Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (8028)	7/8/1999 10:22:00 AM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

>>Stick-It Right labelling sw review. I ordered a copy. Uh, Dave, one of us made a mistake. I recommended the Stick-it Right labels themselves; they are very high quality, completely opaque labels. I don't know anything about their software, though. Sorry if I misled you. I've used two or three template programs, one of which is in Easy CD Creator itself. Not too flexible, but adequate to bang out labels for backups, for instance. For a fancier label I used a drawing program (WinDraw from Micrografx, in fact) to make a template with text wrapped around curves to print around the label, etc. Very tedious making the template, but the results look good on the high-quality Stick-it Right labels. Dunno that it's worth the trouble, though. Registration of the labels is a bit iffy. You have to fiddle with each printer, or at least I've not found a label maker that's smart enough to account for the non-printing area correctly. I always have to fudge it. Thing is, once you've made a few different kinds of labels, you can use a previous label as a template and simply edit the text for content retaining the formatting. That's when it begins to be worth the trouble. Spots

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (8028)	7/8/1999 11:00:00 AM
From: Spots	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

>>I can't get CD Direct formated disks to be reaccessible. I have no explanation for this. I have not tried CD-direct on CD-RW media. It's true that relatively few CD drives will read the packet-write CD until it's closed in ISO 9660 format; some of my drives will, some won't. I believe my Plextor won't. However, it sounds like you're just re-inserting the CD into the Yamaha itself. If this is true, you certainly should be able to read the data back. I have had no trouble doing so; haven't closed the disk either. This is strictly CD-R media, though. In truth, I have neither burned an ordinary CD-R with Easy CD Creator nor tried RW at all since I got this drive, simply because I've been so pleased with the ease of CD Direct. I believe I have expounded my notions on CD-R vs CD-RW for backups before. Media rotation? We don't need no stinking media rotation <gg>. As far as final results go, I don't know of any reason at all to use CD-Direct rather than Easy CD Creator other than personal preference. For scripting backups, though, I wouldn't want to try it without the packet-writing capability. I'd hate to try to poke Easy Cd Creator from a script. Also you can do a file save from an application to the CD with CD-Direct. If the app is WinZip, for instance, this is a Good Thing To Have. Better be sure the Winzip work directory is on a hard drive, though <g>. BTW, there is a beta WinZip command line interface available from the Winzip web site. Haven't tried it, but for scripting backups to CD-R this looks good. Aside from the obvious data compression, other advantages to backing up to an archive are name-space preservation and write attribute preservation. Of course the good backup packages will do all of this too, but my needs are relatively modest and I like to control things myself. 'Course I haven't done it yet either ... <G>. Spots