Saturday, 30 April 2011

LocalMLS folder full of crap how to delete the jpg files

Recently I was wondering why I have almost no free space left on my Windows 7 system drive... I tried to free as much space as I could and then run the Auslogics Diskdefragmenter and what took my interest was there were thousands of jpg files in some kind of LocalMLS folder...

The path was:

C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Media Player\Art Cache\LocalMLS

(in Czech version the Art Cache is called Mezipaměť grafiky, so there is a high chance that in different language versions of the Windows this folder is translated in the language of your Windows).

Well I had there more than 100 thousand of files totally consuming more than 3GB... what is rather strange though is a fact, that I am actually not using Windows Media Player at all, so why the hell does Windows create this kind of database of album covers?

So I deleted all the jpg files and I have free space again...

P. S. Apparently there is another location of the same:
C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Player\Art Cache\LocalMLS


But here it was only couple of megabytes


UPDATE!!! So the interesting thing is that Windows 7 is making these files again and again and again... Sooo the trick is to disable this. I found this as a solution, have to check first if this really works. 


http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to-disable-windows-7-media-player-network-sharing-service-wmpnetwk/

Friday, 29 April 2011

The Royal Bedding

Funny fact: in Czech language is nobility "šlechta" and breeding is "šlechtění"; it has same language root.

So with the fact that princ Charles is so ugly that they made fun of him even in the Simpsons series, we can tell that the last two roayal weddings of british nobility were in a fact nice examples of breeding. Thanks to Diana William is quite nice chap and with Kate, gosh, their kids could bear even Miss Universe title, I think for sure!

Would be interesting if after this their kids would have to marry only one of their kind, that is of nobility, again. Because what it is that makes you to be a member of a nobility? Just one thing. To be born in one.

Monday, 18 April 2011

Pope warned about technologies...

Toady I read, that the Pope warned the world about technologies that they cannot be there for you instead of the God...

Well really dont know how exactly he was thinking that, but maybe he is afraid, that in 100 years we will just upload ourselves on the cloud (you see there those metaphores of Cloud No. 9, right) and live for eternity... well something that was in the best anime ever Ghost in the Shell, or even little bit in the book Neuromancer.

Monday, 11 April 2011

Pre-linguistic experience

I am now reading a comparative book about Wittgenstein, Husserl and Heidegger and the main topic is language.

The author was at one page thinking, whether animals or very small children who are not able to speak yet are perceiving the world in the same way as we do. And that it is quite impossible (apart from watching your brain via MRI) to get what infants or animals thinks, simply because they do not speak.

Which made me to think about he "first memories" and how nobody is remembering anything from the first years of their life... so my idea was, whether it is simply because when you have no language, which makes it possible to think, then you cannot "create" any memories in your brain? So the first pre-linguistic years of your life are simply reflexes - I am hungry, I want to go to toilet, etc. and only thing you can do is screaming about it, because you caanot tell: "I am fucking hungry, want to eat!"... and when you start to speak, then you create your first long term memories, which are much advanced?

I am wondering if neuro science will be someday that advanced that it would be possible to answer such questions, like how are infants thinking without language etc. And if it is the lack of language which prevents human beings to have memories from their infancy.

Wednesday, 6 April 2011

Responses for commercial and telemarketing telephones

Do you have our great card which gives you great discounts in our great shop?
Oh my God, I am soooo happy I got rid of your card recently!!! It was such horrible card I never want it back again in my whole life!

What would you say, that right now, when I am calling you, I am giving you 50 % discount for our ware?
Well, you should go to your boss and tell him, that because I am old and have no money at all, that instead of to me, your boss should give this wonderful discount to you. Enjoy the discount and thank you.

Have you ever wondered to buy things on which you have no money at all? We can lend you money!
Thank you for your offer, but I am such kind of a person, that I would rather die of hunger than to borrow money from anyone. You know, we are Chinese, and we look at borrowing money with disrespect.