On my wish-list is what is known in undergraduate CCS as a "garbage
collection" routine.
Some sites create more garbage than others; the news sites (CNN,
Reuters, etc) produce massively, because the same front page is
reused... so the links are lost to all the pictures, vids, java..
every time the page is loaded.
Most of the browsers I am familiar with don't do a GC either, so I am
always having to quit the browser and restart, to free up the wasted
ram.
Some people refer to the lost pieces as "orphans"... I think this is
an excuse to avoid cleaning up. (Awe, MOM, I don't have to clean my
room ... all those empty macdonald's containers and half-eaten
hamburgers are ORPHANs, I would be committing a SIN...)
However it might be possible to "dredge" the "http" directory to
search for recyclable bits of information... (interesting news fotos,
etc).
One of my thoughts is to create an App. that will do a slide show
based on the jpegs and gifs in limbo; one of the tasks of the
slideshow app. would be to create montages with the small images, and
provide a mechanism for saving interesting stuff.
(which may or may not do anything for the sources of the images...)
-josh
On Nov 22, 2006, at 5:50 AM, Micha wrote:
Is there a feature to refresh all cached files, and delete anything
that doesn't exist anymore ?
Best with a list of domains to exclude from that, maybe.
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