit and 64-bit, and Fedora 9 32-bit.
    • glibc 2.3.4 or later
    • XOrg 1.0 or later
    • gtk+2.10 or later
    • fontconfig (also known as xft)
    • libstdc++6
    • 1.5 GHz Pentium 4 or comparable
    • At least 512 MB of physical RAM
    • At least 200 MB of available space on your hard drive
    • 16 bit sound card (Recommended: 32-bit Sound Card)
    • Speakers or headphones

    I cant try this on my comp as its 10.5 only which is a bit disappointing. If anyone uses it let me know if its any good/bad.

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    A short video of features here


    Customize Songbird

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    what does it do?

    I'm not familiar with Itunes.

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    It looks good and there is an iPod plug-in.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog
    It looks good
    oh well, that settles it, I'm getting it then.


    *sheesh my missus says that about the new car she wants to buy!*

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