** Reply to message from "Matt T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:21:47 +0700
> On Monday 29 October 2007, Stan Goodman wrote: > > ** Reply to message from "Rajko M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, 27 Oct > > 2007 16:59:40 -0500 > .... > > > > What, by the way, is "BurnFree"? It is nice that the developer knows what > > it is, but it may be overoptimistic to expect a new user to guess the > > meaning of the term. > > Don't complain about the developers - this burnfree stuff is a hardware > feature of some burners, and has different names at the different > manufacturers. You might want to check your burner's manual or your friends > google and yahoo to see if your burner supports it. I stand corrected. The fact remains that the term was used without a clue to its meaning. If that is done very often, which it is, a user is required to do research on great large quantities of unexplained terms, wasting kajillions of user-hours, which a developer could save by adding a few explanatory words to his Help file. That pertains, of course, to those developers who have taken the trouble to provide a Help file at all. The Toshiba web page for this drive (Toshiba SD-R5372) says nothing about BurnFree, but does say that the maximum speed is x12, which is lower than the x16 that K3b is trying to feed it. I would not have chosen to burn at x16 or even x12 if I have been offered the choice. So I am still asking: Is it really possible that the K3b software does not offer any possibility of choosing a more conservative speed? If it doesn't, is that really typical of all available burner applications for Linux? For SUSE? One of the major reasons that I have never used Windows is the Redmond assumption that "Gates knows best". It is very hard for me to believe that Linux (or SUSE) has a similar approach. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel "A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why ships are built." -- John Stedd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
