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Rebooting or shutting down is kind of like when you take a nap. When you start up again everything starts fresh. If your computer has been slowing down, it will often feel snappy again.
The fan usually comes on because it thinks it's getting too hot. If it's been doing intensive stuff (not just web browsing or email or whatever) it can get hot. Also it can get hot if it's sitting in the sun, or next to a radiator!
There were these two Russian brothers who for a brief while had assembled the most powerful computer in the world inside their apartment in New York. (Te movie "Pi" was (very) loosely based on the New Yorker article about them. The article is amazing if you can find it). Anyway, this computer had parts in almost every room, so that the whole apartment was like some kind of electronic nest that they lived in. One of the things about computer processor chips is that the faster they are, the hotter they get. So these brothers had actually gone out to a hardware store and bought little cheapo fans, angled strategically in different corners of their apartment!
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 13:31 (seventeen years ago) link
that's like feeding the kitties!
But why do we
anthropomorphize - or whatever it is we do -so much more, now?
i was writing a really elgant post when the phone rang and I got email. And it got lost - because i had to do something that made something else happen. ironically, it was a Prof. calling me to alert me about the geological timeline we are discussing in his (Ecology) class.
And he was emailing me as well. great Prof.
i feel like the computer IS my brain, at times.
I can also be really terrible when forced to interact with people I don't know well, altough that is not a problem here. Except I don't know who anyone is, except the people I actually know. And Ned and Dan - everyone knows them.
I DREAM in computer - and I sometime
s wake up trying to post to an imaginary thread. I should try sleeping more, Like, now.
But once again someone else is posting!
neil young? because he has an anti-tehnology stance?
That grammy nominated song made me cringe for him.
I can never leave!
― aimurchie (aimurchie), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Neil Young recalls that in 1971 he invited Graham Nash to Broken Arrow, his sprawling ranch in northern California. Nash, one quarter of America's biggest-selling group, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY), had asked to hear his friend's recently completed Harvest record. Broken Arrow, spread over 56 hectares, has peacocks, cattle, llamas, corrals, barns and a mountain-top swimming pool. Harvest had been conceived in a studio on the estate.Young rowed Nash to the middle of his lake. His roadies, meanwhile, set up a pair of concert-sized speakers, hauling one into a barn on the far shore. They placed another by a window inside the house. As the opening bars of Out On The Weekend began to filter across the water, Young busied himself with co-ordinating the volume levels from the boat, yelling, "I need more barn!" one way, then "I need more house!" another.
― M.V. (M.V.), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link
mac users, please help. Is there a programme for macs that’ll read microsoft word docs, something like a free download maybe?
― cavern (not-goodwin), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link