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Yep, for the very first time on a Windows machine of mine I received tonight a message telling me that I'm out of memory. The scenario: three instances of IE, Visual InterDev, and Outlook Express in the Taskbar; Sonork, Trillian, SygatePro, EZ-Trust AV, and ORiNOCO Client Manager in the Notification Area; P4/1.8GHz 1.0 GB RAM on Win2K Server. I opened MS Access 2000 to modify a database used by the website under construction, was unsure whether to use a Text or Memo type for a description field, and so pressed F1 for help. The response was a temporary freeze, followed by the out of memory message. I've heard of these, but never been honored by one on my desktop. Oddly, this is a fairly light load for me to have running, and I never saw such a message on my Pentium Pro 180MHZ box with 96MB of RAM and Win2K Pro. Of course, that was a previous generation of IE, OE, and Visual Studio; they've obviously come a long way since then...:laugh: "Your village called -
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Yep, for the very first time on a Windows machine of mine I received tonight a message telling me that I'm out of memory. The scenario: three instances of IE, Visual InterDev, and Outlook Express in the Taskbar; Sonork, Trillian, SygatePro, EZ-Trust AV, and ORiNOCO Client Manager in the Notification Area; P4/1.8GHz 1.0 GB RAM on Win2K Server. I opened MS Access 2000 to modify a database used by the website under construction, was unsure whether to use a Text or Memo type for a description field, and so pressed F1 for help. The response was a temporary freeze, followed by the out of memory message. I've heard of these, but never been honored by one on my desktop. Oddly, this is a fairly light load for me to have running, and I never saw such a message on my Pentium Pro 180MHZ box with 96MB of RAM and Win2K Pro. Of course, that was a previous generation of IE, OE, and Visual Studio; they've obviously come a long way since then...:laugh: "Your village called -
They're missing their idiot."Roger Wright wrote: they've obviously come a long way since then I'm not sure if you were being sarcastic there or not. I'm a minimalist and I personally believe that microsoft's products have made progress toward using up more memory for a lot of useless features. I have a little conspiracy theory wherein microsoft (and possibly others) is being paid by hardware manufacturers to produce more and more cpu and ram hogging software so that people will be forced to keep buying new hardware and keep the wheels of the industry spinning. Conspiracy!
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Roger Wright wrote: they've obviously come a long way since then I'm not sure if you were being sarcastic there or not. I'm a minimalist and I personally believe that microsoft's products have made progress toward using up more memory for a lot of useless features. I have a little conspiracy theory wherein microsoft (and possibly others) is being paid by hardware manufacturers to produce more and more cpu and ram hogging software so that people will be forced to keep buying new hardware and keep the wheels of the industry spinning. Conspiracy!
Not a Conspiracy. I've worked for an Intel backed company where management told me that this was exactly the sort of thing that Intel required for their continuing support. Though to balance things out they did give us a couple of quad pentiums :-D But I wasn't allowed to play on them :(( pseudonym67 Neural Dot Net Articles 1-11 Start Here Fuzzy Dot Net Articles 1-4 Start Here PathFinder Game Of Life 2 Life Wars
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Yep, for the very first time on a Windows machine of mine I received tonight a message telling me that I'm out of memory. The scenario: three instances of IE, Visual InterDev, and Outlook Express in the Taskbar; Sonork, Trillian, SygatePro, EZ-Trust AV, and ORiNOCO Client Manager in the Notification Area; P4/1.8GHz 1.0 GB RAM on Win2K Server. I opened MS Access 2000 to modify a database used by the website under construction, was unsure whether to use a Text or Memo type for a description field, and so pressed F1 for help. The response was a temporary freeze, followed by the out of memory message. I've heard of these, but never been honored by one on my desktop. Oddly, this is a fairly light load for me to have running, and I never saw such a message on my Pentium Pro 180MHZ box with 96MB of RAM and Win2K Pro. Of course, that was a previous generation of IE, OE, and Visual Studio; they've obviously come a long way since then...:laugh: "Your village called -
They're missing their idiot."I get the out of memory messages fairly often. I'm usually running about 6 things in the system tray and playing an intensive video game (like Battlefield 1942) when it happens. When I get to a really intensive scene in the game, it just dies. Increasing the size of my page file helped out quite a bit but I think it would also help if I deleted some of the 116 icons on my desktop.:-O Brad Jennings Sonork: 100.36360 AIM: hongg99
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Yep, for the very first time on a Windows machine of mine I received tonight a message telling me that I'm out of memory. The scenario: three instances of IE, Visual InterDev, and Outlook Express in the Taskbar; Sonork, Trillian, SygatePro, EZ-Trust AV, and ORiNOCO Client Manager in the Notification Area; P4/1.8GHz 1.0 GB RAM on Win2K Server. I opened MS Access 2000 to modify a database used by the website under construction, was unsure whether to use a Text or Memo type for a description field, and so pressed F1 for help. The response was a temporary freeze, followed by the out of memory message. I've heard of these, but never been honored by one on my desktop. Oddly, this is a fairly light load for me to have running, and I never saw such a message on my Pentium Pro 180MHZ box with 96MB of RAM and Win2K Pro. Of course, that was a previous generation of IE, OE, and Visual Studio; they've obviously come a long way since then...:laugh: "Your village called -
They're missing their idiot."Roger Wright wrote: 1.0 GB RAM Oh you spoiled spoiled man!! :) Rob Manderson http://www.mindprobes.net "I killed him dead cuz he was stepping on my turf, cutting me out of my bling the same way my ho cuts cookies, officer" "Alright then, move along" - Ian Darling, The Lounge, Oct 10 2003
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Roger Wright wrote: 1.0 GB RAM Oh you spoiled spoiled man!! :) Rob Manderson http://www.mindprobes.net "I killed him dead cuz he was stepping on my turf, cutting me out of my bling the same way my ho cuts cookies, officer" "Alright then, move along" - Ian Darling, The Lounge, Oct 10 2003
Rob Manderson wrote: Oh you spoiled spoiled man!! That's exactly what I was thinking.:) Brad Jennings Sonork: 100.36360 AIM: hongg99
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Rob Manderson wrote: Oh you spoiled spoiled man!! That's exactly what I was thinking.:) Brad Jennings Sonork: 100.36360 AIM: hongg99
:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh: Rob Manderson http://www.mindprobes.net "I killed him dead cuz he was stepping on my turf, cutting me out of my bling the same way my ho cuts cookies, officer" "Alright then, move along" - Ian Darling, The Lounge, Oct 10 2003
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Roger Wright wrote: they've obviously come a long way since then I'm not sure if you were being sarcastic there or not. I'm a minimalist and I personally believe that microsoft's products have made progress toward using up more memory for a lot of useless features. I have a little conspiracy theory wherein microsoft (and possibly others) is being paid by hardware manufacturers to produce more and more cpu and ram hogging software so that people will be forced to keep buying new hardware and keep the wheels of the industry spinning. Conspiracy!
