Re: Back To Work

["Thomas Droege" <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

Arne,

Thank you.  I am now sending plain text.  See if this fixes the problem. 
This is also a test to see if I get posts to the list.  I now have the
Earthlink spam blocker software working and I think it is blocking tass
messages to me.  Sigh!  It works very well.

Tom Droege


> [Original Message]
> From: Arne Henden <aah@nofs.navy.mil>
> To: <tdroege2@earthlink.net>
> Cc: tass <tass@listserv.wwa.com>
> Date: 7/29/2003 11:30:51 AM
> Subject: Re: Back To Work
>
> 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! 
> >  
> > I am back to trying to get everything working again.  Everything is
sick 
> > one way or another. 
> >  
> > 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?
> >  
> > 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. 
> >  
> > To work.
> >  
> > Tom Droege
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