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of primitive art in the computer age itself

There was a time when a person who seemed to be absorbed, working at his typewriter, it really did was painstakingly draw a deer using only two keys: the x and o. This noble Art has survived to this day. If you do not know what I'm talking about, I recommend you read the article ASCII art in Wikipedia .

Have you already read the article?

(Reread the previous question until the answer is "YES".

Well, then, as is there, it's ASCII has serious applications, we must not ignore or forget.

During the race space, one of the problems faced by the NASA scientists was to find a pen to write in zero gravity, because this is necessary so that ink can flow from a common pen. After a decade of research, which cost more than eight million dollars, the engineers were ready a pen that writes in zero gravity not only but also in a wide range of temperatures, submerged or under extreme pressure. The Russians, meanwhile, have equipped their astronauts with a graphite pencil.

Beyond the simplicity of solutions that can provide us with ASCII art, ASCII art which gives us an excellent method for waste time making nice things . So if the paper birds and will not fill, or if you've built with sticks all the remarkable sights of the world, or do not have to use public transport daily, you might be a few hours of entertainment you do not know how to fill. You can try this. But if you reach the end you start converting to ASCII images your vacation photos or your entire collection of video movies, then look háztelo urgently!

If, however, these little things you think are cool but do not you want to kill to get something like this:

 
 ____ ____ ____ ___ ___ __ _____ 
 (_ \\ / __) / __) (_) ( ___)(_ _) / __ \\ 
 )___/( (__  \__ \ )(_)(  )__)  _)(_  /(__)\  
    (__)   \___)(___/(_____)(__)  (____)(__)(__) 
     ____  ____    ____  ____  ___  ____    __    
    (_  _)( ___)  (  _ \( ___)/ __)( ___)  /__\   
      )(   )__)    )(_) ))__) \__ \ )__)  /(__)\  
     (__) (____)  (____/(____)(___/(____)(__)(__) 
  ____  ____  __    ____  ____    ___   ___    ___  ___  
 ( ___)( ___)(  )  (_  _)(_   )  (__ \ / _ \  / _ \(__ ) 
  )__)  )__)  )(__  _)(_  / /_    / _/( (_) )( (_) )/ /  
 (__)  (____)(____)(____)(____) (____) \\ ___ / \\ ___/(_/ 
 

Then you can use one of the many ASCII editors you have at your disposal.

Another resource is the ASCII generator with which, via web, you can convert a few words, as in the example above. It's free, and has a large group of different sources you can use. If you want to see how the result would be with them all, without having to go testing at a time, chosen as the source called "_all fonts with your text_." Testing the effect of the other options. The handling is very simple. That yes, say goodbye to accents and the like (sigh).

Oh, and if all esto del arte ASCII es nuevo para ti, voy a darte dos malas noticias más:

• Una fuente de ancho variable destruirá tus obras de arte.
• Los saltos de línea inesperados destruirán tus obras de arte.

Dicho lo cual, si te atreves a probar...

                                                                       
 _ _  we only have two options: 
 
 Putting ourselves to clean the hard drive (virtual plan, I mean) 
 
 Larger storage capacities (ie, buy another hard drive) 
 

Personally, I'm poor as well as stingy I always opted for the former. But, of course, mess with the ocean of files and folders without more help than your fingers can be as bump into the Pacific without more help than your arms: trabajosillo

.

So we better before you begin these tasks, we got one of those essential programs
that tell us how we spent our disk space hard and help us clean

. I will recommend a couple of them. TreeSize Free

2. recommend this program for a simple reason of historical gratitude: for years this faithful friend I was helping in the cleaning of hard disks. You can get it here:
http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/

Eye! TreeSize Free is freeware
: not cost you a euro, but you should go spend declining his proposals to the professional version (fee), or spend it, of course. This is the main reason that once I decided to try WinDirStat .

WinDirStat

This is the program I use now. You can get it here:

http://windirstat.info

On that page (in English) find typical: a brief description of program features, the most important links, blah, blah, blah.

The program works well and the interface is very simple. It will give the possibility to tell which of the units in your computer you want to watch, or tell you look just a folder (and its descendants). Here's your report with files, folders, sizes, types, etc, etc. But the coolest thing is WinDirStat Treemap . In this view, which shows you the friend is a graphical representation of the case, each file as a drawing rectangles. The size of the rectangles indicates you

file size. The color of the rectangles indicates you

file type. And, of course, each folder is another rectangle formed by the rectangles corresponding to the files it contains. Thus, you can get

idea at a glance what you have on your hard drive

, ie can "see" .

If I get to tell the wonders of this view and its interaction with the "traditional", would not end. So only I recommend you try it for a while and you play with them. All an invention, I assure you.

The program has a good support, though in English (sigh). But if you care much about the language will give you good news: the program (its interface) is translated into several languages \u200b\u200band, of course, you can enjoy it in English. For installing the news is also excellent: no need. And finally, most importantly the price. WinDirStat is a open source program distributed under a GPL license. Again, for those who do not yet know what it means to roll this, the in Christian better than free.