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Jesus Christ, it's a stingray, get in the car!
We're having a blast, I'm only online to send a critical email regarding a conference. See you on the 14th!

I was going to keep quiet...
But, considering the fact that I will live and die a PROUD fangirl..

Is it just me, or does it seem that our AB is finally growing into his new, thinner physique,and is looking:
SO
DAMNED
FINE?

That Is All. :)

Current Mood: enthralled

State of the Goat 2009

It's been a momentous 12 months here at LiveJournal. We crossed a capital T at Ten years young. And, like most precocious pubescents, we celebrated turning double digits by publishing our first book! Needless to say, we've experienced some major changes, both inside and out. Before we recap, we'd like to thank you for bearing with us as we've struggled through ungainly growth spurts, identity pangs, and, yes, the occasional blemish. We hope you'll continue to stand by us: We're gaining wisdom with maturity.

Stuff you liked

Back in February, we placed a call for entries for our ten-year anniversary anthology in lj_turns10. In December (less than a year later!), we officially announced the publication of Live Journal: The First Decade. Featuring an inspired collection of writing, photographs, and artwork from the pages of LiveJournal history, the book has been selected by Blurb.com as a top staff pick! We are proud to have played host to so much talent over the years, and we thank our contributors for sharing their extraordinary work.
We all love quirky surprises, but not when it comes to managing our account settings. This year we streamlined settings into one central account management area. No more pouring through FAQs to figure out how to control privacy settings, modify notifications, adjust mobile settings, or update contact information!
Being users ourselves, we realize our own mothers couldn't find us on LiveJournal based on our usernames and userpics alone (*heaves heavy sigh of relief*). But since there are times when we actually want to be found, we created a search tool--Find Your Friends--to help locate people by email address (it's in the Friends drop-down menu).
Spam counter-attack: The war against vicious malware and spambots reigns eternal, but we've been making serious inroads to ensure your online security. We've established new protocols, such as requiring email address validations. We've grown more savvy about ferreting out suspicious behavior. We've added features, like whitelisting, to help you protect your communities. Our valiant (i.e., overworked) spam avengers (a/k/a the LiveJournal ops team) are standing on red alert so you can sleep safely at night.
After an intensive beta, we launched My Guests at the end of the year, which lets you see who's been hanging around your journal. A number of you have even discovered secret admirers (not all of whom are creepy)!
Last, but by no means least, we want to thank our volunteers for providing invaluable support and feedback. Their Herculean efforts enable us to answer your questions more efficiently, identify spammers, reduce abuse, and deliver better features (through tireless testing). On behalf of the staff and the larger LiveJournal community, we are truly grateful for their diligence, intelligence, loyalty, and passion.

You got your fix

We recently debugged a number of the oustanding issues with the rich text editor so your entries look great regardless of whether you know html. You can read more about text editors here.
In response to user demand, we brought back international voice posting. For more info on voice posting, read here.
At long last, we revived TxtLJ with Verizon. For more info on TxtLJ, check out the FAQ.

Paid features you enjoyed

In December, we introduced My Stats, which provides detailed data on who's been viewing your entries as well as statistics on commenting, RSS requests, friending history, and more. Despite a few early glitches, the response has been extremely favorable.
This year, we launched and improved Notes (i.e., the feature formerly known as Alias), which lets you add private comments on friends and commenters (it's in the Profile drop-down menu). This way you won't be caught red-faced when you strain to remember details about that wonderful LiveJournal friend who sent you a birthday vGift. For more info, read the FAQ.
When we first announced View friends pages by date, we thought it would be a quiet, minor enhancement. The rave reaction floored us, which made us all very happy. We gave it a fine tuning in February of 2009, so it's even better!
How embarrassing! It appears pingbacks have gone back to the shop for service. We’ll keep you posted. We didn't know just much you liked pingbacks until it went in for service. It's back and, judging by your irritation when it wasn't available, this is good news. FYI, pingbacks send instant notifications (via screened comments) whenever someone links to one of your entries on LiveJournal. For more info, read this entry in paidmembers or check out the FAQ.

Mixed reviews

The search is still on. Some of you have reported getting more comprehensive results for keyword searches using the new Yandex search engine and like the ability to search within content categories (like entries or comments). Others have not been satisfied with the relevancy of search results. Please be patient. We're still tweaking this product.
This past December, we wanted to try out a new holiday promotion. Given the crap economy, we decided to offer our Paid/Permanent users a stack of $10 coupons to send to Basic/Plus users for paid account upgrades. We hoped you would like it. And some of you did, but many were disappointed that we didn't offer Give More as well. We want to thank you so much for letting us know. Your input will help us plan better in the future. Just FYI, Paid/Permanent users can continue to send out coupons through January 15th. Coupons can be redeemed through January 31, 2010.
We were pretty excited about Your Journal Your Money, which allows Paid/Permanent users to earn extra cash by displaying Google ads to Basic/Plus and logged out users. A number of you tried it. Some of you really like it. Others, not so much. (Just FYI, Paid/Permanent users who do not participate in this program will not view ads on journals. Participants will see ads on their own journal, but won't see them on other journals unless they specifically opt in.) For additional details, visit here.
We relaunched m.livejournal.com, our mobile app. While it offers a nicer UI and enhanced functionality, some of you think we can do better on load times. Like most of us, it's a work in progress. You can customize your mobile settings here. For more info, please read the FAQ.

Missing Inaction

We shudder to bring up the neon purple elephant squatting on our heads, but, yes, we didn't give you those a la carte userpics. We've been making radical improvements to our backend in order to support them. But no excuses. We know you want them. We cringe every time you mention them. We're sorry we dropped the ball on this, and we promise to do our best to get them to you in 2010.

Stumbling points

Back in early August, we experienced outages related to a series of DDoS attacks. We are proud to report that we were down a total of one hour over the course of a few days. We thank our heroic ops guys for getting us up sooner and more consistently than any of our less fortunate social networking friends. We apologize for leaving you temporarily stranded.
A couple of months back, we offered a free, unrestricted vGift, which induced a snowflake cookie avalanche. This resulted in backed up/delayed notifications, which, in turn, led us to reboot systems, rendering scrapbooks unavailable. It took a while to shovel free. Apologies for the inconvenience. We learned a valuable lesson that should keep us calamity-free in the future (fingers crossed while knocking on wood).
That darn Best Buy ad. First off, we're sorry about the audio auto-play (we got it turned off as quickly as possible). While it's true that we'll continue to show this type of ad to accounts that normally see them (never to Paid/Permanent accounts), we'll make sure the sound defaults to off moving forward. We promise to do our very best to keep ads to a minimum on LiveJournal, while keeping a roof over Frank's head.

Full steam ahead!

As we plunge headfirst into the next decade, we want to take a moment to look back and thank all of our employees, both past and present, who have worked so hard to create our unique and magical universe. We couldn't have made it this far without you: Your contributions brighten our path everyday. We also want to extend our heartfelt appreciation to each and every one of you. Whether you've been around for ten days or ten years, your humor, intelligence, talent, and creativity are what makes this the most vibrant global community on the Internet (the best place on the Web, in our humble opinion). Here's hoping that 2010 will be the greatest year yet! We thank you for joining us as we embark upon another glorious decade of LiveJournal history!

From the Vault: a convenient literary metaphor

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wwdn/~3/Fzn_iBzgtcg/from-the-vault-a-convenient-literary-metaphor.html

This was originally written in 2003, after I'd published Dancing Barefoot, and was still working on Just A Geek. At the time, I wasn't sure if I was a writer, an actor, or some combination of the two, though I was trying very hard to convince myself (and the Voice of Self Doubt) that I was just going to be a writer.

I enjoyed writing narrative nonfiction, and the feedback I got from my narrative nonfiction work was overwhelmingly positive, but it was (and is) very important to me to be a fiction writer. I had some ideas for short stories, but I just couldn't overcome my self-consciousness long enough to turn the ideas into anything more. It was frustrating to me, so I went to Old Town, determined to get some kind of narrative story out of the experience.

I still haven't written the short stories I was trying to create back then, but I think that what I did write that day has a clear narrative voice and holds up rather well.

"Can I get food at the bar?" I ask.

"Of course!"

"Thanks," I say, and take a seat.

The waitress working the bar appears to be about the same age as me, in stark contrast to the other girls who look like they're all in their early 20s. There are heavy bags beneath her tired and sad eyes.

"What can I get you?" she asks.

"A Guinness and a cheeseburger," I say.

She turns, and pours me a pint. It's still settling when she puts it in front of me.

"Not many people drink Guinness in the middle of the day," she says.

"Is that a fact?" I say. In my mind I'm Sam Spade or Phillip Marlowe, and I'm in a 1920s Hollywood speakeasy.

"It is," she says, "I think this is the only pint I've poured all day.

"Well, I don't like to drink beer I can see through," I say, as I lift the now-settled glass to my lips.

Her laugh doesn't make it to her eyes, but it's still friendly. I find a kindred spirit in her sadness. We're both in a place we didn't expect to be. I bet I'm the first guy she's waited on all day who hasn't stared at her skimpy outfit while talking to her.

"Hey, honey, can we get another pitcher of Bud over here?" calls a guy in a George Zimmer signature suit at the corner of the bar. His tie is loose and he bounces his leg on the rail. It shakes under my foot. I don't like that at all.

I look around the restaurant. I've never seen it this full during the day. John Fogerty tells me that there's a bad moon on the rise.

"Sure," she says, and walks down to the taps.

Two young girls turn heads as they walk in and sit at a table behind me. "Oh my god! Your eyebrows look so great!" the tall one says.

"Don't they? I totally had them tattoo'd on," she says.

I tune them out and count the rings down my glass: one . . . two . . . three.

Four.

I look down the bar and see Men's Wearhouse and his business partners putting their best midlife crisis moves on the waitress -- my waitress. Brown Suit stares at her chest while Blue Suit flashes a capped smile at her. She giggles and fusses with her hair, and fills their glasses.

"Hurry back!" Brown Suit says, as she walks back up the bar.

Five. I stare at the top of my beer. It looks like clouds over a black sky.

"So what do you do?" she asks.

" . . . I guess I'm a writer."

"You guess you are, or you are?"

"I am. I'm blocked today."

"By what?"

"The Bogeyman."

"What's that?"

"A convenient literary metaphor."

"You are a writer."

I laugh. "Yeah, I guess I am."

"Have you written anything I've read?" she asks. A loaded question.

"Probably not," I say, "I wrote one, and the people who read it seem to like it, and I'm working on another one."

"But you're blocked today," she says.

"Yeah. This place is sort of involved in my career choice, so I thought I'd come here and try to break the block."

"How's that working out for you?" she asks. A flicker of mirth passes her eyes.

"Well, at the very least, I'll get a Guinness out of the deal."

Windows Update WUAUCLT Command Line Switches

http://www.moundalexis.com/tm/2010/01/07/windows-update-wuauclt-command-line-switches/

http://www.moundalexis.com/tm/?p=1806

The command line switches to WUAUCLT — the Windows Update Automatic Updates client — are documented, just not very coherently. There’s quite a few of them, but the only ones I need regularly are the ones to force update checks. They work with Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003, though they make work on other versions.

These checks are typically done when you restart the update service on the client, which can be done manually by restarting the service.

net stop wuauserv net start wuauserv

Even then, a lot of times I’ll want to verify on the WSUS server that there aren’t any more updates remaining for a particular host; I’m too impatient to wait for a client to report in on its own.

wuauclt /detectnow

The detectnow switch will force a relatively immediate query to the WSUS server to see if there are any updates that are needed. If there are, the yellow shield will appear in the system tray. This is usually pretty quick, within 20-30 seconds.

wuauclt /r /ReportNow

The ReportNow switch will force the client to send updated status to the WSUS server. It may take a minute or two for the server to reconcile and display the updated status.

If things still aren’t working, the Windows Update log can be found at %systemroot%\WindowsUpdate.log. The log file — strangely verbose, for Microsoft — is just text and viewable in Notepad. If the server you’re trying to connect to is crapping out, or your group policy is pointing you to the wrong server, the proof will be in there.

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This evening at morris practice I was given hankies and ribbon (practice) bells. I started to learn Ducklington, too, which is fun to dance because of the terrific hankie snap. Here's a video of one of my favorite Ducklington dances.
On Monday I go to Coffee School.

I haven't (yet?) done my mayfly.

Things I have thought about regarding a new year:
actually not sucking at communication
baking more bread
...maybe feeling brave enough to call a morris dance at some point.

Current Music: my wanderlust playlist

Long Songs
Here's a .zip of "Long Songs," widely regarded (by 10 people) as the best Deathmøle album. It does have my favorite song I've ever written on it ("Pelicans").

