At Vanderbilt I work almost exclusively from my own Dell Inspiron E1705 labtop. I started using my own laptop so that I could sit in a room with windows and because being a Grad Student I often had to take work home. However, my laptop is getting dated and it is running out of hard drive space because of all the production programs I have installed (e.g., Visual Studio, QT, Adobe CS4, Mircosoft Office, RUNAWAY – The dream of the turtle).
Out of Space? Yes, yes I am…
One day I wanted to see where all my space was being used and I found this great open source program: WinDirStat. Below is a shapshot of my hard drive usage with WinDirStat. I’ve also used it on our home PC to find everywhere we had backup our pictures using this color coding for files types (way cool). The User directory is large because I have over 4GB of Vanderbilt papers, projects, with 2GB for my Ph.D. Thesis directory. Well it looks like the problem is that I just need a bigger hard drive or a new laptop 
. However, it will have to wait until after I start my post-Ph.D. job.
Snapshot of my hard drive usage with WinDirStat
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