On Cdroms

Sun, July 12, 2009 - 3:11 PM PST

I've been cleaning this weekend. During this, I'm not sure why, but I decided that I should go through the spindles of CDs sitting on my desk and toss out what was junk and what wasn't - and to determine what unlabeled disks were blanks and what could be thrown away.

That took me over an hour and at the end of it all, I had over 100 burns that are now in the trash. It was nothing short of absurd how many different burns of Debian I had - I probably had every release since Potato for both x86 and sparc32. A few burns of early Ubuntu. A few revs of NetBSD/Sparc. Solaris Express. Even some old IRIX stuff. Lots of old divx movies before I had a dvd player and (more importantly) before anybody cared about it. An incomplete backup of my mp3 collection.

Most of it I had some memory for how I got it and what I used it for - lots of it was stuff I burned in college - which means that I not only drug it across State College a few times, but also across the United States and then a few times round in Washington. All for me to throw it away now.