Martin over at gHacks has a post on his “Weekly Computer Maintainence Schedule“.
He run 7 apps in series every week!!!
My computer is not there for me to maintain, it is for me to use! You know how many apps I have in my weekly maintainence schedule? Zero! Zilch!
The sad thing is , I wouldn’t have been apalled at these many apps being used a year ago, when I was on Windows XP.
A few thoughts popped into my head when I read that list.
- Right now I don’t think there is anything sane in most linux installs to stop some program from editing my bashrc or my KDE Autostart. Something needs to be done.
- A list of all cache files that I can safely delete would be nice. Afaik, it is ~/.kde/cache* and /tmp/ , but I guess there would be more.
- Thank god for ext. No defrag!
- If I was really that concerned about security , I would just use a encrypted partitions. I have seen them work and they are fast and seamless. Eraser would just clean out my deleted files. Makes more sense to run that just once – before throwing out the HDD.
(By the way, it is actually a pretty complete list. A normal user wouldn’t need stuff like myInstaller that much, but he would need to Update his antivirus/firewall and his XP install though. I guess that doesn’t count in broadband rich countries , but that is a major time consumer over here. )
