I wouldn't reccommend disabling the swap file - If for some unknown reason that your system runs out of ram and it has no swap to back it up - it will crash. It's always a good idea to have a swap file as backup, even if you don't think you need it.
Linux will cache as much as possible into ram (essentially preloading the memory to almost capacity) and only use the swap if absolutely necessary.
If Windows has enough ram - it will swap some files, but only a few files at boot time which it cannot kill, even though they are unused, so it swaps them out to free up real memory.
How would plugging in a firewire / usb flash drive and swapping on that increase the speed of your system? It doesn't matter how fast the medium you connect - it would bottleneck at the usb / firewire interface. USB 2.0 (the marginally faster of the two) runs at a maximum of 480 Mb/s or 60 MB/s, however, in practice you will NEVER attain this speed outside of a lab - average speed for usb 2.0 in real life is ~10MB/s. Firewire is similar, but has a slightly lower throughput. Now assuming that you have pc3200 memory (not factoring in latency, chipset, brand etc involved in measuring this sort of thing), the average throughput is around 1.5 - 2 GB/s. Slight difference?
By far the easiest ways to increase the speed of your system is throw in a pile of RAM (so that swapping is not needed) or a nice, fast HDD.
I use Opera on my laptop and ff on my desktop and I would have to agree with you - Opera definitely does the job more elegantly than ff, but, it doesn't have the plugin support which firefox does - which in my eyes makes it inferior...
OK - so Opera uses less resources and has a more polished feel to it, but I can make firefox do exactly what I want it to do.
I'm not a fan-boy - apart from my main linux box, I have a win2k laptop and a server running 2k3 (which [stripped down] do exactly the job that I want them to do) - that's closed source for you and what I have worked with all my life. From practical experience, the only way to get the OS exactly the way you want, without installing 3rd party software, is to run an OSS box - that way you can choose what software you want because you want it - not because the maker of your OS wants you to.
Seriously - including WMP on server editions - as the parent of my initial post suggested - because it may be used to stream audio (and I can't think of a better reason)... How many Of the millions of servers out there are used to stream audio?
Just about everything in Windows can be removed - provided that you have the right tools - the footprint of XP can allegedly be brought down to 9MB... I have had it under 500.
I personally don't run Windows anymore, but when I did, I used nLite http://www.nliteos.com/ to remove the junk that I didn't need to create a unattended install cd. Optionally - if Windows is already installed, you can use tools such as XPLite http://www.litepc.com/ to remove the bloat.
Well, strangely, yes - I am going by that logic... I'm not sure what logic that you're working from, however - I personally do not see the word "many" as being ambiguous in the slightest.
Main Entry: 1many
Pronunciation: 'me-nE
Function: adjective
Inflected Form(s): more/'mor/; most/'mOst/
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English manig; akin to Old High German manag many, Old Church Slavic munogu much
1 : consisting of or amounting to a large but indefinite number [worked for many years]
2 : being one of a large but indefinite number [many a man] [many another student]
Unless that you have another definition of many, of course.
Incidentally, many computers do not use notepad, calculator, etc - I know that mine doesn't.
I am not arguing what the poster above stated - I am replying to your comment.
I am not arguing that you may know many computer users, I am simply replying to the implicit statement which you have made - i.e. What do you mean by many computers are NEVER used for playing music? Just because all your friends use their pc for playing music, does not mean that everyone uses their computer for playing music - that is a huge (and most likely incorrect) assumption.
What do you mean by many computers are NEVER used for playing music? Everyone I know utilizes their computer for music...not the only reason, but they have it playing in the background.
Just because everyone you know uses their computer to play music does not mean that many computers are not used for playing music - unless of course, you're suggesting that you know every computer user/owner on the planet...
