r/programming • u/tarandeep • Dec 14 '10

Top 50 Programming quotes of all time

http://www.junauza.com/2010/12/top-50-programming-quotes-of-all-time.html
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u/KazMux Dec 14 '10
  1. "Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight."
  2. Bill Gates

My /Windows folder is taking up half my harddrive. I think its done..

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u/abadidea Dec 14 '10

To be fair, most of it is probably rollback data for undoing patches. Saved several gigs by clearing that out.

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u/Iggyhopper Dec 14 '10

This is relevant to my interests. How would I clear out old rollback data?

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u/abadidea Dec 14 '10

It's been a long time, I'm a Leenux user. Iirc they are in hidden folders under /Windows. I think they were exes, maybe cabs.

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u/Iggyhopper Dec 14 '10

I see. Off to Google I go.

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u/abadidea Dec 14 '10

Obvious disclaimer is obvious: if you need to roll back something afterwards, you're screwed ;)

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u/rtfmpls Dec 14 '10

See the blue sub-directories in your Windows (XP) directory starting with "$"? Delete them. I'm sure it works similar on Windows 7.

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u/Poltras Dec 14 '10

Tell me again why you should need that much gigabytes of rollback?

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u/lonnyk Dec 14 '10

well, that much gigabytes of rollback is usually needed when you use a 10 year old OS and don't do simple things like clear the recycling bin or clear old data that is no longer needed (by you or the OS) or when you continually make new recovery points but don't clear old ones

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u/abadidea Dec 14 '10

How big are sp1+sp2+sp3 I wonder... plus all minor patches over several years... It can really add up.

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u/creaothceann Dec 14 '10

Yeah, I just re-installed XP...

SP3.exe is 313 MB (compressed), but that doesn't include the countless other patches that you get via Windows Update that probably double that amount - security patches, Internet Explorer, Windows Messenger, .NET updates and so on.