OT: memory problem

NTDEV
1

Hello,

I’m in my early 30’s and noticed that my short term
memory seems getting more and more volatile in the
past year. Many times I couldn’t remember where I
parked my car in the parking lot.

Did you guys experience this problem at that age?
Would the profession as SW engineer have bad impact on
this?

Thanks,
Calvin

Calvin Guan (Windows DDK MVP)
Staff SW Engineer NetXtreme MINIPORT
Broadcom Corp. Irvine, CA
www.broadcom.com

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Am I in my early 50’s and I do not have THAT problem … anymore ! :slight_smile:

What impacts your brain is ( in order ) :

  • the kind of food you eat ( amount of fat , sugars , and especially the sort of sugars such as fructose , glucose , lactose … )
  • the amount of hours you sleep per 24 h
  • the quality of the air you breath
  • your blood pressure
  • the surrounding noise
  • …

----- Original Message -----
From: “Calvin Guan”
To: “Windows System Software Devs Interest List”
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 11:49 PM
Subject: [ntdev] OT: memory problem

> Hello,
>
> I’m in my early 30’s and noticed that my short term
> memory seems getting more and more volatile in the
> past year. Many times I couldn’t remember where I
> parked my car in the parking lot.
>
> Did you guys experience this problem at that age?
> Would the profession as SW engineer have bad impact on
> this?
>
> Thanks,
> Calvin
> –
> Calvin Guan (Windows DDK MVP)
> Staff SW Engineer NetXtreme MINIPORT
> Broadcom Corp. Irvine, CA
> www.broadcom.com
>
>
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Calvin Guan wrote:

I’m in my early 30’s and noticed that my short term
memory seems getting more and more volatile in the
past year. Many times I couldn’t remember where I
parked my car in the parking lot.

Unless you spent your 20s experimenting with various substances of
questionable legality, it is extremely unlikely that this has any
physical cause. It’s more likely that you just have more on your mind
now than you did in your carefree 20s, so you don’t make “memorizing the
location of your car” a high enough priority.

Did you guys experience this problem at that age?
Would the profession as SW engineer have bad impact on
this?

Quite the contrary: it has been demonstrated that the more active one
keeps one’s brain, the longer one can put off the normal deleterious
effects of aging on memory and brain function. Besides the challenge of
providing highly suspect answers to questions on forums like this one, I
try to solve two challenging crossword puzzles each night before turning in.

Some day, I hope to travel to the championships in Stamford, Connecticut…

–
Tim Roberts, xxxxx@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

4

You guys can always try one or more of the following:

  1. Download the latest drivers.
  2. Bios upgrade.
  3. Memory upgrade.
  4. Faster DRAM.
  5. Tweak the DRAM timings.
  6. Bigger power supply.
  7. Get an external backing store and turn on paging.
  8. Add a flash eprom.
  9. Lower your clock rate.
  10. Add wait states.
  11. Revert your cache to writethrough, or turn it off
    altogether.
  12. A VMetro may come handy at times.
  13. Try /ONECPU.
  14. Reload a clean system from your last good Ghost image.
  15. Did you install the latest service pack ?
  16. Try Safe Mode.
  17. Turn off the network.
  18. Run HijackThis.
  19. What about Spybot ?
  20. Virus scanning sometimes helps.
  21. Ditto Pest Patrol.
  22. Try a network drive.
  23. Use web store at your ISP.
  24. Switch to Linux.
  25. Take a crash dump and run SoftICE or Windbg.
  26. Have you tried Verifier ?
  27. Revamp your exception handler.
  28. Run BoundsChecker overnight. Make sure you hook all drivers.
  29. Uninstall stuff.
  30. Migrate to PCI64, PCIX or PCI Express.
  31. A 64-bit CPU might work wonders!
  32. Power cycling cures a lot of ailments.

I could go on… :slight_smile:

Alberto.

----- Original Message -----
From: “Tim Roberts”
To: “Windows System Software Devs Interest List”

Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: [ntdev] OT: memory problem

> Calvin Guan wrote:
>
>>I’m in my early 30’s and noticed that my short term
>>memory seems getting more and more volatile in the
>>past year. Many times I couldn’t remember where I
>>parked my car in the parking lot.
>>
>
> Unless you spent your 20s experimenting with various
> substances of questionable legality, it is extremely unlikely
> that this has any physical cause. It’s more likely that you
> just have more on your mind now than you did in your carefree
> 20s, so you don’t make “memorizing the location of your car” a
> high enough priority.
>
>>Did you guys experience this problem at that age?
>>Would the profession as SW engineer have bad impact on
>>this?
>>
>
> Quite the contrary: it has been demonstrated that the more
> active one keeps one’s brain, the longer one can put off the
> normal deleterious effects of aging on memory and brain
> function. Besides the challenge of providing highly suspect
> answers to questions on forums like this one, I try to solve
> two challenging crossword puzzles each night before turning
> in.
>
> Some day, I hope to travel to the championships in Stamford,
> Connecticut…
>
> –
> Tim Roberts, xxxxx@probo.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>
>
> —
> Questions? First check the Kernel Driver FAQ at
> http://www.osronline.com/article.cfm?id=256
>
> You are currently subscribed to ntdev as: xxxxx@ieee.org
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Yeah and over the years I have noticed that either my arms are getting
shorter, my belly is getting bigger, and amazingly it seems my pants are
getting smaller an all at the same time. Wait till you are 58, and then tell
us how volatile your short term memory is: that’s about the time when you go
to get something and forget what you were going to get before you get there.

Sometimes off topic posts are fun … I still remember the thread on Cherry
bombs. :slight_smile:

–
The personal opinion of
Gary G. Little

“Calvin Guan” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
> Hello,
>
> I’m in my early 30’s and noticed that my short term
> memory seems getting more and more volatile in the
> past year. Many times I couldn’t remember where I
> parked my car in the parking lot.
>
> Did you guys experience this problem at that age?
> Would the profession as SW engineer have bad impact on
> this?
>
> Thanks,
> Calvin
> –
> Calvin Guan (Windows DDK MVP)
> Staff SW Engineer NetXtreme MINIPORT
> Broadcom Corp. Irvine, CA
> www.broadcom.com
>
>
>
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