CD burning tips?
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The Undefeated wrote:
Now, does anyone know what dust is mostly made of?
Depends where you are but in the household it is dead, human skin.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Andy Brummer wrote:
Watson's law: As an online discussion of cars grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving the Bugatti Veyron approaches one.
Wrong, i knew someone would say that. :rolleyes: It does of course, depend where you are, but its not mostly anything, its just dirt. Anything and everything, skin, hair, fibres, grit, bits of plaster out of walls. Thats what you get for not watching QI, assuming you live in the UK. If not then your forgiven.
My current favourite word is: Waffle Cheese is still good though.
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Wrong, i knew someone would say that. :rolleyes: It does of course, depend where you are, but its not mostly anything, its just dirt. Anything and everything, skin, hair, fibres, grit, bits of plaster out of walls. Thats what you get for not watching QI, assuming you live in the UK. If not then your forgiven.
My current favourite word is: Waffle Cheese is still good though.
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Wrong, i knew someone would say that. :rolleyes: It does of course, depend where you are, but its not mostly anything, its just dirt. Anything and everything, skin, hair, fibres, grit, bits of plaster out of walls. Thats what you get for not watching QI, assuming you live in the UK. If not then your forgiven.
My current favourite word is: Waffle Cheese is still good though.
The Undefeated wrote:
Thats what you get for not watching QI, assuming you live in the UK. If not then your forgiven.
Never even heard of QI.
The Undefeated wrote:
its just dirt. Anything and everything, skin, hair, fibres, grit, bits of plaster out of walls.
Sure, but what has the highest percentage in most homes? I was told human skin, seems reasonable.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Andy Brummer wrote:
Watson's law: As an online discussion of cars grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving the Bugatti Veyron approaches one.
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I keep the CDs covered all the time. When I burn a CD, I take it from the stack, put it into the drive, and burn it. My success ratio is around 98% (I always verify my writes). One piece of advice, though: If you do not wipe the surface of your furniture at least every two days, it will take forever to reduce the amout of dust in the air by just wiping. What you can do to drastically reduce the amount of dust: Close off one room. Open the windows. Wear a filter mask. Use a leaf-blower to bring as much dust into the air as you possibly can, then point your leafblower out the window in a way that just the tip is outside (ejector-principle). Have someone open the door to the room. I always had a layer of dust settle on every surface as soon as 10 minutes after wiping them. Using a leafblower has significantly reduced the amount of dust in my apartment. It really FEELS a lot cleaner now :)
Cheers, Sebastian -- "If it was two men, the non-driver would have challenged the driver to simply crash through the gates. The macho image thing, you know." - Marc Clifton
That sounds like a lot of work for just burning a CD :)
xacc.ide
The rule of three: "The first time you notice something that might repeat, don't generalize it. The second time the situation occurs, develop in a similar fashion -- possibly even copy/paste -- but don't generalize yet. On the third time, look to generalize the approach." -
The Undefeated wrote:
Thats what you get for not watching QI, assuming you live in the UK. If not then your forgiven.
Never even heard of QI.
The Undefeated wrote:
its just dirt. Anything and everything, skin, hair, fibres, grit, bits of plaster out of walls.
Sure, but what has the highest percentage in most homes? I was told human skin, seems reasonable.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Andy Brummer wrote:
Watson's law: As an online discussion of cars grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving the Bugatti Veyron approaches one.
It's probably one of those british science programs they intend to 'funize' but in the process all they say is BS.
xacc.ide
The rule of three: "The first time you notice something that might repeat, don't generalize it. The second time the situation occurs, develop in a similar fashion -- possibly even copy/paste -- but don't generalize yet. On the third time, look to generalize the approach." -
The Undefeated wrote:
Thats what you get for not watching QI, assuming you live in the UK. If not then your forgiven.
Never even heard of QI.
The Undefeated wrote:
its just dirt. Anything and everything, skin, hair, fibres, grit, bits of plaster out of walls.
Sure, but what has the highest percentage in most homes? I was told human skin, seems reasonable.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Andy Brummer wrote:
Watson's law: As an online discussion of cars grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving the Bugatti Veyron approaches one.
Paul Watson wrote:
Never even heard of QI.
:omg: http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/qi/[^] It was in the general ignorance section, where each week they basically say that everything you know is wrong. And remember kids, if Stephen Fry said it, it must be true.
My current favourite word is: Waffle Cheese is still good though.
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It's probably one of those british science programs they intend to 'funize' but in the process all they say is BS.
xacc.ide
The rule of three: "The first time you notice something that might repeat, don't generalize it. The second time the situation occurs, develop in a similar fashion -- possibly even copy/paste -- but don't generalize yet. On the third time, look to generalize the approach."No, its a quiz show, with strange and obscure questions, which point out that some of the time, what most people beleive is not actually the truth.
My current favourite word is: Waffle Cheese is still good though.
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Paul Watson wrote:
Never even heard of QI.
:omg: http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/qi/[^] It was in the general ignorance section, where each week they basically say that everything you know is wrong. And remember kids, if Stephen Fry said it, it must be true.
My current favourite word is: Waffle Cheese is still good though.
Cool, Stephen Fry is a hoot. I'll look out for it, see what else I am ignorant of :)
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Andy Brummer wrote:
Watson's law: As an online discussion of cars grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving the Bugatti Veyron approaches one.
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Short of having your CD's burned by a group of bald guys in rubber suits, sprayed with six layers of super hold hair spray, what is your trick to keeping fibres and other particles off of blanks, that you will have burned with a copy of something important such as your OS? Because this is driving me mad. As soon as i remove the disc from its stack, five or ten bits of lint stick onto the plastic (electrostatic negative?) side. As i try to remove them with a microfibre cloth, the CD seems to actually overpower the cloth's charge and attract even more particles from the cloth. I usually manage to get it all cleaned off in 10 to 15 minutes, but it's just such a hassle, and just burning the disc as is isn't an option. Roswell
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CA -
1. Get CD from stack, inspect surface. 2. Breathe on a few times to ensure that the few pesty fibres are gone. 3. Burn. 4. If CD burn fails, repeat from 1, else continue. Is it really worth wasting 10-15 mins of your time over this? Surely your time is worth more than the cost of blank CD media?????
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_Damian S_ wrote:
Is it really worth wasting 10-15 mins of your time over this? Surely your time is worth more than the cost of blank CD media?????
Well, at least it's worth not having the embaracement of ending up with a buggy, sub-standard OS installation on a client's machine and then having to troubleshoot some obscure problem over the phone that shouldn't be there in the first place. The guy has always been a bit time consuming to work with anyway, so it's just another one of those things. He's bought a PC with Vista a couple days ago and it's been a rough transition for him to switch to that from Win98, and the machine should not have had Vista in the first place, at least from the specs. So i'll have to go over there and load XP among other things. And I've actually given up on CDs a year and half ago, so i use thumb drives for almost everything, but in this case it would be easier to use a CD instead. All other software will be loaded off of a thumb drive. Roswell
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CA