All you Geeks! How organized do you keep your computer?

[e_BoY]

After each reformat i tend to keep them really tidy. Specific folders for all categories etc... then i get lazy and shit start going on the desktop but its still not to the point of messy. a happy medium actually

[charly]

my computer is really organized.
i can't work if it isn't. (ocd much?)

anyways, i have my hard drived partitioned [20/20/20/16]. windows/system stuff on C, mp3s, downloads, programs stuff (all in files, properly named and organized) on D, movies + full downloaded (and not yet listened too) albums on E and F i haven't touched yet.

my desktop is organized too. everything with it's own corner, my dock, my calendar..

yeah..

[ebbomega]

For the record, I'm about to completely reformat my operating system tonight hopefully... Currently downloading FC3 iso's.

For more on the record, when I get my reinstall back up, it's all going to be just as organized as it is now straight off the install. =p

[Euro Dollar]

Originally Posted by thebobman

Well? Is it strewn with lost files and random icons or neat and tidy?

do you really care?

[Euro Dollar]

Originally Posted by sNyx™

same, but I like to just name them normally..

D/Music
D/Movies
D/Shared
ect..

'hip' folder names is so first computer :p

Agreed.

[ebbomega]

Originally Posted by sNyx™

same, but I like to just name them normally..

D/Music
D/Movies
D/Shared
ect..

'hip' folder names is so first computer :p

Hein?

I didn't intend them to be "hip".

I intended them to be what I'd know when I saw them.

The misspellings and use of z is because of personal language reasons. There's a system to it.

[Euro Dollar]

Originally Posted by ebbomega

Hein?

I didn't intend them to be "hip".

I intended them to be what I'd know when I saw them.

The misspellings and use of z is because of personal language reasons. There's a system to it.

Da Ghetto SystemzZ!

[ebbomega]

Originally Posted by €uro Dollar

Da Ghetto SystemzZ!

Actually, the z is borrowed from cracker culture.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/W/warez.html

The thing that always irks me about ESR is that he never seems to admit that a hacker can be a cracker and vice-versa. The terms may be mutually exclusive (at least in my opinion) but the people aren't necessarily.

[Canar]

Originally Posted by ebbomega

The thing that always irks me about ESR is that he never seems to admit that a hacker can be a cracker and vice-versa. The terms may be mutually exclusive (at least in my opinion) but the people aren't necessarily.

Heh, first time I read through the jargon file, I still considered "hacker" and "cracker" to be equivalent. It still makes sense most of the time.

ESR's just an open-sores fanatic. It's got its ups and downs like anything else. Zealotry is the only real problem, and the open-source community needs to address that issue more than anything else.

[thebobman]

I just finished up some much over do cleaning:

10GB OS & Programs Partition
100GB File Storage Partition
-Movies
-TV Shows
-Applications
-Game Installs
-Current Downloads
-Large Documents Folder
-Website Backups
80GB Music Drive
-Randomness, I archive my MP3s to DVDRs when they loose novelty

[djmarkpaul]

I got my shit down to such a science it feels like I'm opening a port to the MI6 each time I log in.

File partition for my warez is all individually segregated to audio apps, system apps, net tweaks and protocol clients, game images and so on, all with individual folders and unarchived for the smaller programs.

Sounds are seperated by sample, unsorted downloaded tunes, and then by folders of full albums and fav artists, audio books, lectures, etc. My pics and written documents are retardedly well organized. Movies and series again ready to become a server if I really wanted to.

Don't even get me started on my other partitions or I could be here for a while.

Plus I am themed up on the alienware skin and got some bitchin docks to boot (clock and mac taskbar, thank you objectdock), using GANT icons.

My puter and I get along swell, thank god I have a girlfriend.

[ebbomega]

Originally Posted by Canar

Heh, first time I read through the jargon file, I still considered "hacker" and "cracker" to be equivalent. It still makes sense most of the time.

ESR's just an open-sores fanatic. It's got its ups and downs like anything else. Zealotry is the only real problem, and the open-source community needs to address that issue more than anything else.

Hein. They did. They said fuck it all. Zealotry is really unimportant, except for the fact that it's bad advertising. But the only people that really care about that are the companies making money off the stuff, and ironically enough the zealots themselves.

