On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 23:37, Pigeon wrote: > On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 18:55:41 -0800, Vineet Kumar > <debian-user@virtual.doorstop.net> wrote: > > >This is exactly what burnproof does. You can load the machine; you can > >deplete the buffer. Rather than spewing the contents of the empty > >buffer to the disc (creating a coaster), it suspends the write and > >resumes when the buffer fills some more. > Just imagine if the electronics of your hard drive spewed garbage to > the platter if it ran out of incoming data for a bit. Or if your NIC > broadcast random crap while the processor was attending to someone > else. What a stupid way to build a device. > *GG* that's bullshit, of course. It is easy not to send data over the network while you are busy doing something else. It is not so trivial to resume writing to a CDR exactly at the point you stopped... > > I don't think the CD-R manufacturers are being stupid. I think they're > being greedy. You have two essentially identical CD-Rs, a cheaper one > with stupid firmware and one with proper firmware which is more > expensive. So people buy the cheaper one, and then have to buy the > more expensive one a bit later because the cheaper one is unfit for > the purpose for which it was sold (Hit them with Trades Descriptions > Act?) Or maybe the salesperson in the computer shop will con them into > buying a whole new computer. > > Moral: never buy anything until it's been out for at least 2 years, > and make sure you know exactly what you're buying before you go > anywhere near a shop. > > Burn down Babylon > Pigeon
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