Subj : Re: moving or not was: C To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Wed May 13 2020 22:38:20 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 07-May-2020 12:37 <=- NB>>> And even a significant subset of the others get that way once NB>>> they get some experience with another OS... ;) BM>> Or even another version of Windows. I have been playing with BM>> computers since the early 80's and have gone through numerous changes - BM>> some upgrades, some IMO downgrades. NB>> In my case it's probably mid 80's, except for some exposure to FORTRAN NB>> when I was in college in the late 60's... And I've mostly stayed clear NB>> of Windows of any sort... only using where necessary... BM> You're probably one of the few people in this country who can say that! NB> Which, the staying clear of Windows...? or the gap in the computer NB> usage, or the exposure to FORTRAN...? Or the total combination... ;) BM> I was thinking Windows. As to avoiding Windows, that's what my guru taught me... Our first home computer was DOS... and the first thing he did when he got the pentium as an upgrade was to delete Windows95 and just have the underlying DOS be the operating system... well, actually, I guess he did leave Win95 in the background to be called up if gui was needed for something.... ;) BM> ...And then I could just see a computer geek T-shirt with "I'm been BM> exposed to FORTRAN" emblazoned across the front, especially now!! That could be fun... ;) One would have to be hard-core computer geek, and/or of a certain age, to know what that was talking about... ;) NB>>> Easier to parse when in the abbreviated form... ;) BM>> For me something much easier to understand, plus I don't need the BM>> super-accuracy down to the last byte. NB>> Since I usually see it in the byte form rather than the T and G form NB>> (mine would be only meg and possibly gig anyway), I just glance at NB>> it, see that 29 less 7 is 22, so it makes sense, and mostly ignore NB>> it otherwise... ;) What's most important is how much is left, NB>> especially when I'm starting to scrape the bottom... BM> Yes on the 'how much room is left' part. It used to be with Windows BM> one would want to defragment the hard drive every so often, so put all BM> the pieces of the file back together to speed the system up. Don't BM> know if that is still recommended; never had to do with Ubuntu. BM> Anyway, the less free space there was the longer and less efficient the BM> defragmenting became. I've done that many a time with DOS, for the same reason... and yes, one really doesn't want to wait until it was really tight... ttyl neb .... Explosion Rocks Kitchen! Cat claims innocence! --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .