https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/clean-memxp-9-2/ en Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:57:35 +0000 hourly 1 FeedWriter https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/clean-memxp-9-2/#comment-42083 Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:57:35 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/clean-memxp-9-2/#comment-42083 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/clean-memxp-9-2/#comment-42082 From BuBBy: (in the voice of James Earl Jones) "Doctor Dick - you have missed the point" ;) While you have probably surprised nobody (including myself) by revealing that 3rd party, independent developers can produce software that is of higher quality than what comes with windows, you probably should've chosen not to answer my hypothetical question, especially if you were going to give the wrong answer. I was saying the reason why Microsoft don't use the "Peter Pan" style "Magical Memory Optimizers" is not because they "Don't know how to" but because under recent versions of windows (including XP and Vista) they do not work. They are Total and Absolute Crapola. If you buy one for $20 you have just wasted $20. If you buy one for $40, ... well I'm sure you can work it out. Do some research, see if you can find one of the sites pedaling these programs - if they can explain (at a programming / OS level) just how they work. Have any of them documented the theory and made it available for public scrutiny? Didn't think so. They hide behind "runs faster", "crashes less", "more memory" - the sort of criteria they use - without publishing repeatable test results or procedures. Even though it appears your education is in "earth sciences" and not "computer science/engineering" (but it is not the point) - anyone with a science background wants evidence - documentation - proof. Yet you believe that my comments about memory optimizers were incorrect. So to give you the opportunity to learn, think and keep to the facts, I've got some reading from some people who actually know what they are talking about. The Memory Optimization Hoax - Doctor Mark Russinovich, Ph.D. (note the final sentence - 'Fraudware' - common sense suggests that if RAM optimization were possible (and could be implemented by so many small-time upstarts), Microsoft developers would have long since integrated the technology into the kernel). The Truth about Windows Memory Optimizers - Jeremy Collake, Bitsum Technologies "Memory Optimizer" Confusion - Fred Langa ]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:33:44 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/clean-memxp-9-2/#comment-42082 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/clean-memxp-9-2/#comment-42081 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:25:33 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/clean-memxp-9-2/#comment-42081 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/clean-memxp-9-2/#comment-42080 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:10:33 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/clean-memxp-9-2/#comment-42080 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/clean-memxp-9-2/#comment-42079 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:46:56 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/clean-memxp-9-2/#comment-42079 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/clean-memxp-9-2/#comment-42078 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:20:40 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/clean-memxp-9-2/#comment-42078 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/clean-memxp-9-2/#comment-42076 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:29:07 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/clean-memxp-9-2/#comment-42076 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/clean-memxp-9-2/#comment-42075 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:27:30 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/clean-memxp-9-2/#comment-42075 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/clean-memxp-9-2/#comment-42074 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:26:10 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/clean-memxp-9-2/#comment-42074 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/clean-memxp-9-2/#comment-42072 good thing when people tell others about better software? Those links are the best thing about the comments section, in my opinion. "This does not encourage developers to put there programs up here for free." You're right. It encourages them to improve their programs, or, at the very least, makes room for worthwhile giveaways. I don't see how it's a bad thing if the developers are forced to improve or pull their software - not that they actually care about the comments, for the most part...]]> Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:31:44 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/clean-memxp-9-2/#comment-42072