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- kcap122, on 12/01/2008, -2/+36Sharpie.
- BillyB, on 12/01/2008, -3/+23No offense but how the heck did this make the front page.
- picpak, on 11/30/2008, -0/+17Brasero can do it too. It's under Tools > Cover Editor.
- CarlSD, on 12/01/2008, -2/+12Do not... do NOT use 'full size' adhesive labels on CD's and DVD's - especially DVD's. They cause balance problems (= skipping and possibly even refusing to play), they add extra weight to the disc which makes the player work harder and the heat generated inside the player coupled with the high spin rate can cause the label adhesive to melt and the label can separate from the disc and leave a mess inside your player.
Use white, printable discs instead. - Auzy, on 12/01/2008, -0/+9Thats a very good question. Even more questionable is how it became a featured article on Linux.com. Especially when people have been doing this in linux for years.
The author doesn't even mention lightscribe (which is a Black&Gold sucky technology), but lightscribe is probably more prevalent then basic CD label printing these days! - inactive, on 12/01/2008, -1/+9So... the intended audience for this story is Linux users who want to make disc labels but can't find the applications on their own even with a package manager? That doesn't seem like a very large demographic.
- smotpoker, on 12/01/2008, -1/+7I, for one, dugg it because I'd never heard of any of the apps and figured it is an area where FOSS has been lacking. I only knew of one other app that has such functionality (varsha, xcdroast or a similar cd/dvd burning app, I think).
I will likely never use any of these apps any time soon myself but I'm sure someone will find the info useful - ThirdPrize, on 12/01/2008, -0/+6***** no, you can print disk labels on Linux? Mainstream here we come.
- nickpick, on 12/01/2008, -0/+6This would have come in handy some 8 years ago, when we didn't have 1TB hard-drives for multimedia collections, MP3 players for music and USB-Sticks for everything else. The only thing I'd still use CDs for would be the backups, but that's about it.
- arcticblue, on 12/01/2008, -1/+7I've always just scanned whatever labels I had and made templates out of them in OpenOffice.
- falser, on 12/01/2008, -6/+10Amazing. What will those Linux developers think of next?
- Dumbledorito, on 12/01/2008, -2/+6This is a common source of distress among users?
- Chairboy, on 12/01/2008, -1/+5Sharpies are a non-solvent based pen, so no, those folks are mistaken. "But there are so many of them!" Yeah, and there are many people who voted for (insert name of political figure you dislike), that doesn't mean they're all right.
- inactive, on 12/01/2008, -0/+4I don't know, some people might say that a given number of digg users found the story interesting so they dugg it, thus helping the story get to the front page but hey, I'm not expert, maybe you should ask the question to the digg team.
- JonForTheWin, on 12/01/2008, -0/+4Dugg for use of the e17 window manager in one of the screenshots.
- sancho, on 12/01/2008, -0/+4Wikipedia thinks that Sharpies include industrial solvents.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpie_%28marker%29# ... - rusty0101, on 12/01/2008, -0/+3Problem I have with gLabels is that none of the CD label templates are set up to make use of the inner circle labels. (the ones that can be used to label dual sided cd/dvd disks. I don't now enough about the other tools.
- supersonicjim, on 12/01/2008, -0/+3Oh no, my pr0n archives!
Over 9,000 megabytes of it! - eguez, on 12/01/2008, -5/+8When Linux users find out about portable hard drives it's gonna blow their freakin' minds!
- adamroach, on 12/01/2008, -0/+3I write with a fine point sharpie on the inner circle. Labels get annoying.
- Aurabolt, on 12/01/2008, -1/+3Yep.. sharpie.
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8.10 x86 - digiguy, on 12/01/2008, -2/+4Whoopee Doo
- inactive, on 12/01/2008, -1/+3Hi, Doc Brown here.
- infiniphunk, on 12/01/2008, -2/+4why did you post then troll?
- computershack, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1World to Linux.com:
There's a reason people scrawl stuff on a CD instead of making labels - it's a bit stupid taking 5 minutes to burn a disc then spending half an hour knocking up a label when "Holiday Piccies 2008" done in marker pen works just as well. The problem with a CD label is you feel you have to make an effort because it seems a waste to spend money on a label just to have "Holiday Piccies 2008" in 14pt Arial Bold. - sancho, on 12/01/2008, -3/+4Sharpies are known for degrading CDs.
http://www.google.com/search?q=sharpie+degrade+cdr - saejinn, on 11/30/2008, -10/+4Buried for not showing a picture of the final product on a disk.
- inactive, on 12/01/2008, -15/+9I just use windows.
- sayoshinn, on 12/01/2008, -16/+10Buried for not giving a crap
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