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Post by ponytail61 on Apr 6, 2013 0:25:24 GMT
One good thing if Apple made a car. The Bump App. If you were in a fender bender the cars would transfer driver/ins. info and you could just drive away.  |
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Post by Cybermortis on Apr 6, 2013 0:31:22 GMT
*Puts on Mod Hat*
And the last 20 posts had what to do with the topic?
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Post by craighudson on Apr 6, 2013 7:23:22 GMT
What would happen if cars were made by open source developers a la Linux?
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Post by c64 on Apr 6, 2013 11:39:00 GMT
One good thing if Apple made a car. The Bump App. If you were in a fender bender the cars would transfer driver/ins. info and you could just drive away. And make you like the accident on facebook |
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Post by c64 on Apr 6, 2013 11:41:02 GMT
*Puts on Mod Hat* And the last 20 posts had what to do with the topic? Evaluating more possible market ranges for the iTunes concept. |
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Post by Cybermortis on Apr 6, 2013 15:26:40 GMT
*Mod Hat on*
The Oracle is meant to be a place where people can get information on various topics. Both by asking questions AND by being able to glance through threads to see if the information they are after has already been posted.
In order to make things easier for those looking for information posts here should remain on topic for the exact same reason I want posts in show ideas to be as on topic as possible - No one wants to trawl through pages and pages of posts that have nothing to do with the OP in the hope that they may find the information they were after.
The Watercooler is meant for general banter, and unless things turn nasty, ignore the banned topics list or general board rules I'm not bothered about threads drifting far from the OP.
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Post by ironhold on Feb 17, 2014 22:10:28 GMT
Another issue -
It has come to my attention that I'm running low on memory for my computer; of the 286 GB that the system is recognizing as the total amount (as per the "my computer" folder), I have 32.3 GB free.
When I right-clicked on the iTunes icon on my desktop, I got the properties bar. One of the options on the properties bar is "compress contents to save disk space".
What would this mean for both my computers and the iTunes files? I haven't migrated anything over yet (I need to pick up a USB hub, as I anticipate that the transfer will require multiple USB keys), and so I'm wondering if this will prevent me from doing so in the future.
Thanks!
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Post by GTCGreg on Feb 17, 2014 23:21:48 GMT
Don't confuse defragmenting the drive with compressing data.
I don't know how compressable Apple's music files are. I would think they are already about as compact as they are going to ever be. If, however, they are broken up and scattered all over the HD, defraging the entire drive may help.
As for defraging the data on your HD (assuming a Windows system), you may pick up about 5% more disk space if your data is badly scattered.
You are probably far better off going through your files and getting rid of all the junk you no longer need. If you do delete a lot of stuff, be sure you do it before you defrag the drive rather than after.
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Post by ponytail61 on Feb 18, 2014 5:39:07 GMT
Another issue - It has come to my attention that I'm running low on memory for my computer; of the 286 GB that the system is recognizing as the total amount (as per the "my computer" folder), I have 32.3 GB free. When I right-clicked on the iTunes icon on my desktop, I got the properties bar. One of the options on the properties bar is "compress contents to save disk space". What would this mean for both my computers and the iTunes files? I haven't migrated anything over yet (I need to pick up a USB hub, as I anticipate that the transfer will require multiple USB keys), and so I'm wondering if this will prevent me from doing so in the future. Thanks! Ironhold I'm guessing you are running low on space on your HDD, not memory. It looks like you still have about 10% of your drive left in free space which shouldn't be a problem. It'll just make your computer work harder. Do you regularly run Disk cleanup and Defrag? May take a little while since there is so much on disk. Read this thread over at Tom's Hardware and get a better idea of how full a HDD can be and still be OK. www.tomshardware.com/forum/343633-28-space-leave-hard-drive-conflicting-answers |
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Post by ironhold on Feb 18, 2014 6:09:20 GMT
I don't think I've run a defrag since I got it a few years back; I should probably carve some time out to do one.
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Post by the light works on Feb 18, 2014 14:50:57 GMT
I don't think I've run a defrag since I got it a few years back; I should probably carve some time out to do one. while you sleep is usually a good time for that. computers with older operating systems often had commands readily available for that. my first version of Norton even allowed me to schedule my scans; instead of just deciding for itself that it wanted to run a full system scan while I was in the middle of something. |
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Post by ironhold on Feb 18, 2014 16:45:12 GMT
I keep current on my anti-virals and anti-spywares, and run scans at least weekly.
