| From: | Xavier Messersmith |
| Date: | 20 Jan 2000 at 13:29:26 |
| Subject: | Re: Problems? (I'm clean, really! This is an OS bug.) |
From: Xavier Messersmith <xcaliber@xav.to>
On 20-Jan-00, T.B. wrote:
>> Everybody doesn't have turbo print, some odn't even have printers. But I'll
>> tell you this:
>>
>> Everybody has icons, without icons workbench wouldn't be workbench.
>> Everybody here has a TCP/IP stack and email program.
>> Certain common stacks and mailers use an appicon to display their status.
>> Some of those you can't disable.
>
> I see no problem.
You responded 1 paragraph early my friend.
>> Whenever those appicons update, and you're doing something like a simple
>> menu function, or dragging around a window, IT ALL FREEZES!!!
>
> Remove all the dirty OS patches from Startup-Sequence.
I don't keep dirty patches around.
> Many aren't needed anymore.
Many don't interest me to start with.
> Deactivate all MCP patches.
What if I don't use MCP?
> Activate them one after the other, if you really need some of them.
Otherwise don't go through the trouble of installing it? :-)
> Deactivate Executive's scheduler.
If I hadn't already deactivated Executive..
> Responsiveness is a little slower, but overall performance of programs is
> significantly better.
I actually had the scheduler off for a while before this and just used it for
the dashboard. All gone, sniff, sniff... :_(
> Use Ramlibpatch and Stackattack.
Don't use dirty hacks, but try these?
Nah. The ramlib patch should be obsolete by BB2, and stackattack seems
redundant to setting decent stack levels yourself. Anything that hits the
stack that hard should have its own stack checking mechanism built in anyways.
>> I should remind that everybody has menus and windows, and everybody has to
>> use them.
>
> I guess you're talking about Magic Menu here.
No, lord of the hacks. I'm speaking of that old feature that was introduced to the
operating system a decade ago.
> Use NewObtainGIRPen and you'll get locks of MM much less frequently.
Next time I use MM I'll try to remember that.
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