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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Liberator on October 30, 2003, 05:14:03 pm

Title: Burning software
Post by: Liberator on October 30, 2003, 05:14:03 pm: Can anybody recomend a good, free CD Burning program?

The one I'm using now doesn't work well with IE6 and rolling back to my previous version of IE is not an option. Alternately someone could point me toward a download location for IE5.5.
Title: Burning software
Post by: Stealth on October 30, 2003, 05:23:54 pm: For all CD burning i recommend Nero. and why does it have anything to do with Internet Explorer? as far as i know you shouldn't have a problem for regular burning applications with Nero.
Title: Burning software
Post by: Odyssey on October 30, 2003, 05:34:35 pm: IE 5.5: http://isis2.admin.usf.edu/Downloads/downloadie55.htm
And I believe you can still get sp2 from the Microsoft site.

I'm only telling you this because it's marginally less evil than IE6, btw. I recommend alternative browsers, myself, but if whatever you're doing is tied into IE...

As for free CD Burning software, try this page:
http://www.webattack.com/freeware/gmm/fwcdburn.html

Hope that helps you.
Title: Burning software
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on October 30, 2003, 05:35:45 pm: Oww, I thought this was going to be about burning software in the same way that Nazis burned books.
I'm disappointed now.
Title: Burning software
Post by: Odyssey on October 30, 2003, 05:38:41 pm: Sorry to let you down. Here, have some complimentary butane lighter fluid.
Title: Burning software
Post by: diamondgeezer on October 30, 2003, 05:38:55 pm: Perhaps we ought to burn WC discs? To keep the balance, I mean...
Title: Burning software
Post by: Odyssey on October 30, 2003, 05:40:24 pm: CDs don't burn well. On the other hand, I did once come across this site which had videos of some guy sticking them on an ultra-high-speed drill and then chucking other CDs at them, which promptly caused them to disintegrate into millions of tiny death shards.
Title: Burning software
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on October 30, 2003, 05:43:46 pm: Impressive.

If you put them in the microwave you get pretty lightning...
Title: Burning software
Post by: Odyssey on October 30, 2003, 05:58:39 pm: Ah-ha! Found a site with a mirror of the video. Check it out, it's really worth it:
http://wk.doubleukay.com/videos/cd.mpg
(8.8 megs)

EDIT: 4444 posts, Petrarch...
Title: Burning software
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on October 30, 2003, 06:11:19 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Odyssey
Ah-ha! Found a site with a mirror of the video. Check it out, it's really worth it:
http://wk.doubleukay.com/videos/cd.mpg
(8.8 megs)

You've found me a new hobby!
Title: Burning software
Post by: Flipside on October 30, 2003, 06:12:48 pm: LOL Don't, I'm just off downstairs to get the drill and a pack of blank CD's now ;) Loved the door knocker, that'd be a great way to freak people out :D

Flipside :)
Title: Burning software
Post by: Odyssey on October 30, 2003, 06:15:15 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Flipside
I'm just off downstairs to get the drill and a pack of blank CD's now ;)

No, no! Waste of blank CDs! Don't you ever get AOL spam?
Title: Burning software
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on October 30, 2003, 06:17:34 pm: Yes. Use only AOL and such. Blank CDs cost mohnay!
Title: Burning software
Post by: Odyssey on October 30, 2003, 06:24:23 pm: Well, this thread is going down the pan, isn't it? I hope we helped Liberator enough...

Anyway, yeah, mohnay. It used to be good when AOL distributed on floppy disks, because you could just overwrite them and use them again. Pity.

Oh, and it needs to be some special drill. Got to have enough speed and torque. The guy used a dremel. No idea how he attached it though.
Title: Burning software
Post by: Liberator on October 30, 2003, 08:44:28 pm: Thanks for the suggestions, I like IE6 and had not upgraded because it hosed my Burning package.

BTW, I was using NTI CD-Maker 2000 Standard. It was what came bundled with my drive when I bought it a couple of years ago.
(http://swooh.com/peon/liberator/NTIPt1.jpg)
(http://swooh.com/peon/liberator/NTIPt2.jpg)
It works pretty good and is easy to use, and I will probably get the new version when I get some cash. It's just a bug with v.4 that doesn't allow it to work with IE6.
Title: Burning software
Post by: Stryke 9 on October 31, 2003, 12:44:48 am: Burning isn't nearly so effective as gettin an industrial electromagnet. Something in the 800W range will do ya nicely- wipes floppies from two rooms away, turns the foil layer in CDs into dust, rips your hard drives outta the computer and smashes them against the coil. How much more efficient can you get?
Title: Burning software
Post by: Liberator on October 31, 2003, 01:03:19 am: Forget DOD standards and industrial EM fields.

http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/darktips/story/0,24330,3547954,00.html

Click on "Destroy Data, Part 2" under Video Highlight.

One word: Thermite!
Title: Burning software
Post by: Odyssey on October 31, 2003, 06:09:23 am: I still prefer the rotation at high speed option. Gives a new meaning to Shards o' Death...
Title: Burning software
Post by: kasperl on October 31, 2003, 10:58:31 am: well, just using them as frisbies works pretty good, and it's fun trying to hit eachother. you have to be in kinda of a crazy mood though.
Title: Burning software
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on October 31, 2003, 11:02:51 am: What's fun is when they shatter in the drive. The fun part is trying to retrieve all the bits.
Title: Burning software
Post by: Stryke 9 on October 31, 2003, 05:19:41 pm: Well, when it comes to just hard disks, a hammer or just some good old urine will do just fine. Thermite's expensive.
Title: Burning software
Post by: Odyssey on October 31, 2003, 05:26:08 pm: I just use strong magnets. If anyone holds a floppy disk in front of me with vital data on it, I feel this incredible urge to pull out a magnet and start getting rid of the said vital data.
Title: Burning software
Post by: Liberator on October 31, 2003, 11:44:08 pm: Thermite's more fun though! ;7