OpenEuphoria

Re: garbage collections, etc

• Posted by Kat <KSMiTH at PELL.NET> Nov 13, 1999
• 779 views

----- Original Message -----
From: Irv Mullins <irv at ELLIJAY.COM>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 1999 5:45 PM
Subject: Re: garbage collections, etc


> On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> > Irv Mullins wrote:
> > >Re: windows delays (snipped) I notice the same kinds of delays all the
time
> > >with Win 98. Even clicking on an icon can sometimes cause a delay of a
couple of
> > >seconds before anything happens. Not even a cursor change or the
darkening of
> > >the icon. Who knows what Windows is doing?
> >
> > Logging your activity and reporting back to HQ? 
> >
>
> If you have Explorer set to load a blank page on startup, then start
Explorer
> and pull down the list of recently visited sites (the same place you type
in
> new URL's) you'll see the modem lights blink, even though you haven't
clicked
> on any URL. The longer your list of "recent" sites, the more blinking.
> Hmmmm.....

You *do* know windoze really does try to contact MS when you get online,
don't you? Billy Gates says it's to automatically get the newest
code/updates ( pronounced: "bug patches"), and to do that, they must know
what you have on your puter.......

Kat