Star The Windows Vista Interface
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 7th Oct 2006 22:42 UTC
Windows A lot has been said about the new user interface for Windows Vista. In this chapter from his latest book, Paul McFedries runs through the foundation, functions, and eye candy for Vista's latest UI.
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RE[4]: This is so sad...
by RenatoRam on Mon 9th Oct 2006 09:31 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: This is so sad..."
RenatoRam
Member since:
2005-11-14

That's simply swapping on disk called another way (and a feature you could replicate with probably a 3-4 line bash script).

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RE[5]: This is so sad...
by intangible on Mon 9th Oct 2006 17:51 in reply to "RE[4]: This is so sad..."
intangible Member since:
2005-07-06

dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/usbdrive/swapfile bs=1024 count=65536
mkswap /media/usbdrive/swapfile
swapon /media/usbdrive/swapfile

Done.

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RE[6]: This is so sad...
by MollyC on Tue 10th Oct 2006 05:41 in reply to "RE[5]: This is so sad..."
MollyC Member since:
2006-07-04

That's great.
Now do it in such a way that you won't wear out the USB flashdrive in short order. MS devised an algorithm that allows the USB flashdrive to be used as extra RAM without wearing it out for 10 years.

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RE[7]: This is so sad...
by intangible on Tue 10th Oct 2006 14:25 in reply to "RE[5]: This is so sad..."
intangible Member since:
2005-07-06

Any decent flash drive uses built-in "wear-leveling" algorithms. I'm sure I could hack up a loop mount command for you that does the same thing in software if you're too lazy to look up the info yourself.

Remember, other people can "innovate" too, not just Microsoft.

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