[Ma-linux] DVD/CD Problems

[James Ewing Cottrell 3rd]

no, it's not. that was my point a CD or DVD requires a special purpose 
program to burn the medium. a flash drive is simply a disk.

now CDs and DVDs are certainly cheap, but they are SLOW, and in the case 
of CDs, easily scratched.

and if you like dragging and dropping, there is always the file manager.

jim

p.s. to the LUGs....WHERE ARE MY POSTS? they aren't showing up.

Charles Divine wrote:
> It's the easiest way to do a backup of important files.  Yes, I am one
> of those old fashioned types who keeps backups at home.  I might start
> changing that, though.  Especially if I can come up with a way to save
> my artistic image files.  They really are unique.  See
> http://divine.art.home.comcast.net/~divine.art/ for my web art gallery.
> 
> That art takes up 2.2 GB on my hard drive.  Yes, I also have it on
> regular CDs that I have taken to the photo lab for printing.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Chuck
> 
> On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 15:28 -0400, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:
>> Why would you copy to a DVD rather than a flash drive?
>>
>> Charles Divine wrote:
>>> All,
>>>
>>> My DVD burner on my desktop seems to be acting up.  A few weeks ago I
>>> copied a large number of photographs to a DVD to quickly solve a hard
>>> drive issue.  On October 9th I first wrote a large number of files for
>>> my art to a DVD.  That came to about 2.2 GB.  Over the next few hours
>>> later I tried a backup of the rest of the system.  The latter files
>>> appear to be unusable.  The time stamp on the DVD is 2.5 hours after the
>>> first DVD.
>>>
>>> Attempts to read the Ubuntu disk I used to set up Ubuntu on a laptop are
>>> failing.  Part of me is wondering whether this and the backup problems
>>> are somehow software related.
>>>
>>> When I stick a DVD into the drive it shows up as a CD-ROM, not a DVD.
>>> That doesn't happen with the laptop.
>>>
>>> This desktop is not networked to any other systems.
>>>
>>> I am thinking of moving the desktop files to a web host where there is
>>> more than enough space.  Then I could wipe the hard drive and install
>>> the system again -- possibly the Ubuntu.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Chuck Divine
>>>
>>>
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