RE: Re: Getting DVDs onto a hard drive

["Paul Gale" <groups2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

;)

My elec bill is about the same, maybe a bit higher.

Paul.



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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Phil Harris
> Sent: 02 April 2007 11:18
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: Getting DVDs onto a hard drive
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> > OK cool - Are your drives all permanently on or do you switch
them on
> > as and when?
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> Nowadays the Mac is set to spin the drives down when not in use
because
> I
> spend so much time away from here for work ... the problem with that
is
> that
> spinning up and reading the directories of 23 drives in sequence
> obviously
> takes quite a bit of time - several minutes in fact - which is not
> acceptable when you want to watch a movie so when I'm using the movies
> server regularly I do set the Mac to leave the drives spinning.
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> > I guess your carbon footprint is bigger than most ;)
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> I'll leave the obvious hilarious japes to the rest of my
"mates" here
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> post however my 'leccy bill is about =A390 a month at the moment - is
> that
> bad? ;-)
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> (And as for Carbon Footprint ... That never worried me before and
since
> "The
> Great Global Warming Swindle" then I worry about it even less.)
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> Phil
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