What about that Tugnasta one in the early 20th century, if that had landed on a major city, or in the atlantic ocean? I doubt you'd be happy when a massive tidal wave hits! And theres bigger ones out there.
We dont know the chances as we dont even know how many are out there!
It's a worrying fact that demo's are getting nearly game sized now. Remember the days of 2MB demos? Remember the days of 360k games?
More and more people are getting broadband, but a lot of people are still on modems. Take some time to download that much - and it wont fit on a 100MB zip disk!
I have GTK and QT installed, and use some applications like kfm, written for kde, I also use applications like gnome-napster (not to download anything protected by IP laws though!), so I guess I use both, however my desktop is ice-wm at the moment, although I'm fine with a bunch of bash shell windows, as thats all I realy use to launch applications.
I dont understand the ruckus, I dont like kde's window manager, I dont know what gnome is TBH. Perhaps I'm missing something big, I dont se these arguments between Afterstep, enlightenment and TWM.
/me is looking forward to enlightenment (on the subject, not the window manager!)
Or perhaps have speakers, small monitor and mouse/keyboard in the living room (go flash, have a flat/touch screen monitor), oh, one in your bedroom too. P150 in a closet somewhere, rj45 in the walls (or wireless ethernet).
I recently decided to Abandon Warez too, it is a liberating experience, however now I only buy old games with decent manuals. Modern games that come in a jewel case and a litle install pamphlet (insert CD, click install) arent worth a dime. Give me manualsfrom the good old days!
How sad, forutantly I know that most americans have a brain. Sorry, for responding to a troll, but I cant resist. IIRC the US government asked boeing to create a supersonic passanger airplane in the early 70's, they gave up a few years later. No other country in the world, apart from UK/France, and the ripped off concordski of the USSR, has broken the sound barrier with a passanger jet. Also in millions of miles over 30 years, concord has neevr had 1 accident, until yesterday. That *is* building a plane. I'm not going to mention US disasters (email me if you'd like a list, but clear out that hotmail account first) As for the internet, I am currently using something called the world wide web, invented by a brit, in switzerland, using a computer (which were developed by brits, in manchester - the real manchester), on a CRT developed by a brit. Oh, and you dont have to be rich to get an operation either.
Of course they were impressed, they went "Cool, charge!!!" instead of "Charge!!!" Anyway, the great wall stops peopel declaring war on you (until the development of gunpowder), according to Civ.
When did they discover those new moons arround Uranus? I remember it was 15 in th good old days:)
Alos, I belive that 6 of the 8 Naptunian moons are still called 1986I --> 1986VI, but I'm probably wrong. Havent done much space stuff for a few years.
Mercury - named after Mercury Technologies Venus - Well, this was a joint investment from Venus Internet (UK) and Venus the semi-porn site. Earth - Well, thats pretty original I guess. Mars - Bar anyway? Jupiter - Financial investment company Saturn - Sega's amazing console Uranus - Andrex? Neptune - Neptune Refrigeration poured a lot into this planet Pluto - From Disney's favourite dog
And peopel complain about Pizza Hut advertising on the moon, its about the only place left!
On second thoughts, howabout an international association of forest rangers, that sell little hats and stuff.
I couldnt care less about these "Corrinthions" - I've never heard of them, and football (soccer, god knows why American football is *foot*ball, when you carry the ball, but thats a different story:-) isnt a smalltime sport in the UK.
In all these cases you have agreed to some T&C that say "we can add stuff to all your posts/mails and everything else". You have the choice not to use it. If you read an email from a normal user on yahoo, do you get a modified mail? Does it have "I dont use Yahoo, tell me I should"? No. You have opted in to this editing of your emails. When I post a work on USENET, I dont give permission for deja to take my work and edit it for their own gains. By adding implied product recomendation to my posts, they are slandering my name. I can probably sue them in the same way demon was sued because they refused to remove a slanderous message from there server. What would happen if, for example, microsoft's website had been hacked to redirect you to a porn site, or file://C:|CON|CON or whatever. I might post a message saying: "Warning, dont go to Microsoft's web site as it will crash your browser" And a deja reader will see "Warning, dont go to Microsoft's web site as it will crash your browser. Visit http://www.microsoft.com" Some inane user might go there, and belive I had told them to go there. I might even get sued for causing them to lose there work, I definatly wont be liked. If Deja just had a seperate "dejalinks" section that had links to websites of things I had mentioned, then that would be ok. Editing a post directly however is not.
