High Density CDs 370
goofrider writes "Sanyo introduced a new format called HD-Burn, supported by their new DVD+/-RW chip. It allows the drive to burn up 1.4GB of data using a regular 700MB blank CD-R blank. The resulting HD-Burned CD-R can only be read by supporting DVD/DVD-ROM drives and CD-ROM drives. Most DVD/DVD-ROM drives can support the format via a firmware upgrade. It's unclear how easy and how likely will it be for future drives to support this format. In contrast, Plextor released their new GigaRec technology in their new PlexWriter Premium (read a review here). GigaRec also records on regular blank CD-Rs, allows up to 1GB of data on a 700MB disc. however, the disc can be read on any modern good-quality CD-ROM drives with no firmware upgrades required. So now I can record 2x the data on a CD-R but I still can't have filenames longer than 64 characters. :)"
When do we start punching holes in them? (Score:5, Funny)
When do we start punching holes in them and flipping them over?
You can have filenames as long as you like (Score:2, Funny)
I still can't have filenames longer than 64 charac (Score:5, Funny)
Re:When do we start punching holes in them? (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah, so do I. Except we called it "choking the chicken".
Get a Mac (Score:4, Funny)
Why not? Don't you have a Macintosh?
Bah, I developed this myself.... (Score:5, Funny)
I rewrote my drivers some time ago to provide exactly this level of performance, through the simple but clever technique of only writing 1's to the CD and skipping all the 0's, which the CD drive never reads anyhow.
Well, okay, I rewrote the "write" portion of the code. The "read" portion is still giving me trouble, but I'm confident it's just a matter of time.
64 (Score:4, Funny)
ThisIsA64CharacterFilenameBoyIsItLongImSureDespera teToUse65.txt
Yea, i'm worried :)
Ah, excellent! (Score:3, Funny)
Jeez (Score:5, Funny)
Yes its such a bitch to pay 20 cents for a CD-R and not be able to name your backups 'thursdayaprilthirtyfirsttwothousandthreeelevenfi
'thursdayaprilthi
64 Characters !?! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Bah, I developed this myself.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Get a Mac (Score:2, Funny)
- Why not? Don't you have a Macintosh?
Remember that you can put some of the information inside the file.
Re:Bah, I developed this myself.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Bah, I developed this myself.... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Recursive compression (Score:4, Funny)
to further compress the 32 4-byte number(32 bits)?
It would then only take 5 bits.
You could then just memorize the number and you wouldn't need a CD at all.
Re:You can have filenames as long as you like (Score:5, Funny)
True story:
Back in my days of tech support for DOS-based academics, I was trying to help a user recover some files after a crash. The file naming scheme seemed really weird, so I asked her about it. She explained she was really frustrated by only getting 8 + 3 charachters for a filename, and then she discovered you could make filenames as long as you wanted, you just had to put a back-slash afer every eight charachters. I did not attempt to explain directories.
Re:Need more than 64 characters, try this... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:You can have filenames as long as you like (Score:3, Funny)
you must really suck (Score:1, Funny)
On a k6-2 350, with a voodoo3 video card and 128M RAM, running Redhat 8.0 I have never only seen the windows being drawn when I am running a ton of stuff. On a 2000+ with a gf3ti200 or radeon 9500pro and 512M RAM, running Redhat 9.0 or Mandrake 9.1 I have never seen windows being drawn.
You really need to learn how to configure your computer.... well, learn to do that after you learn how to shop for cheaper components.