November 2007
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
4h 55m
English
Computing today has all but done away with the old iconography of the floppy disk in the striped shirt pocket. We don’t put files on removable disks anymore; we email them to each other or stick them on web servers. About the only place we see floppy disks in any kind of useful role anymore is in much-loved but quaintly outdated geek movies like Office Space.
But we do still occasionally have a need to take our data with us. Whether it’s an installer CD for an application, a DVD movie we created with a camcorder, or a playlist of favorite songs, we like to be able to burn our files to blank optical discs and take them with us. CD-Rs and DVD-Rs are session based, meaning that they don’t have the immediacy and read/write ...