Zecc's distant space hoes
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But here's the thing: I did not "tinker with shit".
If you went into the partition tool thingy, you tinkered with shit.
Look, there's no conspiracy theory. Crap grows in any OS. It may be logs, it may be left over files from uninstalled programs, it may be left over temporary files from programs I run, it may even be files I myself created and forgot to delete in due time.
If you hadn't tinkered, you wouldn't have to waste neurons on this as you'd only have one disk partition that wouldn't "fill up".
Now you're paying for this tinkering in all this pointless effort, fixing a "problem" of your own creation that if you hadn't gone out of your way to create would be a completely non-issue. (At least, not for years down the road. And probably not until you decided to upgrade to a new Windows anyway.)
The point of partitioning is: by keeping different stuff in different partitions I can get a better idea at a glance of where the drive space is going and react to it.
Who gives a shit.
"Oh noes! This program created a 56k text file! I MUST REACT IMMEDIATELY!"
Plus, when time comes to throw away an OS, most of my data will be safe elsewhere.
I use DropBox for that. It takes almost zero mental effort. (Every 3 months or so I have to remember my password.)
I used to be like you man. For a time in college, I managed a computer that had Windows, Corel Linux (or RedHat 6.x), and BeOS all on the same disk, and spend all kinds of pointless time doing partitioning and other bullshit until one day I thought to myself: is this worth the benefit I derive from it? No. No it was not.
So I wiped it all away. And kept the only one of those OSes that could run Starsiege: Tribes (the only thing that really matters in computers.)
Sure I sometimes kind of miss BeOS, but even at the time I knew it was a technological dead-end.
Also I still kept my Mac for a few more years until the shittiness of OS X forced me to Windows full-time, which actually didn't happen until like 10.3. Which IIRC was the last version before Apple said: "fuck Classic mode, we hate our users" and removed it from the OS. Fuck Apple.
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I have three partitions. One is system partition, takes my whole SSD. Second is my data partition, it takes 90% of my HDD. The remaining 10% remains unused, so I have a place to store important data in case I want to reinstall OS.
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I have some number of disks. I don't remember
- 120 GB boot SSD. With lots of documents and some games that found their way on there. Constantly hovering between 0 KB and 4 GB free.
- 1 TB HDD - split into two partitions. One holds a backup of an old computer that crashed (200 GB), the other is an old install of Windows from before the SSD and games/additional data. Between 30 GB and 1 GB free space, depending on what I need.
- 300 GB HDD. Lots of old files, and games. Full.
- 80 GB WD Raptor HDD - 70 GB of games, mostly. The other ~8 or so GB is an Bitlocker encrypted drive where I keep super-top-secret stuff. Usually full.
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2 SSDs in RAID totaling 128GB for Windows and applications, 2 HDDs in RAID totaling 2TB for games, Onedrive, VMs and apps that need more space and 4TB on a NAS for movies, TV episodes etc.
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My new Desktop only has a 128GB SSD. I normally never get above 100GB on any computer I use. If I ever find that that changes, I'll get an external drive.
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prevent its crap from growing uncontrollably.
You may have noticed, but keeping a flounder in a small tank does not magically force it to not overgrow the tank...
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While we're measuring ePeen, I have:- 40 Gb IDE "SSD"
And... ummm. That's it. For everything else, I have iSCSI.
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.... an IDE solid state drive?
that was even ever a thing?
i call shenanigans
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that was even ever a thing?
Yep. It was apparently all the rage for half a year.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA3RU1UT5293&cm_re=2.5"_PATA_SSD--9SIA3RU1UT5293--Product
Erm, sorry no onebox.
But yeah, "retrofitted" the fleet with these. Some were more knock-offish and didn't properly send the "disk access" pin correctly (the HDD LED is lit constantly on those), but they do "work".
And I guess I was wrong, they're not 40 Gb. The replacements are 40 Gb (Non-SSD). :P
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My work computer had that too, I ran out,even when I tried to offload to the spinning disk.
Windows and vs sucks up disk space as if it was candy
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I have a 64-GB SSD for C:.
I'm mostly able to squeeze windows + a bunch of visual studios in it, partially thanks to strategic use of symbolic links.
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My desktop has 100 GB for my Linux system, and 2.9TB for /srv, where I keep all of the static data that gets served, like documentation.
I also have a drive called "d:/", a 1.5TB drive i use for backups.
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strategic use of symbolic links
The most underappreciated and underused feature of the NTFS: symlinks and junction points!
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The most underappreciated and underused feature of the NTFS: symlinks and junction points!
I use Link Shell Extension all the time, no idea what you mean by "underappreciated". That built-in Windows command line utility can go to hell.
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So your complaint is that Windows isn't Mac OS?
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I blame there being lots of programs not using Temp as they're supposed to
On Linux, you can do
fd = open("/tmp", O_RDWR | O_TMPFILE, 0666);and it gives you a file inside the temp folder that isn't named anything and gets deleted when the last reference to it disappears.
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I have many complaints.
