Re: cd burning question

2005-06-20 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Jun 20 at 4:11pm, Kevin D. Clark wrote: Lately when I burn Fedora ISOs to CD I get a strange error. P.S: I forgot to mention the obvious: Did you verify the MD5/SHA1 checksums on your downloaded image files? Sometimes we forget the obvious. I just did, for example. :) -- Ben <[EMAI

Re: cd burning question

2005-06-20 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Jun 20 at 4:11pm, Kevin D. Clark wrote: Oh, by the way, my Fedora Core 4 disks, even though they failed the media check, still installed fine on one of my test boxes. I expect you know this, but: Unless you install every package, it is likely a bad disc will still "work". Even then, ther

Re: cd burning question

2005-06-20 Thread Jason Stephenson
It has been a while since I last used cdrecord, but FWIW, I don't see any errors in the output that you provided. It looks like a clean burn. I've been having some issues on a different OS with different burning software using CD-RW discs. The odd thing is that if I mount the iso and the burne

Re: Sometimes, I think Zawinski just might be right.

2005-06-20 Thread Jason Stephenson
Paul Lussier wrote: [...] I'm more inclined to blame AbiWord... It sounds like it's generating bad postscript. Especially since it sounds like you can't even export to PS and open it with a ps application (incidently, did you try using gv or ghostview rather than xpdf?). I'm inclined to blame

Re: cd burning question

2005-06-20 Thread Michael Nolin
The last Fedora 3 I burned with your ISO's :) > nice -10 cdrecord dev=0,0 -v -date ./image.iso Not a far from what you are using there. The biggest mistake I made was not checking the magic numbers before assuming it was a good burn. I ran the media check on the machine I intended to install th

cd burning question

2005-06-20 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Lately when I burn Fedora ISOs to CD I get a strange error. When I boot the disk I am offered the opportunity to do a media test. So, I run this test and it always fails, for all of the CDs. However, I have seen this exact test work with CDs burned by other people. Unfortunately, I don't know

Re: Causes of router/switch hangs?

2005-06-20 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 05:01:26PM -0400, Hewitt Tech wrote: > No MRI systems that I am aware of at one facility (the one where the Netgear > router fell over) but there is an MRI van parked just outside the building > at the other facility (probably within 100' of the wiring closet where the > Lin

Re: Disk duplicators

2005-06-20 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jun 18, 2005, at 18:56, Benjamin Scott wrote: These days, with Hi-Speed USB-to-IDE adapters so plentiful, I wonder if it wouldn't be cheaper and just-as-nice to just buy a bunch of those and use "dd" or the like. I've yet to try the multithreaded dd on a USB bus but the typical dd doesn

Re: [OT] All TV is bad?

2005-06-20 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jun 19, 2005, at 12:30, Jim Kuzdrall wrote: To demonstrate this point to your satisfaction (or not), write out the dialog from one such program you find typical. (Sometimes you can get a transcript from their web site.) Since the video is just pretty pictures, this transcript is all of

Re: All TV is bad?

2005-06-20 Thread Tom Buskey
On 6/19/05, Jim Kuzdrall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 18 June 2005 10:39 pm, Tom Buskey wrote: > > > Don't bother with the TV. You're not missing anything. Really. > > > > I can agree that watching TV is probably better for you, but nothing > > on? Well... > > > > I like many of the hi

Re: Causes of router/switch hangs?

2005-06-20 Thread Bill Sconce
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 17:01:26 -0400 "Hewitt Tech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No MRI systems that I am aware of at one facility (the one where the Netgear > router fell over) but there is an MRI van parked just outside the building > at the other facility (probably within 100' of the wiring closet