Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 00:42 +0100, Ian Chapman wrote: >> Aaron Konstam wrote: >> >>> 1. Newer computers do not have floppy drives (which I think is a shame). >> Really, that surprises me. I'd like to see them disappear altogether to >> be left in the halls of computing history. :) > Well I guess we have different philosophies. If I want to save 1 or a > few small files and take them to another machine (where there is no > Internet connection to the first) or just place them in a filing cabinet > for backup I don't see the advantage have to use expensive memory stick > or to burn a CD, etc. > > I use the floppy drive extensively for this purpose and there is no > other way to do it so easily. > > At the risk of being personal and too specific , I am a diabetic, Every > week I produce a list of my glucose readings. I save them to a floppy > and put them into a filing cabinet. To be up to date I also place the > file on a CD-RW (so we have a 700M CD with a single 400K file). Once out > of every 10 times when I write to the CD it complains that the CD is no > longer writable. Never mind that Fedora (as far as I know) has no > program to format a CD-RW. And this is progress. No way. > -- > ======================================================================= > You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is > that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. -- W. Somerset Maugham, > "The Circle" > ======================================================================= > Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora does have a method of formatting a CD-RW and DVD-RWs, K3b will do it for you if necessary and cdrecord and dvdrecord have CLI options to do so. I've used them for a couple years now. -- Da mihi sis bubulae frustrum assae, solana tuberosa in modo gallico fricta, ac quassum lactatum coagulatum crassum Mark Haney Sr. Systems Administrator ERC Broadband (828) 350-2415 Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support