Well, first off, If I had wanted to I could have easily created "/music" and "/downloads" and any other directory, same as in windows. I can choose to run as root if I wanted too, but I dont want to accidently corrupt/delete my system files, so they are protected (like with microsofts latest "innovation" - system file protector or something)
I can *choose* to have a windows like structure, I can *choose* to have a linux like structure, but instead I *chose* to have a mixture, and I love symlinking things, much nicer then making a shortcut.
Given your arguement you could say shortcuts are messy too. You have them though dont you?
My file system in windows and in linux has very long paths. Even using a graphical file manager (kfm), I have to click about 20 times to go from one directory to another. On my desktop I have a "shortcut" to/music/rock, and another "shortcut" to/music/pop, as well as to/music.
You cant tell me I should put all my new music scattered arround my desktop and copy it to my music folder too because I want it in both places (so I can add directory/msuic to x11amp (or winamp in windows).
Maybe I should keep everything on my desktop, but what about C:\program files Symlinks are link shortcuts in that way, and you agree shortcuts are good, afterall windows has them.
However, symlinks are much more powerful, when I click "file, open" in staroffice, I can go from my documents directory (/docs) to my downloads directory (/downloads) in one click (well, one double click actualy).
If I'm checking out some of my stuff in my default directory (/home/iso, call it my documents), I can easily reach many other directories in one click, no matter where they are (I have a link to a directory on another computer - my mums actualy - her documents folder, one click away, and that includes in "open" boxes, which you dont get on windows
The best thing about the linux file system is the seemless intergration of network directories and other hard drives. Many people have more then one hard drive, and with linux its easily added. With windows thogh you have all your drive letters scattered about, very annoying, and it leads to more fragmentatino (is it in c:\program files\activision\elite force demo or d:\program files\activision\elite force demo????)
Yes, its on the start menu, but what happens when I go into PSP and want to load up the screenshots?
I dial 0800-xxx-xxxx and 0808-xxx-xxxx for free phones, the US isnt the only telephone system in the world!
I think that the main problem with many of these is its too specific, Joe Public wont know where to look, www.bigbank.com, www.bigbank.co.uk, www.bigbank.atm, www.bigbank.bank, www.bigbank.whatever.
Most domains would be snapped up straight away, linking to there.com counterparts. Failing that they'll be registered and the only free ones will be ones that are free on the.com TLD.
Companies will just snap up them.whatever, like slashdot ahs slashdot.org and slashdot.com.
It doesnt matter what your site is about, TLD's will not be rigidly defined. How can one site (eg slashdot), be a.com (international company) and.org (international non profit organisation)?
They seem mutualy exclusive to me.
In the UK we ahve a.co.uk,.org.uk and even (I think).net.uk domains. They are never seen in companies literature, and even the smallest buisness with one bransh will have a.com name.
A few years ago,.ltd.uk and.plc.uk came out, I have never seen an address for one of these, and if I hadnt seen them mentioned on a site a few days ago (uk2.net web hosting) I wouldnt even belived they existed!
new TLD's are fine, but because of trademarks and the like, they'll just become another joke, nothing new an unique will be there, just links to.com sites, nothing (but registered) or YAFP (yet another portal)
There is no way of forcing microsoft.faq to link to anything but www.microsoft.om/faq. If you registed mswindows.faq, and posted answers to "what is a BSOD" and the like, you'd probably get sued.
Its the same with.oss/.gnu, microsoft might not have any stie there (even with the strictest domain giving out checks), but they sure as smeg wont let anyone else have a site there! Sure, you could host the root server in iraq or somewhere, but MS (or any other company) would not allow access (and bullyboy ISP's into doing the same) to the server if it was used to have non microsoft sites on www.microsoft.whatever.
With trade marks and stuff, new TLD's are pointless and meaningless.
