Do you defragment your computer? - Computers, Math, Science ...

seaweasel
Sea Gull

Joined: Jan 29, 2008
Posts: 204
Location: In one of the New England States

Back to top Fnord
Enigmatic Threadkilling Metasyntactic Variable

Joined: May 07, 2008
Posts: 16610
Location: Stendec

Back to top auntblabby
Chief Assistant to the Assistant Chief

Joined: Feb 13, 2010
Posts: 17232
Location: the island of loveable toy humans

Back to top redrobin62
Phoenix

Joined: Apr 03, 2012
Age: 50
Posts: 3182
Location: Seattle, WA

Back to top lostonearth35
Phoenix

Joined: Jan 06, 2010
Age: 39
Posts: 777
Location: Canada

Back to top auntblabby
Chief Assistant to the Assistant Chief

Joined: Feb 13, 2010
Posts: 17232
Location: the island of loveable toy humans

Back to top CornerPuzzlePieces
Sea Gull

Joined: Feb 28, 2012
Age: 20
Posts: 239
Location: B.C Canada

Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 10:49 pm?? ?Post subject:
auntblabby wrote: on the rare occasions i am very bored, i will watch, slack-jawed with fascination, the little colored boxes rearrange themselves in the big grid. I build pc's and even I enjoy this activity! Funny though, the whole idea is to squish all your files as close together as you can so the head has less distance to travel.. in doing so you will read/write more to certain parts of the hard disk causing wear. But in reality the moving parts will fail way before the disk reaches its read/write limits.. Of course you never want to defrag a solid state drive.. Waste of time and life capacity for it.

Back to top one-A-N
Phoenix

Joined: Mar 03, 2010
Posts: 680
Location: Sydney

Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 10:51 pm?? ?Post subject:
Nup. No need to. I don't run Windows. Unix has been storing files without significant fragmentation for decades. Defragmentation is a Windows problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defragmentation#Approach_and_defragmenters_by_file-system_type Compare "NTFS" (Windows) and "Linux ext2, ext3, and ext4" (the most common Linux file systems). Linux avoids fragmenting files, and rarely needs disk defragmentation - I have never bothered. Windows needs regular defragmentation.

Back to top VIDEODROME
Phoenix

Joined: Nov 21, 2008
Age: 36
Posts: 1543

Back to top auntblabby
Chief Assistant to the Assistant Chief

Joined: Feb 13, 2010
Posts: 17232
Location: the island of loveable toy humans

Back to top Shatbat
F?nix

Joined: Feb 20, 2012
Age: 20
Posts: 3456
Location: South America

Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 11:58 pm?? ?Post subject:
auntblabby wrote: on the rare occasions i am very bored, i will watch, slack-jawed with fascination, the little colored boxes rearrange themselves in the big grid. I remember I used to do that with the old win 98 defragger . It actually showed every single cluster, so it was a really long list. Then the new ones in XP and Vista were just a colored strip. Then I found defraggler. I don't defrag very often, really, the computer apparently does it automatically already. Last time I had to defrag it was to shrink a partition to make a new one and put linux on it, there was some mft stuff in the way and it was hell to find the proper tools. Got to admire Fnord's discipline, I only run CCleaner monthly, Spybot like every half a year, and Avast only when I suspect I've catched something. http://ssd-life.com/eng/ssdlife-faq-frequently-asked-questions.html I think I read newer ones didn't have that problem, or at least it wasn't as pronounced, but I haven't really looked into it yet _________________ Verily I have often laughed at weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws. - Nietzsche

Back to top CornerPuzzlePieces
Sea Gull

Joined: Feb 28, 2012
Age: 20
Posts: 239
Location: B.C Canada

Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2013 12:02 am?? ?Post subject:
As far as I know, it's the action of the electrons pooling in the substrate in their cells... and they wear down the insulator between pockets eventually. Probably friction.. just very tiny. Same thing can happen to flash drives.. Although it's proper coding now to make sure the software "Write levels" or moves around.. not staying in the same code block for long. That's even important on arduino stuff if you use the built in flash memory. What do I know. It's all amazing is what I gather!

