crash or burn?

[Christopher Lees]

On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 12:00 +0100, Todd wrote:
> 
> I always had major problems burning CDs with Windows. If I even so much 
> as coughed, let alone trying to do something major on Windows such as 
> opening a program, while I was trying to burn a CD I would more often 
> than not end up with a coaster and the system would freeze.
> 
> The following clip shows me trying to make my Ubuntu crash by: burning a 
> DVD, scanning a image, watching a DVD, opening and closing numerous 
> programs all at the same on a AMD XP 2600 with 512 Meg of Ram and a 50GB HD.
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1uCM_fAtmU
> 
> Cheers
> Todd

There is actually a program in the Ubuntu repositories which allows you
to burn to multiple CDs at the same time if you have multiple optical
drives. You can also do it "manually" by using two burning programs at
the same time. My computer's system bus isn't so crash hot so it might
have been faster to burn one at a time, but still this demonstrates how
powerful Linux is. Plus, I was using the Dapper kernel at the time -
maybe 2.6.20-16 would work better.

I have also ripped two CDs simultaneously with great results.