Newsletter # 16 - 3 Dec 2004

Many of our customers have purchased We Want to Live or The Recipe for Living without Disease. Both are by Aajonus Vonderplanitz. In The Recipe for Living without Disease he recommends the Green Star Juicer. Since I already had a Champion, I made do with the Champion but I recently decided to get the Green Star Juicer for myself and stock them for the store. The manufacture claims that the juice produced is more stable and has a significantly higher mineral content. This I can not verify but can say the juice is tastier and seems less watery and there is more of it. The Champion produced a wet pulp and ran at very high speed that heated the juice while the Green Star Juicer produces a very compressed dry pulp and the juice has not been heated. In short you get more juice from your vegetables and fruit and of a better quality. Another major advantage is that you can juice as much as you want and do not have to break down the machine after every cup the way I did with the Champion because its screen would fill up with pulp and become very inefficient after the first cup of juice. For more information go to http://www.elearnaid.com/grst20ju.html

The lower displays show page file usage. (A "page" is a contiguous group of memory.) However, on every XP machine I have ever seen the graph is just a straight line and does not show very much. For this reason I recommend FreeMeter. As its name implies it is free though there is a more robust version that you have to pay for. FreeMeter does show page file usage and is available from http://www.tiler.com/freemeter/. But first, what is so important about page file usage is that it can indicate that you need more memory or one of your programs is utilizing a lot of memory. Now to explain this... Memory is permanently stored on your hard disk drive but a hard disk drive is too slow for a processor to directly access the hard drive so it always runs programs and accesses data from the memory on chips. Most machines do not have enough memory to run all of the programs and the data these programs use simultaneously. The PC saves sections of memory that has not been used for a while in the Page file or swap file (older versions of windows) on your hard disk drive. Instead of just a read you have a read and a write. Or if you are switching between programs that have already been read you have reads and writes occurring that would not have to occurred at all if there was enough memory. This is can really slow you computer down. FreeMeter displays a set of meters that show up in the lower right hand area of your screen called Systray. (see picture above) You will be able to see what is happening so you can observe if one particular program is causing a problem or the problem is just not enough memory. It is a great program to have. The other nice thing about FreeMeter is that it also works on Windows 95 and up and older versions of windows did not come with a utility that like this.