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Spring Cleaning For Your Hard Drive
Shutup Now writes "Spring cleaning for your hardrive. This article talks about some extremes for keeping your computer running well. You decide whether this stuff is necessary." More than once a year is a good idea, too.
spring cleaning the right way- time for a clean install! It was time for a new porn archive anyway...
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when i moo u moo - just like that
... The power supply fan halts on the 6 oz. of dust blocking the blades.
I don't take tech tips from the newspaper.
Now appearing on Slashdot! Coming soon, how to set the time on your VCR!
"How to make some room on your hard drive"? Is that what Slashdot writes about nowadays? - The editors must be on crack!
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eMule is my backup.
Similarly, how many bachelor geeks have spent two hours doing dishes on an emergency basis before an important client or, god forbid, a member of the opposite sex is due to arrive.
Now come on... how many bachelor geeks have members of the opposite sex that aren't related by blood come over to their apartment/house? That's not a very realistic sitation. Besides, who uses "dishes" any more? All of the food I eat comes in disposable packaging.
Russian drives are "purged."
Well maybe if you turn the computer on and never use it. Better not even look at it.
they post their stuff on a public ftp server and let the rest of the world make copies."
(A quote from your hero and mine, Linus Torvalds.)
All I really need for my spring cleaning is some Windex and an extra strong magnet. That should clean out my hard drive pretty quickly, no?
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"Ah yes, the picking of the nose - a long practiced art started by arabs for digging sand out of their nasal cavities after those long caravans. The main trick to picking the nose is one simple rule: if it bleeds, you are picking it too much... or not enough."
DELETED!!!!!!!!!! DELETED!!!!!!!!!! Ahh, I feel so cleansed! Spring cleaning makes me think of that old Strong bad email.
The Present is the point at which time touches eternity. - C.S. Lewis
I opened up my hard drive casing and scoured the discs with a Brillo pad. Turns out that wasn't the best way to clean a HD. Next time I will read the article first.
...and defragging the harddrive.
I use UFS2 you insensitive clod, I don't need to defrag my harddrive!
A Government Is a Body of People, Usually Notably Ungoverned
#dpkg -r `deborphan` /usr/sbin/dpkg: Argument list too long
bash:
Uhh, what now?
For a total rebuild, you make sure again you're fully backed up and know the tech-support numbers and Internet dial-up numbers you might need in a worst-case incident. Then you turn your computer off, put the operating system CD into the drive and turn the computer back on. Following the on-screen instructions, you wipe the hard drive clean and let the operating system reinstall itself from scratch. Choose not to automatically install all the "applications" software if you are given a choice, because you don't want extra programs that you won't ever use. Be picky.
Having worked for Gateway tech support in the past, if someone called telling us that they cant find their Norton, or don't know how to reinstall Word after formatting the drive because they read somewhere that it's a good idea, we were always supposed to tell them to reinstall and automatically install all the applications (why is that in quotes in the article?). Most people who do that and have trouble afterwards are just going to be reformatted anyway if calling tech support.
I'll have you know all dishes are made from the only the finest silicon compounds.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
In my university days, I used to wait until I could smell them from the living room.
I mean, supposing Neo is on there somewhere!
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
You dare mock me.
*crash* *kaboom* *scream*
Hahahahaha!!!
Nah - What you need is to take a bachelor lesson from PJ O'Rourke.
You will need:
- 1 set of dishes, purchased at local thrift store
- 2 pot lids, also from thrift store.
- About 20 boxes of jello crystals.
Method:
1) Cook dinner. Use a fresh plate for each meal.
2) When meal is complete, scrape excess off plate into bin, put plate in sink.
3) Turn on hot tap, add enough water to cover plate.
4) Add 2 boxes of jello to the water. Allow the jello to set.
5) Each meal, repeat steps 1-4.
6) When the sink is almost full, put the two pot lids in the sink, handles upwards, fill the sink with hot water (leaving the handles on the pot lids exposed), and add the last of your jello.
7) When the jello sets, you should have a sink full of jello and dishes, with two pot handles exposed at the top of the jello.
8) Use the two exposed handles to pull the entire jello block out of the sink, take the sink-sized jello cube to the thrift store, and put it in the donations bin. Then go into the thrift store, and buy a new set of dishes, and two more pot lids.
The thrift store will then clean your dishes of leftover food and jello, before putting them back on sale. Next week, when you deliver another jello cube, you can buy the same cleaned dishes again. The money you pay buying the same dishes over and over is a donation to the thrift store, so they keep someone needy employed, and you get nice clean dishes for every meal.
Russ %-)
... and never, ever play leapfrog with a unicorn.