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On Tue, 12 Nov 2013 17:25:27 +0000, "Tremayne, Steve" <steven.tremayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I guess I'm still old-school... I enjoy reading stuff "offline"... > > The cover DVDs are a mixed blessing - complete waste of time when we can > download it in seconds, but for those that have no ADSL (inc 3rd world > countries - it's a global mag), then the DVD's their only way of keeping up > to date. Even if you're in this country living out in the sticks can mean really slow download speeds and sometimes it's just easier to get the ISO on a DVD, plus there's stuff on there that sometimes I might not have considered looking at :-) > > Plus... it saves me having to download a distro, just to burn to a disk, > just to recover someone's knackered windows partition :) > Yup, it's come in handy a few times for me too, just having a DVD handy in my laptop case or even in the car for those "while you're here can you have a look at my laptop?" moments. > But yeah, I've got quite a pile of CDs / DVDs here now ... not sure what > to make from them - perhaps a parabolic solar collector death ray? > http://www.instructables.com/id/Parabolic-solar-ray-gun-a.k.a-solar-death-ray/ > > Finally a use for all those old AOL CDs :-) Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq