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From: Dave Balderstone on 22 Oct 2006 11:32 In article <1hnlu5a.1hsc72p1802enfN%mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com>, Mike Rosenberg <mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com> wrote: > Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > > > > I have a program called, "Disk Burner" which comes as part of O.S. > > > 10, > > > > I have never seen any program with that name as part of OS X. > > Neither have I. OS 9 had "Disc Burner" (with that exact spelling), but > OS X has never had a separate burning program as far back as I can > recall. Didn't it have a proggy called "Burn" in an earlier version?
From: Tony Winston on 22 Oct 2006 11:33 Mike Rosenberg wrote: > > vTony Winston <unreal(a)address.com> wrote: > > > I thought I DID answer the question. Isn't Disk Burner a DVD burner? > > He was referring to hardware. Is your CD-ROM drive also a DVD burner? > Go to About this Mac under the Apple menu, then click on More Info. > Under Hardware on the left side, click on ATA, then report back on > whatever appears on the right with CD and or DVD in it. Thaniks, Mike. Under the first ATA heading it says "Maxtor" with some letters and numbers, and under the second ATA heading it says "Sony DVD RW U14A". So it looks like I have a DVD burner but I don't know why it's not working with my DVD-Rs. Tony
From: Mike Rosenberg on 22 Oct 2006 11:50 Tony Winston <unreal(a)address.com> wrote: > Thaniks, Mike. Under the first ATA heading it says "Maxtor" with some > letters and numbers, and under the second ATA heading it says "Sony DVD > RW U14A". > > So it looks like I have a DVD burner... Yes, it does. That first item is your hard drive, the second is definitely a DVD-RW drive. > but I don't know why it's not working with my DVD-Rs. What exactly do you try and what happens? With a supported burner under OS X, you would put the disc in first, then, depending on your settings in System Preferences, either a message would appear on screen telling you that you've inserted a blank DVD and asking you to choose an action from the pop-up menu, or a disc icon would simply appear on your desktop. In the former case, you would leave the menu set on Open Finder and click OK, and then the icon would appear on the desktop. I'll stop for now since there's no sense in continuing with the procedure until I know what's happening on your G4, so let me know what, if anything, differs from the above for you. If nothing differs, how do you proceed from there and exactly what happens? One general thing I should ask is are you definitely using DVD-R discs? You see, there are also DVD+R discs, which won't work many burners. -- <http://designsbymike.biz/macconsultshop.shtml> Mac-themed T-shirts <http://designsbymike.biz/musings.shtml> Mostly muckraking T-shirts <http://designsbymike.biz/prius.shtml> Prius shirts & bumper stickers <http://cafepress.com/comedancing> Ballroom dance-themed shirts & gift
From: Mike Rosenberg on 22 Oct 2006 11:56 Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > > > I wonder, do you write I.B.M. and A.T.T. instead of IBM and ATT? > > > > No. > > And for the same reason, you shouldn't write O.S.X. instead of OS X. And I don't. -- <http://designsbymike.biz/macconsultshop.shtml> Mac-themed T-shirts <http://designsbymike.biz/musings.shtml> Mostly muckraking T-shirts <http://designsbymike.biz/prius.shtml> Prius shirts & bumper stickers <http://cafepress.com/comedancing> Ballroom dance-themed shirts & gift
From: Jon on 22 Oct 2006 12:10
Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > In article <1hnlwlz.ws3c051yiswr5N%mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com>, > mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com (Mike Rosenberg) wrote: > > > > Putting the comma outside the quote, and using single quotation > > > marks are both correct usage. Your 1972 grammar is out of date. > > > > Seriously? > > Seriously. They are standard in British English, and putting the comma > outside the quote is the preferable method even in the USA now. FWIW, to me as a non-native user of English, putting punctuation inside the quotes has always seemed to mean that the punctuation is part of the quoted material. Thus, I tend to put it outside unless that is specifically the case. But since we are nit-picking about spelling and such and are far OT in any case: Why the double spaces after a period, Michelle? Just curious as I was taught that those became obsolete with the advent of word processingg and the corresponding demise of the typewriter? > It is also OK to occasionally split infinitives, and to end sentences > with prepositions. And it's even OK to begin a sentence with a > conjunction. But not to make a pattern of it. Or use it many times over. And to be sure to know what you do when you do it. ;-) > > > I wonder, do you write I.B.M. and A.T.T. instead of IBM and ATT? > > > > No. > > And for the same reason, you shouldn't write O.S.X. instead of OS X. Which, to be fair, Mike didn't. Tony, OTOH, did -- and does, it seems. -- /Jon For contact info, run the following in Terminal: Mail: echo 36199371860304980107073482417748002696458P|dc Skype: echo 139576319600233690471689738P|dc |