I dial 0800-xxx-xxxx and 0808-xxx-xxxx for free phones, the US isnt the only telephone system in the world! I think that the main problem with many of these is its too specific, Joe Public wont know where to look, www.bigbank.com, www.bigbank.co.uk, www.bigbank.atm, www.bigbank.bank, www.bigbank.whatever. Most domains would be snapped up straight away, linking to there.com counterparts. Failing that they'll be registered and the only free ones will be ones that are free on the.com TLD. Companies will just snap up them.whatever, like slashdot ahs slashdot.org and slashdot.com. It doesnt matter what your site is about, TLD's will not be rigidly defined. How can one site (eg slashdot), be a.com (international company) and.org (international non profit organisation)? They seem mutualy exclusive to me. In the UK we ahve a.co.uk,.org.uk and even (I think).net.uk domains. They are never seen in companies literature, and even the smallest buisness with one bransh will have a.com name. A few years ago,.ltd.uk and.plc.uk came out, I have never seen an address for one of these, and if I hadnt seen them mentioned on a site a few days ago (uk2.net web hosting) I wouldnt even belived they existed! new TLD's are fine, but because of trademarks and the like, they'll just become another joke, nothing new an unique will be there, just links to.com sites, nothing (but registered) or YAFP (yet another portal) There is no way of forcing microsoft.faq to link to anything but www.microsoft.om/faq. If you registed mswindows.faq, and posted answers to "what is a BSOD" and the like, you'd probably get sued. Its the same with.oss/.gnu, microsoft might not have any stie there (even with the strictest domain giving out checks), but they sure as smeg wont let anyone else have a site there! Sure, you could host the root server in iraq or somewhere, but MS (or any other company) would not allow access (and bullyboy ISP's into doing the same) to the server if it was used to have non microsoft sites on www.microsoft.whatever. With trade marks and stuff, new TLD's are pointless and meaningless.
Post this as redundant if you want, but it'd be better to do the otherone, forgot it was on html formatting, so lost my lovely line breaks:(
Oh, in addition.
With windows, I generaly put everything on the desktop, indeed my average desktop size is 4-5GB, with everything except mp3's on there.
I'd love to shift that desktop to another big hard drive, but I install HDD 2, my cd rom stuff doesnt work (I have to reinstall everything as it goes from d:n to e:), I cant move original programs (so I muight have 20GB of free space on d:, but only 50kb on c:), I have to clear out my desktop (noooo!!!)
Oh finaly, when I delete a file, I want it to be deleted, not moved. (actualy as root, I delete a file it tar's it up as [pwd]/.rmedfiles.tar, unless I specificly run/bin/rm)
---- ORIGINAL POST WITH DUMB FORMATTING (THIS ISNT BETTER THOUGH) ---- in linux, a few links and I've seemlessly intergrated my hard drives. I use linux, and I'm sure a traditional linux user would kill me I have, thanks to symbolic links,
/music (mp3's, spread over 2 hard drives but all in this one directory)
/floppy (an empty directory that I very occasionaly put my floppy drive in a different computer on, doesnt matter which computer though)
/cdrom (hardly used, but my cd rom drive, a symbolic link to mnt/cdrom)
/win (my windows partition with my asf's
/sg1 (a link to the asf's of stargate sg1)
/home/iso (my main directory, also known as "~".
/downloads (a symbolic link to/usr/local/downloads (hey I've got a lot of space on that partition!)
~/downloads, ~/dwn, see above
/files - symbolic link to ~/
/bin,/lib - system programs and libraries
/usr - normal programs, with/usr/local as all non distro. included programs
/src - symbolic link to/usr/local/src
/src/kernel - symbolic link to/usr/src/whatever it is at the moment
/etc - configuration files (I used to have/config, as a, you guessed it, symbolic link!)
Basicly I have a load of stuff in my / directory, but its all symbolic links. I can make/quake3 link to/usr/local/games/quake3 if I want, and also link it from ~/quake3 and a hudered other places. links are great
Oh yeh,/games -->/usr/local/games
Think thats it.
Point is, you can make the linux directory structure however you want it.