Back to top auntblabby
Chief Assistant to the Assistant Chief

Joined: Feb 13, 2010
Posts: 17232
Location: the island of loveable toy humans

Back to top

Source: http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt225871.html

nhl all star game 2012 pollyanna samuel adams snowy owl one for the money 10 minute trainer sarah burke death

Forget Google Glass, Google Debuts ?Talking Shoe' Concept At SXSWi, Wants More Social, Motivational Everyday Objects

Meet Google's "talking shoe," which aims to translate movement data in witty messages to users and their friends. The concept apparel, showcased at the search giant's swanky SXSW Interactive headquarters, is part of a new arts project?-?"Art, Copy, Code" - which aims to breathe a social, life-like experience into everyday objects. "If standing still was a sport, you'd be world champion," the trash-talking shoe projects on a monitor hanging over a rainbow-colored obstacle course after it senses I've been standing still.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/U4PltVemQFc/

whitney houston has died whitney houston death the vow the voice season 2 ron paul maine safe house jay z and beyonce baby

An Amazing Menagerie of Animal Prostheses [Video]

Image: YouTube/uzook

FUJI, THE DOLPHIN
Winter's not the first dolphin to receive a prosthesis?that distinction goes to Fuji, who had the end of her tail amputated after contracting a mysterious necrotic disease. Fuji, who lives in an aquarium in Japan, lost a much smaller portion of her tail?just her back fin?than Winter did, but she also struggled to adapt to her new body. So volunteers at tire-manufacturer Bridgestone came to the rescue, reportedly spending $83,000 to build Fuji a prosthetic fin made of rubber and carbon fiber.

MOTALA & MOSHA, THE ELEPHANTS
Motala and Mosha are Asian elephants who lost their legs after stepping on land mines along the Thailand?Burma border. The pachyderms ended up at the Friends of the Asian Elephant Hospital in Lampang, Thailand, where Soraida Salwala spent years trying to build the animals brand new limbs. It?s not easy to build prosthetics for animals that weigh 2,700 kilograms?veterinarians and prosthetists had to invent a new technique just to take casts of the animals? stumps?but today, both elephants are lumbering around on their new legs, made from a combination of plastic and metal. (The prosthetists fashioned the ankle joint out of parts from a car engine.) The elephants? story is chronicled in the 2012 documentary, The Eyes of Thailand.

BEAUTY, THE BALD EAGLE
In 2005 a poacher shot Beauty in the face. The bullet destroyed most of the top half of her beak, leaving her unable to eat or groom herself. Beauty was rescued by Birds of Prey Northwest, and Nate Calvin, a mechanical engineer and the founder of the Kinetic Engineering Group, set out to make her a new upperbeak. Calvin made a mold of what remained of Beauty?s beak and then designed a prosthetic using a 3-D modeling software. He printed the beak, which was made of a nylon polymer, using a 3-D printer. With the prosthetic attached to her face, Beauty can now eat on her own.

TZVIKA, THE TURTLE
A run-in with a lawnmower left Tzvika with a broken shell and a damaged spine?and her back legs very weak. Veterinarians in Israel restored the female turtle?s mobility by attaching a set of wheels to the underside of her shell. The wheels also elevate Tzvika?s body, preventing her from dragging her legs and shell along the ground and sustaining further injury. A handful of other legless turtles have also been outfitted with wheels.

NAKI?O, THE DOG
When Naki?o was just his puppy, he got his paws stuck in a frozen puddle. All four frostbitten appendages were amputated. As the cattle dog grew up, it became increasingly difficult for him to move around on his stumps. Fortunately, OrthoPets, a Denver company that designs orthotic and prosthetic devices for companion animals, came to the rescue: It outfitted Naki?o with four artificial paws, reportedly making him the first dog to have four prosthetic limbs.

Source: http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=b8f6b06027704671c0c91bf8a9d28436

macauly culkin joe namath stefon diggs nazi ss andrej pejic steve jobs fbi safehouse

US adds 236K jobs, unemployment falls to 7.7 pct.

In this Monday, Feb. 25, 2013, photo, Sayed Mouawad, right, of Providence, R.I., gestures while speaking to a company representative during a job fair in Boston. The Labor Department is scheduled to release the jobs report at 8:30 a.m. EST Friday March 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

In this Monday, Feb. 25, 2013, photo, Sayed Mouawad, right, of Providence, R.I., gestures while speaking to a company representative during a job fair in Boston. The Labor Department is scheduled to release the jobs report at 8:30 a.m. EST Friday March 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

In this Monday, Feb. 25, 2013. Ann Oganesian, left, of Newton, Mass., pauses as she speaks with a State Dept. employee about job opportunities with the federal government during a job fair in Boston. The Labor Department is scheduled to release the jobs report at 8:30 a.m. EST Friday March 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? A burst of hiring last month added 236,000 U.S. jobs and reduced the unemployment rate to 7.7 percent from 7.9 percent in January. The robust gains suggested that the economy can strengthen further despite higher taxes and government spending cuts.

