I use hotmail (itself at times notoriously slow) and with yahoo groups (who
are even worse - I suspect the name yahoo is oft heard when mail finally
arrives lol).
To be fair, sometimes hotmail can be near instantaneous (even with world
wide trips for the emails) and at others times, slower than snail mail -
even to a machine literally inches away (I won't go into details regarding
that or the need for it - just had where I worked once).
Allan
PS No trees were harmed in the sending of this message and a very large
number of electrons were asked their permission to be terribly
inconvenienced. (And threw a party for them afterwards for being really cool
about it).
Disrupting the unnatural balance that you, as a conscious human being and a
confused mass of energy, have created.
-Disturb the mind -
>From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] Computer question
>Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 09:53:22 -0500
>
>You misunderstood my message. I was trying to test if my ISP was
>blocking the mail and verified that was not the case. It appears to be
>being held in a queue somewhere and I don't know where but it's not my
>ISP. Tom Scales apparently has the same problem but his has been going
>on for some time and my problem only just started a couple days ago.
>
>As to an occasional error in a message I realize that, if the bit error
>rate is something like 1 in 10^-13 that it doesn't really take a long
>time to get there at gigahertz rates. :-)
>
>As to shutting down and rebooting; I try to make it very painless by
>shutting down when I go to bed at night and rebooting first thing in the
>morning while I go to pour my coffee. It's usually almost done by the
>time I'm ready to sit down.
>
>Chuck Norcutt
>
>Piers Hemy wrote:
>
> > Chuck, you complained that your ISP was blocking all list mail, now your
>ISP
> > is sending through most of the message, and you're still complaining!?
> > Sheesh, there's just no satisfying some people ;-) Heavy irony alert!
> >
> > In my experience, your comment about cumulative memory errors is spot
>on,
> > over time the PC just starts to graon, at which Big Red Switch comes
>into
> > its own. Shutting down and rebooting may well clear away a lot of
>evils.
> > But as far as it only taking a couple of minutes ... well that is not my
> > experience - it takes *several* minutes just to shut down fully, let
>alone
> > reboot (and that of course is dependant on how much strat up software is
> > loaded).
> >
> > --
> > Piers
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
>Behalf
> > Of Chuck Norcutt
> > Sent: 08 December 2006 14:16
> > To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] Computer question
> >
> > My version got cropped somehow. Maybe a memory management bug :-) It
>was
> > supposed to say: "Just a wild guess but I would suspect that the print
> > spooler encountered a bug and crashed. Try rebooting both machines
> > involved."
> >
> >
> > Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> >
> >
> >>a bug and crashed. Try rebooting both machines involved.
> >>
> >>Some folks like to brag about how stable their systems are. Why it's
> >>been running for over 100 years and has never crashed. I have a
> >>different view. Memory management errors can be cumulative. They can
> >>be happening and not causing any problem until some specific event
> >>occurs. They can also be happening and causing subtle problems you
> >>aren't aware of and may not be aware of for a long time.
> >>
> >>If you're not running a critical 24x7 service then don't mess around.
> >>Power down in the evening and reboot every morning and force the
> >>memory contents to be cleared and refreshed. This may not be your
> >>problem but easily could be. Shutting down and rebooting only takes a
> >>couple of minutes and may clear away a lot of evils.
> >>
> >>Chuck Norcutt
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>John Hermanson wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>I had been printing to our new Canon 9000 through our network and it
> >>>had been working fine. Now, out of nowhere, I CAN'T print through the
> >>>network and I get the message "print spooler service is not running".
> >>>Any computer whiz have insight for this? I appreciate all help.
> >>>
> >>>___________________________________
> >>>John Hermanson
> >>>Camtech Photo Services, Inc.
> >>>21 South Lane, Huntington NY 11743
> >>>631-424-2121 | Olympus OM Service since 1977 http://www.zuiko.com |
> >>>omtech1 AT verizon.net
> >>>
> >>>
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