I use linux, and I'm sure a traditional linux user would kill me I have, thanks to symbolic links,/music (mp3's, spread over 2 hard drives but all in this one directory)/floppy (an empty directory that I very occasionaly put my floppy drive in a different computer on, doesnt matter which computer though)/cdrom (hardly used, but my cd rom drive, a symbolic link to mnt/cdrom)/win (my windows partition with my asf's/sg1 (a link to the asf's of stargate sg1)/home/iso (my main directory, also known as "~"./downloads (a symbolic link to/usr/local/downloads (hey I've got a lot of space on that partition!) ~/downloads, ~/dwn, see above/files - symbolic link to ~//bin,/lib - system programs and libraries/usr - normal programs, with/usr/local as all non distro. included programs/src - symbolic link to/usr/local/src/src/kernel - symbolic link to/usr/src/whatever it is at the moment/etc - configuration files (I used to have/config, as a, you guessed it, symbolic link!) Basicly I have a load of stuff in my / directory, but its all symbolic links. I can make/quake3 link to/usr/local/games/quake3 if I want, and also link it from ~/quake3 and a hudered other places. links are great Oh yeh,/games -->/usr/local/games Think thats it. Point is, you can make the linux directory structure however you want it.
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What about that Tugnasta one in the early 20th century, if that had landed on a major city, or in the atlantic ocean? I doubt you'd be happy when a massive tidal wave hits! And theres bigger ones out there.
We dont know the chances as we dont even know how many are out there!
It's a worrying fact that demo's are getting nearly game sized now. Remember the days of 2MB demos? Remember the days of 360k games?
More and more people are getting broadband, but a lot of people are still on modems. Take some time to download that much - and it wont fit on a 100MB zip disk!
I have GTK and QT installed, and use some applications like kfm, written for kde, I also use applications like gnome-napster (not to download anything protected by IP laws though!), so I guess I use both, however my desktop is ice-wm at the moment, although I'm fine with a bunch of bash shell windows, as thats all I realy use to launch applications.
I dont understand the ruckus, I dont like kde's window manager, I dont know what gnome is TBH. Perhaps I'm missing something big, I dont se these arguments between Afterstep, enlightenment and TWM.
/me is looking forward to enlightenment (on the subject, not the window manager!)
Or perhaps have speakers, small monitor and mouse/keyboard in the living room (go flash, have a flat/touch screen monitor), oh, one in your bedroom too. P150 in a closet somewhere, rj45 in the walls (or wireless ethernet).
Plenty? Name 10 24/7 unmetered that work, not vapourware, not closing down like Callnet0800 and lineone, just that work.
Well can I trade in my copy of windows for something to play ASF files in linux? Perhaps not.
I recently decided to Abandon Warez too, it is a liberating experience, however now I only buy old games with decent manuals. Modern games that come in a jewel case and a litle install pamphlet (insert CD, click install) arent worth a dime. Give me manualsfrom the good old days!
No youre mistaken, you're mixing things up., The MOON landing was a sham, the space thing was real (and they orbited on the first go too)
How sad, forutantly I know that most americans have a brain. Sorry, for responding to a troll, but I cant resist. IIRC the US government asked boeing to create a supersonic passanger airplane in the early 70's, they gave up a few years later. No other country in the world, apart from UK/France, and the ripped off concordski of the USSR, has broken the sound barrier with a passanger jet. Also in millions of miles over 30 years, concord has neevr had 1 accident, until yesterday. That *is* building a plane. I'm not going to mention US disasters (email me if you'd like a list, but clear out that hotmail account first) As for the internet, I am currently using something called the world wide web, invented by a brit, in switzerland, using a computer (which were developed by brits, in manchester - the real manchester), on a CRT developed by a brit. Oh, and you dont have to be rich to get an operation either.
Why hasn't anyone modded this up?
Of course they were impressed, they went "Cool, charge!!!" instead of "Charge!!!" Anyway, the great wall stops peopel declaring war on you (until the development of gunpowder), according to Civ.
Surely you mean y=mx+c?
When did they discover those new moons arround Uranus? I remember it was 15 in th good old days :)
Alos, I belive that 6 of the 8 Naptunian moons are still called 1986I --> 1986VI, but I'm probably wrong. Havent done much space stuff for a few years.
