Nero CD/DVD burner equivalent for ubuntu?

[Erik Christiansen]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 11:27:50AM -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
> C Hamel <yogich at sc2000.net> writes:
> 
> >> --
> >> If only you and dead people understand hex,
> >> how many people understand hex?
> > I do... <LOL>  Used to program in it.
> 
> Or was it "octal"?
> 
> IIRC, early PDP's 12 switches were read as 0000-7777 and CDC
> mainframes' 60 bits were read as 10 groups of 2 octal digits.

Oh, look what they've started.  :-)

The 16 bit HP2100A minicomputer had a lovely illuminated binary
switchregister on the frontpanel, divided into groups of 3. (With the
MSB being the loner.) It was then easy to read the raw binary as octal.
Despite the intervening 34 yrs, the grey cells recall that at the end of
a bootload, 102077 was good, and 102011 was not.

When the newfangled hex came in, I was not impressed. I still have to
convert it to binary to work with it in my head.

Erik

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