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Win A Daybreakers Prize pack from Lionsgate Films!

http://geekadelphia.com/2010/01/06/win-a-daybreakers-prize-pack-from-lionsgate-films/

http://geekadelphia.com/?p=10871

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You know I really thought everything that could be done with the vampire genre had been done, that is until I saw the trailer for Daybreakers and that definitely changed my mind. Daybreakers tells the story of a world where a mysterious plague has turned almost the entire population of the planet into vampires. As the still-human population nears extinction, the vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before humankind become extinct. The film opens this Friday the 8^th and stars Ethan Hawke and Willem Dafoe, and I honestly can’t wait to see this!

The great folks over at Lionsgate Films were nice enough to provide us with 5 Daybreakers Prize Packs consisting of

· A pair of Sunglasses

· A Daybreakers Water Bottle

· A Daybreakers Poster & Postcard

pics

All you have to do to enter is comment with your favorite vampire film and yes I will accept Twilight as an answer. We will pick 5 comments at random next Thursday the 14^th and let you know to expect your package. If you looking for even more cool Daybreakers swag Lionsgate is also running another sweepstakes over here http://bit.ly/gfbdaybreakers, they have some really great prizes as well. So, comment away and good luck!

I resurrected my LJ just to ask you all...
Hi LJ Linux community, it's been a long time. I was hoping you could provide some advice on filesystems.

So I recently got a nice big external hard drive. I plan to use that as a way to store files accessible to both Linux (me) and Windows (wife) with read/write support. I've always used FAT as my universal filesystem but now that I frequently have files over 4gb FAT doesn't cut it.

Last time I tinkered with the NTFS linux driver was years ago, and it didn't have good write support. Is NTFS on Linux good enough now that I can reliably store data on an NTFS drive?

If not, is there another filesystem any of you can think of that I can count on to have read and write support with any OS I throw at it?

This is, without a doubt, the coolest thing I've seen all year

http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2010/01/this-is-without-a-doubt-the-coolest-thing-ive-seen-all-year.html

Reader Robin Got Excited and Made 100 cupcakes.

I know what you're thinking: "Well, that's a lot of cupcakes, but so what?"

Well, doubtful-person-I-just-invented, let me tell you what: each cupcake depicts a different board or video game, and she put them all up on a website where you can identify as many of them correctly as you can, with a mouseover button to reveal the answer.

Allow me to share just two of my favorites:

Trust me on this: you simply must go spend a couple minutes and check them out. I promise that you will have your mind blown at least once.

the weight is the gift

http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2010/01/the-weight-is-the-gift.html

I can't say anything specific about the job, but I got to be a voice actor again today, working with people I love, on a show that I love.

While we were all in the booth together between acts, waiting to hear from the director about our pickups, I took a moment to look around and appreciate where I was, who I was working with, and what I was working on.

I talked a little bit about truly appreciating things a little bit on this week's Radio Free Burrito. My biggest regret from my years on TNG is that I was too young and immature to truly and fully appreciate how lucky I was to work with such wonderful people, even though I was able to enjoy it while I was there. I guess the only way to unlock the "appreciate" ability is by leveling up your Wisdom attribute, in other words.

In my life experience, I've come to believe that enjoying something and appreciating something each involve a sense of gratitude, but when you put both feelings together, you end up with something that is greater than the sum of its individual parts. The two don't go hand-in-hand unless you actively make the effort, but when you do ... well, you end up having a day like today, where I enjoyed working with wonderful people while creating a fantastic characters, and I also appreciated the opportunity to be there.

[mastering the art of not speaking to anyone.]
i have been reading a little bit more lately, which is nice. though considering that my read was totally broken for a long time, more does not necessarily equal a lot.

a gal from our corporate office lent me julia child's my life in france, which was exactly what i needed at the end of the emotional cesspool that was 2009.

key points:

1) julia didn't meet paul until she was 32. they got married when she was 34. 34! in the 40s!

2) she didn't start cooking until another two years after that. 36!

3) her father & step-mother were conservative anti-intellectuals. nice enough, but not anyone she with whom she could engage in conversation, or share any details of her life.

eeenteresting.

Current Mood: cranky

mt-daapd server not starting on reboot
Everytime I reboot my mt-daapd server is off, and I have to manually go restart it.

This is an Ubuntu Linux hosts so there's no chkconfig to chkconfig it on with.

Here's what I see:

# find /etc/rc* -name '*mt-daapd*'
/etc/rc0.d/K25mt-daapd
/etc/rc1.d/K25mt-daapd
/etc/rc2.d/S25mt-daapd
/etc/rc3.d/S25mt-daapd
/etc/rc4.d/S25mt-daapd
/etc/rc5.d/S25mt-daapd
/etc/rc6.d/K25mt-daapd

# runlevel
N 2

So it should be starting. But it's not... I have to manually /etc/init.d/mt-daapd start after each reboot..... why?

