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Defragmenting madness
The desktop upstairs won't start normally, and I've got a hunch that the hard drive is too fragmented. This is propably not the case, but Windows encourages the feeling that your system is getting crufty and needs to be cleaned. (Unlike Unices, which just putter along, maturing like fine wines:
[ ger@openbsd: ~ ]% uptime
9:17PM up 284 days, 13:04, 5 users, load averages: 0.21, 0.32, 0.32
[ gustaf@ultra5: ~ ]% uptime
9:17PM up 34 days, 14:45, 1 user, load averages: 0.23, 0.15, 0.10
[ gustaf@oddjob: ~ ]$ uptime
9:18pm up 42 days, 10:11, 16 users, load average: 7.84, 6.61, 5.40
(I probably shouldn't have used a parenthesis here.))
The question is: why do I have to defragment my hard drive manually? (and don't mention Task Scheduler -- I trust that app about as far as I can spit a rat). Why can't the operating system -- the piece of software I paid good money for, the prop keeping Microsoft's profit margins in the double digits each freaking year, the "bastion of innovation" that each and every citizen of this planet should use instead of "viral, Communist" free software -- why can't this fabulous piece of tech handle this simple task itself?
For crying out loud, Linux, developed by long-haired geeks in Finland, never neeeds to be defragmented manually. Neither does OpenBSD.
Posted on Tuesday, 2024-08-03,
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So true
You know you've been too long in Sweden when...
Posted on Tuesday, 2024-08-03,
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