Sadly, more often than not, if I list what I think the advantages are of linux over Windows, everybody automatically thinks I'm a zealot. Especially the Windows zealots. It's not that I'm a zealot. I honestly have reasons that I prefer linux over Windows. And I figure why bother with something that's just going to piss me off in the end?

All zealots are are people living in their parents' basements with nothing to do but start holy wars. Most people serious about software and software development don't let it get in their way.

And here's a hint.... Zealots exist on every bloody side of the coin. Windows zealots can be every bit as stubborn and annoying as Linux/Mac/whatever zealots. I use Linux because it does everything I want it to, and does it more efficiently than Windows does.

Yeah. Zealotry doesn't need to be addressed at all. It's the fact that it is addressed that the problem is. Zealotry wouldn't be such a problem if people just fucking ignored it already.

[bebu*funfun]

=( my C drive is 96% full right now and i dont know whats taking up all the room. i wanna cry... i can't even do my hw at home now. seriously..i need a comp geek over to fix this shit asap.

on top of that.. i dont know shit all and i tried to delete stuff the other day. and now...i officially dont even have words. im so gonna cry soon.

[Mr.Wrong]

my computers gone to shit.

Originally Posted by decypher

My computer is about as organized as my house. Clothes on the floor, Easter candy from 4 years ago in the cupbard.

I used to spend hours programming, using nix, organizing, reading txt files when i was in grade 6-9.

Then i started smoking weed and i just ended up playing quake all the time and saying "U GOT PWNEZ U MOTHER FUCKIN CHEATSZOR!"

hahhaha
too bad i cant give ya no karma kam

[Mr.Wrong]

Originally Posted by bebu*funfun

=( my C drive is 96% full right now and i dont know whats taking up all the room. i wanna cry... i can't even do my hw at home now. seriously..i need a comp geek over to fix this shit asap.

on top of that.. i dont know shit all and i tried to delete stuff the other day. and now...i officially dont even have words. im so gonna cry soon.

yea my C is full too/ all my music
i burn some data cds and free it up to one and a half gigs and its down to 300mb the next day
im driving myself crazy
i filled up my D to make room on my C for more music

[bebu*funfun]

^^it doesn't make snese for mine cuz all my school work, music, pics are in my D drive. dlo told me a virus might be gobbling up memory in my C drive? i duno. this really sucks.. its all programs..and i swaer they dont take up THATTTT much room.

ps. i want words back. anyone able to help me out?....words is kinda important.

[Magi]

At this point in time it's about as organized as a stack of hay. I would like to keep it all neat and tidy though...

[apri_peel]

from the first glance, very organized, once you get into a couple folders, it gets uber messy, but those are irrelevant folders, prolly why i have 3gb of space left, total :|

cant wait till my new hdd arrives

[ebbomega]

There's a reason I keep my stuff stupidly organized.... Mainly, multitasking. I like, when using my computer, to be able to do multiple things.... For this reason I really like Firefox. It combined with a 19" Flatscreen leads to a rather superb commanding use of edge-space.

Check out my screenshot here

This is just one of my 4 Virtual Desktops I have kicking around. Mainly, the browsing/working space one (#4). Observe the following tools at my disposal:
- Google search tab on the top right. Pull down menu I haven't been able to master yet... I wanted to get the IMDB plugin for it, but so far the only option I have been able to pull up that I use other than Google has been dictionary.com
- Bookmarks organized into happy little compartments. Shiny Objects (there's a lot in there), Education (mainly links to MIT's OpenCourseWare), Linux Stuffs (apt-rpm repositories, a couple programs I like to keep my eye on, ie WINE, Firefox, Fedora Core in general), Torrentz (Torrent sites), Forums (Anywhere I regularily post at), blogs (mainly news sites, a couple personal ones), Wikis (Databases and lookup devices... mainly used for reference) and Accounts (g-mail, telus mail, paypal, etc.)
- Tabbed browsing. Allows to look up many things, in case someone MSN's you or ICQ's you or whatever.... send you a new link? Open up a new tab, throw it in there.... huzzah!
- Move down to the bottom, first you'll find a (closeable) search bar. So much nicer than the annoying popup in the middle of the screen that seems to manage to block whatever the fuck it is you're looking fore.
- On the bottom right of firefox, I got a plugin that can remotely run Rhythmbox functions. Also tells me what's playing. Don't need to hop back to the media window (Virtual Desktop #3) in order to find out what's playing, how long left to it, etc. Also has volume control (further volume control on menu bar)

