On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, [iso-8859-1] Jakob Østergaard wrote: > I can't think of a good reason to use CDs for permanent storage anymore. > Back in the days where 600Megs was a lot, sure, the hottest thing was a > CD tower. But today with 27G disks flying around at the same cost as my > (now fairly old) dual-spin CD drive, it really is cheaper, faster and > easier to just copy the CD contents to the harddrive. > Using CD-R discs, in CD-ROM drives, to store system binaries and libraries and tripwire databases is fairly useful if you can't afford to mark an entire drive as read-only using jumpers. +++ath Derek Vadala, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.cynicism.com/~derek