I really doubt the conspiracy theory. More likely the problem is that developers are, generally, spoiled prima donnas who always clamber for better hardware and write programs that work fine on top of the line machines. They're not concerned about limited resources and assume the rest of the user community is just like them. There is just no incentive to be careful about resource consumption at design time, though in the real world people don't upgrade their PCs every two years, and many still have Win9x machines with 64MB RAM. "Your village called -
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Roger Wright wrote: 1.0 GB RAM Oh you spoiled spoiled man!! :) Rob Manderson http://www.mindprobes.net "I killed him dead cuz he was stepping on my turf, cutting me out of my bling the same way my ho cuts cookies, officer" "Alright then, move along" - Ian Darling, The Lounge, Oct 10 2003
Rob Manderson wrote: Oh you spoiled spoiled man!! My market timing was just right - it was dirt cheap when I built the server, and they were offerring huge rebates to boot!:-D "Your village called -
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Yep, for the very first time on a Windows machine of mine I received tonight a message telling me that I'm out of memory. The scenario: three instances of IE, Visual InterDev, and Outlook Express in the Taskbar; Sonork, Trillian, SygatePro, EZ-Trust AV, and ORiNOCO Client Manager in the Notification Area; P4/1.8GHz 1.0 GB RAM on Win2K Server. I opened MS Access 2000 to modify a database used by the website under construction, was unsure whether to use a Text or Memo type for a description field, and so pressed F1 for help. The response was a temporary freeze, followed by the out of memory message. I've heard of these, but never been honored by one on my desktop. Oddly, this is a fairly light load for me to have running, and I never saw such a message on my Pentium Pro 180MHZ box with 96MB of RAM and Win2K Pro. Of course, that was a previous generation of IE, OE, and Visual Studio; they've obviously come a long way since then...:laugh: "Your village called -
They're missing their idiot." -
Yep, for the very first time on a Windows machine of mine I received tonight a message telling me that I'm out of memory. The scenario: three instances of IE, Visual InterDev, and Outlook Express in the Taskbar; Sonork, Trillian, SygatePro, EZ-Trust AV, and ORiNOCO Client Manager in the Notification Area; P4/1.8GHz 1.0 GB RAM on Win2K Server. I opened MS Access 2000 to modify a database used by the website under construction, was unsure whether to use a Text or Memo type for a description field, and so pressed F1 for help. The response was a temporary freeze, followed by the out of memory message. I've heard of these, but never been honored by one on my desktop. Oddly, this is a fairly light load for me to have running, and I never saw such a message on my Pentium Pro 180MHZ box with 96MB of RAM and Win2K Pro. Of course, that was a previous generation of IE, OE, and Visual Studio; they've obviously come a long way since then...:laugh: "Your village called -
They're missing their idiot."I don't remember the last time I ran out of memory, if I were to guess it would at least have to be on my 333Mhz Gateway back in the day. Although I was installing an app on an XP box with 256MB and the page file usuage spiked over 700MB, I upgraded then. Matt Newman
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Yep, for the very first time on a Windows machine of mine I received tonight a message telling me that I'm out of memory. The scenario: three instances of IE, Visual InterDev, and Outlook Express in the Taskbar; Sonork, Trillian, SygatePro, EZ-Trust AV, and ORiNOCO Client Manager in the Notification Area; P4/1.8GHz 1.0 GB RAM on Win2K Server. I opened MS Access 2000 to modify a database used by the website under construction, was unsure whether to use a Text or Memo type for a description field, and so pressed F1 for help. The response was a temporary freeze, followed by the out of memory message. I've heard of these, but never been honored by one on my desktop. Oddly, this is a fairly light load for me to have running, and I never saw such a message on my Pentium Pro 180MHZ box with 96MB of RAM and Win2K Pro. Of course, that was a previous generation of IE, OE, and Visual Studio; they've obviously come a long way since then...:laugh: "Your village called -
They're missing their idiot."Roger Wright wrote: so pressed F1 for help You tried to get help in access 2000, silly man, they never intended anyone to actually use that! The f1 help in office is consistently the most screwed up feature in all of office, the screen mysteriously get's taken over by the help, you can sometimes / sometimes not get back to the workspace with the help still open, sometimes it just crashes etc etc.
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