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agreed; as long as sequential read time is still faster than random read time, I think defragging would help. if I have to follow a linked list and there are 100 links for 1 block each vs 2...

I heard the /goo giants/ perform live, once. quite unremarkable show. the part where they broke the guitars was the high point but the music was average, at best. (lol) -- Bryan (pic...

and he thinks he'll be better with the chinese lenovo junk?? it may be new but its not the old IBM thinkpads anymore, not even close. sometimes the reburb can be better, though. canon is case...

some 'light reading' (lol): http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1109339--photographer-michael-chrisman-s-year-long-exposure-of-toronto-s-skyline-produces-dreamy-image-of-city quote from...

why shallow? what is appealing about blur in food shots? I don't understand that. when I shoot food, I open up the shot so that most of it is in focus. easier done with smaller sensors,...

also, apes with guns kill people. (there's a heston ref in there, somewhere) ;) how about some kind of magnetic 'connection' to keep the ball from falling out? I've never seen that and it...

with internal wear leveling, you can't wear out a sector. sectors are imaginary and are remapped on the fly as the underlying ram wears out. if the avail list gets too low, then you run into...

just verified this; adding the right line to /etc/fstab: UUID=4ca0082e-4aad-4cab-bc7c-3293a593994e / ext4 noatime,*discard*,errors=remount-ro 0 1 then doing the...

are you for hire? see, there's this dog in my neighborhood and he, well, he needs some telephoto 'advice'. lol -- Bryan (pic stream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/linux-works )

it won't stop until those that break the law (ie, the cops) are relieved of their jobs on any infraction that goes to court where the cop loses. perhaps the fear of losing their 'bust heads...

I've heard this but can't confirm this myself: its been reported that the 2.5" (notebook drive) factories are the ones hit, not the 3.5" drive ones. anyone hear that or have links to show either...

wiper.sh is where I was at, when I did this on my last build (a year or so ago). good to hear that OTF is now implemented and you can turn it on and forget about it. also typical that apple...

I'm not an expert, but I have not found anything to suggest trim and SE are at all any different. they both 'reset' the blocks so that they are more efficient to write to (init is a good word for...

that does not make sense to me, though. trim IS a 'reclaim' of electrical states, its not just writing zeroes to memory or defragging. either way, electrically resetting ram has the identical...

secure erase is only needed if your system does not support TRIM. linux (with some effort) and win7 both support TRIM. I don't think macos does yet (?). trim 'resets' the wear and it does it...

even though amazon does NOT need my money (I buy quite a few things via amazon, anyway, not that it matters, though) I would be willing to be part of a pilot program where you do pay a small fee to...

or, only buy/use apps that have a CRACK for them. depending on some activation server is only asking for trouble, later on. quite a lot of sysadmins buy software but don't install THAT...

stability and more importantly familiarity in a must-have app (email is a must-have app) is not to be discounted. but google plays fast and loose with the user interface. every so often, a new...

costco! genuine, no fakes, no hassles. avoid the generic charger, though. get one of the 2 high end ones: c9000 or the lacrosse (but lacrosse has had 'fire problems' on some of their...

oh, the old /at least we're not as bad as the other sociopath websites./ argument. nice .. "we will annoy you, but at least we don't annoy as much as the really bad ones out there" uhuh. ...