[FRIAM] Anyone need a google wave invite?

2009-11-13 Thread Robert Holmes
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Re: [FRIAM] driver detective

2009-11-13 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Thanks, everybody Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu) http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe] - Original Message - From: To: The Friday Morning A

Re: [FRIAM] driver detective

2009-11-13 Thread gregortroll
Does performance improve when the network is disconnected? When connected, but not doing much, run taskmgr.exe, go to the networking tab, does the graph show more than nearly no traffic? If you computer seems too "busy" when you aren't doing anything, then your computer may be a botnet zombie.

Re: [FRIAM] driver detective

2009-11-13 Thread Douglas Roberts
MORE likely is that your Windows box has become a node in a spam botnet, Nick. --Doug On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:09 PM, wrote: > A more likely reason for slowness (since your drivers have always been your > drivers... why would they slow things down now?) is registry fragmentation. > > You may w

[FRIAM] [Fwd: [sfx: Discuss] Bootstrapping Complexity]

2009-11-13 Thread Steve Smith
I started to answer this post on the sfX Discuss list thinking it was the FRIAM list and realized that the link hadn't been sent to *this* motley crue yet. When I read Kelly's OofC nearly 20 years ago I was quite impressed/excited that someone had managed to write such a broad and accessible b

Re: [FRIAM] driver detective

2009-11-13 Thread gregortroll
A more likely reason for slowness (since your drivers have always been your drivers... why would they slow things down now?) is registry fragmentation. You may wish to use the free Auslogics Registry Defrag. PS: Note that it is in DD's best interest to report as many drivers "out of date" as

Re: [FRIAM] driver detective

2009-11-13 Thread Tom Johnson
I have Driver Detective -- yeah, it does change you for the updates -- but I use Driver Robot. -tj On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Nicholas Thompson < nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Does anybody have anything kind or unkind to say about Driver Detective > for a year at 30 bucks. > > My c

Re: [FRIAM] driver detective

2009-11-13 Thread Roger Critchlow
I looked and I didn't see anything wrong with it. I don't have any personal experience with it. -- rec -- On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Nicholas Thompson < nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > I read a couple of reviews of DD on line that say it is ok and does what > it says it does, includ

Re: [FRIAM] driver detective

2009-11-13 Thread Nicholas Thompson
I read a couple of reviews of DD on line that say it is ok and does what it says it does, including updating non-windows drivers, like for my stupid music software, and who knows, my stupid email program, as well. Are there sites whose reviews you trust Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritu

Re: [FRIAM] driver detective

2009-11-13 Thread Roger Critchlow
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Nicholas Thompson < nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Does anybody have anything kind or unkind to say about Driver Detective > for a year at 30 bucks. > > My computer runs like doing aerobics in a swimming pool full of molassas. > DD's free scan says i have 5

[FRIAM] driver detective

2009-11-13 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Does anybody have anything kind or unkind to say about Driver Detective for a year at 30 bucks. My computer runs like doing aerobics in a swimming pool full of molassas. DD's free scan says i have 59 out-of-date drivers and offers to fix them. I assume that if I allow a piece of software to

[FRIAM] And down they go - IT programmers arrested in Madoff

2009-11-13 Thread pete baston
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/nov/13/madoff-accomplices-jerome-ohara-george-perez Lets see if they plead "the Oracle did it ", I cannot wait for the SQL ( : ( : pete -- -- Peter Baston IDEAS business technology integration www.ideapete.com