It's the defrag that I haven't gotten around to yet.
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Post by the light works on Feb 18, 2014 18:51:13 GMT
I keep current on my anti-virals and anti-spywares, and run scans at least weekly. It's the defrag that I haven't gotten around to yet. unless you have a lot of data coming and going then defrag usually doesn't have to happen too frequently. but as someone said - be aware of the difference between computer memory and hard drive space. (though a lot of computers are set up to use vacant hard drive space as extra memory) |
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Post by OziRiS on Feb 27, 2014 23:22:27 GMT
Yeah, I don't think compressing those files will do much for you. If they even can be compressed more than they already are, you're likely to lose bitrate and the sound quality will drop. I wouldn't put it past Apple to provide that feature without warning users of the consequenses.
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Post by ironhold on Feb 27, 2014 23:35:49 GMT
I deleted a bunch of stuff (old games, old documents, and TV episodes I'm not watching anymore), and I'm back up to 45 GB.
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Post by OziRiS on Feb 27, 2014 23:46:33 GMT
I deleted a bunch of stuff (old games, old documents, and TV episodes I'm not watching anymore), and I'm back up to 45 GB. Get yourself a good cleaner program. CCleaner is free, popular and does a good job, but I've found that AVG PC TuneUp is even better. I run it at least once a week and my computer wasn't even this problem free when I first got it. It comes at a price though, but it's worth it. |
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Post by c64 on Mar 4, 2014 17:24:22 GMT
Get yourself a good cleaner program. CCleaner is free, popular and does a good job, … in endangering the stability of your system since it can't tell what you still actually need and what not. The idea of CCleaner is that it takes load from the Operating system by erasing the bulk. This is a very good idea on a 486DX2-66 running with 4 Mes of RAM where this bulk causes a tremendous system load but not on a multicore running with GHz with Gigabytes of RAM where this bulk won't matter anything. What's left is just the risk making your system more unstable but you don't have any significant gain! |
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Post by the light works on Mar 4, 2014 17:49:13 GMT
Get yourself a good cleaner program. CCleaner is free, popular and does a good job, … in endangering the stability of your system since it can't tell what you still actually need and what not. The idea of CCleaner is that it takes load from the Operating system by erasing the bulk. This is a very good idea on a 486DX2-66 running with 4 Mes of RAM where this bulk causes a tremendous system load but not on a multicore running with GHz with Gigabytes of RAM where this bulk won't matter anything. What's left is just the risk making your system more unstable but you don't have any significant gain! the problem is the OS increases the bulk as much as the CPU technology allows. back when a Z88 processor running at 2.2KHZ with 64K RAM was a hot computer, the OS fit on a 5.25 inch floppy, with room to spare for software. my brother transitioned into tech by working phone support for a small software firm. the biggest issue he had to deal with is that software tends to expand to fill available processing power. |
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Post by ironhold on Mar 5, 2014 6:59:21 GMT
OK.
I purged a bunch of stuff from the system.
Even with me purchasing an entire season of a TV show off of iTunes*, I still have 56.2 GB of memory left; if I'm careful about what I download from here on out and make sure to be vigilant in purging what I no longer want or need, then I should be fine for a while.
*The show went on hiatus during the season, at which point the network decided to move it from Thursdays to Sundays. I missed two episodes because of this as I didn't initially know about the date change, and have missed additional episodes since as Sunday evenings tend to be busy for me.
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Post by OziRiS on Mar 5, 2014 22:28:43 GMT
Get yourself a good cleaner program. CCleaner is free, popular and does a good job, … in endangering the stability of your system since it can't tell what you still actually need and what not. The idea of CCleaner is that it takes load from the Operating system by erasing the bulk. This is a very good idea on a 486DX2-66 running with 4 Mes of RAM where this bulk causes a tremendous system load but not on a multicore running with GHz with Gigabytes of RAM where this bulk won't matter anything. What's left is just the risk making your system more unstable but you don't have any significant gain! While I'm sure you know more about that than I do, what I physically experience with my computer is nothing like what you describe. I'm running Win 7 Home Premium on a 2.7 GHz dual core CPU, 6 GB of RAM and a 600 GB HDD. Since I initially installed everything on it, it just kept getting slower and slower and getting more and more unstable. Once I found, bought and ran AVG PC TuneUp, it's become significantly faster and I have fewer crashes, so as you can hear, what you're descibing doesn't fit my experience. |
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