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On 12/11/13 18:58, Rob Beard wrote:
On Tue, 12 Nov 2013 17:25:27 +0000, "Tremayne, Steve" <steven.tremayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:I guess I'm still old-school... I enjoy reading stuff "offline"... The cover DVDs are a mixed blessing - complete waste of time when we can download it in seconds, but for those that have no ADSL (inc 3rd world countries - it's a global mag), then the DVD's their only way of keepingupto date.Even if you're in this country living out in the sticks can mean really slow download speeds and sometimes it's just easier to get the ISO on a DVD, plus there's stuff on there that sometimes I might not have considered looking at :-)Plus... it saves me having to download a distro, just to burn to a disk, just to recover someone's knackered windows partition :)Yup, it's come in handy a few times for me too, just having a DVD handy in my laptop case or even in the car for those "while you're here can you have a look at my laptop?" moments.But yeah, I've got quite a pile of CDs / DVDs here now ... not sure what to make from them - perhaps a parabolic solar collector death ray?http://www.instructables.com/id/Parabolic-solar-ray-gun-a.k.a-solar-death-ray/Finally a use for all those old AOL CDs :-) Rob
If I had kept all those AOL cd's I could burn the sun! Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq