Re: jewelcase insert for 5.0.7 Lenny Official i386 xfce+lxde-CD

2010-12-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 03 dec 10, 02:44:20, Doug wrote: It seems to me that Eric should be making covers for Squeeze, since it has now been finalized. At this point, I would think that anyone who wants to load a Debian distro would immediately use the latest stable version, which is Squeeze. Did I miss some

Re: jewelcase insert for 5.0.7 Lenny Official i386 xfce+lxde-CD

2010-12-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday, December 03, 2010 01:35:21 you wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. writes: ] In 87r5dz4eta@ixian.com, Eric De Mund wrote: ] Hello. Jewelcase insert made for myself so that the disc's SHA512 ] checksum and size were both right on the front, easy for me to see. ] ] Have you considered

Re: jewelcase insert for 5.0.7 Lenny Official i386 xfce+lxde-CD

2010-12-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 20101203080012.gi3...@think.homelan, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Vi, 03 dec 10, 02:44:20, Doug wrote: It seems to me that Eric should be making covers for Squeeze, since it has now been finalized. At this point, I would think that anyone who wants to load a Debian distro would immediately use

Re: jewelcase insert for 5.0.7 Lenny Official i386 xfce+lxde-CD

2010-12-03 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 02:43:30 -0500 Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net dijo: I have found that Light-Scribe is a surer way to know what's on a disk, and if you're into jewel cases, you can read right thru the empty top. Your idea of distributing them alongside the distro is a good one, but the problem

Re: jewelcase insert for 5.0.7 Lenny Official i386 xfce+lxde-CD

2010-12-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 03 dec 10, 02:06:56, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Friday, December 03, 2010 01:35:21 you wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. writes: ] In 87r5dz4eta@ixian.com, Eric De Mund wrote: ] Hello. Jewelcase insert made for myself so that the disc's SHA512 ] checksum and size were both right

Re: jewelcase insert for 5.0.7 Lenny Official i386 xfce+lxde-CD

2010-12-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 4cf89fa2.2010...@optonline.net, Doug wrote: I have found that Light-Scribe is a surer way to know what's on a disk, and if you're into jewel cases, you can read right thru the empty top. While a LightScribe image would be nice, I prefer a jewel case insert. Last time I checked LightScribe

Re: jewelcase insert for 5.0.7 Lenny Official i386 xfce+lxde-CD

2010-12-03 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 03. 12. 2010 09:11:44 je John Jason Jordan napisal(a): Regarding Lightscribe, I built myself a desktop a couple years ago and paid a couple bucks extra for DVD drives with Lightscribe. Eventually I got them working under Linux. And then I discovered that they do only grayscale, and at a

Re: jewelcase insert for 5.0.7 Lenny Official i386 xfce+lxde-CD

2010-12-03 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 03. 12. 2010 09:12:48 je Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. napisal(a): Getting in contact with the release team might get Eric a SHA before the official release date though, so that the jewel case inserts can be prepared and released at the same time as the images. ??? Isn't SHA bound to

Re: jewelcase insert for 5.0.7 Lenny Official i386 xfce+lxde-CD

2010-12-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 1291365913.1496...@compax, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 03. 12. 2010 09:12:48 je Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. napisal(a): Getting in contact with the release team might get Eric a SHA before the official release date though, so that the jewel case inserts can be prepared and released at the same time

Re: jewelcase insert for 5.0.7 Lenny Official i386 xfce+lxde-CD

2010-12-03 Thread Joey Hess
John Jason Jordan wrote: I'm not suggesting that Debian needs to be on a fancy, professional CD, because Debian is not really aiming at the newbie Linux user like Ubuntu. I'm just saying that a professionally created CD enhances your credibility. http://www.debian.org/CD/artwork/ -- see shy

Re: jewelcase insert for 5.0.7 Lenny Official i386 xfce+lxde-CD

2010-12-03 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Jason Jordan wrote: As a university graduate student I come in contact with a lot of people who see my computer running Linux. This gives me an opportunity to introduce them to Linux. In the past I always carried an Ubuntu-32 live CD to hand

Re: jewelcase insert for 5.0.7 Lenny Official i386 xfce+lxde-CD

2010-12-03 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Sex, 03 Dez 2010, Ken Heard wrote: So it is all in the packaging? Your sharpie they did not trust, but a CD made by you but with the pretty Ubuntu picture put there by you on the same CD download as the one with the sharpie they did trust. How naive can people be? They're so naive in this

Re: jewelcase insert for 5.0.7 Lenny Official i386 xfce+lxde-CD

2010-12-03 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 11:24:01 -0500 Ken Heard k...@heard.name dijo: John Jason Jordan wrote: Windows users (especially) are terrified of malware. As well they ought to be, considering the OS they run. My CD with Ubuntu-32 written on it with a sharpie did not impress them. But later I acquired

jewelcase insert for 5.0.7 Lenny Official i386 xfce+lxde-CD

2010-12-02 Thread Eric De Mund
All, Hello. Jewelcase insert made for myself so that the disc's SHA512 checksum and size were both right on the front, easy for me to see. Perhaps others, too, might find it useful. Text on cover reads: --- Debian GNU/Linux

Re: jewelcase insert for 5.0.7 Lenny Official i386 xfce+lxde-CD

2010-12-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 87r5dz4eta@ixian.com, Eric De Mund wrote: Hello. Jewelcase insert made for myself so that the disc's SHA512 checksum and size were both right on the front, easy for me to see. Perhaps others, too, might find it useful. You know, I don't use these, but I do find it interesting and

Re: jewelcase insert for 5.0.7 Lenny Official i386 xfce+lxde-CD

2010-12-02 Thread Doug
On 12/03/2010 02:23 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In87r5dz4eta@ixian.com, Eric De Mund wrote: Hello. Jewelcase insert made for myself so that the disc's SHA512 checksum and size were both right on the front, easy for me to see. Perhaps others, too, might find it useful. You know, I

Re: jewelcase insert for 5.0.7 Lenny Official i386 xfce+lxde-CD

2010-12-02 Thread Doug
On 12/03/2010 02:23 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In87r5dz4eta@ixian.com, Eric De Mund wrote: Hello. Jewelcase insert made for myself so that the disc's SHA512 checksum and size were both right on the front, easy for me to see. Perhaps others, too, might find it useful. You know, I