The rest I have configured pretty similar to Windows except that I've replaced the systray with applets. Launchers on the left (in order): GNOME menu (the footprint... same as a start menu), Lock screen/launch screensaver, GnomeICU, GAIM, Gedit (tabbed notepad), Evolution (haven't touched pop3 mail quite yet on Fedora Core 3.... Gmail is just so... pretty....), Firefox, Rhythmbox (MP3 Player, like iTunes), commandline screen.... next is taskbar. After taskbar, Volume control, switch-to applet, commandline tool (run commandline programs from that long white box in the bottom right), Virtual Desktop switcher, and finally date/time (24-hour format, ntp synchronized).

Like I said. Stupidly organized. Takes a while to learn all the different tricks I'm working from, but seriously, I'm able to make it so that I can do all kinds of different things (usually along the lines of media sharing) while wasting away time on FNK.

[apri_peel]

i just realized, my computer is a lot more organized than my room will ever be :D

[Canar]

Originally Posted by ebbomega

Hein. They did. They said fuck it all. Zealotry is really unimportant, except for the fact that it's bad advertising. But the only people that really care about that are the companies making money off the stuff, and ironically enough the zealots themselves.

Sadly, more often than not, if I list what I think the advantages are of linux over Windows, everybody automatically thinks I'm a zealot. Especially the Windows zealots. It's not that I'm a zealot. I honestly have reasons that I prefer linux over Windows. And I figure why bother with something that's just going to piss me off in the end?

All zealots are are people living in their parents' basements with nothing to do but start holy wars. Most people serious about software and software development don't let it get in their way.

And here's a hint.... Zealots exist on every bloody side of the coin. Windows zealots can be every bit as stubborn and annoying as Linux/Mac/whatever zealots. I use Linux because it does everything I want it to, and does it more efficiently than Windows does.

Yeah. Zealotry doesn't need to be addressed at all. It's the fact that it is addressed that the problem is. Zealotry wouldn't be such a problem if people just fucking ignored it already.

Wow. I didn't expect this much of a response from a little one-off comment. Very thorough and accurate response, ebbomega :).

I suppose it was more in response to my own personal dislike of zealotry. If there was some way to wave a magic wand and have them disappear, the open source community would be much nicer, IMO. That's what I meant by address: see if there's some easy way to be rid of them all. There are some good steps forward as of late. KDE and GNOME are working together now, varying versions of vi have various levels of feature-completeness approaching some of that of EMACS, and so on.

The problem with Linux users tends to be that they think that their solution is superior to Windows without even a second's doubt. Often they refuse to acknowledge that there are areas in which the Win32 platform is superior. Everything has its pros and cons. Probably the best way to get around being labelled as a zealot is to present one or two things you'd improve about your configuration if you could.

Yeah, zealots exist everywhere in the software world, and they exist all over elsewhere too. Analog/digital zealots in electronic music production. Ford/chevy/dodge zealots, etc. If they'd all just realize that their object of lust has flaws, the world would be a much happier place.

[thebobman]

dammit.... I miss my 21".... oh well... dual head (17" 15") does it for me for now......

[Max Lazarus]

I turn the desktop icons off so I don't notice the mess.

[FlorpIncarnate]

Originally Posted by decypher

My computer is about as organized as my house. Clothes on the floor, Easter candy from 4 years ago in the cupbard.

I used to spend hours programming, using nix, organizing, reading txt files when i was in grade 6-9.

Then i started smoking weed and i just ended up playing quake all the time and saying "U GOT PWNEZ U MOTHER FUCKIN CHEATSZOR!"

Gold!!!!

I can totally relate!

[lildonkey]

my desktop is pretty clean... but lately i've had a whack of spyware and files running in the backround.. but i can't close them because they are listed as system files.... and when i try to search for them it wont show up...

and i've tried so many different spyware sweeping software to no avail :(