*heh*
“[pointing to a venn diagram] On this side are the people who are breaking my heart, and the other people who are shaking my confidence daily. In the middle? Cecelia.”
h.t. Lovely Daughter
“LOL Much”
*heh*
From Kat, on FB:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFicqklGuB0&feature=player_embedded
Truer scenes were never filmed…
CDBurnerXP: A Nice Addition for Windows Users
While Linux users are usually offered a wealth of options for burning CDs and DVDs using software that’s “automagically” installed with almost all modern distros, Windows users have usually felt compelled to go out and buy Nero or Roxio software to have more than the very basic burning included with recent versions of Windows. Now, Windows 7 does have more capable burning options than previous versions built into its default installation, and the Roxio and Nero softwares are certainly very capable, but… I want free and very capable.
DeepBurner is pretty good, and certainly surpasses the abilities of Windows’ built in functionality, but it’s just not good enough to have me use it in preference to the nearly good enough burning capabilities Windows has on its own.
Enter CDBurnerXP. All it’s missing as compared to Roxio or Nero are some audiophile-oriented recording and leveling tricks (and the free Audacity does a superior job with those things). This is one seriously good piece of free software. Using it to burn copies of a mix CD for Lovely Daughter’s wedding (2 weeks and three days away :-)) is an exercise in simplicity. Very nice. Handles creation of DVDs, audio and data CDs/DVDs, burns ISOs and creates bootable disks very easily, among its many capabilities.
Now, most of that is fairly easily done with Win7’s built in capabilities, but not all. Most can be done with DeepBurner–just not all, or as easily. Roxio’s and Nero’s solutions can do everything CDBurnerXP can do and a little bit more, of course, but why pay $50-$100 for capabilities that are available for free? Seriously, if Roxio or Nero want me to buy their product, they’d need to add some serious capabilities, like making my coffee or doing my laundry or some such. *heh*
Comparable capabilities via free software in Linux are almost too many to list (OK, I’m just too lazy to do so), but something this capable in free software for Windows is a nice find. I’d used earlier versions of CDBurnerXP some years ago and dropped using it because its capabilities just weren’t extensive enough at the time. Now? In Windows sessions, it’s my go-to app for burning optical media.
A Headline I NEVER Wanted to See
I’m going to have nightmares tonight. Newsmax (emailout) headline:
“The Naked Truth About Nancy Pelosi”
Oh, thanks for the image, Newsmax. *shudder* Now, I just want to put my (mental) eyes out… Give anyone else the heebie-jeebies?
*heh*
Nothing New Under the Sun
Yesterday, Mostly Cajun, All American and Opinionated offered a piece of historical humor. On this day in…
“1876 – Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you,” and is billed $109.43 in taxes above the phone charge.”
Plus ça change… *heh*
What a Maroon!
Useless oxygen sink. Worthless even as chum (as chum, she’d poison the waters). Pass the healthscare bill in order to find out what’s in it?!?
[audio:What-a-maroon.mp3]A Very Good Thing
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‘Nuff Said
For a nearly perfect representation of The Ø!’s tactics to impose his “healthscare plan” the cartoon posted at Mostly Cajun, All American and Opinionated yesterday would be hard to beat. Be sure to peruse some of his other posts while you’re there.
New Joke from M$ for Windows Users
From Ryan Naraine of ZDNet, this funny:
This month’s batch of patches will NOT include a fix for the recent Internet Explorer vulnerability that was publicly discussed earlier this week. That vulnerability could allow attackers to run arbitrary code from a Web site if they could convince a user to visit the web page and then get them to press the F1 key in response to a pop up dialog box.
Microsoft has released Security Advisory 981169 with suggested pre-patch workarounds for affected IE users.
Hilarious. The M$ “Security Advisory” doesn’t, of course, issue the obvious (and effective) “fix” for the Internet Exploder vulnerability: DON’T USE INTERNET EXPLODER!
Oh, those jolly pranksters at Microsoft!
Congress: the New Muggers
It’s not so much that Congress mugging the populace is all that new; it’s just that congresscritters are becoming so much more open and bold about it. *sigh* Denny Crane had a response to muggers that I fear more and more Americans might feel moved to make (following the example of the Founders):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pcVDmX4ho4
Oh, the Founders’ view on “mugging by government”?
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Yep. Pretty much THE central reason for the Second Amendment. I hope it doesn’t come to a third American Revolution. (Ask me, if you wish, about the second American Revolution that overthrew the Constitution’s protections against a tyrannical central government… ) I sincerely hope the current effort to enslave citizens can be overthrown peacefully at the ballot box.