Subj : moving or not was: C To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Thu May 14 2020 12:34:00 Hi Nancy! 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. NB> As to avoiding Windows, that's what my guru taught me... Our NB> first home computer was DOS... and the first thing he did when he NB> got the pentium as an upgrade was to delete Windows95 and just NB> have the underlying DOS be the operating system... well, NB> actually, I guess he did leave Win95 in the background to be NB> called up if gui was needed for something.... ;) There are some things and applications where Windows is a necessity. A while back I had a problem with some thumbdrives - not an off-brand -- and the repair required Windows - not aven an inkling of a consideration for Mac much less Linux. IMO a bit short-sighted. 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!! NB> That could be fun... ;) One would have to be hard-core computer NB> geek, and/or of a certain age, to know what that was talking NB> about... ;) Like going into a back surgeon's office with a t-shirt saying "I have a floppy disk". (If they're good they'll notice the spelling.) 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. NB> I've done that many a time with DOS, for the same reason... and NB> yes, one really doesn't want to wait until it was really tight... In my DOS Days I used to edit saved files to keep within the 2048 byte cluster size -- don't know if was worth the work but was a good review of the material! ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... Did you hear about the dyslexic Rabbi? He walks around saying "Yo." --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .