It's amazing how quickly you can fill up a hard-drive, especially if you're a power-user. ISO's, Zip file's, and truckloads of family footage can bust the seems of any hard drive in an eye blink. I had run across a utility that helped visually identify where all the space was going and thanks to a recent post on Lifehacker, I've had a friendly reminder of where to find it.

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I passed. Even though I'm working toward my CCIE Routing and Switching, I knew this wouldn't be a chump test. There's only so much I can say about it under the NDA, but here's my results and the steps leading up to it.

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This may not be pervasive in your environment, but I've asked for this email from people and received it in the form of screen captures. I kid you not, ragged-looking, email-size-inflating screen captures that you stand no chance of using the "copy" functionality on. It's not really their fault; they likely asked someone how to get the information out of a command prompt once and that was the answer they were given. Take the time to educate them as to the proper way to harvest the information with the following steps.

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OK, after shrugging off the Vista-haters, I decided to wipe XP off my laptop and give it a try. There's a slight learning curve, but it's not unreasonable for your typical power-user. One of the issues I ran into, was authentication errors when attempting to map a drive to a Samba share. Every time I'd type in what I knew to be an accurate set of credentials, I'd get denied. Thankfully, there's a few ways around it.

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