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Skriven 2007-02-12 02:58:28 av Dan Ceppa (1:138/666.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Maurice Kinal
Ärende: Freespire
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-> On 11 Feb 07  12:54:38, Maurice Kinal got back to Dan Ceppa 
-> Re: Freespire

 MK>> Right.  RW's are a tad flakier and fussier then R's.  Older CD-ROMs
 MK>> can't usually read them at all, nevermind boot them. 
 
 DC> I've had that problem at times as well.  

 MK> More often then not it is the media at fault but burners do wear out
 MK> with time and usage.  Also too much work involved when there are so
 MK> many better ways of accomplishing the same thing as CD's (DVD's too). 

I think the drive is going.  It doesn't always detect a disk of any 
kind in it.  It could be just a bad connection...  That drive's been 
in a lot of machines!  

 MK> Personally I prefer the flash disks as they behave more like regular
 MK> drives and don't require burning type software and the media is
 MK> definetly more reliable overall.  They also have a limit but that is
 MK> mostly write cycles rather then enviroment and/or time.  If your
 MK> laptop can boot usb devices then that might be something appealing to

All disks have some limit.  The best thing is excessive redundancy.  

 DC> I've got that running now.  Only, what do I do with it?  

 MK> What did you want to do with it?

Hopefully to replace Windows fully!  I think for starts would be 
if it can run some of my old DOS apps.  

 DC> I haven't tried networking it.  In fact, I haven't really done 
 DC> anything with it!  

 MK> First off figure out what functionality you want/need and we'll take
 MK> it from there.  I am positive anything you need/want is extremely
 MK> doable.  Far moreso then the unmentionable OS you are looking to
 MK> replace ... eventually. 

Well, I'm going to have to connect it to an XP and a ME system.  And, 
just because, a DOS/Win9x one as well.  

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