That's the best example of why you should never hire a programmer with a Master's degree or better. Those wonderful filesystem algorithms only work good on paper :-)
-Dave Walton On 12/11/09, Alex Chamberlain <apchamberl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin <ka...@striplin.net> wrote: > > Does anybody know of any free scandisk and defrag programs that would be > > better than what comes with windows? > > > > > Best way to defragment a Windows drive is to wipe it and install Linux. ;) > > Seriously, why is this still an issue? The algorithms to minimize > fragmentation as a normal part of everyday disk access, and the proper > way to structure a filesystem towards the same goal, have been known > since the '70s, and are taught in Operating Systems 101 in the third > year of a computer science B.S. > > They don't even have the excuse of needing to maintain backwards > compatibility with DOS anymore via FAT32, now that they provide an > excellent virtualization solution for free (MS Virtual PC) for running > multiple x86 operating systems simultaneously on the same hardware... > > Alex "Recovering software engineer" Chamberlain > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
