On Nov 15, 2013, at 10:10 PM, Kenneth R Westerback <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 09:28:50PM -0600, Paul Frank Covello wrote: >> >> On Nov 15, 2013, at 9:06 PM, Kenneth R Westerback <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 08:06:06PM -0600, Paul Frank Covello wrote: >>>> On 11/15/13, 7:38 PM, Paul Frank Covello wrote: >>>>> On Nov 15, 2013, at 7:17 PM, Brett Mahar <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 18:52:21 -0600 >>>>>> Paul Frank Covello <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> | While attempting to follow the instructions in FAQ 4.3.1. (Making a >>>>>> CD-ROM) I >>>>>> | ran into the following issue: >>>>>> | >>>>>> | # cdio tao install54.iso >>>>>> | cdio: The media can't be written in TAO mode >>>>>> | # >>>>>> | >>>>>> | >>>>>> | This is the amd64 image on your site. >>>>>> | >>>>>> | Thank you. >>>>>> | >>>>>> >>>>>> Did you try "# cdio blank" first? >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Apologies to the list for being stupid. The drive that was given to me >>>>> is NOT a burner. >>>>> >>>>> I will go hide my head in the sand for a while. >>>> Not to excuse my stupidity, but since I have arrived here... I >>>> might as well request / suggest to one of the developers if there >>>> was a way to display a better error message along the lines of "Your >>>> drive does not support recording" or some such. >>> >>> Hmm. Be nice if that is possible. I'll put that on my todo list. >>> >>> .... Ken >>> >>>> >>>> Sorry again for the spam. >>>> >> >> I thought I >was< asking nice!? >> >> cultural differences I guess. >> > > I was saying that the ability to display that information would be nice, > not exhorting you to be nice. If I was being snarky I would have put a > comma between the 'nice' and the 'if possible'. I love english. :-) > > .... Ken Yeah…. for all I know, there might be a few less wars in the world if english was not around. :-) It is times like these when I recall a passage from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the galaxy… It is of course well known that careless talk costs lives, but the full scale of the problem is not always appreciated. For instance, at the exact moment you said "DISREGARD THAT" a freak wormhole opened in the fabric of the space-time continuum and carried your words far far back in time across almost infinite reaches of space to a distant galaxy where strange and warlike beings were poised on the brink of frightful interstellar battle. The two opposing leaders were meeting for the last time. A dreadful silence fell across the conference table as the commander of the Vl'Hurgs, resplendent in his black jeweled battle shorts, gazed levelly at the G'Gugvunt leader squatting opposite him in a cloud of green, sweet-smelling steam. As a million sleek and horribly beweaponed star cruisers poised to unleash electric death at his single word of command, the Vl'Hurg challenged his vile enemy to take back what it had said about his mother. The creature stirred in its sickly broiling vapour, and at that very moment the words "DISREGARD THAT" drifted across the conference table. Unfortunately, in the Vl'Hurg tongue this was the most dreadful insult imaginable, and there was nothing for it but to wage terrible war for centuries. Eventually the error was detected, but over two hundred and fifty thousand worlds, their peoples and cultures perished in the holocaust. You have destroyed most of a small galaxy. Please pick your words with greater care.
