With the mighty THOR (DX4000) online and hard drive space more than plentiful, I took the opportunity for a bit of belated electronic spring cleaning. We all have that pile of software CDs that we'll probably not need again, but refuse to get rid of (because as soon as you do, you'll need them of course)...
In my case, its some old Dell drivers, peripheral support, etc. Most likely any new reinstalls would have me downloading the newest versions, but nonetheless, I have trouble parting with originals. So, to solve this problem, I made ISO backups of the CDs, and tossed the physical media.
Having Windows 7 on my primary workstation (and being too lazy to walk to the Linux box), I needed to find something to copy the CDs to an image. A few Google queries later, I was installing the most recent version of Infrarecorder.
The interface is fairly idiot-proof, and building the backups could not have been easier.
An hour later, all the CDs were stored on the DX4000, and my desk was feeling a bit cleaner.
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