5punk

Lateralus wrote:YOU ALL LOVE TEH HORSES



and that is the closest I can come to a meaningful contribution here. My work is done.

Damn, I was going to post something like that and you beat me to it.

I don't understand half of what you guys are on about, but I'm glad we've got people who do onboard. Next time I get a tricky fault at work I'll sack off the tech forums and ask you guys

Lateralus wrote:YOU ALL LOVE TEH HORSES
and that is the closest I can come to a meaningful contribution here. My work is done.

Surely you mean "WIND0Z34EVA!!!"

I find that the only thing that ever really causes any heavy defragmentation on my machine is Bit Torrent.
Machines that have just been used on a daily basis for years and years here at work, often don't have too bad a fragmentation as all the manual saving of files and so on is done on the network.

Therefore, if you save, delete, move and generally fuck about with your machine a lot, then it will get fragmented, whereas if you leave well alone, and run the very occasional defrag, then the system will be fine.

It's never really bothered me till recently when I've started top notice a big difference after a heavy defrag of my PC, and then loading up a game that's heavy on disk usage such as Beef.

I think the thing that's more important in terms of fragmentation in Fista, is that they offer a "decent defragmentation tool" with all the bells and whistles for free, instead of having to pay for Diskeeper because the built in one is a bit shit.

The fact that *nix systems don't fragment as much really doesn't matter, because I am never going to be patient/nerdy enough to install it, plus it won't run anything I want to, so what's the point in arguing a toss over it.

"Damn it" I just got drawn into the Windows vs *nix thing didn't I?

Anyways I'm rambling now, I think it's time for some vending machine crisps and chocolate seeing as I've completely forgot too take lunch here at work

W2K3

I was referring to telnet and rpc, rather than GUI-based remote admin.

By 'recently' I mean over the last ten years rather than the last 40.

Everyone has their preferences, though, I couldn't give a toss and just use what is best for a specific purpose - to do that it's useful to learn about how different systems work and interesting to read about their history to make an informed decision. It makes one more employable to not have favourites.