On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 11:05:57PM -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >[snip] > >> >> > Isn't the change from downloading to installing info enough? >> >> Some people won't notice that. A larger issue is if you go away and make >> some tea. I for one don't stare at setup.exe while it downloads >> eighty-six megabytes of information on a 33.6K modem. (I do sit and watch >> defrag for hours on end though, but that's just me) >> > >Oh, it ain't just you man, it ain't just you! Sometimes I even play a little >game: I try to guess which cluster will be moved next, and where it will be >moved to. If I get both right, I win! YAY!!!!! It's like watching hundreds of >chess games all at once at 1000x real-time. Sublime.
Wow, is this off-topic or what? However, I can't tell you what a relief it is to hear that I'm not the only person who does this. I've tried to get my wife to appreciate the beauty of a defrag screen but she never does. And, so, I sit for lonely hours watching the flashing rectangles while a slow drip of drool escapes from the side of my mouth. I admit that sometimes I purposely make random copies of my directories and delete them, just to purposely defragment the disk so I can watch the visual display again. I've been doing this since the early MS-DOS defragmenters. Do you suppose there's a support group for this somewhere? cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
