[dba-Tech] Windows 10 drivers NVIDIA geforce monitor

[Jim Lawrence]

Hi Gustav:

Well, I will be awaiting those upgrades to my Windows 10 and by association to Edge and by extension to Adblock plus. 

You sound like an old lady who only drives her car to church every Sunday. 20MB of RAM...really? I must be a bit more ruthless when it comes to browsers...forty tabs are not unusual. When some of the tabs are continuously active, I have noticed over a few days, memory will slowly dissipate. My current version of FF on Windows 10 is now using over 1.5 GBs, with only 15 tabs open (just checked)....I have seen Chrome eat up almost 2.8 GBs.

Today's browsers are not just to read your emails and check the weather. That concept is so pre-2010...in computer years that is 60 to 70 years ago. Everything is moving away from the desktop and internet being two separate entities. I think within a few years desktops and the browser interface will be totally integrated to the point where we wouldn't know where one ends and the other begins.. Data and other information will flow from one to the other. We will be able to collaborate with friends and businesses across our desktops...and we will be able to take our desktops anywhere we want go...all that is needed is a keyboard, mouse and monitor...our desktops will be spawned off our smartphones or downloaded off the internet...we have the potential to be everywhere and running tasks anywhere in the world...messaging, transferring data, photos, video conferencing, collaborating documents, animation of scenes in movies, doing engineer designs, programming and development and so on and so on...  

Why do you think Microsoft is so aggressively embracing the internet and all things Linux? ...Because that's the future.

Aside: I understand that the next Skype is going to be internet based.

So when you say why bother, when discussing the new-age browsers, I think it is a matter of either going backwards or going forward.

Jim  
 
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2016 11:55:33 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Windows 10 drivers NVIDIA geforce monitor

Hi Jim

Why bother? With the upcoming anniversary update of Windows 10, Edge will allow extensions, and such one will be Adblock Plus. So, for me, the only reason left to use IE will be to run the few sites requiring Java.

Can't see how memory usage these days can create an issue. Edge with my three favourite sites open consumes less than 20 MB.

/gustav

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Fra: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Jim Lawrence
Sendt: 28. juli 2016 05:31
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Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] Windows 10 drivers NVIDIA geforce monitor

Well, it is definitely different. That may be the main allure and I would like something fresh. It is also Open source, at least mostly: https://vivaldi.com/source/?lang=en and I like that (But the same can be said of FF and Chromium.)

All browsers basically work the same so unless some incredible new technology is discovered there is little, in tech, to differentiate one from the other. OTOH, I like the capability to be able create personal layouts....if you ever use multiple screen, tiling windows can be helpful.  Here is a good review of the product: http://bit.ly/2azaZft and its features...some you may find useful. 

So it broke on Windows 10 and that is unusual because....?   Windows 10 is still in beta as far as I am concerned...in a couple of years and a couple of TB of updates and it will be ready for prime time. ;-) 

Jim

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From: "Rocky Smolin" <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2016 5:38:25 PM
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I used it and wasn't enamored enough not to return to Firefox.  But I just tried it and apparently my upgrade to W10 broke it.  So, ok, uninstall, download, reinstall.  I'll give it another go.  See if I can figure out why it's better.  

I judge that from the outside, of course.  I don't care if it uses less memory unless my current browser runs into trouble because it uses too much memory.  The memory usage is transparent to me. So it really operates just like ie, Firefox, Chrome, etc. Some differences in UI but none in functionality that really pop out.  What am I missing?  What should I look for when I get it up and running again?



R

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2016 4:44 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Windows 10 drivers NVIDIA geforce monitor

Hi All:

An aside: I have been using the new Vivaldi Browser. It is nice and modern in its feel and function. I have found it to be very quick, can have its layout changed, on the fly, it takes less memory than other browsers. It even has a new feature than allows a user to suspend a tab "silent tab"...the tab is still available but all the tab's functions are suspended and all library are detached...this reduces its memory but still allows a tab to be restarted as needed.

Recently, if you are a Netflix user, an update allows the app to be easily integrated: http://bit.ly/2arrECe (note: the attached article is dated from last year.)

It supports all major OSs and can be downloaded from: https://vivaldi.com/download/?lang=en

Jim  

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2016 3:46:59 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Windows 10 drivers NVIDIA geforce monitor

Hi John

You didn't have to do that. IE is still around in Win 10, just type it.

/gustav

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Sendt: 26. juli 2016 07:46
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Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] Windows 10 drivers NVIDIA geforce monitor
Prioritet: Høj

That worked. Windows 10 Installed "Microsoft Basic Display Adapter" for the NVIDIA display. I then went to NVidia's site and scanned for drivers and it told me I had the latest and specified the card series and all the fine details. That part took a while because their site's device scanner uses java and Edge won't work with it so I had to install Firefox and Java right away.

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