Re: Back To Work

[Arne Henden <aah@nofs.navy.mil>]

You must have changed typefaces on your emailer; my Mozilla reader
chose a really small font for display.  You might look at your settings
and see if anything changed, as your messages prior to vacation were
fine.
   You can choose any DVD format that you want, with the understanding
that any DVD you write is likely to be used only by your site.  The
DVD world is _still_ ill-defined and I would not assume that any
format will survive.  Not too far in the future will be the blue laser
systems with higher density yet and with yet another "standard".
   That does not mean that you should delay purchase of a DVD writer,
just assume the archival is temporary and will have to be moved to
another format sometime in the future.  Buy a spare drive!
Arne

Thomas Droege wrote:
> `I am back from a couple of weeks doing not much of anything.  This 
> ended with a trip to visit my wife's relatives.  Sigh! 
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> I am back to trying to get everything working again.  Everything is sick 
> one way or another. 
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> I am again looking at DVDs.  Looks like DVD+R is the most probable thing 
> to use.  The disks appear to be cheap enough.  Anyone with a 
> recommendation for what to buy.  A look for software was not very 
> encouraging.  I balk when I see the most likely spot say "Kernel 
> Patch".  I hope to try to upgrade to Mandrake 9.1 in the near future.  
> Does this support writing to DVD-R as an archive?
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> Now to go to work.  I have TOM3 often writing garbage, TOM2 works well 
> but has a range of Dec where it wiggles, TOM1 has a sick V camera.  This 
> was caused by my running it too cold.  Water condensed on the cables and 
> got into the camera connectors.  This destroyed some of the pins. 
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> To work.
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> Tom Droege
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