From: luweitest@gmail.com   
      
   On 2023-2-9 21:28, AugustA wrote:   
   > Hello gtaylor!   
   >   
   > ** On Thursday 09.02.23 - 00:42, gtaylor wrote to :   
   >   
   >> I'm lurking and rarely posting.   
   >   
   >> I've still got XP on a physical machine amd multiple virtual   
   >> machines for various reasons.   
   >   
   > I suppose it doesn't hurt to keep the channel open even if   
   > there is nothing to ask or talk about, and hope that others are   
   > at least doing the same.  Otherwise, a long span of no messages   
   > could encourage an unsubscribe, and the group can truly die   
   > off.   
   >   
   I have some groups (hamster.*) not having any posts for years, but I   
   still subscribe them because I am using hamster gateway. Newsgroups   
   don't need checking from time to time as web forums. Putting them in the   
   subscription list doesn't cost anything.   
      
   > I did get a recent spam in here, "Blank ATM cards".  Very   
   > annoying.   
   >   
   I created a subject filter in TB to delete them. Handy now, but I worry   
   about more sophisticated, pattern-less spam, though it seems not likely   
   in today's Usenet.   
      
   > wrt XP, I had a recent good journey upgrading my T60 from a   
   > 250GB hdd to a 1TB ssd.  At the time, the concern about lack of   
   > TRIM and reducing unnecessary writes to the ssd didn't really   
   > come to mind. But disabling the page writes system and   
   > ununessary updates to "last accessed" for the files goes a long   
   > way.   
   >   
   My X61 is similar to T60. I upgraded memory to 4G, 3G for system and the   
   other 1G that XP cannot use for ramdisk. HDD sata mode is quick enough   
   for me now, maybe I will consider SSD later. And I use ThrottleStop to   
   boost CPU sometimes.   
      
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   Lu Wei   
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