Cleaning up VMware snapshots

If you cycle through all your snapshots and then delete files whose "Last Accessed" timestamp hasn't changed, you can recover quite a bit of disk space.

I have no idea why VMware doesn't always delete snapshot files (.vmdk, .vmem, etc.) after you've explicitly deleted a snapshot from the GUI, but all the cruft adds up. Last time I did this, I got back about 5 gigabytes across three VMs.

The truth

My high school Astronomy teacher (yes, for some reason we had Astronomy classes) was a hilarious man with a toupee so fake you would think he picked it on purpose. Incidentally, this man was also the Principal. (He taught Math as well, Astronomy was just an extra gig.)

We could never understand how he managed to climb the ladder, and why everyone on the staff apparently respected him. The kids just chalked it off to him being a communist kiss-ass (we're talking Soviet Union here).

He would make outrageous quips in class, some of which cannot be translated from Romanian.

Romanian readers, enjoy this: "Concentraţia de hidrogen este de 25 de procente la sută".

Then one day he produced the mother of all bloopers.

"There are many galaxies, and there is our Galaxy. How do we distinguish our galaxy from all the others?"

"Ours starts with a capital G."

I used to tell that story for many years, enjoying myself, as people often do, in relishing another man's stupidity.

And today I saw here - "Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, sometimes simply called the Galaxy (with uppercase) ..."

Draw your own conclusions.