A Man and his Penguin

I changed my system theme from SlicknesS to Human Ultracompact, but I was annoyed that there seemed to be no compact window themes that matched the Human look.

And then I found a marvellous window theme where there is actually no title bar at all! If you take the normal Human window theme and look at how the bottom edge of the window turns out, and then imagine that at the top of the window too, then you’ve got a pretty good idea of the look.

How do I move windows? Easy - I hold down the Alt key and drag the window itself. How do I close windows, move them to other workspaces or keep them on top? Simple - I either click anywhere on the top edge, or I press Alt-Spacebar, and the window menu pops up where I can perform those tasks.

I love it.

I’ve also discovered that there seems to be only one program on Linux for simultaneous CD/DVD burning to multiple drives. That program is command-line only and it’s a bit of a PITA from my experience; certainly not something I could give to a less-than-experienced colleague who has Linux and will shortly have a second burner.

You can open up two instances of Gnomebaker, but that’s clunky.

So I’m going to write a full-featured program for burning ISO disk images to multiple drives simultaneously. You’ll be able to set how many copies you want and which burners you want to use, and then it’ll just burn through as many discs as you can feed it until the job is done.

Once again I’ll use my good friend Pythoncard, with a brief appearance by HAL so my program knows what burners are available and what they’re called.

Tonight I’m going to someone’s house to set up their Vista computer and install programs as they want. They got given this computer by a family member, which annoys me somewhat - if she had made the decision to get a new computer she would have asked me, and I could have built her one :-(   Oh well, at least I’ll get a bit of extra cashflow.

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