The February jobs report issued Friday provided encouraging details: The unemployment rate is at its lowest level in four years. Job growth has averaged more than 200,000 a month since November. Wages rose. And the job gains were broad-based, led by the most construction hiring in six years.

The unemployment rate, which had been stuck at 7.8 percent or above since September, declined mostly because more people found work. Another factor was that 130,000 people without jobs stopped looking for work last month. The government doesn't count them as unemployed.

The unemployment rate is calculated from a survey of households. The job gains are derived from a separate survey of employers.

The 236,000 jobs that were added in February is a historically solid total. And it would have been higher if governments were contributing to job growth, rather than subtracting from it as they have for nearly four years. Governments cut 10,000 jobs in February.

If federal, state and local governments were adding their long-term combined average of 20,000 to 25,000 jobs a month, February's total job gains would have been around 260,000.

Hiring has accelerated since summer. Employers have added an average of 191,000 jobs a month from December through February. They had averaged 181,000 gains from September through November and 135,000 from June through August.

Stock prices rose modestly Friday morning after the report was released at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time. Another day of stock gains would give the Dow Jones industrial average its fourth straight record close.

The government said employers added slightly fewer jobs in January than the government had first estimated. Job gains were lowered to 119,000 from an initially estimated 157,000. Still, December hiring was a little stronger than first thought, with 219,000 jobs added instead of 191,000.

Robust auto sales and a steady housing recovery are spurring more hiring, which could trigger more consumer spending and stronger economic growth. The construction industry added 48,000 in February; it's added a solid 151,000 since September. Manufacturing gained 14,000 jobs last month and 39,000 since November.

Retailers added 24,000 jobs, a sign that they anticipate healthy consumer spending in the coming months. Education and health services gained 24,000. And the information industry, which includes publishing, telecommunications and film, added 20,000, mostly in the movie industry.

The economy is generating more higher-paying jobs in industries like accounting, engineering and information technology. That's raising average pay, which will help offset the hit that Americans took from higher Social Security taxes and gas prices.

Hourly wages rose 4 cents to $23.82 last month. Wages have risen 2.1 percent over the past year, slightly ahead of inflation. Higher pay is vital to the economy because consumer spending drives 70 percent of economic activity.

"We're seeing the mix of jobs improve," says Ryan Sweet, a senior economist at Moody's Analytics.

The improved job market can also benefit countries that sell goods and services to U.S. consumers and businesses.

"All you have to do is look at the trade numbers," says Bernard Baumohl, chief global economist at the Economic Outlook Group. "The strength in the U.S. economy is leading to faster growth in imports."

Imports rose 2 percent in January from December. Those from China surged 7 percent.

A stronger U.S. economy, Baumohl says, will also help a battered Europe, which is contending with high unemployment and a debt crisis.

The U.S. economy is benefiting from the Federal Reserve's drive to keep interest rates at record lows. Lower borrowing rates have made it easier for Americans to buy homes and cars and for companies to expand.

The Fed and other key central banks have taken extraordinary steps to pump money into their financial systems to try to spur borrowing and spending, boost stock prices and stimulate growth.

The Fed has said it plans to keep the benchmark rate it controls near zero at least until the unemployment rate has fallen to 6.5 percent, as long as the inflation outlook remains mild.

Friday's jobs report isn't expected to move up the Fed's timetable for any rate increase.

"This may not yet be the substantial improvement in the labor market outlook that the Fed is looking for, but it's moving in the right direction," Paul Ashworth, an economist at Capital Economics, said in a note to clients.

The brighter hiring picture has yet to trigger a flood of people who aren't looking for a job to start seeking one. The proportion of Americans either working or looking for work dipped one-tenth of a percentage point in February to 63.5 percent, matching a 30-year low.

Even though the recession officially ended nearly four years ago, many Americans have remained discouraged about their job prospects and have given up looking. Others have returned to, or stayed in, school. And the vast generation of baby boomers have begun to retire. Their exodus reduces the percentage of adults working or looking for work.

