Subj : Re: moving or not was: C To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Thu Jun 04 2020 19:06:26 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 24-May-2020 08:56 <=- NB>>> As to avoiding Windows, that's what my guru taught me... Our first home NB>>> computer was DOS... and the first thing he did when he got the pentium NB>>> as an upgrade was to delete Windows95 and just have the underlying DOS NB>>> be the operating system... well, actually, I guess he did leave Win95 NB>>> in the background to be called up if gui was needed for something... ;) BM>> There are some things and applications where Windows is a necessity. NB>> Agreed, reluctantly... ;) And that's partly why Richard has a NB>> selection of computers of his own... some with Linux, some with DOS, NB>> some with Windows, depending on what he needs/wants.... BM> I'm sort of visualizing someone browsing in front of a collection of BM> computers like one would browse a magazine rack! Not quite.... ;) But he does have them all around him as he sits at his computer desk.... most are some sort of laptop.... :) BM>> A while back I had a problem with some thumbdrives - not an off-brand BM>> -- and the repair required Windows - not even an inkling of a BM>> consideration for Mac much less Linux. IMO a bit short-sighted. NB>> One could say that... :) BM> I'll admit to barely having an idea of the work to create a repair BM> utility -- I know it's a lot of work! Seems like it is something that BM> should have been done by now but for whatever reason hasn't. Know I'm BM> not the only one who has screwed up thumbdrives; I'm probably like BM> 99.9% of those who have who has no idea how to create a repair utility BM> and so relies on that 0.1%. Richard might be able to do it.... but I don't know if he has, or if he'd want to.... :) NB>>>> What's most important is how much is left, especially when I'm NB>>>> 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 yes, NB>>> one really doesn't want to wait until it was really tight... BM>> In my DOS Days I used to edit saved files to keep within the 2048 byte BM>> cluster size -- don't know if was worth the work but was a good review BM>> of the material! NB>> If things tended to always be tight, it might have been worth the NB>> work... Of course nowadays, the basic cluster size is a lot larger NB>> than that, so you end up wasting space with those smaller files... ;) BM> Solved that problem with a 3 TB hard drive! ...414 GB (17%) used -- BM> wellllll, maybe was a bit of overkill! Ummmm, yes..... I'd say so.... just a bit of overkill... For now, anyway... ;) ttyl neb .... Who told you paranoia is bad? it was THEM, wasn't it! --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .