Notice to Mariners Week 43

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On a Thread Drift, is anyone else suffering from Window 10! After last weekends 'update', I am suffering from 'not enough memory' although I am doing nothing unusual. The Website software is using 5 of the 6GB of RAM and one hour of the updating on NtM was because of crashes. Oh I hate Windows 10. But I turn to....

Permanent

1. New Editions of ADMIRALTY Charts on 9th November, 2017 : Chart 1534 - England - East Coast, Great Yarmouth and Approaches. Great Yarmouth Outer Harbour and Great Yarmouth Haven.
Chart 1535 - England - East Coast, Lowestoft and Approaches. Lowestoft Harbour.
2. ENGLAND - Thames Estuary - Long Sand NE - Depths. Two new reduced depths on the Long Sand. Although reduced depths at 8.8 and 9.9m, this evidence of continual extension of the north-eastwards of the Long Sand Head and worth prudence. Image of course at the usual page: http://www.crossingthethamesestuary.com/page9.html
3. ENGLAND - East Coast - River Thames - Gravesend Reach - Landmarks. - the two Power Station chimneys at the Tilbury Power Station have gone;
4. North Coast - Approaches to Dunkerque - Buoy. Measuring instrument. Automatic Identification System. A temproary NtM but a new yellow buoy in the Binnen Ratel channel north of Dunkerque.

Temporary

1. Trinity House NtM advising in the Approaches to Lowestoft the wreck buoys for the wreck of the Tug 'Ella' have been widened to 500 metres - Image on the same page but under the Temporary list;
2. Trinity House advise that the S. Bawdsey buoy has had its wave actuated whistle changed to a wave actuated bell;
3. River Thames - Oikos Jetty No 2 Jetty extension now has a temporary new South Cardinal buoy from tomorrow - image in the usual page.
4. Port of Wells - Dah, dah - dredging!

That's it. Oh I hate Windows 10.
 
On a Thread Drift, is anyone else suffering from Window 10! After last weekends 'update', I am suffering from 'not enough memory' although I am doing nothing unusual. The Website software is using 5 of the 6GB of RAM and one hour of the updating on NtM was because of crashes. Oh I hate Windows 10.

I agree.
I started suffering in 1988 (I think it was PCDOS 3 in those days)
Last month one of the win 10 updates proved to destructive that I crossed over to the dark side and now use a Mac
suffice to say - I should have done it years ago


PS, as ever, thanks for the excellent NtM summaries
 
Umm yes. GK1 uses a Mac and clearly thinks (but politely) thinks I'm crazy still using a 'PC'. But my drawing and website software (etc) isn't now available for a Mac and learning from scratch terrifies me.
 
Roger, my experience with Win 10 is exactly the reverse, it's memory management is MUCH better than previous versions. The questions are whether your apps are native Win 10 apps now, and also whether they are 32 or 64 bit apps... Now I'm a retiree as well, happy to have a chat
 
Win 10 does seem to get a varied press. My son's laptop upgraded to 10 from 7 and he's regretted it, slow running etc.
I decided to stick with Win 8 (Roger knows this and I know it's no comfort to him) and what's more I turned off automatic updates at the same time. Machine has run faultlessly ever since (touch wood frantically).
 
The questions are whether your apps are native Win 10 apps now, and also whether they are 32 or 64 bit apps.

Larry

I'm not sure what "apps are native Win 10 apps now" means? Does that mean they were invented before Win10? Yes. Er, they are 'programs' not apps. ('App' is a silly fancy title trying to pretend its better - did you know that a train ticket app charges more than calling in at the ticket office! ) It will be 32 or 64 bit installation according to the respective 32 or 64 bit computer. I have a 64 bit comfuter (sic) and the program says it is running the 64 bit installation. It says it needs 2GB RAM for 64 bit Windows 7 and 8. Windows 10 and Firefox appear to be using 3.3 GB of RAM (I have 6GB of RAM [and I think I can add another 2GB of RAM]).

OH PS. It has been v. slow for 6/9/12 months. This Out of Memory crashing suddenly started the day after the latest auto update! Nothin' else has changed.
 
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