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Comprehensive Guide to the Windows Paging File

busfahrer writes "Adrian's Rojak Pot has a nice article about the internals of the Windows paging file. It explains what a paging file is and lists the differences between a swapfile and a paging file. But first and foremost, a large part of the article deals with the various methods of optimizing the Windows paging file, thus yielding a notable performance gain for people who are not overly blessed with RAM."

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  1. Re:Defrag first, man. by That's+Unpossible! · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    That's bullshit. We pro-life people aren't trying to take away "reproductive rights" or any nonsense like that.

    Uh huh...

    My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins, and a woman's right to "admin" her "box" ends where her unborn child begins.

    Define 'unborn child.' Most Republicans use this term to refer even to fetuses of any stage.

    I define an unborn child as a fetus at the point where it can be removed from a woman and live. Before that, it is a parasitic tissue and the host should have full control over it.

    Liberals are funny... you're all hardcore against the death penalty, except for the "crime" of being conceived at an inconvenient time.

    Republicans are funny... they claim to want smaller government, until it comes to our private lives.

    Democrats are funny... they claim to want larger government, until it comes to our private lives.

    Both sides should live their lives and not worry so much about everyone else's lives.

    If you want to kill yourself, that's YOUR choice. Not your mom's.

    Wow, poor time to bring this up Mr. Conservative, as your party sides with the delusional parents of Terry Schiavo and decimates her wishes to let her body die long after her mind and soul already has.

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  2. Re:Defrag first, man. by Clay+Pigeon+-TPF-VS- · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If you want to kill yourself, that's YOUR choice. Not your mom's.

    Wow, poor time to bring this up Mr. Conservative, as your party sides with the delusional parents of Terry Schiavo and decimates her wishes to let her body die long after her mind and soul already has.


    Conservatives don't hold the view that it is your right to kill yourself. Libertarians do. Also, the only person who claims that Ms Schiavo said she wanted to die is the one person who stands the most to gain from her death.

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  3. Re:Defrag first, man. by anethema · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I personally define the baby as a human when brain activity starts. No brain activity=no self=not human (IMO).

    Medical science seems to back me up here I think.

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  4. Re:Defrag first, man. by That's+Unpossible! · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Conservatives don't hold the view that it is your right to kill yourself. Libertarians do.

    However, the person I was responding to was most definitely a pro-life (when it comes to abortion) conservative. I can't help it if he didn't get the memo about the right-to-die cases.

    Also, the only person who claims that Ms Schiavo said she wanted to die is the one person who stands the most to gain from her death.

    What does he have to gain by her death? Any money from the insurance was long spent on keeping her body alive. He was offered $15 million to sign over the custodial rights to her parents, and refused to do so. And logic would dictate that he was in a much better position to have heard her wishes about this scenario compared to her parents, since he actually lived with her for the years preceding her accident.

    So remind me again what he has to gain from her death? Peace of mind? After 15 years watching his brain dead wife be kept alive against her will, I'd say he's earned it.

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  5. Re:Defrag first, man. by Darren+Winsper · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Try removing a foetus any time inside the first trimester and see if it survives.

  6. Re:Defrag first, man. by rlsthree · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Maybe. But what will cause some to argue with you is the destiny of that particular organism. Some will feel that if, in the natural course of things the baby will turn into a human, then it already is human.
    OK Devil's advocate here....... In the natural course of things => by using birth control, you interfered w/ the destiny of that particular organism.
    In the natural course of things => if you are fertile, and abstain from sex, you are interfering with destiny.
    We are sentinent beings, EVERYTHING we do interferes w/ destiny. In the natural course of things =>

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  7. Re:Defrag first, man. by colinrichardday · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Unborm child? Spare us your idiotic euphemisms!

  8. Re:Defrag first, man. by danheskett · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think the difference is at some point the parents stop interferring, and nature independent of the parents takes course. You can always actively sabotage an unwanted pregnancy, but, barring that, there is a point that a baby will be born if no adverse action is taken.

    By taking birth control, or abstaining, or whatnot, you are preventing nature from taking root and doing that which is natural. You are preventing fertilization, which is when two diverigent human cell lines unify and produce a new DNA pattern.

    I don't think you are going down the right path.. but I can't think of a better or more sensible one.