Comments on: How do you solve a problem like… http://trusttommy.com/2010/03/09/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like/ @tommycollison • tommy@collison.ie Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:34:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Théo http://trusttommy.com/2010/03/09/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like/comment-page-1/#comment-23432 Théo Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:32:52 +0000 http://trusttommy.com/?p=2894#comment-23432 Did I read something about Apple Crashing? Linux almost never crashes on me! Did I read something about Apple Crashing? Linux almost never crashes on me!

]]> By: den15 http://trusttommy.com/2010/03/09/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like/comment-page-1/#comment-23418 den15 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:11:16 +0000 http://trusttommy.com/?p=2894#comment-23418 TheChrisD, Tommy, bigger drives are obviously a fix, but they can hide problems. Recently I had a problem whereby my drive was filling up at a rate of 1GB per day approx. After buying a new drive to archive off stuff, someone helped me to find the real problem which was connected with a system log filling up. That in turn was caused by a process trying to initiate, failing, logging the failure and starting over again (probably half a millisecond later). If I had a 300GB drive connected, I wouldn't have found out till much later what the real problem was and meantime, my processor speed was probably affected. There's an old saying the "work expands to fill the time available" and various corollaries of that. Yes drives fill up, but it is really worth while finding out what's causing it. TheChrisD, Tommy, bigger drives are obviously a fix, but they can hide problems. Recently I had a problem whereby my drive was filling up at a rate of 1GB per day approx. After buying a new drive to archive off stuff, someone helped me to find the real problem which was connected with a system log filling up. That in turn was caused by a process trying to initiate, failing, logging the failure and starting over again (probably half a millisecond later). If I had a 300GB drive connected, I wouldn’t have found out till much later what the real problem was and meantime, my processor speed was probably affected. There’s an old saying the “work expands to fill the time available” and various corollaries of that. Yes drives fill up, but it is really worth while finding out what’s causing it.

]]> By: TheChrisD http://trusttommy.com/2010/03/09/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like/comment-page-1/#comment-23341 TheChrisD Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:31:17 +0000 http://trusttommy.com/?p=2894#comment-23341 This is the thing with laptop hard drives - you never know when you're going to run out and need to start deleting stuff. I used to run a 60GB drive on my machine which was almost constantly filled up, so I ended up starting fresh on a new 320GB drive I bought, coinciding it with installing the Windows 7 RC which required a clean install anyway. Now though I just run everything on my desktop, which is thankfully expandable. 2 x 750GB drives, and now 2 more 1.5TB drives as well. Yum yum free space :P This is the thing with laptop hard drives – you never know when you’re going to run out and need to start deleting stuff. I used to run a 60GB drive on my machine which was almost constantly filled up, so I ended up starting fresh on a new 320GB drive I bought, coinciding it with installing the Windows 7 RC which required a clean install anyway.

Now though I just run everything on my desktop, which is thankfully expandable. 2 x 750GB drives, and now 2 more 1.5TB drives as well. Yum yum free space :P

]]> By: den15 http://trusttommy.com/2010/03/09/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like/comment-page-1/#comment-23333 den15 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:52:35 +0000 http://trusttommy.com/?p=2894#comment-23333 T, if you could successfully help people to stop their computers continually filling up with crap... there's a fortune to be made! T, if you could successfully help people to stop their computers continually filling up with crap… there’s a fortune to be made!

]]> By: lette http://trusttommy.com/2010/03/09/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like/comment-page-1/#comment-23331 lette Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:10:34 +0000 http://trusttommy.com/?p=2894#comment-23331 rule of thumb from experience, at least 3 external harddrives, you need one to back up your computer, and one to back up that, and another to back up that one! and even that can go wrong! I love technology but never trust it, its built to let you down when you least expect it! and yeah, if its on a harddrive it doesnt need to be on your comp, the comp should only be used for producing work, the all that work should be carefully named, archived and put on a harddrive for safe keeping, but you should always have at least 2 copies backed up on to 2 different hard drives, should your lappy and one of your HD's dies! do I take my own advice, only recently when I lost some important stuff that I can never get back or redo! :/ but I learned! ;p rule of thumb from experience, at least 3 external harddrives, you need one to back up your computer, and one to back up that, and another to back up that one! and even that can go wrong! I love technology but never trust it, its built to let you down when you least expect it! and yeah, if its on a harddrive it doesnt need to be on your comp, the comp should only be used for producing work, the all that work should be carefully named, archived and put on a harddrive for safe keeping, but you should always have at least 2 copies backed up on to 2 different hard drives, should your lappy and one of your HD’s dies!

do I take my own advice, only recently when I lost some important stuff that I can never get back or redo! :/ but I learned! ;p

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