Friday, November 29, 2019
Friday, November 22, 2019
Ringworld Audio book
I'm going to highly recommend this audiobook. I read the 1970 book about 30 years ago, but now I find the audiobook to be a delight to listen to.
This is the most famous and most award-winning of about 40 books that take place in the "Known Space" Universe created by Larry Niven. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Known_Space
Other recordings of this book have been removed from youtube, most likely for copyright reasons. This particular recording seems odd and not particularly the best quality, as if it was copied from audiotapes and maybe from more than one source. The quality is not consistent. You can barely hear some background interference like it is being copied from tapes.
However, I wasn't bothered by the inconsistency of the recording. The story is so good that I really enjoyed listening to it.
There are four recent prequels to this novel in the "Fleet of Worlds" series, which are not a prerequisite, but a delight to listen to. I paid Audible to listen to those.
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Christmas Candy
Monday, November 18, 2019
2017 iMac freezes up
A few months ago I purchased a used 2017 iMac and installed Windows 10 on it. For the most part, this has been a great machine. However, there is now a problem. The computer will appear to run slow and then eventually freeze. This usually happens while using Google Chrome.
I am normally good at dealing with any kind of software problem that comes up, but this could be something going wrong with the hardware, like the RAM, the SSD, or some controller board. Hardware is mostly outside my area of expertise, although I did buy some new RAM chips that I have not yet installed. I could try taking out the old RAM chips and put in the new RAM chips and see if the problem persists.
On the software side maybe there is a virus, which seems unlikely because I have Norton which normally takes care of these things. It is possible there is a driver issue, but that also seems unlikely. I would not expect Google Chrome to be the problem, but I would not rule it out either. I could try a different web browser.
I need to reboot the computer into McIntosh mode and see if the problem happens again. If it does, then it is a hardware problem. However, if the problem goes away, then something is wrong in the Windows 10 world and I would consider erasing the Windows 10 partition and reinstalling the operating system, which is a time-consuming task.
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