I used to borrow a LaCie CD burner from my father’s workplace. It was 100% reliable, even though it made many trips back and forth in the car and often sat in a messy room. Throughout the years, I’ve used other people’s LaCie hardware devices, and heard nothing but good things about them. LaCie supported Macs when few companies would.
Why am I mentioning this? Well, LaCie is now supporting Linux on its DVD/Lightscribe burners. Their proprietry burning software won’t be the subject of a crippled port, ala Nero. Instead, they’ve engaged the open-source community, and K3B will be used for burning.
Seriously people, if you’re looking to upgrade to a Lightscribe DVD burner, get a LaCie.
In other news, I’m having fun with the UbuntuOS blog (that’s where I found this story). I’ve stopped using Konqueror, but I still use Akregator for my RSS reading (which does its HTML rendering with KHTML).
Yet more news (I couldn’t be bothered creating a seperate post for this): Apple iPod Video units have been shipped with a Windows virus preloaded. Over 20 iPods were infected in-factory, and Apple has apologised for "not catching" the mistake.
I can barely believe my luck - I’ve met the girl of my dreams (online) and she actually likes me!
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