Ah, 80s music....

I have a lot of 80s compilation DVDs.

Last week a song from a band called "Red Box" rotated via random play. It reminded me; last time this song showed up I wanted to see what else they did. Turns out I had 2 songs from them ("For America" and "Lean On Me") and I really liked both. Hmm, it's possibly this stuff had been tagged as "world music" originally, so I had skipped them. But since I like these two songs, let's hit Amazon. Oh! Their stuff has been re-released. Let's get their first album (re-release, with extras etc etc).

Funny; the first CD I've bought in years... and it's a re-release of an 80s album.

CD arrives; rip it, add to iTunes, add to my phone.

As is my habit, I put the CD onto "repeat play" and this is the only album I've listened to for 2 days. And, yes, I like it. Even the poorer songs are listenable. It's achieved "background music track" in my mind pretty quickly.

Yup, I think I like 80s music!

Age catches up with me...

No, not my age. The age of my operating systems.

I have (quick count) 7 primary OS images that I care about. Linode, Panix v-colo, SoYouStart, home server, "bastion host" VM, primary usage VM, desktop. 6 of them are CentOS, one is Ubuntu (guess which one :-)).

Of the RedHat^WCentOS machines, 3 are C5, 3 are C6.

I chose CentOS many years back because of RedHat's long term support policy. I very very quickly got annoyed with Fedora's upgrade policy (FC2; that quickly!). However these old machines... RedHat 5 goes EOL in 2 or 3 years. I can procrastinate, but eventually I guess I need to rebuild these 3 machines with C7.

The 3 C6 machines I don't really have a need to rebuild. Not for 6 years :-) Except maybe my home server; maybe there's something useful in C7. I think I'll wait.