My DVD burner arrived today!

Whee!

I went to temporarily install it in the old computer, so I could back up the files there - then I realized that it would do no good, unless I wanted to leave it there until I found my Windows 98 CD, then reinstalled windows, and installed all the software for the network. I dind't want to...

So I just installed it in the new one. Unfortunatly, Alienware forgot to give me screws, so I had to take the screws from the old cd drive in the old computer.


I burned several DVDs - I can practically hear my hard drive sighing in relief - now it has 20 gigs free, instead of 30 megs...

Of course, by tomorrow, it will probably be down to 10 gigs... ;)

The DVDs are really cool. Most blank CDs/DVDs have just a light colour, usually green, on the bottom. These DVDs, however, have a really really bright color. Granted, the color is purple, so it isn't a color I particularly likem but it is a really dark purple. Just looking at the stack of DVDs, you get hit with COLOR. Which is a rather nifty effect - not to mention the dark color makes it *really* easy to figure out which ones have already been written on them. Unfortunatly, the surface they have is difficult to write with sharpie on - it comes out blurred. Still readable, though.