A newbie asks - where the heck is my 80 gigs of memory?

i finally took the plunge yesterday and gave up my pc for a macbook. upon turning it on, i was told i needed to download 12 software updates...several attempts and a couple hours later, that's done. i downloaded istat, which is a dashboard widget to monitor cpu, battery, all that stuff, and i notice that it says i'm using 55 gig of memory. i figure that i'm just not understanding what it's telling me...
now, i just got a dialog telling me that my "startup disk is almost full." how can this be? where's all my memory?
help!

hmmm...okay, i did that, and i found a file called
'windowserver_last.log' that is taking up almost 36
gigs. what is that?
appreciating your help, by they way...
Your windowserver_last.log is ballooning for some reason. Go trash the file and read more about it here:
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=windowserver_last.log&ie=UTF -8&oe=UTF-8
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I am so furious right now to the point my whole body is shaking and I feel dizzy!
I've been mailing out the check for $55 every month on 1st or 2nd of each month for past 2, 3 years now.
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What did you just say? SUPPRESSING the late charges? Hey, Eric, Look!. I mailed out the check on 1st of August! I'm sure it doesn't take more than three days to be delivered from Los Angeles to Dallas. When I mailed out the check even before you generated my bill, how dare you to even mention the LATE CHARGE? It is NOT my ****** problem that you have a lousy system to process the check. You better fix the **bleep** problem.
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I can understand that the situation is infuriating, but the anger is misplaced. To start, it is very bad practice to not have a direct way to view whether the check you are sending had been cashed. While it gives the appearance of being convenient, you are setting yourself up for a nightmare when you do not, first, deposit the funds and issue your own method of payment. Secondly, the fact that it was not applied to the account does not necessarily mean that Verizon Wireless is at fault. You cannot determine this absolutely until you confirm that the check had been cashed by VZW, which, again, is going to be difficult to impossible because you are sending a check from a third party. The likelihood that it was lost in the mail should not seem shockingly preposterous. Matter of fact, people use this excuse because it is a very plausible scenario. It is essential to know whether the check was cashed by VZW, if it was, then they can go through the steps to find it; if, however, it was not, then it is something you will want to get reissued.
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