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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Things have been going kind of smooth lately. For example, shut everything down when I use OpenGl just in case it crashes. Kind of sucks because I usually have my machine doing some number crunching of some sort in the background. Today I learned a big lesson in burning DVDs. Nothing I didn't already know, but today seriously confirmed it. Roxio's Drag-to-Disc. Figured I would give it a shot and maybe learn to live with it. Someone who shall remain nameless bought me a bundle of cheap blank DVDs. Fine. Try a few out and they work. Then I start having problems with the cheap DVDs. Taking forever to spin up, other computers can't read them, and even some crashing. I got locked up damn hard in some sort of a loop. Just a mouse, no icons, and 0% CPU usage. WTF? Warm boot, cold boot, try again. More of the same. Matter of fact, suddenly I can't even lead-out. Buy some non-cheap Memorex DVDs and try again. Same. I even tossed some files across the LAN to Woman's machine and burned using Vista's drag-n-drop method. More bad. No idea why this didn't work, but I might have to do some more test burning on her machine. If Vista on her machine is choking on burning DVDs, this could be bad. I start thinking bad thoughts about violent ways of putting in my old Sony DVD RW. Never had a single problem with it. Wait... my old Sony came with Nero OEM StartSmart. Install Nero StartSmart, warm boot, and burn a test DVD. OMG it worked in spades. Burned a DVD on my machine in 1/2 the time as Roxio and no problems reading the DVD on either machine. Not only can both machines read Nero burned DVDs, but they read a ton faster than the Roxio burned DVDs - figure that one out. Nero seriously rocks, but we knew that already, right? Heeeellllooo, Neroooo! <-- Yakko and Wakko reference Good bye, Roxio. You are so GTFO. I'm currently in an extended battle with PC-cillian. I keep telling it not to do things, and it insists on doing them anyways. Loading a huge project into Photoshop? Oh, PC-cillian decided to check for updates and start a scan. I don't know enough about PC-cillian to uninstall it just yet. It could take a few things with it that I might want to keep. Anybody give me the skinny on PC-cillian? [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/351]warjournal[/url] on 05-06-2008 18:48)[/small] Loading...
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