I've had to bake master tapes. It's a very delicate procedure and you need a very accurate oven. It is a one shot deal. When I've done it I've had a print going into ProTools and Sonic Solutions as well as no less than 3 safety copies. (DA-88, DAT, and another analog, usually half inch running at 30 ips.)

It occurs to me that if you're baking a cassette, you can only rescue the stuff on one side. The other side will be ruined after the first pass.

It occurs to me that if you're baking a cassette, you can only rescue the stuff on one side. The other side will be ruined after the first pass.

Unless you run it through a four-track cassette deck. Of course then you'd end up with two stereo signals, one backwards.

Man, can anyone explain Apple's reasoning behind the Tiger Media Exchange program?

In some ways, Steve Jobs is to computer users what George Lucas is to movie theaters: trying to force the consumer to embrace future technology. Lucas did it with digital film on his Star Wars movies forcing theaters to upgrade. Jobs did it when he put out the original Imacs sans floppy drives. My guess is he's doing the same with DVD media, punishing folks who can't use it yet.

They're so damned cute. And a great floppy substitute. I hate seeing all that wasted space on the full sized one.

Burn as a multi-session disk, don't finalise it. Subsequent sessions can add/replace data. Some older drives don't handle multi-session disks well, but those should be few and far between.

Is there anything special to know about an array of objects? I have a function that returns them, but when I try and use a method on the elements (either like $photos[2]->tag() or by assigning $photo[2] to $photo) I get the "Call to a member function on a non-object" error.

But when I do a print_r on either the single variable or the array, it reports them as objects. I even defined $photo as new Photo before the assignment.

I think it's a matter of the DVDs being quicker and easier to produce, and the fact that Tiger is meant for newer machines.

Maybe they figure to add a CD-based installer after the initial thrust.

There was also a lot of complaining when Apple and Microsoft both went to the CD as default install media.

But when they did go CD, Microsoft gave folks the option to get Win95 and Office 95 on floppies. Dozens of floppies. (Yes, I have done floppy based installations of both.)

I got more and more pissed as each new Mac we bought obsoleted another perfectly serviceable peripheral.

I'm annoyed that my Mac can't use the little tiny weirdly shaped CDs, cause I have one or two things that came with stuff, that I'd really love to put on my computer and can't (OK, it's the Nursing Drug Guide 2005, but still!)

It occurs to me that if you're baking a cassette, you can only rescue the stuff on one side. The other side will be ruined after the first pass.

This didn't happen to cassettes. This was with professional open reel tape that was made in the 70's.