are you a digital packrat?

[her34]

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,72737-0.html?tw=rss.index

His apartment is filled with DVDs and CDs packed with bootleg anime, comic books, books, e-books, television programs, movies and, of course, music. He's a completionist who must have every episode, every issue, every track.
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"Why not just watch 24 when it's on?" I ask. With a few exceptions, I point out, he's downloading current programs. Wouldn't it be easier to buy a TiVo?

i used to be when i first got broadband but that only lasted about a month

 

[BigJ]

Both digital and real world. But every once in a while I'll have a big cleaning purge.

 

[dug777]

no.

and what did you do with her209?

 

[McCarthy]

I just archive ATOT for future blackmail use.

Come on mealtickets, hurry up and get rich or run for high office.

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: McCarthy
I just archive ATOT for future blackmail use.

Come on mealtickets, hurry up and get rich or run for high office.

Is a Senator position alright with you?

 

[markgm]

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: McCarthy
I just archive ATOT for future blackmail use.

Come on mealtickets, hurry up and get rich or run for high office.

Is a Senator position alright with you?

I've often wondered what someone would know about the people on this board if they could read and remember every post. Aside from going insane, I'd imagine they'd know a lot about a lot of people. I guess the same is true for myspace.

 

[AMCRambler]

2.5 terabytes? Psshhh slacker. A couple of seasons of a few tv shows and a bunch of movies will get you there.

 

[rivan]

I still have 5.25" floppies I can't talk myself into throwing away, even though I havent had a drive for them in almost a decade :|

 

[markgm]

Originally posted by: AMCRambler
2.5 terabytes? Psshhh slacker. A couple of seasons of a few tv shows and a bunch of movies will get you there.

I thought the same thing. My media center is 3.5 TB alone. I don't consider myself a packrat and I probably have about 6.7 TB of storage.

 

[Rubycon]

I dunno - is this bad?

From the nvidia drivers folder on a server. The entire nvidia folder is around 2GB and it's drivers from detonators to farceware.

ACK! I checked the browser plugin source folder and it goes back to quicktime 2.x and acrobat 2.x! :Q AOL versions back to 3.0 for 9x on there too. Nero goes back to 4.x. Wow that stuff adds up.

 

[Zolty]

Originally posted by: AMCRambler
2.5 terabytes? Psshhh slacker. A couple of seasons of a few tv shows and a bunch of movies will get you there.

That is his HD space, seems like he just burns everything to dvds.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: markgm

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: McCarthy
I just archive ATOT for future blackmail use.

Come on mealtickets, hurry up and get rich or run for high office.

Is a Senator position alright with you?

I've often wondered what someone would know about the people on this board if they could read and remember every post. Aside from going insane, I'd imagine they'd know a lot about a lot of people. I guess the same is true for myspace.

they'd know a lot of BS, is all

like evveryone here is rich, good looking, and is intelligent

 

[Jawo]

I have about a TB of recorded shows on HD. I have ~100 DVDs of burned shows/movies.....that I havent watched since I burned the DVDs Too many good shows on TV!

 

[pontifex]

not as bad as that guy or some of you but i have over 125 GB of MP3s and i don't know how many GB of pron. I have a shoebox full of porn CD-Rs and DVD-Rs, plus i have several gb on my PC. i'm trying to get rid of most of it though.

 

[AMCRambler]

Originally posted by: pontifex
not as bad as that guy or some of you but i have over 125 GB of MP3s and i don't know how many GB of pron. I have a shoebox full of porn CD-Rs and DVD-Rs, plus i have several gb on my PC. i'm trying to get rid of most of it though.

Lol. I was wondering how much of that guy's is pron!

 

[randomlinh]

I used to keep TV shows and stuff.. but then I realized... I'm never going to watch them again, why am I keeping it

 

[uhohs]

i have about 80 dvds of burned of japanese/asian music. probably only listened to 1 or 2% of it.
but most of it i downloaded in 2003/2004, i've cut back on downloading random stuff since.

 

[Atheus]

"It starts with good intentions. 'I'm going to get all of these movies while I can.' But then what happens? It becomes such a huge selection that if you want a particular movie, you have to look through thousands and thousands of others to find it," Reinardy said.

In practical terms, the collection becomes useless.

I dunno about him, but my computer is capable of searching for files by name - how cool is that?!

What a load of trash.

 

[AMCRambler]

Usually when my drive fills up that's when I start looking at what stuff I want to keep. If it's something I want but don't look at or use often, then it gets archived to dvd. This frees up a bunch of space and then you can start over filling it up again.

 

[ProviaFan]

I developed a bad habit of hoarding program and driver archives from back when I had dialup. Even after having had broadband for several years, I somehow haven't managed to kick the habit.

 

[Raduque]

Originally posted by: ProviaFan
I developed a bad habit of hoarding program and driver archives from back when I had dialup. Even after having had broadband for several years, I somehow haven't managed to kick the habit.

I have this same problem. Every time I download something from the web (game demo, app, driver, whatever), it goes into e:\downloads. When it gets to 4.3gb, I burn it to DVD. I have about 15 of these DVDs.