The EADD Windows Technical Gibberings Thread

[Ceres]

the only factual error in that clip is that they left out the endless supply of cocaine within reach of the keyboard.

 

[Shambles]

Dammit! Seems I missed my calling. Will have a word at the JobCentre tomorrow. Get meself on a training course of summat. Probably only have meph and ropey ol' crackwhores rather than coke and Hollywood starlets but ya gotta start somewhere I suppose.

 

[Marmalade]

Didn't know where else to put this, so it's going here

Found a neat little add-on for Firefox - Self-Destructing Cookies

About this Add-On
Self-Destructing Cookies automatically removes cookies when they are no longer used by open browser tabs. With the cookies, lingering sessions, as well as information used to spy on you, will be expunged. Websites will only be permitted to identify you, while you actually use them and can not stalk you across the entire web. This is the closest you can get to cookieless browsing without breaking every second site or tedious micromanaging.

Tracking cookies will be detected and removed immediately. They are identified purely by their behaviour. This feature does not depend on a blacklist that must be kept up-to-date. Self-Destructing Cookies can also help protect against CSRF attacks by ending your sessions as soon as possible.

This add-on complements blacklist-based solutions such as Adblock and Ghostery very well. You can whitelist sites whose cookies you would like to keep without an active tab in the Firefox cookie exception list, which can also be conveniently accessed from the add-on's preferences, or an icon in the Add-on Bar.

Been using it for a few days and it seems to do an ace job. Way fewer open network connections than usual for when I've got a ton of tabs open. It's little pop up tells you how many connections and tracking cookies it's closed. I like this loads.

Mugz, I think you'll like this one

 

[knock]

Hey, that's not just a Windows gibbering. Maybe we need a cross-platform technical gibberings thread too! Gah! Gibberings proliferation!

 

[jancrow]

Didn't know where else to put this, so it's going here

Found a neat little add-on for Firefox - Self-Destructing Cookies



Been using it for a few days and it seems to do an ace job. Way fewer open network connections than usual for when I've got a ton of tabs open. It's little pop up tells you how many connections and tracking cookies it's closed. I like this loads.

Mugz, I think you'll like this one

That looks bozz... is there a version for Chrome do ya know? I bet there is. I bet if I googled it I'd find it. I'm being an idiot. Thanks.

 

[Marmalade]

Hey, that's not just a Windows gibbering. Maybe we need a cross-platform technical gibberings thread too! Gah! Gibberings proliferation!

lulz, you've got the organising bug. I know it well.

That looks bozz... is there a version for Chrome do ya know? I bet there is. I bet if I googled it I'd find it. I'm being an idiot. Thanks.

Dunno about Chrome. I tend to not like Chrome despite trying it several times. I normally work with about 20 tabs open, so I tend to shit bricks when I see 7 instances of chrome running in my task manager and it seems to want to hog all my meagre resources. Also, its appetite to want to check for updates seems to always worm its way into my task manager too, no matter what services or start up objects I turn off REPEATEDLY.

 

[Mailmonkey]

Don't know if anyone can help.

For the last 12 months or so I've been going on about how slow our lappy is getting etc.

My C drive is full, I think all my Programs are on there..there must be a load of other stuff too cos I've got rid of unused programs now. All photos, films, music are on an external HD from which i run itunes. My full C drive is always getting critically full, and then fucks things up.

Anyway, I was just looking at My Computer...and found the following...C:drive, total size 42.9Gb, free space 2Gb (I have to do a disc cleanup almost weekly now) , but then, I looked in my D:drive, total size 68Gb, free space 61Gb.

Now, I was under the impression that the C and D drive are the same HD, but with a "partition" to seperate them.

This is probably a VERY stupid question, but can I just move the partition, so reducing my D: drive to about 20Gb, and increasing my C: drive to oh, 80-90Gb maybe.....is this possible?

have I completely misunderstood things?

Is it easy to do? Can I do it myself?

Thanks for any help.

 

[knock]

You can use various tools; popular ones include Partition Magic or GParted.

I find GParted very easy to use, very reliable and it's free.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gpa...table/0.14.1-6/gparted-live-0.14.1-6-i486.iso

You'll need Nero or something to burn the iso image to a recordable CD (or DVD). Or maybe windows has this facility built in nowadays? I don't know.

You boot off the CD into the GParted system. Then just point and click to resize the partitions.

Reboot and off you go.

Any questions, ask. Or look here: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/help.php

It's also possible to move, for example, your Program Files directory to the D: drive thus saving the space on the C: drive, but it involves a bit of faffing with setting environment variables and there's more scope for things not working quite right. I think resizing the partitions is the best way forward.

