[Mauro]

Don’t hate me, but as the problem has just resurfaced and blocking one of the biggest countries on Earth is not a real solution (not to say that spammer usually use IP masquerading, so maybe they were not even from India), I still feel the need to point at your antispam filters and settings.

In short:

1. Captchas that block just the registration process are nearly useless, as registration itself is a process that can be easy handled by a human being. One registration is cheap on the human side, and then you launch a network of bots to do what a human can’t do: post hundreds or thousands of messages at one. If you want to Captcha, do it when submitting a new post.
2. I took some of the messages posted today on the forum (I didn’t think to do it the previous time) and checked them with various spam filters: they are all recognised as spam. I don’t have an Akismet at hand to test and I didn’t use bbpress back in time, but if you had everything setup correctly everyone of those messages would have been passed through Akismet, recognised as spam, put into spam folder, and never ever have a chance to appear on the forum.

 

Again, don’t hate me. I’m just trying to be useful, I like the site 🙂

[Mauro]

Thanks for the answer 🙂

They are both quite small (I want a 11.5 inch at least), and as you say that they are old maybe I’ll wait to see if something interesting come out in the next months. And I read you are reviewing the Teclast Tbook 16 Pro, so I’ll wait for that review too.

Thx again!

[Mauro]

Chris, have you got Akismet enabled and paired with BBPress?

I once had a wp site myself and found that Akismet can manage this kind of spam messages quite efficiently; as it can be paired with BBPress, it should solve your problems in just a couple of click.

[Mauro]

Hi Shaun,

nice suggestion, but it’s just half of the big picture.

The command you posted AFAIK compact just the OS files, but since ages Windows allows to compact the entire disk: to do so just right click on the disk icon, mark the first check at the bottom and press Apply. You will be asked if you want to do it only on current folder or all subfolders and files, pick the second option and press OK. It will sooner complain about files in use, choose “ignore all” and let it go.

Your command can then be run just after this to gain a couple other gigabytes on Windows 10.

 

Small note about performances: this actually make the system run slightly faster, although should be a little hit on batteries.

This because during disk access your disk (even if an SSD) will be the real bottleneck while the CPU will be mostly idle, and:

1. Data compression is asymmetrical: compressing requires lot of elaboration, decompressing instead is a lightweight task
2. The disk compression applied by the Windows is really simple, so the CPU power required to decompress on the flight it’s even lower than decompressing a ZIP or RAR file
3. Any current CPU has plenty of power to use, and in a multicore CPU this mean that a core can decompress data and fetch the other cores. As many applications usually run on just one core, compressing disks allow to actually use the other cores and parallelize things a bit
4. When the disk is compressed it has to read and move around less data, so even the transfer rate of the disk virtually improves

 

So, back in the days and with hard drives, we used disk compression everywhere to noticeably increase performances of our systems. With SSD it’s less interesting, but still nice to do to gain back space knowing that it will not hog the system.

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