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Marmite the Dog

A bigger one.

ChiangMai noon

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

ChiangMai noon

what sizes do they come in though?

Marmite the Dog

lom

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.

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.

melvbot

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.

ChiangMai noon

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.

lom

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..

ChiangMai noon

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.

melvbot

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.

ChiangMai noon

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.

lom

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

Marmite the Dog

It is, yes. Firefox said that they had fixed it when FF3 was released, but they lied.

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.

lom

I guess I'm just very lucky then.

melvbot

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

melvbot

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.

melvbot

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WindizUpdate

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melvbot

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