On 02/16/2014 09:35 PM, Fred Smith wrote: What you need is LightScribe Simple Labeler. It looks like you can get it from this outfit: http://www.pawtec.com/lightscribe/ You actually need two programs--they should both come with the download, if I remember it correctly.* I have been using LIghtScribe for several years. It does seem to be out of fashion, nowadays, and I 'm not sure that the LightScribe company still exists. (Maybe it was Lite-On?) Anyway you can still buy disks and you can still get drives--I just bought a low-profile internal LightScribe drive for my laptop. But this situation is likely to deteriorate, so it would be a good idea to anticipate your needs, for hardware, software and media, and buy now! (The software is free.) *Maybe they don't. In my download directory I find lightscribe-1.18.27.10-linux-2.6-intel.rpm lightscribeApplications-1.18.15.1-linux-2.6-intel.rpm The first file is 825987 B, the second file is 9756232 B. If you can't find these files, send me a message directly--I think they are small enough to send without my server complaining. I see you're sending from Fedora, so these rpms should work just fine. I'm on PCLOS, and they work fine for me. --doug

Allegedly, on or about 17 February 2014, Tom Horsley sent: Just recently, I went looking for a printer that could print on discs, more out of curiosity than anything else, and there's none to be found in any of the local shops. I think that, not only has the concept of printing on discs fallen out of favour, but the idea of burning things to disc, too. Blank discs, of any sort, are getting harder to buy, never mind printable ones. Fewer shops stock them, and with fewer options (less brands, less different types of discs). And thanks to changes in media distribution (rental shops dying off, viewing things on-line going up, people exchanging their "recorded" videos on memory devices instead of DVDs, etc.), I think the mass video piracy that pushed the high volume of blank discs sales, has diminished. I work in legitimate video production, anything from filming sporting matches to stage plays, etc. I have a good reason to buy discs in bulk. Likewise for businesses that do organised back-ups. But I can't really see much need for the average consumer to have to buy 100 blank discs regularly. It's getting to the point where I'm going to need to special order discs, because the shops don't have them, or really crap ones. I did have to go out of my way to buy boxes for the discs. That's another thing that I don't get - shops selling 100 disc tubs of blanks, but no disc boxes or sleeves to put them in. It doesn't make sense. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.

On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 07:46:07 +0000 Frank Murphy wrote: Yea, I used to have an HP which could print native but when it died, I checked every model HP was selling, and they removed CD/DVD printing from all their new printers, so I abandoned HP.

On 02/18/2014 08:51 PM, Fred Smith wrote: I don't think you need any docs, if the files are installed. You should have a program called SimpleLabeler. On my machine it installed on opt. Here's the whole path: /opt/lightscribeApplications/SimpleLabeler/SimpleLabeler * The last entry there is the actual command. I have made an icon on my desktop for it. When I snap on the icon, it will come up with a red background and a gold disk on it, and on top it will say "LightScribe Simple Labeler" and on the bottom it will say "PLease insert a LightScribe disc into your drive, label-side down." Then you select "Next>" and you get (1) a window with instructions to enter top text here and enter bottom test here (two windows) and a Font selection. (2) Select border, which allows you to either have it blank except for your text, or some designs. (3) Select LightScribe Drive (I have two on this machine)--this is a scroll up/down. Then it will ask you how many copies, then Next> And when you see that, you get the choice to Burn Label. That's it. About 4 minutes later, your disk will be labeled. There is a Help box, but I never opened it. I would think if you haven't made an icon, then do a cd /home/your-user-name-/opt/lightscribeApplications/SimpleLabeler and then ./SimpleLabeler (If you don't have the files in /opt, then make corrections as necessary. --doug

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 09:54:08PM -0500, Doug wrote: <snip> All mine says is "segfault". :( I'm on Fedora 20. ldd reports no missing shared libs. running it under gdb and doing "bt" after it coredumps results in a backtract literally thousands of entries deep, all the same function in, um, I don't have it in front of me, I think it was stdlibc++. Clearly something is busted. Anyone got any thoughts? Anyone running it successfully on Fedora 20 ??? Thanks! -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex(a)fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. ------------------------------ Philippians 4:13 -------------------------------

On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 10:04:38 -0500 Temlakos <temlakos(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: it's available at amazon.co.uk: So possibly on Amazon where you live? http://tinyurl.com/nbvk23z # LoveFilm is UK address only so don't click on that. ___ Regards Frank frankly3d.com

