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Plasma Active Three releasedPlasma Active Three releasedPosted Oct 17, 2012 15:54 UTC (Wed) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185)In reply to: Plasma Active Three released by flack Parent article: Plasma Active Three released
That's because, not for you, but often, filling the desktop with thousands of files is often a sign of not understanding hierarchical file systems. Another sign is the Documents directory with tens of thousands of files, often numbered.
Maybe yet another sign is the manual for my very first PC (Spring Circle Super Turbo XT with _eight_ Mhz!). I kept the manuals because they are so cute: they explain file systems the unix way, including the /dev /bin/ /usr /tmp etc. division. It had nothing to do with the way MS-DOS worked, except, as Viro said earlier, that it showed where the dos file system was a copy from, without the manual writer showing any understanding what directories were for.
Way back, 27 years ago I took /bin to be the location for deleted files, and moved everything I didn't need there.
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Plasma Active Three released Posted Oct 17, 2012 15:56 UTC (Wed) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link] Way back, 27 years ago I took /bin to be the location for deleted files, and moved everything I didn't need there. And I always thought people doing that was an urban legend! :)
Plasma Active Three released Posted Oct 17, 2012 16:23 UTC (Wed) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link]
Worse, those directories didn't exist after formatting a floppy disk, so I painstakingly created the directories the manual advised on every data disk I created.
Plasma Active Three released Posted Oct 17, 2012 16:36 UTC (Wed) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link] I will do you a favor and add a bit of context to that story.
Plasma Active Three released Posted Oct 17, 2012 18:42 UTC (Wed) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link]
I should update that list :-)
Plasma Active Three released Posted Oct 17, 2012 20:07 UTC (Wed) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]
Pwned!
Who is asked to write the manual: The one who understands how things
Plasma Active Three released Posted Oct 17, 2012 22:56 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
And if it comes from the Far East: who translates the manual? How much is she paid? Is it more than the people who clean the floors? (Probably not.)
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