On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Kwan Ting Chan <k...@ktchan.info> wrote:
> Chengbin Zheng wrote: > >> >> Thank you for dropping by and sharing this information with us Tomasz! >> >> It is good just knowing that it is in the queue. Have you considered >> making >> a version of static HTML Wikipedia where there are no user talk and >> discussion pages that eating up half the space (like the 5GB XML dump for >> English Wikipedia)? As in the previous E-Mail, it is impossible to delete >> millions of pages through Windows Vista's search function (I left it >> overnight, and it ended up eating 1.3GB of RAM and maxing out one of my >> cores. Even deleting a single file took minutes). >> > > The Windows (and others?) GUI wasn't really designed with what you are > trying to do in mind in terms of the number of items. You are asking it to > search for all the files that match your pattern, keep the millions (?) of > results in memory, and then to show you a windows containing the millions of > items and to let you do all the magic GUI operations (selecting / dragging > ...) all the while keeping track of which you've selected / move about etc. > > I know you want to avoid using command line, but in this case it's really > much simpler / only feasible choice to search the internet / ask around for > the right commands and issue that on the command line. It's only going to be > one line of typing once you've got it, and you can write it down on a piece > of paper or something for future reference. It's not like you have to learn > the ins and out of all the commands and its options and what not. (Of > course, you would want to test it on a small sample to make sure the command > is correct before you let it loose on the whole dump.) > > KTC > > -- > Experience is a good school but the fees are high. > - Heinrich Heine > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > Actually, I do have to learn everything. I know absolutely nothing about HTML and all the stuff (Maybe I will when I take the computer science course in grade 10). Think of it this way, you have a radioactive material decay problem, where you want to find out how much mass is left after 1000 years. Obviously there is no simple algebraic way of doing it. You must set up a differential equation and solve it. There is no way to do it if your math skills are only basic algebra. This is me, and I have to learn all of advanced algebra, functions, trigonmetry, calculus, and differential equation to do it. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
