Interesting, but the big difference here would be that Mac and Linux come with python installed where windows doesn't. So updating windows isn't likely to have as big an impact, since presumably you are including python in you windows installer and not in you mac or linux one. Or am I wrong?
--joshua On Feb 7, 2013, at 2:43 PM, Bruce Sherwood wrote: > For what it's worth, I'll mention that my primary machine is Windows, but I > routinely check the behavior of my projects VPython (vpython.org) and > GlowScript (glowscript.org) on Mac and Ubuntu Linux. > > Because it's so common for knowledgeable people to do Windows-bashing, I'll > comment that in my efforts over the last 12 years to make VPython work well > on all three major platforms, it is Mac and Ubuntu Linux that have regularly > broken things with their updates, whereas Windows has maintained backward > compatibilty during this entire period, across several major operating system > releases. > > Bruce > > > On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Nicholas Thompson > <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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