Oh, so *that* is the magical incantation to burn a DVD...

[jyasu]

Learning how to do something new in linux is always a bit of an
adventure. On the plus side, after a modest loss of sanity I believe I have
successfully taken a DVD+R coaster that was not properly fixated, and turned
it into a DVD+R non-coaster that actually has data on it that something
other than readcd can access. Along the way, I think I've

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[ex_trurl]

Probably because he is using Linux ;-)

[jyasu]

Yeah, I'm stubborn that way. For me, it's far easier to learn how to do new things in Linux than it would be to completely change OS's...

[ex_trurl]

Well, in your case changing OSes probably also requires changing hardware too. I'm really rather torn. There are a number of things I really like about my Linux/X11 setup, but there also many attractive things about running MacOS X. Fortunately, I think that the move to x86 is going to make dual-booting or running under a virtual machine much simpler.