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CD-R Lifespan - Is It The Label?
sysadmn writes "Slashdot has discussed archival lifespan of CD-R media before. Fred Langa revisits the issue with a new twist: Are glue-on labels causing premature failure? Much more common than rain forest fungus! From Fred's informative LangaList newsletter."
You sure about this ?
I had a pet once
while we're at it... you can also get a vibrator for those nights when your wife is horny but for some weird reason you don't fancy sex... the old and tired "i have a headache, dear" needn't apply; at least you'll get to watch like a curious spectator a woman you thought you knew pretty have a climax, which is a sight you don't often get to see when you're all entwined and busy satisfying your own instinct...
a tip, just think clitoreal stimulation with its tip and get one of those things with an analog dial so you get to change the vibration frequency, start slow, really slow that excitement builds up and never exceeds physiological demand for stimulation and slowly build up the frequency, really slowly, tease more than you please, and watch the amusing interaction of physiology and simple portable electromechanics....
- Missing data sector headers (that would cause a hard drive to give an uncorrectable read error) are no problem due to wobbled track clocks
- Every data track is verified by the laser as soon as it's written
- A defective sector is mapped into the spare area
- Data is spatially shifted when overwritten into a sector guard area decreasing statistic probability of same-bit writes on a spot
- Data is usually flipped in every sector overwrite by a random inversion (stored in look-up table) so the laser doesn't write 1000 consecutive high-temperature decrystallisations to the same spot which would denature the writing surface
This is why for backups I bought a LG GSA-4040B DVD+-R+-RW-RAM CD-R-RW and use DVD-RAM type 2 with labels on the jewel case (I only touch the DVD-RAM when handling using gloves so my finger grease doesn't contaminate the edges). NEVER touch either surface, not even the label-sid as finger-grease can contaminate it the same as a cheap label. DVD Reed Solomon ECC is 10 times better than CD despite only a 7x increase in recording density.Of course during the 60 minutes burn (1.5 MBytes/s) you MUST keep your head on the drive to listen out for any unexplained seeks that could indicate defects. If you hear them then rewrite the DVD-RAM so that defect management can kick in (I'm not sure if this is necessary but I'm sometimes overcautious)
IF YOU DON'T HANDLE YOUR BACKUPS IN CLEAN-ROOM CONDITIONS YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR DATA, and therefore are a Joe sixpack "Dang I lost all my data, whoa the 69'ers hit a home run that's way more important dude"
A caveman dreams of being us, the incalculable power and riches. We dream of being Q, then what?
Sounds familiar. That's how I ended up walking ten miles across a city barefoot. I was visiting a friend, and my shoes were in his room. Gonna suck for quite awhile. It does get better eventually.
Maybe she couldn't handle turning a friend into a lover. Maybe you should be flattered that it's your roommate, unless they're great friends or he's really hot. Her choice of your rommate might unconsciously be for your benefit. Then again, it could just be that he's there.
The really cynical guys say a woman sees you as not-a-lover once you've been friends too long. The how-to pick up chicks folks, while revolting, make an interesting point about taking a supplicant position with a woman you're interested in.
From my memory of long painful friendships with women I was infatuated with, there was a different quality to it. None of those women was ever my lover (for long.)
Still, most of the women who were my lovers were my friends first, but that sense of painful infatuation wasn't there. Maybe we just acted on our interest sooner in the relationship. I'm no help. I wish I could tell you the difference. Hell, what I'm talking about may not apply to you at all.
Get out of there. Yeah, I know it's 3 am, so for now you're trapped in Hell, but I'd suggest going out for breakfast. You need to be somewhere else while they're together. Go hang out with other friends. I'd stay away from both of them as much as you can. This doesn't sound like the sort of thing you can talk over and improve anyway. Glaring at them over breakfast will be less fun for you than for them. Those "But why not me?" conversations are unbelievably unpleasant, and I've never found them to help. Do something else.
Go.
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