On 02/17/2014 10:00 AM, Tim wrote: Where are you writing from? From the spelling you used (the extra "u" in the "or" words, "s" for "z," et cetera), I gather you write from the UK. Here on this side of the pond, you can still buy blank media, and in bulk. I grant you this much: the idea of having all your favorite (favourite?) recordings on-line, and not stored in your own library, is catching on. But how large a library can you reasonably afford to maintain that way? A one-terabyte DVR extender (the maximum that my "cable" provider supports) will comfortably store, by my estimate, 120 hours of "high-definition" programming (that is, 1920 x 1080 resolution on a 16:9 screen). Now you can probably store, on average, sixty titles on such an extender. Add this to the half-terabyte internal storage available on Motorola's top-of-the-line DVR, and now you have, perhaps, ninety titles. But as it happens, I have, by my estimate, a thousand titles on various optical media (BD and DVD). I can swap those easily into my desktop, or take any of them on the road. A DVD will even serve as good on-the-trip entertainment on a chartered bus (omnibus?)--and as it happens, I often find myself elected to provide tour guidance and on-board entertainment on a forty-eight-passenger bus making a trip to a political rally. And I have not yet found a bus charter service that provides WiFi-capable smart media players that can simply dial into an account on Netflix, for example, and stream out a film. I have to carry my content with me. (And if you doubt the need for that, let me remind you: even a group of adults can get the Are We There Yet Blues. Now try to keep a busload of adolescents entertained without on-board video content!) There is more. Many operators of CATV channels still "pan and scan" their titles to the prevailing aspect ratio of whatever definition ("standard", i.e., low definition, or the new high definition) their channel is rated for. Professional film directors are not the only ones who resent the "pan and scan" method and insist on letterbox to preserve the aspect ratio at which *they* shot the film. Until the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, and the Directors' Guild of America, manage to pass a law mandating letterbox for every title shown on television, this debate will continue. (I don't care what anybody says: even at the new 16:9 or 1.77:1 aspect ratio in use on HD channels, you still miss something when you crop the sides of a film shot in 2.3:1 aspect to fit the 16:9 screen.). I know: sign up for Netflix and get the video stream. Fine, if you're not on the road. (See above.) Again, I'll grant you: the modern Internet makes available certain dedicated appliances that can even capture a video stream and play it on a telly that does not happen to double as a computer monitor. But some of us still prefer to build our own libraries of motion picture titles that might show once in a proverbial blue moon, and never show again for a year or more, and are not available for repeat viewing, and even if they are, you have to pay $4 US for twenty-four or forty-eight hours of viewing. Now *that* gets expensive. And you simply can't store enough titles on a typical DVR--not at high definition, you can't. (Standard definition is a different story, but I suspect that will become obsolete within a year or so.) You asked why the average consumer would ever need to buy 100 blank disks in bulk, and regularly, or at least semi-regularly. I told you what I did by buying blank media regularly. Maybe you don't consider me an average consumer. But it has always seemed a good idea. And it will continue to be a good idea. Some of us would rather pay about a dollar US for a blank BD disk, and "burn" two to three and one-half hours or programming on it, than pay $10 US per month to Netflix for the privilege of streaming content that might not even include the content we are interested in. (Just try to find /A Fever in the Blood/, with Efrem Zimbalist, Jr and Angie Dickinson; Warner Bros. Pictures, 1965, on Netflix.) Temlakos

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 09:16:22AM -0500, Fred Smith wrote: Thanks to all who replied to my query! I've found the various tools mentioned by several responders, and hope to be able to verify that they work in the next day or two. If they appear to be usable (on Fedora 20) I'll be buying a clump of lightscribe media for this task. thanks again to all of you! Fred -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex(a)fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. ------------------------------ Philippians 4:13 -------------------------------

On 02/16/2014 06:49 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: You might want to consider using glables, found in the standard Fedora repos, to create the labels.

On 02/16/2014 09:49 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: I use Avery 5692 CD Labels. There are templates available for them suitable for use with OpenOffice/LibreOffice. I print mine on a laser printer, but an Ink Jet approach should work just as well. You will need a guide to get the labels on straight. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ****

Allegedly, on or about 18 February 2014, Temlakos sent: No, from down under in oz trail ya... ;-) -- All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists.