PLUG: OT: ADV:ETC - Good training for mouse-challenged *nix people

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2005, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>Quoting Bill Campbell (Sun, 18 Dec 2005 22:35:13 -0800):
>[...]
>> Reading the rest of this e-mail reminded me that I learned Scripsit,
>> Visicalc, and several other programs that Radio Shack sold 25 years ago
>> from the audio tapes that came with the packages.  Perhaps Scripsit was
>> less sophisticated (bloated) than the current crop of word processors,
>> but it got the job done, and fit on a 640k 8in floppy with room to
>> spare for reasonably large documents.  I found the audio tapes quite
>> satisfactory.
>[...]
>
>I recently bought a new XP system from HP.
>
>To save money, they no longer supply media, but rather have a separate
>partition on the drive which holds the recovery data.  (The spin is
>that "you can't lose it".)  They do, however, include software which
>will allow you to burn your own media.  It took 4 DVDs!

Of course if the hard drive is toast, and you haven't made the media...

When I went to make a backup copy of the SuSE 9.3 Professional DVD, I found
that it was a dual layer DVD with something over 7gb.

Bill
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