Copy any financial data and important personal files on to a disk or data storage device to put in your safe or safe deposit box.

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When the game is to be played, the reproduction device conveys the disk ID and a player ID to the use permission tag.

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Interrupting the reboot process only long enough to change the initial boot device in BIOS from CD-ROM to disk, I impatiently watched Linux boot, waiting for the login prompt to appear.

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The use permission tag stores the terms of use of the game and determines whether a combination of the disk ID and the player ID conveyed from the reproduction device fulfils the terms of use or not.

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The secret to packing that much information on such small real estate--about 15 times denser than the densest data storage device currently in existence--is self-assembly, or tricking the disk's materials into organizing into an array of data-storing dots packed far tighter than what could be accomplished with current techniques.

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The device also comes standard with 4GB RAM, expandable to 8GB, and a 320GB 7200rpm hard disk drive, with an optional 128GB solid state drive available.

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Key to the device is what's missing: Instead of the optical drive built into most other portable devices, the MacBook Air can wirelessly borrow another device's optical drive, so that it can access software or data stored on a disk.

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