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RE: What the hell is this? LOL! - 9/10/2007 5:31:42 PM

Sinergy

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ORIGINAL: ElectraGlide

My computer was crashing when I tried to upload my camera pictures into it. I did have 128 megabites of memory. I bought 1 gigabite of memory on sale for 65 dollars, and no more picture upload problems.

So my son asks me how he can improve his computers performance. Starts going into the usual litany
of disk transfer speed and processor speed.

I shush him and ask "How much RAM ya got?"

He says 512M.

I tell him I put 4G on this computer when I bought it. Pointed out that as a performance expert on computer
systems in a past life, the general rule is that 80-90+% of your performance improvements deal with RAM memory, the most significant of these is a lack of RAM. (For those playing the home game, this makes the operating system have to swap and page more stuff out to disc to utilize the available RAM. More RAM, less disk transfers, faster computing. RAM access by the CPU is in the 100X+ in terms of speed, Disk access by the CPU is in the 10X in terms of speed. Do the math)

Said he could fart around in the 10% range, or 8x is RAM and have it not be a problem.

Now, from the standpoint of graphics, the CPU has to load that entire photographic array into RAM, and if the RAM is low it has to swap it out to disk to load the rest. Then to bring it back in and do something like display it on your CPU, it has to bring it back off the disc, etc.

Which is not to disagree with any of the earlier points about the C++ runtime library, but wanted to respond to the memory comments.

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RE: What the hell is this? LOL! - 9/10/2007 5:35:12 PM

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ORIGINAL: smilezz

Thanks for all the information........

I did indeed reboot
I did TRY and uninstall the software......it gives me a fatal error, won't let me.
I did try and do some other things that were suggested.

I did finally get ahold of Olympus.......there are updates.

I have a fairly new system.........but with this and a few other issues i have been having, i'm looking at an iMac.

Thanks again.......i appreciate everyone's input and help.

~smilezz~

I did a good deal of research on your problem.

Several possibilities came up, all but one I've excluded.

Something's wrong with your computer.

(Glad I could help).

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RE: What the hell is this? LOL! - 9/10/2007 8:33:26 PM

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you know what else again depending on which os she has, her hd could just be full, or a virus corrupted a dil or oither executable, or one got deleted somehow, tonz of things really. Finally maybe just reload the usb driver, like someone else said without kowing the "rest of the story" its anyones guess at best

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RE: What the hell is this? LOL! - 9/10/2007 10:20:57 PM

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Ok.........here's an update.

I am working with WinXP.
I have no Virus issues
I have 197 GB of free space, i'm thinking i am ok on this.

One of the things that i did recently was get a new Virus Protector. I went with Kaspersky, which i have had on other Systems in the past.

I did a few tweaks with the Virus Protector and also spoke with Olympus. There were some updates that i needed from them.

Things seem to be working better.......

Thank you again everyone for your input....it was truly appreciated.

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RE: What the hell is this? LOL! - 9/10/2007 10:54:02 PM

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I strongly recommend you getting a live Linux CD to run from your CD ROM. I'm new to using digital cameras but find Linux is far superior to handling them than Windows XP.

It's very simple, not really so technical as you think. The hardest bit is selecting a Linux distro (company which distributes Linux software), downloading it and burning it onto a CD. The easy part is using it, just stick it into the CD and fire up your computer, Linux does the rest more or less.

It will still give you access to your Windows system but your C: drive will be /hda and you'll find them in your Konqueror browser under '/mnt' or 'storage devices'.

All the software you could ever need comes on the CD, it runs out of your CD ROM, and Linux automatically configures all your hardware.

But there's Linux distros and Linux distros. Most people recommend Mandriva or Ubunto, and I wonder why. Ubunto isn't all that user friendly and you need really modern hardware for Mandriva. I recently switched to PCLinuxOS and I couldn't be happier.

I recommend the bog standard Knoppix Linux, which I also use as a back up CD system, found at:

http://www.knoppix.de/

If you want to browse through a list of other distros I also recommend:

http://www.linux.org/dist/list.html

I only use Windows when I need to print, as I have a Lexmark Deskjet printer, which only makes for a rather large desktop ornament as Linux doesn't have a driver for such a printer.

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