On Tuesday 25 March 2003 02:56 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 06:42, Miark wrote: > > While I agree that it's far more effective to burn at slower speeds, I > > disagree with limiting the speed to any number. My rule of thumb is the > > lower of half the speed of either the drive or the media. Drive is 42X > > and media is 40X, I burn at 20X. Drive is 32X and media is 40X, I burn at > > 16X. I think this is a fair balance between speed and safety. > > I have a cool rule of thumb that works like a charm: > > * If someone's impatiently waiting for you to burn a CD for them, set > the burning speed to x1. Show them the progress. Hopefully, they will > leave and come back later. If you truly despise them, accidentally burn > the "Reader Rabbit" ISO image instead of the data they're really > wanting. > > * If a really beautiful woman is waiting for you to burn a CD for them, > set the speed to x1, make them snacks, give them wine or champagne, > explain that you're burning it slowly so the data integrity is perfect, > like they are, woo them with mystical command-line utilities, let them > play with the webcam a bit - and do whatever comes naturally. > > * If you're apathetic, stick in the blank, make the fs on the disk, take > it out, label it, and say - Oh, yeah, my drive is x100 - it's really > fast - here ya go, see ya later!
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