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Windows 7 and general bitching about OSes
iindigo:
--- Quote from: Dragoon AceHigh on January 27, 2009, 06:03:56 PM ---Holy shit that is cheap, here they start at about 100USD and go up to 150USD if I want eSATA features. So stop whining, buy an external and don't keep stash on your OS drive ;)
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No, I'm literally broke - as in $0 broke >_> That will change when my college loans come in, though... plan to get myself a nice desktop setup with a number of internal drives if possible.
Back on topic - Will Windows 7 finally graduate from NTFS or will Windows users have to stick with the creaky old filesystem for years to come?
Reinvent:
I actually read most of the seven pages and I can say topics changed like ... something that changes a lot...
Anyways... I would like to try Windows 7 when it is finalized, since it seems much improved: OSX and PC are both good for our anime, but OSX isn't compatible with all our games, unless you are counting Bootcamp: there are games for PC, for consoles, and for both: why not put everything on one partition or HD if you have space?
AceHigh:
--- Quote from: iindigo on January 27, 2009, 06:18:45 PM ---No, I'm literally broke - as in $0 broke >_> That will change when my college loans come in, though... plan to get myself a nice desktop setup with a number of internal drives if possible.
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So my theory about mac users being unemployed was true ;D
--- Quote ---Back on topic - Will Windows 7 finally graduate from NTFS or will Windows users have to stick with the creaky old filesystem for years to come?
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I did let it slide last time I saw that, now I have to ask: what is wrong with NTFS? It supports twice the size of the files compared to HFS+, superior encryption and security features, better time stamp rate, single instance storage... It is robust and works well.
kyanwan:
Sweet vindication. I've said all along: Vista blows. Not just because it was blah - and I generally have a deep-seated disdain for Microsoft ... but because technically - under the hood - it sure as hell did.
Enough said about that - I don't need to delve into the reasons ( largest - being it's an absolute pig and eating 1GB of ram for just a shitty OS to run. )
I said - happily - with my still unused Vista Premium COA sitting in a box ... I'll stick with XP.
And - lo & behold - Microsoft has seen the light. +1 for them.
The more I hear about Win7 - the more I want to see the next Windows 98/2000.
Know.
They're living up to their BS these days.
They've got a hit. They've got a miss, then a hit built off that miss.
Win95 = shit.
Win98 = Killer.
WinME = shit
Win2K = Killer
WinXP = Wait ... I just killed my own theory!
Vista = Rancid Maggot-infested Shit
Win7 = (?, but it's looking killer so far.)
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NTFS is good for my purposes. It's never failed me yet. The only thing I could possibly more - is Unix-like robust permissions and enhanced file security.
The defragmenting thing ...
Yeah.
Back when I thought I knew shit about computers I cared about Defragmenting. Now - I just find it to be a waste of a few hours.
These days - I just buy a new hard drive or delete shit.
Or better yet - stick with having a few GB free on the drive.
And even better yet:
Keep a dedicated OS drive/partition - with plenty of free space.
( Notice how guided Linux installs suggest you to do the above. )
And finally - the anti-pack-rat rule.
If I haven't used it for 6-12 months, I'll probably never use it again. Trash. Works wonders. If you're living with a nearly full & fragmented drive these days - you really need to take that hard drive, drill a hole through it then smash it with a sledgehammer - and get a bigger drive. There's no excuse to have no space. ( Before you embarrass yourself - don't attempt to explain fragmentation to me. I know more about it than you do. )
iindigo:
--- Quote from: Dragoon AceHigh on January 27, 2009, 07:17:50 PM ---So my theory about mac users being unemployed was true ;D
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Only because this town I'm living next to is really damn poor, full of old people, and doesn't have very many jobs that are worth a damn. I can't commute, either, since I can't drive.
--- Quote from: Dragoon AceHigh on January 27, 2009, 07:17:50 PM ---I did let it slide last time I saw that, now I have to ask: what is wrong with NTFS? It supports twice the size of the files compared to HFS+, superior encryption and security features, better time stamp rate, single instance storage... It is robust and works well.
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I'm not worried about Apple's decisions on filesystems since they've been prepping for a transition to ZFS for a while now (might even happen as soon as 10.6). HFS+ has served me pretty solidly, anyway.
It may just be a side-effect of Windows itself, but NTFS has always felt a little flakey to me. I've had it do things like make normal, unhidden files stored on a perfectly good drive show up just fine on one system and then pretend to not even exist when hooked up to another. Other than that, I don't really know how to describe it. It's not the drives I'm using, either - the same exact drives work fine when formatted with ext2/3 or HFS+...
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