Jupiter is, unless I'm very much mistaken, the largest planet in the system, and Saturn sucks 'cause it floats in my bath :)
Its sad but true, look at the planets.
Mercury - named after Mercury Technologies
Venus - Well, this was a joint investment from Venus Internet (UK) and Venus the semi-porn site.
Earth - Well, thats pretty original I guess.
Mars - Bar anyway?
Jupiter - Financial investment company
Saturn - Sega's amazing console
Uranus - Andrex?
Neptune - Neptune Refrigeration poured a lot into this planet
Pluto - From Disney's favourite dog
And peopel complain about Pizza Hut advertising on the moon, its about the only place left!
On second thoughts, howabout an international association of forest rangers, that sell little hats and stuff.
:-) isnt a smalltime sport in the UK.
I couldnt care less about these "Corrinthions" - I've never heard of them, and football (soccer, god knows why American football is *foot*ball, when you carry the ball, but thats a different story
As a brit, I'd expect rangers.com to be owned by Glasgow Rangers, or maybe Queens Park Rangers.
.com I would expect to be for an international audience, i.e. not Glasgow, QPR or New York.
.com, .net, .org, .us, .uk, .br when whatever.* is all the same site?
Well, I wouldnt. A
What is the point in having
In all these cases you have agreed to some T&C that say "we can add stuff to all your posts/mails and everything else". You have the choice not to use it. If you read an email from a normal user on yahoo, do you get a modified mail? Does it have "I dont use Yahoo, tell me I should"? No. You have opted in to this editing of your emails. When I post a work on USENET, I dont give permission for deja to take my work and edit it for their own gains. By adding implied product recomendation to my posts, they are slandering my name. I can probably sue them in the same way demon was sued because they refused to remove a slanderous message from there server. What would happen if, for example, microsoft's website had been hacked to redirect you to a porn site, or file://C:|CON|CON or whatever. I might post a message saying: "Warning, dont go to Microsoft's web site as it will crash your browser" And a deja reader will see "Warning, dont go to Microsoft's web site as it will crash your browser. Visit http://www.microsoft.com" Some inane user might go there, and belive I had told them to go there. I might even get sued for causing them to lose there work, I definatly wont be liked. If Deja just had a seperate "dejalinks" section that had links to websites of things I had mentioned, then that would be ok. Editing a post directly however is not.
DOH! It's my signiture It must be because its 5AM...
Well, first off, If I had wanted to I could have easily created "/music" and "/downloads" and any other directory, same as in windows. I can choose to run as root if I wanted too, but I dont want to accidently corrupt/delete my system files, so they are protected (like with microsofts latest "innovation" - system file protector or something)
/music/rock, and another "shortcut" to /music/pop, as well as to /music.
/msuic to x11amp (or winamp in windows).
I can *choose* to have a windows like structure, I can *choose* to have a linux like structure, but instead I *chose* to have a mixture, and I love symlinking things, much nicer then making a shortcut.
Given your arguement you could say shortcuts are messy too. You have them though dont you?
My file system in windows and in linux has very long paths. Even using a graphical file manager (kfm), I have to click about 20 times to go from one directory to another. On my desktop I have a "shortcut" to
You cant tell me I should put all my new music scattered arround my desktop and copy it to my music folder too because I want it in both places (so I can add directory
Maybe I should keep everything on my desktop, but what about C:\program files
Symlinks are link shortcuts in that way, and you agree shortcuts are good, afterall windows has them.
However, symlinks are much more powerful, when I click "file, open" in staroffice, I can go from my documents directory (/docs) to my downloads directory (/downloads) in one click (well, one double click actualy).
If I'm checking out some of my stuff in my default directory (/home/iso, call it my documents), I can easily reach many other directories in one click, no matter where they are (I have a link to a directory on another computer - my mums actualy - her documents folder, one click away, and that includes in "open" boxes, which you dont get on windows
The best thing about the linux file system is the seemless intergration of network directories and other hard drives. Many people have more then one hard drive, and with linux its easily added. With windows thogh you have all your drive letters scattered about, very annoying, and it leads to more fragmentatino (is it in c:\program files\activision\elite force demo or d:\program files\activision\elite force demo????)
