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May 15

Two different types of Yagi antennas?

On electronic manuals Yagi antennas are usually depicted as this one. Wiki states that also this type is Yagi. Are two different kind of Yagis or they're basically the same type?--Carnby (talk) 06:25, 15 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yagis consist of 3 basic components - the reflector, driven element and the director. Although the designs you show are quite different they have all 3 the components. According to our article the are 6 basic type. See Yagi-Uda_antenna#Design. 196.214.78.114 (talk) 09:31, 15 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Graphical disk usage analyser for Windows?

Yesterday at work, I and my boss found a problem that one of our test servers had completely filled up its disk. The server in question runs Windows 7. My boss was trying to find out large, rarely used folders to delete. He remarked that he wished there was an easy-to-use tool to see what are the largest folders on the disk. Baobab (the Disk Usage Analyser) on Linux immediately came to my mind, because I use it daily at home. But Linux is not Windows. Are there similar tools for Windows? JIP | Talk 18:47, 15 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

WinDirStat, FolderSize, SpaceSniffer (which I think all use treemaps) and Scanner (software), which uses a sunburst like Baobab. -- Finlay McWalterᚠTalk 19:10, 15 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have used WinDirStat for years and think it is quite a decent place to start. Vespine (talk) 04:13, 16 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I recommend WinDirStat too. I also use TreeSize. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 04:27, 16 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]