[k3b] Re: Need help, please, with burning DVDs

[Basil Chupin]

On 04/04/2011 04:38, rikona wrote:
> Hello Basil,
>
> Sunday, April 3, 2011, 7:31:00 AM, Basil wrote:
>
>>>> (BTW, reading the search results in google re the problem only confirms
>>>> what others have said which is that it is easier and quicker to ask in
>>>> this mail list rather than go wading thru google-doogle: the most recent
>>>> advices seen in the doogle were dated 2008 while some went back to 2004
>>>> or so - not exactly up-to-date information.)
> I share your frustration. In working on a problem I had, I first went
> to the web. Right away I found a 'solution'. Tried it, it didn't work.
> Looked some more, and found a few more 'solutions', none of which
> worked either. As you noted, some of these were older solutions that
> don't work anymore, but even some new ones didn't either. Even the
> Ubuntu site has older stuff that doesn't work in the newer version.
> Trying some of these 'solutions' actually messed up the system even
> worse, and I ended up with more problems than I had at the beginning.

Yes, I've "fallen" for this myself: find what you consider to be the 
solution only to find that either the one providing the solution omitted 
some part in what s/he wrote or had a typo which then produced a 
disastrous result.


> What led to somewhat better solutions was to restrict G searches to
> only the most recent ones. Turned out a mix of new and somewhat old
> info was what was needed, so a simple time-restricted search is only
> somewhat helpful.

I'll try this approach next time.


> Given the above, the best solution is to ask on the list and hope some
> guru will be helpful rather than hostile. If it's a bit complex,
> perhaps the guru might point you to the one(s) that work, out of the
> perhaps dozens that don't work.

I can fully understand why some people give the "RTFM" response. I've 
spent innumerable hours in talking people thru their problems, and when 
the same questions come up time after time after time then one becomes 
jaded and finds (just a smidgen of sadistic) satisfaction in writing, 
"RTFM!" :-) .

But, of course, this is the wrong thing to do.

I think it was in the Sounder list that someone very recently - (?)a few 
days ago - pointed out that there should be a better way of providing 
people with info about a distro; and today there is another post which 
suggests that it is no longer acceptable in the Linux environment to 
keep squawking that "It is not Windows!" and then rely on having people 
to fend for themselves and go searching thru something like Launcher to 
find an answer.

BC

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