Lars S. Linnet

Are you also one of those that got 1 or 2 big 250+gb hard drives and cant seem to figure out where to place your files and what to do with them? well I just read a danish article about how to split up a single hard drive without actually changing its partitions.

Its quite simple actually, lets say you got the following folder structure on your big harddrive.

c:\documents
c:\games
c:\pictures
c:\movies
c:\programs


this looks kinda like a good structure, but we can do better by typing this command:

Subst w: c:\documents

in your command prompt (”start” -> “run” -> type “cmd” -> press enter).

now you have a “virtual” hard drive (w:\) which is mapped to c:\documents this means that every time you put some data in w:\ it actually ends up in c:\documents.
notice that this is not a real partition and is not a new hard drive in your computer just a folder mapped to look like it.

If you regret creating the virtual hard drive you can delete it by typing this in your command prompt:

Subst w: /d

notice this does not delete your data it simply removes the virtual mapping to the folder, so you can still find your documents in c:\documents.

note: I was unable to change the name of the virtual drive after creating the mapping, but it kept the old name of the original drive, even when i changed the name of the original drive. So changing the name before you create the virtual drive will allow you to give the drive a name in windows.
Update: When rebooting or returning from a hibernation the names of the virtual drive will reset to the current name of the original drive.

Had so much planned for this weekend, should have worked with the Cinema 4D program, should have created a new look for my new site theme, done a little work (taking every number in database A and the remove every number that was also in database B, sounds easy enough, but the catch is that the database A contains 4.9 millions and database B contains 4.1 millions.) and alot of other less important stuff.

I managed to complete the work part, and started a little on the new looks and feel of this page nothing too see yet just created a few ideas, but it will come forward along the week.

So now i’m off for work! See you around

I have been busy with work and other things and sport and cars and etc. well have actually been busy with work and thats about that , but anyway… I found a theme called sandbox the other day, as you can see it was not the design of it that impressed me but rather how it have “tagged” its html elements. Uses a better imo way of giving class & id attribute names than the original theme of wordpress making the progess of writing my own css for this theme so much easier.

I will work on the new looks & feels of this site this weekend, also got my hands in some nice 3d rendering program called cinema 4d, also looks forward at having a go on that while I am at it.

When you work with PHP, you will surely have worked with MySQL also. I really like the MySQL DBMS, it is easy to work with, any question you have you can find the answer in the manual. But ofcourse not everything is nice about it, when working with load intensive systems, You might need to improve the speed of your queries.

If you want to know how to do these things perhaps looking at this video can help you.

Or if you rather want to read some thing similar go to 10 tips for optimizing mysql queries or a critic of the previous article 10 Tips for Optimizing MySQL Queries (That don’t suck), I would advise you to read the later of them as it has some more usefull advise compared to the first one. But as always, I will let you be the judge of that.

Just yesterday my main harddrive in my stationary computer malfunctioned, so i lost around 300gb of date. and ofcourse everything of importance was on that drive. everything from personal document, cryptology keys for the netbank, music and the likes. I am currently looking into building some small raid system proberly 2×40-60gb ATA drives but if you got any advice on the matter please feel free to leave me a comment.