> Even though some of us on this list may have had burners for five
>years or more, they are still not particularly common on UNIX systems,
>and many people boot other operating systems to use them even if they
>have them.
>
>--
> -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
> last possible moment - but no longer" -me
I agree. I do have a SCSI burner that I can use on any platform, but
since it's a lot easier to do anything on Macintosh or Winblows, I
just use it on Linux to do some backups...all the other CD burning is
done mostly on Macs or Windows.
Have any of you used Adaptec's Toast on a Mac? I know that for
command-line gurus, a nice interface could be hard to accept, but the
truth is that just dragging files over a window allows me to get
things done, fast and easy. Not to mention that the day that the CD
burner got to the lab we just plugged it in and started burning!
On the other hand, I need to have the command line power to do
scripting and to automate my backups...but i don't think that command
line power should go together with a difficult setup and
configuration. Neither do i think that command line power should go
together with having to know how is SCSI supposed to be layered in
Linux or how its interaction with IDE is. Many people perhaps like to
have this knowledge, and many people enjoy discussing this things,
which is great, but they have to be an option and not a forced step
for having things working.
Having the ability to do things fast and easy, having access to power
and flexibility of use (command -line) and having access to control
of how the system talks to its hardware is what we all expect once
everything gets to maturity.
PS: do any of you know how to burn audio tracks without having an
intermediate file written on disk first (mp3 or wav)?
Lic. Fernan Aguero
Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnologicas
Universidad Nacional de General San Martin
INTI, Edificio 24
1650 San Martin
Argentina
Tel: (54-11) 4752-0021, 4580-7255
Fax: (54-11) 4752-9639
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