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Darren New wrote:
> Stefan Viljoen wrote:
>> Anoia indeed.
>
> Wait till your CD gets stuck in your car's CD player. Fortunately it was
> still under warrantee.
Yikes! I can see that being a bit more of a problem. However I'm so
frustrated now I feel I could take an axe to my car's dashboard, if the disc
was in there.
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Stefan Viljoen
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Stefan Viljoen wrote:
> What do your double-sided discs contain? A game's data?
Usually Pan&Scan vs Widescreen movies.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".
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Stefan Viljoen <pov### [at] polard com> wrote:
> How do you do it?
.....
tok@linuxbox:~$ man eject
tok@linuxbox:~$ eject -t dvd
From the manual:
-t With this option the drive is given a CD-ROM tray close command.
Not all devices support this command.
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Tor Olav
http://subcube.com
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Stefan Viljoen wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> Would now be a bad time to mention that I own disks with data on both
>> sides?
>
> Probably! :)
>
> I've only seen such discs with the Flight Simulator X FSX "Global" expansion
> pack...
>
> What do your double-sided discs contain? A game's data?
>
I remember one of the computer bundle CDs did that. I think it contained
Wing Commander, Syndicate, and some other stuff. And I have a DVD set
that put movies on both sides of a disc, rather than spend the extra
money for 3 discs in a box.
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Stefan Viljoen wrote:
> ... you put that silver round thingy on
> there.
lol, truly a nice kind person :-)
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Stefan Viljoen wrote:
> A friend of mine says doing it "my way" can damage the drive and / or the
> tray mechanism - I can understand that if you bend or ram the tray closed,
> but if you just gently touch it until it starts closing by itself?
Your friend is right, CD/DVDs are actually fragile, and careful handling
will give it more useful lifetime. so just gently put the "silver round
thingy" on it and push the close/open tray button. :-)
Thank "sensing" and eventually destructive behavior is what user tend to
do out of comfortability of use and exactly what the makers wants users
to do, so they can sell more units. Any PC tech with some experience
will tell you the same.
Cheers.
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Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
> tok@linuxbox:~$ man eject
> tok@linuxbox:~$ eject -t dvd
>
> From the manual:
>
> -t With this option the drive is given a CD-ROM tray close command.
> Not all devices support this command.
There is also a version of this for Windows floating around somewhere.
Bizarely, it works for remote PCs too. The author suggests using this to
freak people out...
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> A friend of mine says doing it "my way" can damage the drive and / or the
> tray mechanism -
Nah, they are designed and tested to be closed your way. If you ram the
tray in too hard repeatedly then maybe some of the teeth on the gears will
wear off, but I think that's quite unlikely unless you're deliberately
trying to break it.
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Invisible wrote:
> Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
>
>> tok@linuxbox:~$ man eject
>> tok@linuxbox:~$ eject -t dvd
>>
>> From the manual:
>>
>> -t With this option the drive is given a CD-ROM tray close
>> command.
>> Not all devices support this command.
>
> There is also a version of this for Windows floating around somewhere.
> Bizarely, it works for remote PCs too. The author suggests using this to
> freak people out...
Naw, if I want to freak someone out I VNC in while they are editing some
text and keep mixing up their spelling. Or if they try to click an icon you
move the cursor just a few pixels off target. Nasty, and everybody who has
ever seen VNC has probably done it, but great fun while it lasts.
One guy took about 15 seconds before he wanted to ram the PC off the
desktop.
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Stefan Viljoen
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Sabrina Kilian wrote:
> Stefan Viljoen wrote:
>> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> Would now be a bad time to mention that I own disks with data on both
>>> sides?
>>
>> Probably! :)
>>
>> I've only seen such discs with the Flight Simulator X FSX "Global"
>> expansion pack...
>>
>> What do your double-sided discs contain? A game's data?
>>
>
> I remember one of the computer bundle CDs did that. I think it contained
> Wing Commander, Syndicate, and some other stuff. And I have a DVD set
> that put movies on both sides of a disc, rather than spend the extra
> money for 3 discs in a box.
Interesting, this is very rarely seen here in DVD sets or games. Most of the
times you get physically separate discs, not one effectively molded back-to-
back.
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Stefan Viljoen
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