Select Use external compression [User Defined Encoder]
Point EAC to the latest version of LAME,
In the same tab, use the following Additional command line options: --preset extreme --add-id3v2 --pad-id3v2 --ta "%a" --tt "%t" --tl "%g" --ty "%y" --tn "%n" --tc "[Your comment here]" %s %d
Uncheck [Add ID3 tag] from EAC (lame will do it for you).
um.... or perhaps the Kerala government is reccommending the use of free software for a reason?
From TFA:
About 30,000 computers are already in use in schools across the state, and the Education Ministry said about 600,000 students opted to take free software training classes this year.
Now, if you also consider - also from TFA:
The Education Ministry has an annual budget of 40 million rupees, or $1.86 million, to promote computer technology among the one million students, aged between 5 and 15, currently at school -- a sum that will be stretched as Mr. Baby attempts to fulfill his ambition of making all the state's "schoolchildren computer literate."
With one computer to 20 students - it makes obvious sense to use a free operating system which will do everything a paid for operating system will do, thus saving between $25 and $30 per computer for 1 version of Windows - which may or may not even be a full version (Windows Starter Edition, anyone? http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/newsroom/winxp/ 08-10WinXPStarterFS.mspx)
I'm calling bull on that one - a friend of mine recently tried to install GRAW (Ghost Recon 3) on his pc. Running at minimum detail levels and resolution his 6600GT (256MB) was struggling so much, it was unplayable.
DOS natively supports fat32, but does not natively support NTFS - tha's what NTFS4DOS is for (google it).
Incidentally, for Windows, NTFS is a far superior fs than FAT...
Unfortunately, this won't work as an external magnetic field cannot penetrate the metallic shielding - if an external magnetic field is applied to a closed conducting body, it doesn't matter how close to the shielding it gets, the field inside the body will have zero effect from the external source.
Sorry, but I can't be bothered to google for a better explanation / diagrams, etc...
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I wouldn't reccommend disabling the swap file - If for some unknown reason that your system runs out of ram and it has no swap to back it up - it will crash. It's always a good idea to have a swap file as backup, even if you don't think you need it.
Linux will cache as much as possible into ram (essentially preloading the memory to almost capacity) and only use the swap if absolutely necessary.
If Windows has enough ram - it will swap some files, but only a few files at boot time which it cannot kill, even though they are unused, so it swaps them out to free up real memory.
How would plugging in a firewire / usb flash drive and swapping on that increase the speed of your system? It doesn't matter how fast the medium you connect - it would bottleneck at the usb / firewire interface. USB 2.0 (the marginally faster of the two) runs at a maximum of 480 Mb/s or 60 MB/s, however, in practice you will NEVER attain this speed outside of a lab - average speed for usb 2.0 in real life is ~10MB/s. Firewire is similar, but has a slightly lower throughput. Now assuming that you have pc3200 memory (not factoring in latency, chipset, brand etc involved in measuring this sort of thing), the average throughput is around 1.5 - 2 GB/s. Slight difference?
By far the easiest ways to increase the speed of your system is throw in a pile of RAM (so that swapping is not needed) or a nice, fast HDD.
surely that was why he was asking?
I use Opera on my laptop and ff on my desktop and I would have to agree with you - Opera definitely does the job more elegantly than ff, but, it doesn't have the plugin support which firefox does - which in my eyes makes it inferior...
OK - so Opera uses less resources and has a more polished feel to it, but I can make firefox do exactly what I want it to do.
why are you arguing my point??
I'm not a fan-boy - apart from my main linux box, I have a win2k laptop and a server running 2k3 (which [stripped down] do exactly the job that I want them to do) - that's closed source for you and what I have worked with all my life. From practical experience, the only way to get the OS exactly the way you want, without installing 3rd party software, is to run an OSS box - that way you can choose what software you want because you want it - not because the maker of your OS wants you to.
Seriously - including WMP on server editions - as the parent of my initial post suggested - because it may be used to stream audio (and I can't think of a better reason)... How many Of the millions of servers out there are used to stream audio?
