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From: Nick Naym on 17 Feb 2010 15:30 In article b2forewagner-6A07BD.13480917022010(a)news.supernews.com, Bill who putters at b2forewagner(a)snip.net wrote on 2/17/10 1:48 PM: > In article <hlha88$sh9$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote: > >> nospam wrote: >>> none. the nightly routines run when you wake it. >> >> Mine don't. >> >> One of my periodic tasks (weekly, IIRC) is a reboot. >> >> OS X doesn't need it, but if an app has a memory leak, >> a reboot will trim the swap files back down to size. > > I do the same. Guess I noticed sluggish and found a reboot fixed it. > Can this be done without a reboot ? I've heard that several of the maintenance utilities can remove swap files -- Yasu (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/13416) and Xupport (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/9256) are two that I recall folks mentioning. But I have no idea whether they do, how effective they are, and (perhaps most important) how safe they are. Personally, I prefer an occasional reboot. > Bill over his head. -- iMac (24", 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 320 GB HDD) � OS X (10.5.8)
From: Richard Maine on 17 Feb 2010 18:18 Tom Stiller <tom_stiller(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > In article <1je293b.187brqq10if4owN%nospam(a)see.signature>, > nospam(a)see.signature (Richard Maine) wrote: > > Then we just disagree about the terminology. It heats the house and it > > uses electricity to do so. In my book, that's electric heating. It's > > just a more efficient way to use the electricity for the purpose. I'm > > aware that it doesn't convert the electricity to heat, but I still call > > it electric heating. > > Well, you're wrong. > > Electric heating converts electricity to heat in a continuous. 100% (if > you block any light) process. At least I have learned better than to argue by assertion, particularly on a matter of terminology like that. Just because you asserted that to apparently be the one and only acceptable definition of "electric heating" doesn't make it so. I have seen other definitions; I choose to use them. Just asserting that they are wrong doesn't make it so. You asked in another post > Why confuse the issue by using the wrong terminology? In addition to my disagreement with your assertion that it is wrong... You ignored the explanation in my imediately following paragraph about why it is confuses the issue to insist that heat pumps are not "electric heating." When talking to an "ordinary person" about the choices for heating their house, the thermodynamics lecture just confuses matters. They really won't care; nor is there any reason why they should. -- Richard Maine | Good judgment comes from experience; email: last name at domain . net | experience comes from bad judgment. domain: summertriangle | -- Mark Twain
From: Tom Stiller on 17 Feb 2010 18:24 In article <1je2cev.1nsw1t937rdo2N%nospam(a)see.signature>, nospam(a)see.signature (Richard Maine) wrote: > Tom Stiller <tom_stiller(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > In article <1je293b.187brqq10if4owN%nospam(a)see.signature>, > > nospam(a)see.signature (Richard Maine) wrote: > > > > Then we just disagree about the terminology. It heats the house and it > > > uses electricity to do so. In my book, that's electric heating. It's > > > just a more efficient way to use the electricity for the purpose. I'm > > > aware that it doesn't convert the electricity to heat, but I still call > > > it electric heating. > > > > Well, you're wrong. > > > > Electric heating converts electricity to heat in a continuous. 100% (if > > you block any light) process. > > At least I have learned better than to argue by assertion, particularly > on a matter of terminology like that. Just because you asserted that to > apparently be the one and only acceptable definition of "electric > heating" doesn't make it so. I have seen other definitions; I choose to > use them. Just asserting that they are wrong doesn't make it so. > > You asked in another post > > > Why confuse the issue by using the wrong terminology? > > In addition to my disagreement with your assertion that it is wrong... > > You ignored the explanation in my imediately following paragraph about > why it is confuses the issue to insist that heat pumps are not "electric > heating." When talking to an "ordinary person" about the choices for > heating their house, the thermodynamics lecture just confuses matters. > They really won't care; nor is there any reason why they should. Yeah, yeah, yeah. -- Tom Stiller PGP fingerprint = 5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3 7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF
From: dorayme on 17 Feb 2010 19:59 In article <1je2d9x.10oqrzr1eg3t9qN%nospam(a)see.signature>, nospam(a)see.signature (Richard Maine) wrote: > > From this discussion I urge you to turn in your degrees until you get > > these concepts right and use them correctly. <http://dorayme.netweaver.com.au/jokes/germanPianist.html> -- dorayme
From: Tom Stiller on 17 Feb 2010 20:53
In article <doraymeRidThis-DB6E44.11590818022010(a)news.albasani.net>, dorayme <doraymeRidThis(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote: > In article <1je2d9x.10oqrzr1eg3t9qN%nospam(a)see.signature>, > nospam(a)see.signature (Richard Maine) wrote: > > > > From this discussion I urge you to turn in your degrees until you get > > > these concepts right and use them correctly. > > <http://dorayme.netweaver.com.au/jokes/germanPianist.html> I heard it as an American opera singer at La Scala. -- Tom Stiller PGP fingerprint = 5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3 7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF |