> >No sooner did I click on SEND than I was looking through Micro Mart >magazine and saw that a company called Media Madness are selling them >for 30p each 100 on a spindle, or 35p each for 100 in plastic sleeve,
(Which makes it about 60 cents ea.) Still it's cheap (if you take into account the p&p to the UK)... Actually the best place in Europe to buy CDRs is in Greece (you can find 700MB CDs as low as 9 Euro cents...) (If you buy 1000) >both unbranded 16x speed. I've had pretty hit and miss results with >cheap unbranded CDs on my present recorder - most have been quite OK, >a few just wouldn't work with my machine, but gave some of those to >others and they worked OK on a different recorder. Seems that certain >brands work better on certain recorders, at least I presume it's some >feature of the hardware or software on the computer they're written >on, not anything to do with the QXL.WIN QL cds I create. The recorder >concerned is just a simple basic 4x speed rewriter and I always make >sure the CDs are recorded at a speed they are described as being >suitable for. I use the calibrate laser facility found on most good burn programs... that way I am 100% sure every time (No matter how bad the media is) >Hardware wise, there are some pretty good recorders out there now with >features like burn-proof writing, 16x and 24x write (Phil Jordan had >one of those at the Hove workshop and it was impressive) at reasonable >prices. You know what I'm leading up to: when do I get an SMSQE driver >for QPC to write my CDs?!?! > >Oh, speaking of "when do I get...", anyone heard from Jonathan Dent >recently regarding soql TCP/IP and its progress (or lack of)? The (beta) version I have worked extremely well with my BSD box here and with one in Greece where we set it up (Had to because I have no dialup net access). Me *thinks* he's active still (based on obscure and highly classified info I have) Phoebus
