FU/ Designers-Network gurus. Epilogue pt. 2

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From here:



Installed new 8 gigs into old Mac pro. Zipping along nicely. Up to 11gigs total now, still have 2 slots open. Much much MUCH better than 3gigs.

No new Mac Pro yet, but what do I care, it won't be for me.

(!)

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[Paul F.]

You must finds a way to gets the precious.....
Yes, precious...

:devil:

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It's been said here that when this place closes up, this is the first machine that will disappear in the hands of some random employee. First come first served.

I also got the 16 gigs RAM upgrade for the new Mac Pro, maybe I will put them in the wrong slots when the Mac Pro gets here.

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[Paul F.]

"Oops, I thought this computer was supposed to go on THIS desk..."

Congrats again, by the way.
Now light a fire under that IT guy to get your computers on a Gigabit switch, and doing some upgrades and maintenance on that Linux server; and you'll see your productivity increase and your stress level decrease (maybe a little..).

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Paul,

Stress is already lowered. With the RAM and the new boot partition - I have had no daily mid-day Photoshop crashes (did have a 4AM freeze that I had to shut down by the power switch. Repaired permissions and repaired disk, now running smoothly).

I can now run Photoshop and InDesign and Bridge and Apple Mail without having to quit something when a file starts to choke and sputter.

Changed the settings for RAM and scratch disk, restarted Photoshop, and the first file I opened did so in about half the speed I expected.

I think the new LCD I got is messing with the computer. I normally have the monitors go to sleep after 15 minutes, and with this new monitor, I will have to wait several minutes as my dual monitor set-up goes through some strange on/off cycle "dance" with sometimes a plain background screen, Apple's default blue background screen and my active desktop. I have now set my monitors to never sleep, just screen saver. I think the new monitor has some "splash" screen that it wants to display when started up.

Still don't know what caused the overnight freeze. Never had that before. The beachball was spinning until 8am. I still think the Adobe Mothership and Apple's Mail are sparring for the internet connection.

Still, much less stress, much less.

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Paul F. wrote:
"Oops, I thought this computer was supposed to go on THIS desk..."

They do look all the same. Actually same processor speed.

"Hey, the new computer already has all our applications on it!"

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