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I think most probably it's trying to put something in [%ProgramFiles% or %ProgramFiles(x86)%]\Common
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On WinDirStat: useful tool, but fugly to look at.
You're joking, right? The screenshot on that page looks like a PoS system for Taco Bell.
I use a non-ugly one:
Shame there's no Windows version though. WinDirStat is completely usable, but I prefer Baobab. It's probably just me being used to it I guess.
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What about fsn?
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What about du?
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But this is much prettier!
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LOJBAN JOKE TIME
You keep talking about all these programs that show folder sizes, as if they were better than the command-line utility that comes with any Linux distribution, but by definition, du is equal.
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That looks so over the board, it's ridiculous.
I WANT IT!
/me adds making something like that for Linux to his ever growing list of projects to do
For bonus points: implement a visual styles of Gibson from Hackers and the matrix from Johhny Mnemonic.
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/me adds making something like that for Linux to his ever growing list of projects to do
Linux-compatible clone, never tried it, though.
GitHub - mcuelenaere/fsv: fsv is a file system visualizer in cyberspace. It lays out files and directories in three dimensions, geometrically representing the file system hierarchy to allow visual...
fsv is a file system visualizer in cyberspace. It lays out files and directories in three dimensions, geometrically representing the file system hierarchy to allow visual overview and analysis. - m...
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Bookmarked for when I get home.
I still kinda want to make my own for fun though.
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The webpage I downloaded the installer from was in English. My OS is in English. Why is the installer in Portuguese with no option to choose a different language?
The character on your avatar spent so much time on our TV he is naturalized BR now. Libreoffice is very smart and assumed you're one of us.
They have a filled bug, but not solved, for this here
And I found this workaround here:
[...] you can force LibreOffice Windows installer to start in any language with msiexec command from the command line. For example "msiexec /i LibO_3.5.3_Win_x86_install_multi.msi TRANSFORMS=:1084" will start the installer of LibreOffice 3.5.3 in Scottish Gaelic [...]
For English (UK): TRANSFORMS=:2057 (More... → [Locale IDs Assigned by Microsoft](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb964664))
The code for US English is 1033
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Pretty old, actually. I meant to install it a while ago but never did.
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What about hardcore German pornography?
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But this is much prettier!
Yes. This is what I think of when I think "pretty". I think beige, grey and black. I think about grey-on-grey scrollbars. I think about those nightmare-inducing yellow toolbar buttons. The inexplicable text reading "88 nodes". Or perhaps "38 nodes", I can't tell because the font is also terrible. Pretty.
The only thing in that screenshot that looks even remotely interesting or attractive is Apple's titlebar.
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Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean it sucks, blakey.
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I understand that that screenshot is ugly as fuck. That is what we were discussing.
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Dated? Sure. Cool as fuck? Oh yeah.
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Cool as fuck?
No.
Oh yeah.
Ok, you have lost your license to judge cool. No computer programs are cool, except (some) video games. Certainly no computer program that runs in the old-school X11 theme is cool.
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no computer program that runs in the old-school X11 theme is cool.
- X11 doesn't have themes.
- I run pure TWM, so that's literally all I use when I'm on linux. And it's definitely cool.
P.S.: I am revoking your right to judge anything you haven't used as cool/uncool.
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1) X11 doesn't have themes.
OH SHIT A MINOR FACTUAL ERROR! YOU HAVE DEFEATED ME!
I'm melting, melting, what a world, what a world! Who would have thought one like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness!
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But which window manager/desktop environment you use has a MAJOR effect on what your X11 setup looks like. As in, they don't even look remotely the same sometimes. See: https://www.google.com/search?q=comparison+of+X+window+managers&safe=active&biw=1920&bih=979&espv=2&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjTibPKgKzJAhVIv3IKHWgdDSYQ_AUIBigB&dpr=1
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Why do you think I give a shit?
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I figured you would at least have some to spare seeing as you're quite full of it.
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P.S.: I am revoking your right to judge anything you haven't used as cool/uncool.
Good luck with that!
Filed under: YMBNH, blakeyrat is always right
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@Zecc said:
I blame there being lots of programs not using Temp as they're supposed to
On Linux, you can do
fd = open("/tmp", O_RDWR | O_TMPFILE, 0666);and it gives you a file inside the temp folder that isn't named anything and gets deleted when the last reference to it disappears.
Unless you do
sprintf(buf, "/proc/self/fd/%d", fd); link(buf, "/tmp/somename");to attach the file to the filesystem later on. Although strictly speaking, of course, that is just creating a reference in the filesystem.
Disclaimer: I may be misremembering syntax. You may need to use some invocation of
linkatinstead.
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If you went into the partition tool thingy, you tinkered with shit.
If you change the desktop background, that's tinkering with shit too.For a time in college, I managed a computer that had Windows, Corel Linux (or RedHat 6.x), and BeOS all on the same disk
So now we know where your extensive knowledge of Linux comes from : a distro from 15 years ago.
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He hasn't stopped been right about Linux yet.
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If only he was right about Windows
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If you change the desktop background, that's tinkering with shit too.
Yes. Yes it is.
