{"id":190171,"date":"2009-12-29T19:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T00:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/29\/much-better\/"},"modified":"2009-12-29T19:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T00:54:00","slug":"much-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/29\/much-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Much Better&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been visiting my Mother-in-Law in New York, we saw the Museum of Natural History yesterday, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art today, and I finally managed to give her my Hanukkah Gift to her.<\/p>\n<p>I offered to upgrade the memory on her machine, a Dell Dimension L800r, from it&#8217;s current 128 meg to 512 meg of ram.<\/p>\n<p>When she got it, it had Windoze ME, but she had to upgrade to Win XP, and with 128 meg, less a couple for video memory, it was <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">slow<\/span>, particularly after a nasty bit of spyware, and the multiple passes of various software to fix it, created a spaghetti registry.<\/p>\n<p>I ordered the memory online, but they were out of stock, so today, before going to the museum, I hit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhphotovideo.com\/\">B&amp;H Photo Video<\/a> in Manhattan, and picked up 2x 256M DIMMs.<\/p>\n<p>Still slow, but not glacially so, and the CPU actually maxes out without the hard drive light indicating massive thrashing.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still slow, but no longer glacial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been visiting my Mother-in-Law in New York, we saw the Museum of Natural History yesterday, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art today, and I finally managed to give her my Hanukkah Gift to her. I offered to upgrade the memory on her machine, a Dell Dimension L800r, from it&#8217;s current 128 meg to 512 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1060,976],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}