You backup? Yes? No? Maybe?

Something that has always fascinated me is how people don't backup their valuable data and then become upset with the computer techs because the techs didn't stand over them 24-7 like nazis, assuring this procedure happened. What gives with that? Most newer PCs now have CDR/CDRW recording devices and blank CDRs are very inexpensive. CD burning software is manufactured by many companies and easy to use. You select the files, put them in the burn list, make sure you are slightly under 700megs (that's almost 3/4 of a gig!) and hit record. Walk away and a few minutes later the disk is done. Not enough room? Do it again. Simple, easy. Don't have a CDR/CDRW recording device? Nice low cost Christmas present. Hey, ask Santa for one.

The University of Alabama has an excellent tutorial on CD burning.

"Those parts of the computer that you can hit with a ball-peen hammer are called hardware; the program instructions that you can only cuss are called software."
-Billy Wobblynife