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The Not So Jaunty Jackalope

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Cooking With Linux; By Ken Leyba
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I had intended to create blog post about my frustration with Vista and how I finally installed Linux on my almost one year old PC. A funny thing happened on the way to Linuxland, a roadblock whose name is Jaunty.

So arrives the much hailed Jaunty, destined to be the final stake in the heart Vista. For the few Windows applications I need, I begin by giving less than half of my disk to the new Vista install, a common clean start to a gradually failing Windows operating system. Suspecting I wouldn't be using Vista anytime soon, I didn't bother with updates or anti-virus, saving those wonderful tasks for a later date. The next step was the uneventful install of Jaunty, updates, multimedia codecs, and Virtual Box, nothing unusual.

My first indication of problems were burning a audio CD for my daily commute. One of the touted features of Jaunty was the much improved Brasero CD/DVD burning software. After building my list of tracks I began the burning process. Stepping away and returning to my machine, there sat Brasero with a message “normalizing title...” After a short on-line search, I found there is a bug with the normalizing plug-in for Brasero, that is installed and enabled by default. No problem, turn off the plug-in and a audio CD is created, albeit with varying volume between tracks.

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Comments (4)

ColonelPanik ·
Wonder if this guy ever tried to install Winders? There are good if not great alternatives to every program he complains about.

Wait... why was he installing 9.04? Oh yeah, he had lots of problems with Winders.

NoDough ·
Just had to wipe and reinstall Windows on one of my laptop user's computers yesterday due to viruses. Started at 10:00am. Finished restoring his data and setting up his Outlook at 5:00pm. Windows is SOOOOOO efficient. Ugh!
bigg ·
NoDough: You do that on a volunteer basis, don't you? I mean, nobody would actually pay for seven hours of reinstalling the same OS that caused all the trouble.
NoDough ·
bigg: Heh! I have people at work ask me if I will fix their home (Windows) computer all the time. I'll offer to help them get started on Linux, but other than that my answer is, "I don't do Windows, except at work."

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