Argh.

Best web design book you've read?
I just finished reading Steve Krug's "Don't Make Me Think" and I have to say--it's phenomenal. In part because it practices what it preaches in terms of usability. The book is as entertaining as it is educational. And it says some really brilliant things about how users experience websites, as well as how designers experience the process.

I also wanted to post a link to Smashing Magazine's article on 25 User Experience Videos although in all honesty I haven't watched them yet.

I'm wondering what books other people enjoyed reading as they learned the process of web development?

I'm also curious how much people focus on programing vs. usability issues. I know ideally we do both, but I feel like most web dev's I know are better at one or the other.

Thoughts?

Philadelphia’s Autumn Society Featured in Gallery 1988 in LA, Masters of the Universe

http://geekadelphia.com/2010/01/06/philadelphia-autumn-society-featured-in-gallery-1988-in-la-masters-of-the-universe/

http://geekadelphia.com/?p=10738

Me and the geeks here at Geekadelphia are incredibly proud of Philadelphia’s Autumn Society, a group of illustrators and artists who continue to create fantastic, geek-tastic art that sends our nerdy hearts a-flutter.

See, several artists from the group are contributing to Gallery 1988’s upcoming exhibit Under the Influence, He-Man & the Masters of the Universe. Featuring He-Man inspired works inspired by everything He-Man, from the live action film to the recent new animated series.

Contributors from Philadelphia include Chogrin (who recently moved to NYC to work for Cartoon Network), Tom Whalen, Danielle Rizzolo, and Dave Perillo.

The show opens this Friday, January 8th. Luckily, since a lot of us are here in Philadelphia and won’t have the chance to scope out the show first hand, you can check out featured works on the Autumn Society’s site here.

Congrats guys (and gal!), we’re proud of you.

The Autumn Society
www.theautumnsociety.com

10 greatest cooking shows of all time.
Hello everyone my name is Vickie and I am recently knew to this community. I LOVE the Food Network Channel but Alton brown is my number one favorite on the channel.

Anyway, before I start fan girling over Alton..I'm going to get to the point on why I'm posting...

I opened up my aol and the welcome screen had a link for the greatest cooking shows of all time..and Good Eats was on the list..

here is the list..with number 10 the rest is under the cut... :)

Americans love stuffing their faces and crashing out in front of the tube. Which is why the combination of the two has always proved popular.

Cooking shows are a staple of television programming, as essential to the medium as news broadcasts, sporting events and sitcoms. But unlike grandfatherly anchors droning, sportscasters shouting or wacky neighbors barging, cooking on television is a very rare form of mass instruction, with a sensual ebb and flow.

Celebrity chefs cheerfully chop, slice and saute, swearing the whole time it's easy. Anyone can do it, provided they listen up. These affable hosts crack jokes, add oil and set the oven to broil. And then eat, shoveling their delicious creations into their quivering maw.

Over the course of decades, these shows have remained beloved and rightfully so. Here are 10 of the greatest. ...

10. "Good Eats"
Alton Brown combines dry humor, a passion for food and a head for science into a succinct, yet entertaining show that's a love letter to cooking technique.

( the rest this way :) )

Current Mood: creative
Current Music: "Lacrymosa" - Evanescence

8-Bit Left 4 Dead!

http://geekadelphia.com/2010/01/06/8-bit-left-4-dead/

http://geekadelphia.com/?p=10862

I am a huge fan of Left 4 Dead,(and any game that Valve Produces for that matter) but I am also a huge retro game fan as well. So to tell you the truth when I saw this I almost couldn’t believe it, the two seemed to go together like peanut butter and chocolate, it’s truly the best of both worlds, it’s 8-Bit Left 4 Dead.

This 8-bit Nintendo style port of the first Left 4 Dead was created by Eric Ruth; a self-taught game designer who created it from scratch in his spare time. To simply call it impressive is putting it lightly. All 4 campaigns from the original game are represented here in an old style side-scrolling shooter, Contra style. You can either play it alone, or the game even offers a 2 player co-op mode as well with 2 levels of difficulty offered. The only downfall is you have to have a PC to play, this is not simply a rom but a full game download. But the download is free and you can get it here. Checkout after the jump for some screen shots!

