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WinDirStat is freeware for Windows that creates a visualization of the largest files on your hard drives. It’s priceless for freeing up that extra gigabyte that you need to install that new game.

It found that my World of Warcraft installer files were wasting 8GB of space, even though I had removed World of Warcraft, itself.

Also, there’s a MAC version called Disk Inventory X, which is also quite awesome.

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set nocompatible "Don't emulate old vi bugs.
set autoindent " Yay!
set smartindent
set tabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
set expandtab
set showmatch "Parenthesis matching.
set vb t_vb= "Flash instead of beep.
set ruler
set nohls "Do not highlight search matches.
set incsearch "Search as I type
" Type :help options within vim to get a complete list of options.

set nowrap "Do not wrap long lines of code.
set textwidth=120
set foldmethod=marker

"Place all vim backup files into the user home directory.
set backupdir=~/.vimbackup

Browser plugins are rapidly becoming the most common way to get a computer virus infection.

Normally I lecture people about switching to Firefox, installing NoScript and checking at least monthly that Java and Adobe are up to date. The folks at Mozilla seem to be on a quest to save me from forever repeating those instructions, and I thank them kindly.

My instructions are now a bit simpler:

1. Switch to Firefox

2. Use this website to make sure that you are safe. https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/

3. Check back with the website weekly.