Chuck,
I have to agree with you on this. My Dell is shut down when I go to bed,
and gets a fresh start with me each morning. Even with that routine, I
occasionally see the Outlook Express columns change, or some other quirk,
and have to restart that program. Things DO happen!
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 8:07 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] PSTCRD: Paris as usual
> I've never understood those who like to brag about their computers which
> haven't been rebooted in a very long time. Pick a number... this
> computer only makes a single bit error once in every 10**13 cycles.
> Ummm, with a computer running at 3 Ghz it only take about 3 days to get
> to 10**13 cycles. Don't like 10**13. Pick a bigger number and it will
> get there eventually. Of course it's likely only a single bit error but
> of course it could be very significant if on the high order bit of a 64
> bit number.
>
> Sounds to me like your computer finally erroneously flipped a bit in
> someplace where it caught your attention. How may others has it flipped
> that you haven't noticed? My computer has 8GB of RAM which is dwarfed
> by the 2TB of disk storage. I know there have to be some flipped bits
> in there but I'll not likely find them ever.
>
> Since they're so expensive do you suppose Macs have ECC memory?
> Probably not.
>
> Chuck Norcutt (who religiously reboots his machines every day... whether
> they need it or not). :-)
>
>
> On 12/20/2012 7:38 AM, JOHN DUGGAN wrote:
>> Chris, Philippe...and possibly others... For some strange reason my
>> computer stopped allowing me to enlarge images :-O> I wondered if
>> something had been disabled at Phillipe's end. Re-boot, (computer has
>> not been switched off for 3 months, only put into sleep mode) and 1
>> change of batteries later and normal service has been resumed! Very
>> Strange!!
>>
>> Regards John Duggan, Wales, UK
>>
>>
>> ________________________________ From: Chris Barker
>> <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
>> <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, 20 December 2012, 11:16
>> Subject: Re: [OM] PSTCRD: Paris as usual
>>
>> John
>>
>> I can't work out how you might be joking about this so here goes: you
>> click on the pair of overlapping rectangles above the image and wait
>> for the resulting image to load.
>>
>> Chris On 20 Dec 2012, at 11:09, JOHN DUGGAN
>> <john.duggan10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Philippe, try as I might I cannot get larger images on my Imac.
>>> What's the secret.. ;-O>
>>>
>>> Regards John Duggan, Wales, UK
>>
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