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[old_intuition]

When a computer dies it is a sad a day

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[foreversucks]

I discovered this weekend that there's only about 2gb of free space left on this computer. I cried a little bit.

[old_intuition]

Yeah before the Dell crashed it had approximately 300 mb of hard drive space left. There was also nothing I was willing to delete either. So its kind of good to have a new computer now.

[sailoralison]

deleting things doesn't actually free up space!!!! it's one thing I learned in IT so far. also I am jealous of the fastness of that computer and I wish mine would stop turning off spontaneously.

[old_intuition]

Truth. I remember reading that in a book... which was not about computers. Also why are you taking an IT class? What do you learn in such a class?

[sailoralison]

It's a requirement for the science program here. In class we learn parts of the computer, some history, stuff about programs and applications, etc, and in lab we work with the different parts of office 2007, word, power point, excel, access, etc. now you know everything.

[old_intuition]

Oh ok. So its semi useful. I was thinking that it was also part a programming class, which I don't even have to take even though you really should know how to program for physics.

[foreversucks]

what the balls? how the hell do I free up space then?

[sailoralison]

what happens is when you delete something, it still occupies that space until it's replaced, so it's never actually empty. if you want more space, you need to get a bigger harddrive or whatever. there is no winning. however, you can defrag which may speed things up a tiny bit.