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- uberdesigner0
in your case I hope so
designerror
(May 8 06, 16:30)I use spark with an ergo keyboard and a beaded seat cover
- PublikStar0
I don't care so much whether it eats ram. Final Cut eats ram. Will it f**k my machine up?
hotroddy
(May 8 06, 16:30)FCP wont fuck up your machine, editing softwares always eats ram, just max up your ram and you'll be fine
- Gucci0
it's true.
if you want to see how constantly your computer gets hit for completely RANDOM requests, just 'view queries' or whatever the fuck it's called. you can see how many people browse your files, and the words that they use to search them.
when you have that feature turned on, it bogs your machine right down.... now, if you think about it, that happens in the background all the time.download soulseex and you have greater control over incoming and outgoing bandwidth, booyah.
- skelly0
I think he means bottom line will Limewire or P2P fuck up a working machine, could care less about slowing down or RAM usage, but BREAK the machine.
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My HD just shitted out on me, and they didn't mention Limewire.
- sevenonethree0
ok, let me solve this for everyone.
what the mac guy meant was IF you leave your limewire on idling yes over time of doing that will crash your drive cuz your sharing. However if you dont share (like me) your fine just dling.
Furthermore, as soon as your done with your dls exit limewire cause it will eat up your ram and virtual memory.
Now, if you must share your files inorder to be able to dl off of others i advise you to limit the files that you have in that shareable files like to one =D is that i do as a trick i move all my other mp3s into a different folder that is not shared.
Moreover, Harddrives crashes due to limewire is rare alone. it would have to be a combination of things. for instance, lack of defrag is one, reformating too much will be one, spywares oh thats a big one, running too many apps at onnce forcing your RAM to run on it pushing your resource to its peak, etc so yea.
So how to solve all that?!??!!?
1. defrag when your using your pc/laptop
What defrag does it originize your files for the drive to run smooth thus less crash and the "blue screen of death"
2.get a good anti spyware
currently i am using only Ad aware its free and its great. and MS windows Defender Beta that is also free.
3. try not to have too much icons on your desktop and Task bar thats are always running and taking up resource on your ram. thus slowing your pc./latop down.
4. Virus scanner
getting rid of those bot/trojan will relieve stress to the processor.
5. Upgrade RAM and HD
now if the speed isnt what oyur looking for get your self a
Cosair RAM XMS they ar the fastest in the market
and SEA GATE HD very stable and fast with their 16mb buffer.
If you have a dual channel ram motherboard get dual ram its one of the ways that makes macs fly =D when a G4 onyl has a 512 but its dual so like ya.
blah ok i'll stop cuz i can go on =P
questions?
- hotroddy0
you got it Skelly...! That's all I'm asking.
I don't have to defrag or do any of that BS as Macs do that behind the scenes.
Don't have to worry about spyware either.
My Mac is my livleyhood so if there is any app out that might threaten it than it's gonzo.
- sevenonethree0
ya i know was only talking for the PC peeps out there hehe
but a CUSTOM built pc would own a mac ne time. but of course it would cost a lot more =P
- skelly0
I don't think it can damage it. Wear it out maybe? But that's just wear and tear - in that sense Limewire would be no different than any other app that uses/abuses the HD.