On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 17:21 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 12:37 -0500, Erich Carlson wrote: > > I've run into this on occasion, turned out to be finger prints on the > > CD. Cleaned them off, and installed just fine. > > On that note, why do people smear their fingers all over the optical > surface of discs? Or scuff them about on the desk? > > Discs are not as robust as some people think, and they come with > warnings on the labels to treat them with care. Writable discs seem > even more susceptible to finger prints than pressed discs. And you > can't always clean off what you do to them. Leave muck on it long > enough, and it can chemically react. > > If people abuse their media, they deserve to have problems. Thank you for the lecture, very useful indeed. > > -- > (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. > I read messages from the public lists. > -- eric.donkersloot@xxxxxxxxx Amsterdam, The Netherlands
