I have a 100MB quota on my shell account at Panix, for mail, $HOME, and web combined. At first that seemed like a lot because I was used to staying under a 20MB quota at Radix, but first I used up a chunk of space installing CRM114 and the spam filter that comes with it (the two files it updates as it learns what is and isn't spam are about 12MB each), then a copy of my old home directory is stored there temporarily until I'm sure I've moved all the parts of it I really need into the right places and properly archived (or finally gotten around to doing something long-procrastinated with) the rest, and things started adding up. With one thing and another, I'm running between 85MB and 94MB, depending on how long it's been since I archived/compressed/downloaded mailing-list messages (and how long since I've gone through the probably-spam folder looking for mistakes to train the spamfilter with, and cleared it out). So one really huge email can push me over the automatic "close to your quota" warning, and a couple in a row can, on some days, put me over quota.
Some of this space will be freed once I feel completely "settled in" here. Some of it will be freed once I get around to replacing the Radix and Panix copies of my web site with pages containing redirects to the same pages on www.dglenn.org. Some of it will be freed when I get around to dealing with some largeish email I've been putting off dealing with. And then it will feel like I've got all the space in the world, until the next time I get waaaaay behind or the next time I have a project that needs a lot of room.
I'm actually hurting for space at home as well -- /home on my file server (which is NFS-mounted to /home on the other Linux machines, and is mapped as a network drive on the Windows boxes and the Macs as well) is 99% full, and /shared (various stuff like source code for downloaded apps, temporary health-of-the-system reports generated by cron, binaries I want to run from multiple machines, etc.) is filling up as well. The whole file server is on a 40GB disk ... which is to say, it's the same size as the hand-me-down iPod I carry in my purse. I think it's time to go buy a bigger disk, but I haven't quite managed to have enough money left after paying bills in any of the months since I decided that. (Actually, the first thing 'spare' cash is going to is a new headlight; the second is either new slippers (mine are literally falling off my feet, and my house isn't really a barefoot kind of place); after that comes a bigger drive for the file server.
In the meantime I've been tempted to back up the file server to the iPod ... (I should also get around to bounce the oldest of my archived email off to CD. Archived email adds up.)
As I recall, on a certain mailing list someone observed that he could now fit more memory up his nose than the first mainframe he programmed could even address. Apparently this was both a) true, and b) worded so as to find out how many friends could be goaded into sticking USB thumbdrives up their noses. I only carry 260MB in a nose-compatible form factor, and even that doesn't really fit very well (it's a pair of Memory Sticks, and they're just a little too wide to want to stretch a nostril around).
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Some of this space will be freed once I feel completely "settled in" here. Some of it will be freed once I get around to replacing the Radix and Panix copies of my web site with pages containing redirects to the same pages on www.dglenn.org. Some of it will be freed when I get around to dealing with some largeish email I've been putting off dealing with. And then it will feel like I've got all the space in the world, until the next time I get waaaaay behind or the next time I have a project that needs a lot of room.
I'm actually hurting for space at home as well -- /home on my file server (which is NFS-mounted to /home on the other Linux machines, and is mapped as a network drive on the Windows boxes and the Macs as well) is 99% full, and /shared (various stuff like source code for downloaded apps, temporary health-of-the-system reports generated by cron, binaries I want to run from multiple machines, etc.) is filling up as well. The whole file server is on a 40GB disk ... which is to say, it's the same size as the hand-me-down iPod I carry in my purse. I think it's time to go buy a bigger disk, but I haven't quite managed to have enough money left after paying bills in any of the months since I decided that. (Actually, the first thing 'spare' cash is going to is a new headlight; the second is either new slippers (mine are literally falling off my feet, and my house isn't really a barefoot kind of place); after that comes a bigger drive for the file server.
In the meantime I've been tempted to back up the file server to the iPod ... (I should also get around to bounce the oldest of my archived email off to CD. Archived email adds up.)
As I recall, on a certain mailing list someone observed that he could now fit more memory up his nose than the first mainframe he programmed could even address. Apparently this was both a) true, and b) worded so as to find out how many friends could be goaded into sticking USB thumbdrives up their noses. I only carry 260MB in a nose-compatible form factor, and even that doesn't really fit very well (it's a pair of Memory Sticks, and they're just a little too wide to want to stretch a nostril around).