• WSJohnGray

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    • in reply to: More memory in a Dell Dimension 4600 #1082648

      Because Microsoft techies decided that this was the most efficient way to use the available RAM! (My XP Pro system cache at work is about 36% of 512 MB)

    • in reply to: G-Flops (Historic) #1082600

      Chris

      Are you trying to find a connection between GHz and Gflops? confused These are different animals. whisper

      Do you remember the 80286 CPU and the 80287 Floating Point Unit (and the equivalent, older,8086/9087)? These were different physical chips…

    • in reply to: More memory in a Dell Dimension 4600 #1082599

      Have a look at the memory information found in Task Manager -> Performance when running your most demanding work. Compare the Total Physical Memory (top right) with the Total and Peak Commit Charge (bottom left). If the Commit Charge figures are significantly larger than the Total Physical Memory (say by 20% or more) then additional RAM would probably help.

    • in reply to: More memory in a Dell Dimension 4600 #1082545

      I always buy memory in the UK from Crucial, because they are well priced and in my experience utterly reliable, both in next-day delivery and in operation when installed. You can look up your PC on the website, which gives these results.

      You don’t say what operating system you’re running, but if it’s XP you should be fairly satisfied with your 512 MB of memory unless you’re running something very memory intensive. You could add either 2 x 256 MB (see lower down the page), or 2 x 512 MB. Personally, I would reckon that a total of 1 GB of memory would be enough for most normal uses, and a total of 1.5 GB would offer little in the way of improvement…

    • in reply to: Encryption using wireless router #1082427

      The quality of security of the various online banking/building society websites varies quite a lot, I’ve found. Some will quite happily allow you to ‘save’ some of the account details from the various fields, in Firefox for example, without requiring you to type the information in each time. Others won’t (e.g. Smile fanfare).

      If you have a firewall router, and a software firewall, antivirus and antispyware on your PC/laptop, then you are doing as much as you practically can to reduce the possibility of your details being stolen – but, as Stuart say, beware that you are really talking to the correct address!

    • in reply to: For all youse networkers #1082361

      I mean, one must have standards, mustn’t one!

    • in reply to: For all youse networkers #1082326

      I wouldn’t have said it was a ‘new’ application! I tried it at work about a year ago, and was mildly impressed with it, but not enough to keep it installed. The really negative aspect of it (for me!) is its unnecessarily stupid and inappropriate name…

    • in reply to: How big is a graphic? (Any) #1082325

      Jerry

      Thanks, but I can easily reduce the size of a graphic by several mechanisms. (I suggested one in my original post!) That’s not the problem!

      If I have a Word document with one or more embedded graphics, what I want to determine is the original file size on disk, and maybe also horizontal and vertical pixel size by as simple a method as possible. Then I will know whether it is worth me reducing the size of the graphic and put it back into the document, for onward transmission!

    • in reply to: How big is a graphic? (Any) #1082292

      Sorry, Jefferson: “Any” didn’t include Office 2007!

    • in reply to: How big is a graphic? (Any) #1082220

      Thanks Hans, but the results are a bit confusing.

      Each graphic in the document appears to be saved as two graphics files, one a large PNG and one a much smaller JPG. The original of at least one of them I know to have been a JPEG. There’s also an OLEDATA.MSO file which is larger than all of them put together!

    • in reply to: Is this a ‘good’ buy? #1082125

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      Have you checked the price of 2GB RAM recently?


      [/indent]Yes, I’ve just spent £80-ish for 2 GB of ECC memory from Crucial for our Windows 2003 Server!

    • in reply to: Windows Mail not being sent immediately (Vista) #1082039

      Hans: I quote from my earlier email to the former sufferer, “Some people like sending text messages from a computer because it’s considerably easier to type on a proper keyboard.”

      Joe: I saw a rumour that Microsoft might be replacing Windows Mail with Windows Live Mail, but since the latter is only at beta 2, this may be some way off…

    • in reply to: DAT tape not recognised #1082035

      Joe

      The nub of the problem was that it didn’t recognise that there was a tape present in the drive!

      Rebooting the server is no great problem at 07:00, since I have a sneaky Exchange ShutDown BATch file which removes all those infuriating timeouts, and so the whole event takes less than 15 minutes.

    • in reply to: Windows Mail not being sent immediately (Vista) #1081975

      Just to close this post off, it seems that the culprit was a “Desktop SMS” application on the Toshiba laptop. Uninstalling this caused Windows Mail then to perform as expected!

      (The user said, “Why on earth would I ever want to send SMS text messages from my laptop when I have a perfectly good mobile phone?” !)

    • in reply to: DAT tape not recognised #1081970

      Joe

      Updated drivers: there is a newer version of STDATW2K.SYS at v1.14.3.0 which I haven’t yet applied; the current version is 1.11.0.0 dated 28 Aug 2004.

      No problem with tape labelling otherwise.

      The previous tape got ejected (I think) by the overnight run of BackupAssist/NTBackup, or possibly I pushed the button on the tape drive if the “tonight’s” tape had already been put in – don’t remember which.

      The RSM VIEW command you specified gives:
      Drive 0 AFE6A982F77E4E69B7EE0A95E1E0034C SEAGATE DAT DAT72-000 SCSI Sequential Device
      (with several blanks after “SEAGATE DAT”). Presumably the GUID starts AF and the “Friendly Name” starts “SEAGATE”, but is this name the entire character string including the embedded blanks?

      Thanks!

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