Not the usual installation media check failures

[Les Mikesell]

On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 02:28, Tim wrote:
> >> On that note, why do people smear their fingers all over the optical
> >> surface of discs?  Or scuff them about on the desk?
> 
> Les Mikesell:
> > Because they don't come with handles?  Or protective cases that
> > remain on in use...  It's a design problem.
> 
> Yes, I've always thought that getting rid of caddies was a bad idea.
> True, some of the caddies were a crap design, but if CDs had been made
> like 3.5" floppies from the get-go (audio and data discs), we'd be in a
> lot better position.

Unless you are archiving data, USB flash or hard drives are
a lot nicer.  There are good reasons that so many people
have ipods instead of carrying around a few hundred CD's in
their brittle jewel cases.  A big space on a network drive
is even better for things like downloaded fedora install
isos.

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  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com