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Also,
RE:- CD WRITING - VERSION 2 / This is a hard one.

The CD's need to be kept and updated once per year with all their current
work

IE

When they leave our school they will have a complete CD full of their work
from when they started at our school.

So I Also need to keep in mind the SPACE on the CD over 5 years!.

Again another bummer!!!!

Cheers
JOhn

"Jonnybobs" <> wrote in message
news:SMvrc.734$...
> Also,
> RE:- CD WRITING - VERSION 2 / This is a hard one.
>
> The CD's need to be kept and updated once per year with all their current
> work
>
> IE
>
> When they leave our school they will have a complete CD full of their work
> from when they started at our school.
>
> So I Also need to keep in mind the SPACE on the CD over 5 years!.
>
> Again another bummer!!!!
>
> Cheers
> JOhn
>
>

Whoever in the school dreamed this up needs to have a urine test ASAP.

Well, its a good idea in theory, But it needs to be better planned. But
right now, I have a box of 200 Cdrw's in my office waiting to be burned.!!

The thought of drag, drop, burn and then eject 185 times is quite scary
unless I can come up with a time effective plan!

Is there not a software about that you can semi Automate so that all i need
to do is just change CD every 2 mins?

John

"olfart" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> "Jonnybobs" <> wrote in message
> news:SMvrc.734$...
> > Also,
> > RE:- CD WRITING - VERSION 2 / This is a hard one.
> >
> > The CD's need to be kept and updated once per year with all their
current
> > work
> >
> > IE
> >
> > When they leave our school they will have a complete CD full of their
work
> > from when they started at our school.
> >
> > So I Also need to keep in mind the SPACE on the CD over 5 years!.
> >
> > Again another bummer!!!!
> >
> > Cheers
> > JOhn
> >
> >
>
> Whoever in the school dreamed this up needs to have a urine test ASAP.
>
>
>

I have a lot of free time, so send me a link to the files and I'll do it for
$2/CD!

"Jonnybobs" <> wrote:

>Also,
> RE:- CD WRITING - VERSION 2 / This is a hard one.
>
>The CD's need to be kept and updated once per year with all their current
>work
>
>IE
>
>When they leave our school they will have a complete CD full of their work
>from when they started at our school.
>
>So I Also need to keep in mind the SPACE on the CD over 5 years!.
>
>Again another bummer!!!!
>

Wouldn't worry about that one too much.

DVD burners are now priced close to where CD burners were 2 years ago.
(And CD burners are now priced where CD readers were 2 years ago,)

So before your data gets too large to fit each student onto a CD you
will probably have a DVD burner available.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."

Jonnybobs wrote:

> Also,
> RE:- CD WRITING - VERSION 2 / This is a hard one.
>
> The CD's need to be kept and updated once per year with all their current
> work
>
> IE
>
> When they leave our school they will have a complete CD full of their work
> from when they started at our school.
>
> So I Also need to keep in mind the SPACE on the CD over 5 years!.
>
> Again another bummer!!!!
>

There is no way that these CDs are going to survive 5 years
of handling. Use write-once and hand out a new CD every
year. RW disks are more problem than they are worth for this
application and write-once will be cheaper.

So each year you only have to write out the year's work. By
the end of 5 years, each student will have 5 CDs (They would
probably have got through 5 CDs anyway).

Anyhow, if you are doing this year on year, you can surely
justify the cost of a hopper-fed writer, especially if you
really must individualise each CD.

Have you any estimate of the space, compressed and normal,
that each student is going to need? Have you thought of
using a DVD writer instead, if capacity is a problem? Have
you thought about the unfairness for those students whose
families can't afford a computer? You /do/ realise how
vulnerable dye-based CDs are compared to mass produced ones?
Have you thought about putting their work on a web server,
(maybe password protected for each of them) instead of CDs?
Have you asked parents what they prefer? How about a format
that could be used on a standard DVD player?

"Jonnybobs" <> wrote:

> Well, its a good idea in theory, But it needs to be better
> planned. But right now, I have a box of 200 Cdrw's in my office
> waiting to be burned.!!
>
> The thought of drag, drop, burn and then eject 185 times is quite
> scary unless I can come up with a time effective plan!
>
> Is there not a software about that you can semi Automate so that
> all i need to do is just change CD every 2 mins?
>
> John

Why are you starting 3 threads about the same subject?


> "olfart" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>>
>> "Jonnybobs" <> wrote in message
>> news:SMvrc.734$...
>> > Also,
>> > RE:- CD WRITING - VERSION 2 / This is a hard one.
>> >
>> > The CD's need to be kept and updated once per year with all
>> > their
> current
>> > work
>> >
>> > IE
>> >
>> > When they leave our school they will have a complete CD full of
>> > their
> work
>> > from when they started at our school.
>> >
>> > So I Also need to keep in mind the SPACE on the CD over 5
>> > years!.
>> >
>> > Again another bummer!!!!
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> > JOhn
>> >
>> Whoever in the school dreamed this up needs to have a urine test
>> ASAP.

How do you do that? Crush each student & spread him/her on,
or is there another technique that would be easier to get a
student onto a CD?

"Ron Martell" <> wrote in message
news:...
> "Jonnybobs" <> wrote:
>
> >Also,
> > RE:- CD WRITING - VERSION 2 / This is a hard one.
> >
> >The CD's need to be kept and updated once per year with
all their current
> >work
> >
> >IE
> >
> >When they leave our school they will have a complete CD
full of their work
> >from when they started at our school.
> >
> >So I Also need to keep in mind the SPACE on the CD over 5
years!.
> >
> >Again another bummer!!!!
> >
>
> Wouldn't worry about that one too much.
>
> DVD burners are now priced close to where CD burners were
2 years ago.
> (And CD burners are now priced where CD readers were 2
years ago,)
>
> So before your data gets too large to fit each student
onto a CD you
> will probably have a DVD burner available.
>
> Good luck
>
>
> Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
> --
> Microsoft MVP
> On-Line Help Computer Service
> http://onlinehelp.bc.ca
>
> "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't
eat much."

"Linda" <somewhere.in.the@barossa> wrote in news:fJxrc.2151$L.1287@news-
server.bigpond.net.au:

> How do you do that? Crush each student & spread him/her on,
> or is there another technique that would be easier to get a
> student onto a CD?
>
It's in the manual for Version 3.
The rest of them are still using Version 2.
How did you get ahead of them?


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