Further strong hiring gains will hinge, in part, on healthy consumer spending. So far, higher gas prices and a Jan. 1 increase in Social Security taxes haven't caused Americans to sharply cut back on spending.

Across-the-board government spending cuts also kicked in March 1 after the White House and Congress failed to reach a deal to avoid them. Those cuts will likely lead to furloughs and layoffs in coming weeks.

The Congressional Budget office has estimated that the cuts mean government spending will drop $44 billion in the budget year that ends Sept. 30. That reduction, slightly more than 1 percent of federal spending, will likely hold down hiring in spring and summer, Sweet says. But more hiring and pay increases now should ease the blow.

A big source of strength has been home sales and residential construction: New-home sales jumped 16 percent in January to the highest level since July 2008. And builders started work on the most homes last year since 2008.

Home prices rose by the most in more than six years in the 12 months that ended in January. Higher prices tend to make homeowners feel wealthier and more likely to spend. So do record-high stock prices.

"If my house is worth a little more, my 401(k) is going up ... maybe I can afford to go buy that car, or continue to spend," says Ed Hyland, investment specialist at JPMorgan Private Bank.

___

AP Economics Writer Paul Wiseman contributed to this report.

Associated Press

Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/f70471f764144b2fab526d39972d37b3/Article_2013-03-08-Economy/id-287b1e2dc9a949738e2a4105dd9946ed

Nathan Adrian London 2012 Synchronized Swimming London 2012 hurdles Taylor Kinney Beach Volleyball Olympics 2012 Jessica Ennis Aliya Mustafina

London Markets: FTSE 100 aims for five-year high

By Sara Sjolin, MarketWatch

LONDON (MarketWatch) ? U.K. stocks extended gains on Friday, setting the benchmark index on track for a five-year high, as banks and resource firms moved higher after upbeat Chinese export data.

The FTSE 100 /quotes/zigman/3173262 UK:UKX +0.39% ?rose 0.5% to 6,470.04, on track for the highest closing level since January 2008.

French appetite for horsemeat rises

Sales of horse meat are rising in France despite the scandal sweeping Europe. WSJ's Ruth Bender finds out why horse is being served on French dining tables more often.

Banks posted some of the biggest gains in the index, rising as better-than-expected data from China lured investors into taking on more risk.

Data from the General Administration of Customs showed exports rose 21.8% in February, beating expectations of a 5% rise, with the increasing demand for Chinese goods suggesting a rebound in the global economy. See: China trade surplus narrows, but exports rising

Shares of HSBC Holdings PLC /quotes/zigman/13843 UK:HSBA +2.16% ? /quotes/zigman/207333/quotes/nls/hbc HBC +0.26% ? /quotes/zigman/13834 HK:5 +1.80% ?added 1.9%, Lloyds Banking Group PLC /quotes/zigman/255656/quotes/nls/lyg LYG -2.27% ? /quotes/zigman/126322 UK:LLOY +1.02% ? gained 1.7% and Standard Chartered PLC /quotes/zigman/22532 UK:STAN +0.64% ?put on 1.3%.

Resource firms were also on the rise as most commodities moved higher. Shares of miner Vedanta Resources PLC /quotes/zigman/336962 UK:VED +0.08% ?climbed 0.6% and Antofagasta PLC /quotes/zigman/139152 UK:ANTO +0.28% ?rose 0.5% even as Credit Suisse cut the mining sector to underweight from neutral.

Heavyweight oil firm Royal Dutch Shell PLC /quotes/zigman/359955 UK:RDSB -0.10% ? /quotes/zigman/379012/quotes/nls/rds.b RDS.B +0.53% ?picked up 0.5%.

Vodafone shares rise as the firm secures a 10-year deal with the New Zealand police.

Further among notable gainers, shares of Vodafone PLC /quotes/zigman/421253 UK:VOD +1.55% ? /quotes/zigman/101873/quotes/nls/vod VOD -0.13% ?added 1.2%, as the wireless telecom firm secured a 10-year deal with the New Zealand police to deliver customized mobile services and smartphones. See: Vodafone gets 10-year pact from New Zealand police

Schroders PLC /quotes/zigman/257601 UK:SDR +1.63% ?gained 2.6%, as UBS lifted the investment manager to neutral from sell.

