[Tfug] Reminder: Happy Hour, Thurs @ 6pm

[Victor Carless]

Anyone mind if a lurker joins?  I have to get out of my cave.

Victor C.

Jeffry Johnston wrote:
> Either -R or +R are fine.  Avoid RW's.  Not sure about brands.
>
> Jeff
>
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Linux Media <linuxmedia2 at aim.com> wrote:
>   
>> Jim March wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Linux Media <linuxmedia2 at aim.com
>>> <mailto:linuxmedia2 at aim.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Speaking of the meeting... any chance someone can bring a DVD player and
>>>     let me create images from some disks? These are non-copyrighted disks. I
>>>     had Flicko's transfer all my various home movies to DVD, but I don't
>>>     have a DVD player and the CD is built in and to buy an external DVD
>>>     burner would mean buying a USB 2.0 card for the laptop.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Yeah, my new lappy has a DVD burner drive.  I run Ubuntu Hardy and I've
>>> got the normal burner tools associated with that plus DVD-rip; I also
>>> have a cell-signal modem so if we need to apt-get some other tool that's
>>> no sweat.
>>>
>>> I'll also bring some blank DVDs in case yours choke :).
>>>
>>> Also, if you have any hard drive you want stuff dumped to, I carry an
>>> adapter that lets me connect any hard disk (SATA, IDE or laptop-size
>>> IDE) to a USB port.  So you can bring in a drive, I can hook it up and
>>> grab images right off DVD and onto your hard disk.  I have enough CPU
>>> power to rip DVDs straight to AVI or whatever in fairly short order if
>>> you want to do data files rather than disk images.
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>       
>> That's great!!! Much appreciated. I was hoping someone would offer to
>> burn the images to DVD also. But that was mostly as a way to make sure
>> the image files were good. The main thing is to get the images safely on
>> disk.
>>
>> It would be good to have data files also. I don't know how it all works.
>> Would there be a format conversion? I'm just concerned about preserving
>> the same quality as the originals.
>>
>> I have 2 external USB drives and will bring them. But going strait to my
>> Laptop hard drive would be great. It will be interesting to see that
>> process.
>>
>> Since I don't currently have a DVD Burner, I'm not sure what disks to
>> buy. I've seen +R, -R, +RW, -RW... which ones should I buy? Is there a
>> particular brand that tends to be better?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rocco
>>
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