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The "before" photograph is far too embarrassing for the company for me to show, but after one day of cable tidying, dead-patch removal and the enforcing of a strict colour-coding scheme, their telephone and network cabinet cabinet now looks like this.

divine:~# cd /home
divine:/home# df . && deluser melanie && rm -Rf melanie/ && df .
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
                                                    99% /home
Removing user `melanie'...
done.
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
                                                    86% /home

Following the Gotterdammerung and Riff-Raff night, today’s xkcd: Mission to Culture

1. Coreline (27) 
2. Dream Theater (21) 
3. [x]-Rx (16) 
4. Covenant (16) 

Seen on a client’s server:

top - 13:28:19 up XXX, XXXX,  1 user,  load average: 66.63, 77.33, 73.74
Tasks: 200 total,   1 running, 198 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.3%us,  1.3%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id, 98.3%wa,  0.1%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   1029664k total,  1021956k used,     7708k free,     3236k buffers
Swap:  1951888k total,  1725364k used,   226524k free,    23852k cached