Re: OpenSource alternatives for cdrecord.prodvd?

2003-12-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
>From: Jan =?iso-8859-1?q?L=FChr?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >as far as trust (not as in tusted computing ;) and security are concerned >Closed source is not an altanative for me :( Well, look at what SuSE does (discussed here recently), they offer open Source but publish insecure software. Unless

Re: Problem with LG cd-rw HL-DT-ST GCE-8520B

2003-12-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
>From: "Mihai Florescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The problem is that the cd-rw can't copy from a cd to hard disk >anything. This happens only in Windows XP. Strange is that in XP can write >to a cd without any trouble. > I don't know what to do. I tried to go to the LG site but it seem

Re: Problem with LG cd-rw HL-DT-ST GCE-8520B

2003-12-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
>From: Lourens Veen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Erm, this mailinglist is about writing CD's and DVD's under UNIX, >most often Linux. Unless you want help upgrading to Linux or some >other UNIX, I don't think we can help you. This definitely is not a Linux only group and a lot of portable software als

Re: CD booting question

2003-12-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Dec 29 21:32:18 2003 >I have been creating bootable (el torrito style) CDs since the >capability was added to mkisofs ages ago. However, from time to time I >find a system which doesn't know how to boot CD and must boot from >floppy. With programs like Linux boot d

Re: cdrtools-2.01a22 ready

2003-12-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
>From: Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WARNING: if you continue to include an illegal reply email address in your mailings, you will be ignored in future! >> >Can you be more specific about the bugs please? Or does that "contain >> >bugs" simply refer to that they're not the latest alpha ver

Re: OpenSource alternatives for cdrecord.prodvd?

2003-12-30 Thread Warly
Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I personally dont trust people who patch cdrecord and do not even succeed to > avoid bugs caused by miss used data structures that I see when only looking > into the patch file for less than a minute. And some do not trust people who selfishly hide

Re: cdrtools-2.01a22 ready

2003-12-30 Thread Andy Polyakov
> Cdda2wav (By Heiko Eißfeldt [EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > - Now using the major() macro for some Linux duties. > > WARNING to creators of Linux distributions: As such wording sounds very much as "political statement," I feel necessity to comment on following. > It has _always_

dvd+rw-tools 5.15/.16 under HP-UX

2003-12-30 Thread Andy Polyakov
It turned out that dvd+rw-tools 5.15/.16 suffer from subtle HP-UX kernel bug. growisofs (and other programs) may exhibit random behaviour such as dumping core or failure to proceed with invalid file descriptor error. The bug is recognized by HP and kernel patches are scheduled for release, but not

Re: OpenSource alternatives for cdrecord.prodvd?

2003-12-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joerg Schilling wrote: From: Jan =?iso-8859-1?q?L=FChr?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> as far as trust (not as in tusted computing ;) and security are concerned Closed source is not an altanative for me :( Well, look at what SuSE does (discussed here recently), they offer open Source but pu

Re: OpenSource alternatives for cdrecord.prodvd?

2003-12-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
>From: Jan =?iso-8859-1?q?L=FChr?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >as far as trust (not as in tusted computing ;) and security are concerned >Closed source is not an altanative for me :( Well, look at what SuSE does (discussed here recently), they offer open Source but publish insecure software. Unless

Re: Problem with LG cd-rw HL-DT-ST GCE-8520B

2003-12-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
>From: "Mihai Florescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The problem is that the cd-rw can't copy from a cd to hard disk >anything. This happens only in Windows XP. Strange is that in XP can write >to a cd without any trouble. > I don't know what to do. I tried to go to the LG site but it seem

Re: Problem with LG cd-rw HL-DT-ST GCE-8520B

2003-12-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
>From: Lourens Veen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Erm, this mailinglist is about writing CD's and DVD's under UNIX, >most often Linux. Unless you want help upgrading to Linux or some >other UNIX, I don't think we can help you. This definitely is not a Linux only group and a lot of portable software als

Re: CD booting question

2003-12-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Dec 29 21:32:18 2003 >I have been creating bootable (el torrito style) CDs since the >capability was added to mkisofs ages ago. However, from time to time I >find a system which doesn't know how to boot CD and must boot from >floppy. With programs like Linux boot d

Re: OpenSource alternatives for cdrecord.prodvd?

2003-12-30 Thread Warly
Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I personally dont trust people who patch cdrecord and do not even succeed to > avoid bugs caused by miss used data structures that I see when only looking > into the patch file for less than a minute. And some do not trust people who selfishly hide

Re: cdrtools-2.01a22 ready

2003-12-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
>From: Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WARNING: if you continue to include an illegal reply email address in your mailings, you will be ignored in future! >> >Can you be more specific about the bugs please? Or does that "contain >> >bugs" simply refer to that they're not the latest alpha ver

Re: cdrtools-2.01a22 ready

2003-12-30 Thread Andy Polyakov
> Cdda2wav (By Heiko Eißfeldt [EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > - Now using the major() macro for some Linux duties. > > WARNING to creators of Linux distributions: As such wording sounds very much as "political statement," I feel necessity to comment on following. > It has _always_

dvd+rw-tools 5.15/.16 under HP-UX

2003-12-30 Thread Andy Polyakov
It turned out that dvd+rw-tools 5.15/.16 suffer from subtle HP-UX kernel bug. growisofs (and other programs) may exhibit random behaviour such as dumping core or failure to proceed with invalid file descriptor error. The bug is recognized by HP and kernel patches are scheduled for release, but not

Re: OpenSource alternatives for cdrecord.prodvd?

2003-12-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joerg Schilling wrote: From: Jan =?iso-8859-1?q?L=FChr?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> as far as trust (not as in tusted computing ;) and security are concerned Closed source is not an altanative for me :( Well, look at what SuSE does (discussed here recently), they offer open Source but publ