On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 04:38:40PM -0600, Andrew McNabb wrote: > > CDs and DVDs are so 1990s. Who in their right mind would spin a thin > piece of plastic at 26000 RPM? Not only are optical disks loud, slow, > and inefficient, but damaged disks can even explode (see Mythbusters > episode 2 for more details). The only time most Linux users use an > optical disk is when installing their system or importing a DVD, but > many computers (like netbooks) don't even have optical drives.
Thanks to everyone who came tonight. I enjoyed everyone's comments, and I think it turned out really well thanks to all of the participation. As promised, the slides are available online: http://aml.cs.byu.edu/~amcnabb/uug-optical-disks.pdf I talked about the backup script that uses rsync with hardlinks for incremental backups. Note that the script is always in progress. It's located at: http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/linux/config/bin/backup-mcbain.sh Please reply if you have anything to add. In particular, does anyone have any experience with backing up Blu-Ray disks in Linux? -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
