Reality note / For you web designers.

[xyzzysqrl]

Part of why I've been writing so little about anything not fictional in this journal lately is because when I look around at what people are talking about and what's going on outside in the Big Real World, I get very tired and depressed.

So I'm doing my best to put all that out of my mind.

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A side note: One website that would really fly well, and which I don't see anywhere online: What The Hell Do I Upgrade dot comnetorg.

I'd like to tell a website "I have this much RAM, this kind of video card, etc" or just let it autodetect (Windows stores this crap SOMEwhere on the drive, right?) and then it would tell me "You should get more RAM." or "You need a faster read on your hard drive." or so on.

That would be neat.

Comments

[swordianmaster.livejournal.com]

Most tech nerds and pretty much any computer store will tell you that "you need more RAM" is always the answer, or at least a large part of it.

Past that, the only real "upgrades" you need are to fight back obsolesence: hard drive read times are typically so fast that they're only an issue if you're compressing video files; typically the time for the HD to read seems to be faster than the cycle time for the RAM, at least in my experience.

But as I know nothing concrete about computers, I could just be talking out of my ass! 8D