TitleScreen

PlayerSelect

SS_L4D4

TIMU 101 - Training in Microwave Usage

http://www.moundalexis.com/tm/2010/01/06/timu-101-training-in-microwave-usage/

http://www.moundalexis.com/tm/?p=1790

I firmly believe that those entering the workforce should be trained on the use of microwaves.

It confuses me that many office workers fail to realize that a microwave is a shared space, no different than a copy room. The typical person understands that throwing glue, paper, and toner all over the walls of the copy room isn’t appropriate, yet the thinking doesn’t seem to carry to the microwave where exploded kidney beans and dried coffee goes uncleaned for days. This disconnect in behavior baffles me.

Despite the ubiquity of microwaves, they differ. Microwaves come in different sizes and shapes, but also in power. Chances are good that it won’t take as long to cook your lunch in the office model as it does at home, yet most people just cook things as long as they would at home, resulting in a large mess. If the manufacturers could create pre-set cooking buttons that actually worked, we wouldn’t need to worry about the time. Of course, then you’d have to get people to use the pre-set buttons (the same that people know in their hearts and minds — after years and years and years of experience — don’t work).

An office shouldn’t have to post signs or require training on the use of the microwave, just like it shouldn’t have to explain that defecating on the flood of the bathroom isn’t appropriate. We’re smarter than that, right? Apparently not, so here’s my brief contribution towards documenting microwave etiquette.

Watch your popcorn. The POPCORN button ought to be relabeled to read BURNT POPCORN because that’s what will happen if you use it, filling the entire office with the stench of scorched corn and cardboard.

No fish. Ever. Scorched popcorn smells better.

Cover all dishes, but take the lid off your Tupperware. Set it atop the container or use plastic wrap.

Less power. More time. Less spatter. More cooked through.

Accidents happen. The wrong buttons are pressed. Reheated food behaves in strange ways. Messes are a certainty. Clean them up. Now. No one wants to vaporize your dried and baked-on food that is stuck to the door, infusing the flavor of kidney beans into Ramen noodles, coffee, or apple pie.

Clear the timer if you yank your stuff out early. Those who reheat their coffee seem to be the worst offenders, for some reason.

What am I missing?

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DVDStyler Problems
Linux community, I need your help!

I'm running Ubuntu 9,04 (Jaunty Jackelope)

I installed both ManDVD and DVDStyler.

I was able to write a DVD using ManDVD once and then I tried it again, and the DVD writing still worked. However, I hate the format of it because it only lets me place things in a grid.

DVDStyler is much more awesome.

However, I've only been able to write one successful DVD with it. I put one menu on it with only one option to play one video. It was very simple. The DVD worked fine and plays in both my Toshiba TV with DVD player and in my early PS2.

I thought I'd try just a tiny bit more advanced by putting a second menu. The instructions seemed simple enough. Just direct the link to go to that menu.

I try to write the iso image and it tells me that the rendering worked. I think that's just great. However, the rendering didn't work because the iso file is nowhere to be found! I check in the folder where I told it to save and it's not there. I tell my system to search all files for iso and there is no .iso file at all! (I got rid of the other .iso files when I've tried, but nothing that came with DVDStyler or ManDVD - not that I know!)

Anyway, since the iso file isn't there, I try to write to a DVD and I get the following error message: (yes, I always tell DVDStyler to format the DVD)

Ecc generation: 100.0%
Image has been augmented with error correction data.
New image size is 138 MB (70662 sectors).
Formatting DVD-RW
Executing command: dvd+rw-format -force /dev/dvd
* BD/DVD±RW/-RAM format utility by <appro@fy.chalmers.se>, version 7.1.
:-( mounted media doesn't appear to be DVD±RW, DVD-RAM or Blu-ray
Burning
Disc size: 4488 MB
ISO Size: 138 MB
Executing command: growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd="/home/bridget/Videos/trial/dvd.iso" -use-the-force-luke=dao:70662
:-( unable to open64(""/home/bridget/Videos/trial/dvd.iso"",O_RDONLY): No such file or directory
Failed

As you can see, the Ecc generation works. I even get a great preview. However, I can never write an iso file or a DVD.

I did download all the files in the manual I found for DVDStyler.

Sometimes I get an error with a message that DVDisaster cannot continue or complete some type of process.

Can you please help me to figure out my problem?

Current Mood: frustrated
Current Music: Bennie and the Jets - in my mind (could be a worse earworm)