h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I may have solved the problem of my iMac becoming slow ( <---<< this is a snail, right? ) in spite of having around 110 Mbps down- and 26 Mbps upload speed.
Turns out that if I set iTunes to look for updates it does so practically all the time - and uses amazingly much of my 2 GB RAM for it
Until I changed the settings it was unbearable to watch this interesting clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGiQaabX3_o
It's only 10 minutes long but it would have been chopped up in many small pieces with long pauses inbetween and lasted at least 30 minutes. On a good day!
But now it runs smoothly
I'm told that it's only the setting of iTunes that needs to be altered (but I may be experimenting with a few other programs anyway. One at a time. We'll see how that w*rks out.)
Just thought you'd like to know
As you were.

Well, good to hear you got that sussed*.

Now that you have your speed back, I recommend you watch this vid by the same folks if you haven't already.

http://youtu.be/JQVmkDUkZT4

And be sure to watch CGP Grey's video that blends into the end of it.

*not a word that sounds right coming from a Texan.

Thanks

I wonder what it does to the two of me that between the two of us we only have 10 % eye sight on my right eye

I should probably watch this again tomorrow. It's been a long day

My computer may be fast, but it's taken two years for it to not budge from this desk, except when I carried it to Computer Domain, a computer repair shop..

All is not completely well yet as it turns out. I need to fill at least 1 GB more RAM into my iMac

(And by the way none of these efforts have any impact on hootoo being slow and unstable but I guess it's just a pasing phase until the have sorted everything out on their side)

Hey, we Texans totally suss things!

Given how large the state is, there's a lot to suss.

Oh, we suss plenty, we just don't say "suss".

Oh? I could have sworn there was a Doctor Suss in there somewhere. ;-0

Did you know...


Doctor Theodor Seuss Geisel pronounced "Seuss" to rhyme with "voice"?


I just recently learn this.

Don't you mean you sussed it? (Unless it was randomly learned and not investigated at all, in which case good on you. )

Just random trivia.

Fascinating

I don't think he did. I have always thought that Suess was just Süss without using the umlaut. Which is quite common in German. In crosswords, and when writing capitals, it is usual to write AE, UE or OE instead of Ä, Ö or Ü.

However, the diphthong eu is pronounced as in "oice". As in Euler - the mathematician, or Reuters, the News agency.

Süss is a more likely surname than Seuss. But you never know.

The guide would have told you this. A863453.

Given Seuss' background (all of his grandparents were German immigrants) he must have known the correct German pronunciation of Seuss

Names like Suess and Süss have nothing to do with this

His name was Theodor Seuss Geisel. Whatever spelling issues were involved, chances are they came at the time his parents named him. As American descendants of German immigrants, they would have known that English words are unlikely to have umlauts, so spelling out the e and u would have been a way to fit in.

For what it's worth, George Frideric Handel could have spelled his last name Haendel, for the same reason, but chose not to. He wanted to anglicize his name...

And now we know!

OK - thanks, Pierce. I'd never put much thought into it, and never looked closer.