On a downbeat note, shares of Centrica PLC /quotes/zigman/357817 UK:CNA -0.96% shaved off 1.6%, after J.P. Morgan Cazenove cut the utility firm to neutral from overweight.

United Utilities Group PLC /quotes/zigman/514680 UK:UU -1.38% ?eased 1.5%.

Shares of Marks & Spencer Group PLC /quotes/zigman/298234 UK:MKS -0.25% gave up 0.7%, after Credit Suisse initiated coverage of the retailer with an underperform rating.

/quotes/zigman/3173262

UK : FTSE Indices

Volume: 0.00

March 8, 2013 12:06p

/quotes/zigman/13843

UK : U.K.: London

Volume: 8.58M

March 8, 2013 12:06p

Market Cap

?132.28 billion

Rev. per Employee

?190,935

/quotes/zigman/207333/quotes/nls/hbc

US : U.S.: NYSE

Volume: 1.06M

March 7, 2013 4:06p

Market Cap

$199.14 billion

Rev. per Employee

$302,553

/quotes/zigman/13834

HK : Hong Kong

Volume: 20.48M

March 8, 2013 4:01p

Market Cap

HK$1544.51 billion

Rev. per Employee

HK$2.35M

/quotes/zigman/255656/quotes/nls/lyg

US : U.S.: NYSE

Volume: 2.84M

March 7, 2013 4:09p

Rev. per Employee

$724,729

/quotes/zigman/126322

UK : U.K.: London

Volume: 47.71M

March 8, 2013 12:06p

Market Cap

?35.93 billion

Rev. per Employee

?454,998

/quotes/zigman/22532

UK : U.K.: London

Volume: 1.40M

March 8, 2013 12:06p

Market Cap

?42.88 billion

Rev. per Employee

?191,085

/quotes/zigman/336962

UK : U.K.: London

Volume: 102,005

March 8, 2013 11:58a

Rev. per Employee

?293,882

/quotes/zigman/139152

UK : U.K.: London

Volume: 707,324

March 8, 2013 12:06p

Market Cap

?10.49 billion

Rev. per Employee

?787,887

/quotes/zigman/359955

UK : U.K.: London

Volume: 2.33M

March 8, 2013 12:06p

Market Cap

?142.32 billion

/quotes/zigman/379012/quotes/nls/rds.b

US : U.S.: NYSE

Volume: 971,117

March 7, 2013 4:02p

Market Cap

$214.25 billion

/quotes/zigman/421253

UK : U.K.: London

Volume: 37.10M

March 8, 2013 12:06p

Market Cap

?88.08 billion

Rev. per Employee

?517,257

/quotes/zigman/101873/quotes/nls/vod

US : U.S.: Nasdaq

Volume: 16.48M

March 7, 2013 4:00p

Market Cap

$132.60 billion

Rev. per Employee

$867,308

/quotes/zigman/257601

UK : U.K.: London

Volume: 283,652

March 8, 2013 12:05p

Rev. per Employee

?512,254

/quotes/zigman/357817

UK : U.K.: London

Volume: 4.71M

March 8, 2013 12:06p

Market Cap

?18.53 billion

Rev. per Employee

?607,172

/quotes/zigman/514680

UK : U.K.: London

Volume: 1.48M

March 8, 2013 12:05p

Rev. per Employee

?313,010

/quotes/zigman/298234

UK : U.K.: London

Volume: 1.29M

March 8, 2013 12:05p

Rev. per Employee

?122,574

Sara Sjolin is a MarketWatch reporter based in London. Follow her on Twitter @sarasjolin.

Source: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B1E54C2F2-87D0-11E2-9477-002128040CF6%7D&siteid=rss&rss=1

pope shenouda bolton muamba sxsw crystal cathedral st. patrick s day brandon lloyd brandon lloyd

The monthly Google Webmaster Report http://www.seroundtable.com/march-2013-googl...

March 2013 Google Webmaster Report: SAPE, Advertorials & How Search Works

www.seroundtable.com

Sorry for the delay in our monthly Google webmaster recap but here it is and there is a lot to summarize. The ongoing WebmasterWorld thread as always has a beat on what is going on...

Source: http://www.facebook.com/seoroundtable/posts/612642465419524

spinal stenosis the forgotten man mike jones just friends chronicle george lopez bedtime stories