Gary,
No body has offered because I haven't asked. When I worked in a university, we were all neophytes with this stuff - "citizens" is the term Owen uses - and we would trade information all the time, and each of us would get good at some things. I got good at macros, for instance. For a while, I had a library of macros that would automatically put a comment I in a student's paper that described almost any writing error and provide a few examples for how to fix it. Things like, "When to use Which and when to use That." Here, I don't have much to trade, so I wouldn't ask unless my back was really to the wall, and 200 dollars every few years cannot be conceived of as having one's back against the wall. In short, I confine myself to asking people to point me in the right direction, which somebody ALWAYS does. The problem is usually that I have gotten frustrated and I can't think, and the solution usually right before my eyes if only somebody will point it out. And they do. Sometimes after grumbling, which is fair enough. In the present case, somebody has directed me to a toggle that strips all of the eye-candy out of win7 and leaves me with a much more readable, predictable display. I only wish I had asked for advice three years ago when I bought the machine. Is my memory correct: you are in Peru. Watching birds, among other things? If you ever make your way back, I will buy the coffee. Even if my computer is fast as light. Nick From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gary Schiltz Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 1:03 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Windows Resource Monitor Nick, Are you still in Santa Fe? I'm not, but if I was, I would help out in person at the next WedTech (hint for those who are there in Santa Fe). Surely your buddies wouldn't charge you $200 for a bit of hands-on help (I'd do it for a cup of coffee :-) Gary On Feb 7, 2013, at 2:57 PM, "Nicholas Thompson" <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks owen. I did lots of stuff LIKE that, but may not have recognized a helping hand when it was proffered. With your reassurance I will plunge back in. The response to this inquiry has led me wonder some wonderings about the folks on the list. Is it the case that: (1) I am the only person on this list that owns a PC (2) I am the only person on this list that owns a PC who has had this sort of problem (="resource leakage"?). (3) I am the only person on this list that owns a PC who is too cheap to pay the 200 bucks to get it fixed by an expert. (4) I am the only person on this list that owns a PC who is too cheap to pay the 200 bucks to get it fixed by an expert and who also too dumb to know how to use the resource monitor to fix it, myself.
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