I am glad independence day only comes once a year. It sounds like bombs going off outside. I have pretty sensitive ears, so it is hard to get some sleep. The worst thing is that firecrackers, M80’s, etc. are illegal in Illinois, but not in Indiana, so it sounds like Baghdad out there. I wish they would enforce the laws more strictly.
Glenn is getting better at walking, up to 15 steps at a time now!
In geekier news, anyone buying blank DVD-R media, avoid Windata 1-16X media. It seems to burn data (at slower speeds) reliably, but does NOT play DVD-Video in stand alone DVD players or even in the DVD burner it was burned in! I don’t have detailed specs on the disks, the information encoded on the blank disks is minimal. The worst thing is that is looks like it burns fine, then nothing else can read off the disks. I have a NEC 16X DVD (NEC DVD_RW ND-3520A) burner that has never made a coaster before this batch of disks. I didn’t have any problems with their 8x media, but they were not really 8x disks, the burner read them as 4x disks and they worked fine. I have had no problems with k-hypermedia as well, so I think I will switch back to that brand when these disks are done.
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I am glad independence day only comes once a year. It sounds like bombs going off outside. I have pretty sensitive ears, so it is hard to get some sleep. The worst thing is that firecrackers, M80’s, etc. are illegal in Illinois, but not in Indiana, so it sounds like Baghdad out there. I wish they would enforce the laws more strictly.
Glenn is getting better at walking, up to 15 steps at a time now!
In geekier news, anyone buying blank DVD-R media, avoid Windata 1-16X media. It seems to burn data (at slower speeds) reliably, but does NOT play DVD-Video in stand alone DVD players or even in the DVD burner it was burned in! I don’t have detailed specs on the disks, the information encoded on the blank disks is minimal. The worst thing is that is looks like it burns fine, then nothing else can read off the disks. I have a NEC 16X DVD (NEC DVD_RW ND-3520A) burner that has never made a coaster before this batch of disks. I didn’t have any problems with their 8x media, but they were not really 8x disks, the burner read them as 4x disks and they worked fine. I have had no problems with k-hypermedia as well, so I think I will switch back to that brand when these disks are done.
Posted by admin on July 5, 2007 in General Comments
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