Re: disk usage on dwelling

Ryan Shelswell (ryan@nospam.socs.uts.edu.au)
Tue, 12 Sep 1995 11:48:49 +1000 (EST)

On Tue, 12 Sep 1995, Scott Hopwood wrote:

> Why don't you create a stocastic process that when things start getting
> full, randomly selects a user (with a bias toward those using more space)
> and dumps their account to tape.
[...]
> (Actually, why not get all the brains of progsoc together and develop
> the *sillest* way of keeping disk usage down - you never know, from the
> strangest places a good idea may come - and the combined might of
> progsocs brain is a very silly place indeed.)

Now THAT is the best idea to come out of progsoc for a long while, but,
it does go against the rationalist project-management schedule & estimate
all costs-plus work contracting law abiding citizen of the net philosophy
that's someone memed us out in the last 18 months...

Ryan