Quarter-Terabyte
September 12th 2004
Suddenly, I have unlimited space. I’d say I don’t know what to do with it, but I really think if I challenged myself I could find ways to fill it up. 191 Gigabytes free certainly feels unlimited. Things I’ve thought of so far:
- Music
- Reinstall all the software I uninstalled to make space for music
- Re-rip all of my CDs to in FLAC format
- Rip/compress all my DVDs
- Install as many alternate operating systems as I want (The old 40 Gig is getting a fresh stage 1 of Gentoo ASAP)
- Comment with other suggestions
I guess this is what you get for your birthday when you complain about your hard drive filling up. 
Other recent upgrades include a new Radeon 9600 Pro and an Athlon XP 2600+, courtesy of a housemate who shipped his tower from Florida to Berkeley without writing “Fragile” anywhere on the box; to his credit, UPS really should have treated it better anyway. But thanks to them, I get some decent new equipment, which along with the bottomless pit hard drive brings my computer nicely up to date.
Wow… all those gigs… the only thing I could think of doing with all that space is to just download more movies that I haven’t seen.
I like that picture of you holding up the sun. Was it hot?
Also, the picture of the campanile’s reflection was good too.
Dude, that’s awesome. I’m glad you have a decent system now…. we should get some hot doom3/halo/hl2(when it comes out) action going on whenever you get the free time.
Of course, not living in th with the network might make it dumb… but whatever.
enjoy!
Gentoo is the best linux flavour around! But you might try a Slack and/or FreeBSD/OpenBSD. You know, just to try to fill the space up.
And actually FreeBSD and OpenBSD are very good, I now use them on my to home servers…