Yes, its on the start menu, but what happens when I go into PSP and want to load up the screenshots?
Under a linux system it would be
double click /
double click "screenshots"
double click "elite force"
I could (if I used it a lot) have it as "/elite force scren shots".
Also, since when is a picture of me vapourising Harry Kim (hurray!) a program file? Maybbe a programme file, but not necesary for a program.
I'd just knock a script in linux that moved all my screenshots from that drive and jpeged them and sto..
Oh hang on, were on directory structures
under windows its
double click c:
double click programfiles
activision
err, not here
d:
program files
activision
elite force
load up the shot.
-- ramble ends, now --
PS. Why does it put "yep" at the bottom of the preview page?
Yet again the HTML formatting catches me out!!!
.com counterparts. Failing that they'll be registered and the only free ones will be ones that are free on the .com TLD.
.com (international company) and .org (international non profit organisation)?
.co.uk, .org.uk and even (I think) .net.uk domains. They are never seen in companies literature, and even the smallest buisness with one bransh will have a .com name.
.ltd.uk and .plc.uk came out, I have never seen an address for one of these, and if I hadnt seen them mentioned on a site a few days ago (uk2.net web hosting) I wouldnt even belived they existed!
.com sites, nothing (but registered) or YAFP (yet another portal)
.oss/.gnu, microsoft might not have any stie there (even with the strictest domain giving out checks), but they sure as smeg wont let anyone else have a site there! Sure, you could host the root server in iraq or somewhere, but MS (or any other company) would not allow access (and bullyboy ISP's into doing the same) to the server if it was used to have non microsoft sites on www.microsoft.whatever.
I dial 0800-xxx-xxxx and 0808-xxx-xxxx for free phones, the US isnt the only telephone system in the world!
I think that the main problem with many of these is its too specific, Joe Public wont know where to look, www.bigbank.com, www.bigbank.co.uk, www.bigbank.atm, www.bigbank.bank, www.bigbank.whatever.
Most domains would be snapped up straight away, linking to there
Companies will just snap up them.whatever, like slashdot ahs slashdot.org and slashdot.com.
It doesnt matter what your site is about, TLD's will not be rigidly defined. How can one site (eg slashdot), be a
They seem mutualy exclusive to me.
In the UK we ahve a
A few years ago,
new TLD's are fine, but because of trademarks and the like, they'll just become another joke, nothing new an unique will be there, just links to
There is no way of forcing microsoft.faq to link to anything but www.microsoft.om/faq. If you registed mswindows.faq, and posted answers to "what is a BSOD" and the like, you'd probably get sued.
Its the same with
With trade marks and stuff, new TLD's are pointless and meaningless.
I dial 0800-xxx-xxxx and 0808-xxx-xxxx for free phones, the US isnt the only telephone system in the world! I think that the main problem with many of these is its too specific, Joe Public wont know where to look, www.bigbank.com, www.bigbank.co.uk, www.bigbank.atm, www.bigbank.bank, www.bigbank.whatever. Most domains would be snapped up straight away, linking to there .com counterparts. Failing that they'll be registered and the only free ones will be ones that are free on the .com TLD. Companies will just snap up them.whatever, like slashdot ahs slashdot.org and slashdot.com. It doesnt matter what your site is about, TLD's will not be rigidly defined. How can one site (eg slashdot), be a .com (international company) and .org (international non profit organisation)? They seem mutualy exclusive to me. In the UK we ahve a .co.uk, .org.uk and even (I think) .net.uk domains. They are never seen in companies literature, and even the smallest buisness with one bransh will have a .com name. A few years ago, .ltd.uk and .plc.uk came out, I have never seen an address for one of these, and if I hadnt seen them mentioned on a site a few days ago (uk2.net web hosting) I wouldnt even belived they existed! new TLD's are fine, but because of trademarks and the like, they'll just become another joke, nothing new an unique will be there, just links to .com sites, nothing (but registered) or YAFP (yet another portal) There is no way of forcing microsoft.faq to link to anything but www.microsoft.om/faq. If you registed mswindows.faq, and posted answers to "what is a BSOD" and the like, you'd probably get sued. Its the same with .oss/.gnu, microsoft might not have any stie there (even with the strictest domain giving out checks), but they sure as smeg wont let anyone else have a site there! Sure, you could host the root server in iraq or somewhere, but MS (or any other company) would not allow access (and bullyboy ISP's into doing the same) to the server if it was used to have non microsoft sites on www.microsoft.whatever. With trade marks and stuff, new TLD's are pointless and meaningless.
