I've just had a thought.

Backing up all our essential information on CD takes various forms, with various programs, exel, word, TIFF, jpeg scans etc.

How about a copy of knoppix/ mandrake move/ damn small linux on one CD,with all that essential information in whatever format on another CD. Then you would essentially have your operating system with you all the time and not be dependant on whatever system you find which may not be able to read your file.

This is from someone whose only exposure with linux is Mac OS X. I have ordered the knoppix cd and will test it on my Windoze machine soon.

Just a thought.
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