Jul 19, 2008
Nerdcore
My birthday is fast approaching and for it I ordered a new hard drive for my computer. $120 buys you 750gb. Once installed and removing the hard drive it replaces, I’ll have a terabyte of storage. This is enough capacity to hold the entire sequence of DNA for 1,250 people. Although, mine will mostly be filled with music, high resolution photos, and videos.
This also represents a 220% increase in overall capacity. It seems unthinkable that I will ever need so much space, however, that’s what I said when I bought my last hard drive.
Getting a new hard drive gives you the opportunity to reevaluate your computing needs. I am currently using Windows XP on my computer, and have become increasingly dissatisfied with it. While I do not think I will abandon it completely, I will certainly install Ubuntu Linux and start making the transition. It could be a beast to get to the confidence level I have with Windows and Mac OS X, but I think it’s a smart long term decision.
To test it out, because I am mostly impatient, I installed it on my Mac using Virtual BoxI like it so far, but my mac can’t handle running two operating systems at once.
Also in the works is an updated blog. Serendipity has served me well, but after using WordPress, I realize it is a much more robust platform for my blog. The problem is importing the information from the my current blog to the new WordPress blog. It looks like I’m going to lose all the comments left. Not that there were a ton, it’s still sad. Also, it will be hard keeping this blog running while moving WordPress to the same address. I’ll try my best, though. The next couple days will be spent on this transition. The first step is to get the new blog to look like the rest of the site.
I guess that’s it for tonight.
-Jason
