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- From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: System Administrator Nightmare
- Message-ID: <6TgBoB34w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 15:02:04 BST
- References: <MJD.92Jul21174753@saul.cis.upenn.edu>
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- Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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- mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu ("[*] Past Student of Joan Livingston") writes:
- > I just got mail from the amateur people who administer one of the
- > Linguistics Department machines. She's complaining that the root
- > filesystem is nearly full and wants to know if she can free up some
- > space by throwing away a big file. The big file she wants to throw away
- > is the disk image of the operating system.
-
- Yup... It really happens. "But that vmunix file was taking up so much space,
- and nobody knew what it was for..."
-
- One of the hazards of having a job involving computers is that my parents
- keep phoning me up with technical support questions. It's getting to the
- stage where I'm almost tempted to buy them a Mac just so I'll never hear from
- them again.
-
-
- mathew
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- Ceci | n'est pas une pipe.
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