Re: Slackware 14.2 Sale [Was:
By: Vaclav to Nightfox on Fri Sep 15 2017 09:38 am
Va> Yup. Thinking about it a little more, apart from ruining our nostalgia for
Va> old things,a digital-only method of distribution can seriously hamper
Va> preservation of software, music, literature, etc for the future. What do
Va> we leave behind once the power goes out and the last servers die?
Va> Sorry, it's probably too early in the day to be waxing philisophical...
:) Presumably the data would still be accessible on a hard drive. If you only
have a downloaded copy of something, I think it's prudent to invest in backup
media (whether that be a USB hard drive, USB flash drive, optical discs, etc.)
and back up the stuff you purchase & download. I believe Steam (PC game
software) even has an option to let you burn backups of your downloaded games
to optical media and can let you split it across multiple discs if it's too
big.
Speaking of optical discs, I thought LightScribe was cool when LightScribe was
introduced. The thing is that it's black and white and you often need to burn
the LightScribe image more than once to get it dark enough, but it lets you put
a more professional-looking label onto a disc rather than just writing with a
marker. There are other ways to make a professional-looking disc label, with
color, but I think those involve printing a paper label and sticking it onto
the disc.
Nightfox
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