Just about everything in Windows can be removed - provided that you have the right tools - the footprint of XP can allegedly be brought down to 9MB... I have had it under 500.
I personally don't run Windows anymore, but when I did, I used nLite http://www.nliteos.com/ to remove the junk that I didn't need to create a unattended install cd. Optionally - if Windows is already installed, you can use tools such as XPLite http://www.litepc.com/ to remove the bloat.
Well, strangely, yes - I am going by that logic... I'm not sure what logic that you're working from, however - I personally do not see the word "many" as being ambiguous in the slightest.
/'mor/; most /'mOst/
FYI
from http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/many
Main Entry: 1many
Pronunciation: 'me-nE
Function: adjective
Inflected Form(s): more
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English manig; akin to Old High German manag many, Old Church Slavic munogu much
1 : consisting of or amounting to a large but indefinite number [worked for many years]
2 : being one of a large but indefinite number [many a man] [many another student]
Unless that you have another definition of many, of course.
Incidentally, many computers do not use notepad, calculator, etc - I know that mine doesn't.
I am not arguing what the poster above stated - I am replying to your comment.
I am not arguing that you may know many computer users, I am simply replying to the implicit statement which you have made - i.e.
What do you mean by many computers are NEVER used for playing music?
Just because all your friends use their pc for playing music, does not mean that everyone uses their computer for playing music - that is a huge (and most likely incorrect) assumption.
So why did you allow it to install?
Just because everyone you know uses their computer to play music does not mean that many computers are not used for playing music - unless of course, you're suggesting that you know every computer user/owner on the planet...
Select Use external compression [User Defined Encoder]
Point EAC to the latest version of LAME,
In the same tab, use the following Additional command line options:
--preset extreme --add-id3v2 --pad-id3v2 --ta "%a" --tt "%t" --tl "%g" --ty "%y" --tn "%n" --tc "[Your comment here]" %s %d
Uncheck [Add ID3 tag] from EAC (lame will do it for you).
happy to say that I would mod this up also...
From TFA:
Now, if you also consider - also from TFA:
With one computer to 20 students - it makes obvious sense to use a free operating system which will do everything a paid for operating system will do, thus saving between $25 and $30 per computer for 1 version of Windows - which may or may not even be a full version (Windows Starter Edition, anyone? http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/newsroom/winxp
I prefer:
How many programmers does it take to change a lightbulb?
None: That's a hardware issue.
I'm calling bull on that one - a friend of mine recently tried to install GRAW (Ghost Recon 3) on his pc. Running at minimum detail levels and resolution his 6600GT (256MB) was struggling so much, it was unplayable.
Yup - I can see how owning a few million corner shops (http://www.spar.co.uk/) will help you get your own country....
I'm fairly sure everyone here agrees... http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/RIAA
... and stop calling me Shirley...
it depends on the country you're in - in the US, it's illegal, whereas, in the UK, it's not.
DOS natively supports fat32, but does not natively support NTFS - tha's what NTFS4DOS is for (google it). Incidentally, for Windows, NTFS is a far superior fs than FAT...
OK - so it doesn't update automatically, but this will do the job.... http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
If you must use a windows box, get used to using hijackthis - it's free and with a little knowledge, is indispensible.
I use it on a daily (monday - friday!) basis when cleaning user's pcs of the random carp which gets installed on their work boxes.
its not just me that thinks that's funny, is it?
"//open to pointers on how to excise MP10 from my new machine completely."
XPLite can do that, or nLite. There's plenty of tools for this sort of thing - you'll be able to find them in google, or popular torrent sites.
Unfortunately, this won't work as an external magnetic field cannot penetrate the metallic shielding - if an external magnetic field is applied to a closed conducting body, it doesn't matter how close to the shielding it gets, the field inside the body will have zero effect from the external source.
Sorry, but I can't be bothered to google for a better explanation / diagrams, etc...