in my experience, "Doom" has never been a problem for getting good
grades. I had an SGI Irix port, and I am not sure I would have ever got through
the grad school keeping my mind intact, hadn't it been for it.
best,
mishka
On 4/14/05, David Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Apr 14, 2005, at 2
On Apr 14, 2005, at 2:53 PM, D. Glenn Arthur Jr. wrote:
On a workstation? Sure. That's what the file server is for.
%innocent look%
In my university days we managed to find a publically writable scratch
directory somewhere on one of the servers, so we put some game files
there to make it easy f
John Coyle wrote:
> I'd only begin to worry when I had less than 10%, or 100MB, left
> nowadays.
>
Are you sure you've got that right? Only 1GB total disk space?
I've got around 25GB just of images on my notebook (60GB drive),
and a 100GB USB drive with a few more images.
No, I did _not_ say m
D. Glenn Arthur Jr. mused:
>
> John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Are you sure you've got that right? Only 1GB total disk space?
>
> On a workstation? Sure. That's what the file server is for.
> %innocent look%
OK - I'll give you that. When I was resurrecting an 'old' PC
(a mere 8
John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Are you sure you've got that right? Only 1GB total disk space?
On a workstation? Sure. That's what the file server is for.
%innocent look%
(Though come to think of it, the last time I was in a computer
store, it was hard to find drives as small as th
Paul Sorenson mused:
>
> Remember the "good old days" when you couldn't imagine how you'd ever
> fill up that 20MB hard drive?
>
> -P
Nope - I always knew I could fill up that sort of space. The first
PC I actually purchased for my self (a 386/20) came with a 40MB drive,
and the first th
Hey, the first hard drive I ever had was a whole 5MB and cost about $1000
per MB!!
John Coyle
Brisbane, Australia
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From: "Paul Sorenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: OT: Hard Drive Space
Remember th
Remember the "good old days" when you couldn't imagine how you'd ever
fill up that 20MB hard drive?
-P
John Coyle wrote:
I'd only begin to worry when I had less than 10%, or 100MB, left nowadays.
sbane, Australia
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From: "John Whittingham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 1:00 AM
Subject: Re: OT: Hard Drive Space
Last night someone mentioned that you "shouldn't" use more than 50%
of the space available on a
Quoting Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Absolutely best on a separate drive, or at least a
> separate partition.
>
Using a separate partition on the same spindle can actually slow things down,
increased head movement when going to and from swap. This is well known and
documented in the Win
That remembers me of that rule of thumb that all hard disks are the same
size, just some 3M free left...
pancho
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Last night someone mentioned that you "shouldn't" use more than 50% of the
space available on a hard drive. I've never heard such a thing, and was
unable to get a
> Have you thought about doing a boot time defrag of the swap file and
> system files - much simpler than all that xferring back and forth, imo.
I do but always change the location first, always works better that way for
me.
John
Have you thought about doing a boot time defrag of the swap file and system
files - much simpler than all that xferring back and forth, imo.
Shel
> [Original Message]
> From: John Whittingham
> Yes agreed, I use a seperate drive, when it comes to defrag I move the
swap
> file to the primary
> Sure, but that's all part of the disk usage. I'd think that most people
> would use a swap/paging file of a set size based on the machines
> setup. That way the file remains unfragmented and can be placed at a
> specific location on the disk.
Yes thats true to some extent, the machine I use a
Sure, but that's all part of the disk usage. I'd think that most people
would use a swap/paging file of a set size based on the machines setup.
That way the file remains unfragmented and can be placed at a specific
location on the disk. Absolutely best on a separate drive, or at least a
separate
On Wednesday, April 13, 2005, at 07:47AM, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Last night someone mentioned that you "shouldn't" use more than 50% of the
>space available on a hard drive. I've never heard such a thing, and was
>unable to get an explanation as to why. Anyone care to comme
> Last night someone mentioned that you "shouldn't" use more than 50%
> of the space available on a hard drive. I've never heard such a
> thing, and was unable to get an explanation as to why. Anyone care
> to comment?
If you're using Windoz you need a certain amount for the swap/paging file
> Last night someone mentioned that you "shouldn't" use more than 50% of the
> space available on a hard drive. I've never heard such a thing, and was
> unable to get an explanation as to why. Anyone care to comment?
Well, then I've been breaking that rule about 97% of the time. It doesn't
matt
Last night someone mentioned that you "shouldn't" use more than 50% of the
space available on a hard drive. I've never heard such a thing, and was
unable to get an explanation as to why. Anyone care to comment?
Shel
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