<!DOCTYPE html><html><head> <style type="text/css">body { font-family:'Ubuntu Medium'; font-size:12px}</style> </head> <body><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Fritz,</div><div><br></div><div>Some people are just more risk-averse than others. You like your Powermac, fine for you; you look for the option on the Brasero sort-of-menu that sort of promises what you want, and ignore all the others and their dimly-implied possibiities, go ahead. But I'm trying to concentrate the probably few remaining years of my life on choices with clearer implications. Had my fun mastering obscure packages and writing helps for newbies years ago, thank you, and enjoyed it. Wasted a lot of time. Not now.</div><div><br></div><div>Peace,</div><div>Basil</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>PS Ok, how about <em>this</em> for a keep-it-simple Brasero menu:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> You gotta image to burn (.iso, directory, etc)? OK! Bring it on, baby!</div><div>1. Burn Image to CD/DVD</div><div><br></div><div> No? Need to make an image first? Oh, OK! Not really my scene, but if you insist:</div><div>2. Audio project </div><div>3. Video project</div><div>4. Download from internet</div><div>5. Create file with word-processor</div><div>6. Download .jpg(s) from smartphone</div><div>.</div><div>.</div><div>17. Sing a happy song into the mike and capture it on Audacity</div><div><br></div><div> Go back to 1 when you're ready for burning matters.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Frankly, I don't want my disk-burning software to have that whole second section. That's why, for simple, I appreciate xfburn now that I've used it a bit.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Somewhere in the days of Nero, the terminology became horribly divorced from normal usage, and instead of "burn" implying an intense heat (laser-generated, normally, and frenetically melting tiny pits into specially made plastic media like CDs), it became identified with placidly collecting data into a (temporary?) ensemble on {magnetic} media prior to, what else can we decently call it but burning thermally onto non-magnetic (optical) media? These days with high retrieval speeds from HDU and SSDs, plus ample RAM buffering, this intermediate step is needed far less often. Surely we can officially require "burn" to mean "burn" now and take the lead-up preparation and assembly - if needed - of data for granted? </div><div><br></div><div>Looks like the Brasero-menu author may have thought so too. But who from the layout of the menu and the strange use of "project" would believe it? Too risky for me. Given the reassurance from Fritz, maybe I'll try burning a/1/one CD/DVD with Brasero; but invest time in building up a long-term stable relationship with it? No thanks, I've got a real project needing some Forth programming of Bluetooth on Raspberry Pi to spend my time on... that's less risky. Oops, in Forth you have to be careful with your words. One word, one function. No problem, I can handle it.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 04:57:17 +0200, Fritz Hudnut <este.el.paz@gmail.com> wrote:<br></div><br><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0.80ex; border-left: #0000FF 2px solid; padding-left: 1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":17q" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden"> <br> <br> or a Burn image<br> ("project" assumed). Gathering distant and unhappy recollections, I think<br> these could be better headed and grouped as</div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Basil:<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Keep it simple . . . if you have an iso to burn, click on the "Burn Image" button . . . . It will then, burn the image . . . .<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">F<br></div></div> </blockquote><br><br><br><div id="M2Signature"><div>-- </div><div>Using Opera's mail client: <a href="http://www.opera.com/mail/">http://www.opera.com/mail/</a></div></div></body></html>