A better way to defrag your hard disk

"ray" <ray@zianet.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:46:47 +0000, dennis@home wrote:
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>> "ray" <ray@zianet.com> wrote in message
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>>> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:04:51 +0000, dennis@home wrote:
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>>>> "ray" <ray@zianet.com> wrote in message
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>>>>> On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:58:54 +0200, bamboozle wrote:
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>>>>>> modern as in linux that is 20 years old? lol
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm afraid you are wrong there. Linus Torvalds did not even start
>>>>> work on Linux until 1991. Unless my math skills have completely
>>>>> deteriorated, 1991 + 20 = 2011 - and it's only 2008 now!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Don't forget that Linux is a copy of a much older OS kernel than that.
>>>> Its not as though Linus invented something new.
>>>
>>> It's not a "copy of a much older OS kernel". Linus was inspired to
>>> start on it by minix. But it is a complete, original work.
>>
>> It is a copy of unix at the time.. it has the same API's. Some say it
>> has stolen the code ( I had both sets of code so I know the answer to
>> that BTW).
>>
>>> It has also changed
>>> much since it's inception.
>>
>> Linux hasn't changed in advance of unix until the likes of SGI and IBM
>> started rewriting bits of it to sort out the kernel and filesystems. It
>> has always followed unix.. because it copies unix.
>>
>> Don't bother trying to confuse everyone by throwing in gnome and cr@p
>> like that as they have nothing to do with Linus or Linux.
>
> And similarly, vista is a copy of dos which is a copy of CP/M.

Really?
I thought dos used similar commands to cp/m but didn't actually copy the
APIs.
If you know different..

Linus however just copied the APIs and the internal functions as well as he
could.

"Tom Lake" <toml_12953@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "dennis@home" <dennis@killspam.kicks-ass.net> wrote in message
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>> "R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSpam_@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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>> I know, however you don't need to defrag it, it doesn't stop working like
>> FAT did.
>
> FAT doesn't stop working if not defragged. Where did you get that idea?

It does eventually as it decides it can't find enough free space to write a
file even though it has numerous free segments.
I believe later versions of FAT were better but the problem was never
removed in its entirety as far as I know.
>
> Tom Lake

"bamboozle" <bamb@oozle.com> wrote in message
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> I think alexB and Denis is the same idiot...
>
> They have the same tendency to say completely wrong things, with a pompous
> manner as if they are the authority on the subject in hand.. lol
>
> Nothing could be further than the truth...

Well as it isn't true by your own words why do you write them you moron.

bamboozle wrote:
> I think...

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And that is the root of all your problems. In the future, have your
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Frank

>> I think...
> And that is the root of all your problems


I guess you gave that up a long time ago.. heheheheh


"Frank" <fab@notspam.com> wrote in message
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> bamboozle wrote:
>> I think...
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> And that is the root of all your problems. In the future, have your mommy
> do all of your thinking for you.
> Frank