Computers are frustrating devices. Sometimes they work; sometimes, they don’t. Sometimes, it rains. Think about that for a minute.
Sorry, lost my train of thought. Anyway, I’ve been having problems with my laptop at work, based on the fact that it was hand-me-down when I got it, and that was in late 2002. So this is probably a 5-year-old machine, and the performance lags a bit, although a memory upgrade I got early on helps.
I realized the other day that the disk is probably fragmented; what this means is that files and free space are broken up wildly and spread all over the disk. This does bad things for performance, because the computer has to search all over the place to find things. So I figured I’d run a defrag. I opened up the tool and ran an analysis. So you can figure out what’s happening, here’s the legend:
And here’s the pre-defrag analysis:
Basically, all the parts that are red are defragged, and all the parts that are blue are fine. Ideally everything is blue (and green). So I fired up the defragger, which chugged along for the better part of an hour (making the laptop pretty much useless in the process), and when it finished, here’s how the analysis looked:
I think I’m going to be running this for days.
Still no baby news, although Sarah got some good news about her job yesterday; one of her favorite people is coming back to work her project, and it looks like she might get a really nice payraise. Also, my old Brigadoon buddy Dave Munch came through in a big way and gave her a signed photo of Scott Bakula, so it’s actually a wonder she didn’t go into labor right there. She’s due on Sunday, so I think it’s safe to say that sometime in the next 2 weeks we shall have us an infant. AWESOME.
