Why isn't there Civilization for the Mac?

Huh?

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Also, [link]

I love FreeCiv.

In Vista, when you're in Windows Explorer (or whatever the file manager's called) can you make the directories and files display in different colors? You can in OS X, but not in XP. (In XP, you can change the image that a folder has in thumbnail view, but I don't use thumbnail view that much.)

Theo,

that is a lot of space: 180GB.

I would say that if you want to go absolute cheapest, you might want to get syncback SE (you can trial it for 30days) and get a dreamhost acct and back everything up there.

you may need webdrive if you want to backup through webdav.

I'm with Theo on the awesomeness of tommy's ass...and I'm hoping that someone has a thought about the best way to defrag my eMac.

I'm pretty weirded out by the fact that Techtool can't seem to manage it. (Could that be because I'm running it in Classic?)

My thoughts so far:
back up, clean off as much as possible
wipe the hard drive and reinstall everything?

Both of these seem daunting in the extreme, but I'm worried that if I don't do something, something worse will happen.

So far, no actual problems besides slowness and occasional hanging.

You really shouldn't need to defragment your drive. For the most part, OS X takes care of defragmentation automatically.

Tom, thanks! The Civ pages themselves don't say OS X at all.

A third-party publisher puts out the Mac versions.

Geeky, DIY programmable hardware thingies:

Software has become easier to customize in the past decade, but hardware, for the most part, remains closed: Apple's battle to keep people from hacking the iPhone is a case in point. Although most consumer electronics are collections of smaller devices--cell phones typically include cameras and voice recorders, for example--users can't swap out the devices or modify the way they work. Bug Labs, a startup based in New York City, is hoping to change that with its new device, the Bug, scheduled to start shipping late this year.

The Bug would allow users to design their own electronics and customize them however they want. CEO Peter Semmelhack explains that the foundation of the device is the Bugbase, a minicomputer running Linux that users can program. It has ports for up to four device modules, which snap in and out of place. Among the first modules the company expects to offer will be a GPS system, a camera, a motion sensor, and an LCD screen. But it also plans to offer new modules at a rate of about four per quarter, and it's encouraging other manufacturers to follow suit. "We think we're an enabler company," says Jeremy Toeman, who handles marketing for Bug Labs. He says that he sees the company serving as manufacturer and resource for many smaller companies that could grow up around it.

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Limor Fried, an engineer who operates Adafruit Industries, and who is involved in the open-source-hardware movement, says that the Linux computer running the Bug is the key to the device's beauty. "Your camera, your toaster, and your car have tightly integrated computers that you can't get into," she says. "[Bug Labs] is saying, let's put a real computer inside your camera or your PDA or your GPS. Because it's just like a laptop, it's really simple and easily understandable how you can get in there and modify it."

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You really shouldn't need to defragment your drive. For the most part, OS X takes care of defragmentation automatically.

That's what I thought until I got a look at the graphic showing what free space (hardly any) is available, and the sheer volume of fragmented files.

Then again, perhaps I'm putting too much importance on contiguous space?

Does having so many fragments and so little contiguous space NOT effect performance?

I was able to reorganize the directories...which started out in much the same shape and ended up neat and tidy.