Good luck! You shouldn't need it though.

 

[jancrow]

MonKey's definitly one of them bTIcHEZ you need to give a LOW RISK RESPONSE to , but anyone know if moving windoze page file or whatever it is these days to D would be helpful and one of the least complicated ways of ameliorating this situation?

Und might that not make for a better long term solution than repartitioning? Give the OS a whole existing partition to romp around on that isn't the boot drive?

 

[knock]

I don't think gparted is at all risky, it's come on a lot in the last few years. It really is point and click and warns you if you're about to do something stupid. I use it regularly even when fucked on MXE.

But yeah, moving the paging file is going to be helpful and pretty much zero risk. But it won't save that much space.

 

[jancrow]

Won't it? I thought page file mandemz were hench.

 

[knock]

Not sure what risk there is in the OS romping around on the boot partition? It used to be common, on Linux for example, to maintain a small boot partition separate from everything else, but that was because the bootloaders couldn't access large filesystems, or couldn't read modern filesystems (like ext4, boot tended to be ye olde ext2). But this is no longer the case.


In any case, whatever you do MM, it would be wise to back up any important data files (like Porn Selection A) onto a DVD or something.

Won't it? I thought page file mandemz were hench.

My pagefile on my Windows 7 virtual machine is 2GB. Same as the RAM allocated. Not a lot compared to the 61GB he's got on drive D:.

 

[Mailmonkey]

my cd/dvd burner is succesful about 1 disc in a 100

and knock, jancrow is right, I didn't understand any of your advice

fucking thicko

I'm running XP btw.

and my main problem is I don't know what it is thats filling up the C drive.

 

[Pagey]

I don't even think you need to download anything to change the partition, I know I've done it before (well, my less technologically-challenged ex did, anyway). It was with windows 7 but that shouldn't change much.
Maybe this might help for a start http://www.ehow.com/how_5208281_change-disk-partitions.html

Or could you maybe simply move a few programs over from C tp D?

 

[The Liberal Media]

not technically minded at all but mailmonkey when you do cleanup why dont you just nix the hibernation file, its usually a few gigs and does nothing.

Would free up a lot of space on your 42gb drive

 

[knock]

my cd/dvd burner is succesful about 1 disc in a 100

and knock, jancrow is right, I didn't understand any of your advice

fucking thicko

I'm running XP btw.

and my main problem is I don't know what it is thats filling up the C drive.

I''ll step you through it if you like.

DO you have a couple of blank CD-Rs?

not technically minded at all but mailmonkey when you do cleanup why dont you just nix the hibernation file, its usually a few gigs and does nothing.

Would free up a lot of space on your 42gb drive

It will only free up as much RAM as he's got on the machine. If it's 2GB, then it'll only free up 2GB.

I don't even think you need to download anything to change the partition, I know I've done it before (well, my less technologically-challenged ex did, anyway). It was with windows 7 but that shouldn't change much.
Maybe this might help for a start http://www.ehow.com/how_5208281_change-disk-partitions.html

Or could you maybe simply move a few programs over from C tp D?

Is there a tool in windows XP to automate this? When I last did this, you had to update the %PROGRAM FILES% environment variable. Even then, shortcuts to programs would stop working and would need updated.

 

[The Liberal Media]

It will only free up as much RAM as he's got on the machine. If it's 2GB, then it'll only free up 2GB.

Thanks for clarifying.

In that case just pop down to wilksinson and get 2 packs of 4.7gb dvd's for £2 each

Burn 2 sets of 10 dvd's and create some HD space.

ALWAYS back up your data !!!

 

[knock]

Yeah, MM needs to quantify what is data that needs backed up. I'm fucked if I'm talking you through backing up the entire 42GB disk to DVD. If you can install your software (inc Windows XP) from disk, you only need the data.

The chances of it going wrong is minimal. GParted has NEVER failed on me and I've used it dozens of times. I think in terms of risk you only need to back up data. MP3s, videos, CVs, pictures, etc.

Fuck it post me your laptop I'll sort it out. Or do you have a geek friend (apart from me, obviously I'm your geek friend)? Everyone has a local geek friend nowadays!

 

[knock]

OK I've just tested and it's not possible to just move the program files onto the other disk, it warns that it will stop programs working. Also the inbuilt disk-management tool of windows XP will not allow you to resize partitions unless you've got advanced volume management enabled, which you most likely do not.

The only way to do this is with something like gparted.

As I said, I'm happy to talk you throught it.

 

[Pagey]

^Ack that sucks. They must have only just added that on with 7 then well I won't be of much help anymore, good luck MM!