Posted by Estella on August 30, 2006, at 5:42:45
In reply to Re: stupid computers, posted by finelinebob on August 30, 2006, at 1:04:15
> If you're running Safari, you're running OS X.
Yeah OS X. But a very early version of OS X (I didn't realise there were different versions of that).
> Go to that Blue Apple in the left corner of the menu bar and choose the first item: About This Mac. It will tell you what version of the OS you're running, and how much RAM you have.Yep. RAM is okay. It is an early version of OS X though and as such I don't have the check for updates option from the menu. I found the list of available updates from the apple help page, but I don't know which of those may be installed already.
> Updates can be scheduled.Currently it asks me if I want to proceed with updates. So I figure it is waiting for me to arrive to work and asking me whether I want to update. How do I schedule it to update automatically?
> Sounds like RAM if Firefox is choking.
I just have to request it to start up around 10 times before it actually will start up. Once it has started up it runs okay. Safari starts up okay but I have this other problem with Safari.
> How about your connection speed? Broadband?
Yeah. But it is fairly slow broadband because everyone in the university is using it...
> And remember, there are other people posting (especially in prime time) besides you. You refresh the page, and they beat you to it because they said less or started earlier, but didn't post by the time you loaded the page.
Yep. That isn't what is happening though. My guess of what is happening is that Safari is storing a cache somewhere (but it isn't the cache I'm clearing out). As such it is loading pages from the cache and not downloading them from the internet properly. Sometimes it takes up to 3 days before it will load a new picture. I know there is a new picture because people have commented on it already and because my laptop loads it okay. I also don't get some posts showing up on Safari on my desktop for maybe three days which is strange because they show up on my laptop okay.
So...
Firefox takes 10 commands to start-up. Once it starts it runs okay. Yes I've taken the icon into the applications folder.
Safari starts up okay. But it is storing pages in a cache somewhere and I can't figure where it is storing them and I can't figure how the hell to stop it from doing that.
My home computer (laptop PC) won't do new indicators when there ARE new posts and as such they should have new indicators on them.
Best I can think of to say is... At least the problems are distributed over two computers. I have no idea what is up with either of them, however.
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