{"id":177,"date":"2004-10-17T13:01:25","date_gmt":"2004-10-17T05:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/http:\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/archives\/2004\/10\/2004_10_17_1301.php"},"modified":"2004-10-17T13:01:25","modified_gmt":"2004-10-17T05:01:25","slug":"burning-frenzy-and-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/10\/17\/burning-frenzy-and-others","title":{"rendered":"Burning frenzy and others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;View post&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I came home last night to see that my 120GB &#8220;scratch&#8221; disk (which I use for downloads) had only 75MB free space left.<\/p>\n<p>I was finally forced to buy the CD spindle I put off in favor of my <a href=\"http:\/\/tracker.torrentskickass.com\/\" title=\"Visit site\">optimus prime<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I moved a whole chunk of my downloads to my main drive&#8230; and today, I&#8217;m burning them off.<\/p>\n<!--more-->\n<p>I think the whole trouble I have with free space is because of the TONs of Mac apps I&#8217;ve been downloading recently. Just like the time I was collecting apps for my XDA before I got it &#8211; I&#8217;ve found myself gaining access to a myriad of sites, forums and servers&#8230; pretty much Mac warez nirvana, if you ask me.<\/p>\n<p>One site I particularly love is <a href=\"http:\/\/tracker.torrentskickass.com\/\" title=\"Visit site\">MTKA<\/a> (Mac Torrents Kick Ass), which is a by-invitation torrent site. Ever since I&#8217;ve started surfing for Mac stuff, I was surprised at how much &#8230; er &#8230; <em>&#8220;black market&#8221;<\/em> sources were available hehehehe. <em>Almost<\/em> as easy to find stuff like in the PC. It&#8217;s really funny if you think about it &#8211; I don&#8217;t have my Powerbook yet, but I probably have better access to software than most Mac fanatics.<\/p>\n<p>Of course the fact <em>still<\/em> remains that there are just too few choices of software in the Mac (as against the PC) &#8211; yet that could be a blessing if you think about it: You wont have to worry so much about being <em>up to date<\/em> with your software. And even if should you find out that you <strong>don&#8217;t<\/strong> have the latest, if you can&#8217;t find them in the sites like MTKA, chances are, the rest of the non-paying world can&#8217;t find them either hehehe. That leaves everyone on an equal footing.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;View post&#8221; I came home last night to see that my 120GB &#8220;scratch&#8221; disk (which I use for downloads) had only 75MB free space left. I was finally forced to buy the CD spindle I put off in favor of my optimus prime I moved a whole chunk of my downloads to my main drive&#8230; &hellip; <p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/10\/17\/burning-frenzy-and-others\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Burning frenzy and others&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[96,944],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-internet","tag-apple","tag-powerbook"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}