>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >I'm sure everybody has seen the Slashdot article about the Yamaha drive >that write images, etc in the part of a CDR/CDRW in the unused space >that's viewable by the naked eye >(http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/24/1227200&tid=126). I didn't >see this in the archives, so I was wondering if there's any interest or >development on this type of thing for "regular" CDR/CDRW drives?
>Would it be as simple as turning on the laser to burn the parts of the >disk that you would want to appear different? Then it just needs to be >figured out how to get everything lined up as you move toward the outside >of the disk. (Gross simplification. I don't remember most of those angle >formulas from math class.) Yamaha did show the one and only drive at CeBIT and I did talk to the developers. Is the drive really available? At CeBIT they stated that they show it to see if there is interest. There is must likely some image-format interface. Jörg EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) If you don't have iso-8859-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) chars I am J"org Schilling URL: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/usr/schilling ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]