STICKY POST
By Aenn Seidhe Priest.
Monday, 7. May 2007, 17:51:40
Administrative
Opera Community doesn't have file storage for groups, however individual members do get 300 MBs of storage space for files and photos.
As this group requires Opera Community membership, files posted by members could be hosted with their Opera Community accounts.
As a rule, it is better files are mirrored somewhere than linked directly. Sites sometimes go down, and freeware authors' pages can be volatile.
The main storage site for Operatingware is
http://operatingware.badongo.com.
By Aenn Seidhe Priest.
Saturday, 1. December 2007, 00:43:44
crash recovery, registry, Windows
Windows is very susceptible to registry hive corruption. That's anything in \%systemroot%\system32\config . That directory keeps all the registry hives, together with the SAM: SAM - account/password database, SECURITY - security permission/rights database,
default - HKU\Default, software - \HKLM\Software, system - HKLM\System. The same files with an *.alt extension are alternate copies used for the "last known good config" boot option. *.sav is the extension for first-install-run copies of registry hives.
The problem with this is that if the system hive gets corrupted somehow, the whole kaboodle can't boot. And usually when system hive gets corrupted (which is almost certain with, say, BSODs caused by faulty memory sticks), the spare copy also gets corrupted. So "last known good config" may not help much. The "last known good config" option just invokes a copy of the hives made before the last hardware change.
Sometimes the problem is just broken security permissions on registry files after a dirty shutdown. This can be fixed by moving the registry hives to a different partition, then moving them back in.
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By Aenn Seidhe Priest.
Saturday, 12. May 2007, 09:54:26
Opera
Opera 9.x tend to hog the CPU and memory at times; the cause for this is the "automatic memory cache size" ≤etting. When trimmed to 20 megabytes or so (or any other fixed setting) the CPU/memory hogging problem is fixed.
By Aenn Seidhe Priest.
Monday, 7. May 2007, 17:41:11
Filesystem, GUI, Hardlink, Windows
Hardlink Magic, the GUI utility for creating hardlinks under Windows NT 5.
Hard Link Magic 1.07.
In a modern filesystem, files are stored simply as indexed objects.
A file is a chunk of data on a filesystem.
A text filename is a reference to that chunk of data.
There can be more than one name reference to a file.
A hardlink is simply a second (third, etc.) reference to a file.
This allows referencing the same large files (ex. disk images, game container files, etc.) multiple times within the same partition (unlike Unix OS, NT 5.x hardlinking doesn't allow links across partitions and different physical drives). As an example, a disk image can be stored in one directory (\Images\Large-Linux-Distro.iso) and hardlinked to an FTP user's directory (\home\FTP\Anonymous\Large-Linux-Distro.iso) without actual copying of the same data across the same drive.
Hard Link Magic also allows multiple hardlinking, where a batch of files can be hardlinked into a different directory at a time.
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