God damm it
:(
/bin/rm)
/usr/local/downloads (hey I've got a lot of space on that partition!)
/lib - system programs and libraries
/usr/local as all non distro. included programs
/usr/local/src
/usr/src/whatever it is at the moment
/config, as a, you guessed it, symbolic link!)
/quake3 link to /usr/local/games/quake3 if I want, and also link it from ~/quake3 and a hudered other places. links are great
/games --> /usr/local/games
Post this as redundant if you want, but it'd be better to do the otherone, forgot it was on html formatting, so lost my lovely line breaks
Oh, in addition.
With windows, I generaly put everything on the desktop, indeed my average desktop size is 4-5GB, with everything except mp3's on there.
I'd love to shift that desktop to another big hard drive, but I install HDD 2, my cd rom stuff doesnt work (I have to reinstall everything as it goes from d:n to e:), I cant move original programs (so I muight have 20GB of free space on d:, but only 50kb on c:), I have to clear out my desktop (noooo!!!)
Oh finaly, when I delete a file, I want it to be deleted, not moved.
(actualy as root, I delete a file it tar's it up as [pwd]/.rmedfiles.tar, unless I specificly run
---- ORIGINAL POST WITH DUMB FORMATTING (THIS ISNT BETTER THOUGH) ----
in linux, a few links and I've seemlessly intergrated my hard drives.
I use linux, and I'm sure a traditional linux user would kill me
I have, thanks to symbolic links,
/music (mp3's, spread over 2 hard drives but all in this one directory)
/floppy (an empty directory that I very occasionaly put my floppy drive in a different computer on, doesnt matter which computer though)
/cdrom (hardly used, but my cd rom drive, a symbolic link to mnt/cdrom)
/win (my windows partition with my asf's
/sg1 (a link to the asf's of stargate sg1)
/home/iso (my main directory, also known as "~".
/downloads (a symbolic link to
~/downloads, ~/dwn, see above
/files - symbolic link to ~/
/bin,
/usr - normal programs, with
/src - symbolic link to
/src/kernel - symbolic link to
/etc - configuration files (I used to have
Basicly I have a load of stuff in my / directory, but its all symbolic links. I can make
Oh yeh,
Think thats it.
Point is, you can make the linux directory structure however you want it.
I use linux, and I'm sure a traditional linux user would kill me I have, thanks to symbolic links, /music (mp3's, spread over 2 hard drives but all in this one directory) /floppy (an empty directory that I very occasionaly put my floppy drive in a different computer on, doesnt matter which computer though) /cdrom (hardly used, but my cd rom drive, a symbolic link to mnt/cdrom) /win (my windows partition with my asf's /sg1 (a link to the asf's of stargate sg1) /home/iso (my main directory, also known as "~". /downloads (a symbolic link to /usr/local/downloads (hey I've got a lot of space on that partition!) ~/downloads, ~/dwn, see above /files - symbolic link to ~/ /bin, /lib - system programs and libraries /usr - normal programs, with /usr/local as all non distro. included programs /src - symbolic link to /usr/local/src /src/kernel - symbolic link to /usr/src/whatever it is at the moment /etc - configuration files (I used to have /config, as a, you guessed it, symbolic link!) Basicly I have a load of stuff in my / directory, but its all symbolic links. I can make /quake3 link to /usr/local/games/quake3 if I want, and also link it from ~/quake3 and a hudered other places. links are great Oh yeh, /games --> /usr/local/games Think thats it. Point is, you can make the linux directory structure however you want it.
Still, could be worse, you might get a start button instead of a keypad