Techie Insomnia
April 10th, 2008 | by Nick |I can’t seem to fall asleep yet, so here are some other random tech bits for the day.
Today, I worked on an laptop that the user had the desktop picture changing every 5 seconds. It’s the first time I’ve seen someone do that on purpose and it made working on it…interesting. The other thing I noticed was that it only had the 256 MB of RAM that it shipped with. This made the machine run, as a coworker would put it, “as slow as smoke off wet shit”. For pretty much any computer, Linux, Windows or OS X, RAM is the easiest thing you can add to speed up or your system. Or, as in this case, using too little RAM is the easiest way to cripple an otherwise good one. How much is enough? Well, there is a geek saying that you can never be too thin or have too much RAM. These days, I’d say 1GB of RAM is a good place to start (that is 4 times the amount in the laptop above).
Here is another odd bit. The blogging software I’m using is an hour behind on the post time. I’ll have to go back and fix that in a few hours.
