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Joined: 22 Feb 2008
Posts: 365
Location: Grants Pass, Oregon
Posted: Tue 25 Mar 2008, 11:10
Post subject: Pburn 1.3 and others
Subject description: Pburn 0.6, 1.0, 1.2.2, 1.3
I have used Pburn 0.6, 1.0, 1.2.2 and 1.3 with Dingo 394. They all burn and erase well. However, the log box that appears to show progress, for instance, when blanking a disk in 0.6 or 1.0 is absent when using 1.2.2 or 1.3. Is this intentional? Also, the drop-down menu to select the burn function does not disappear until after the function is completed in the later versions.
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Posts: 6629
Location: Valåmoen, Norway
Posted: Tue 25 Mar 2008, 15:16
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You're missing the new logviewer - Gtklogfileviewer. See requirements in the main post.
<action>refresh:ISOSIZE</action> is added to button 'add selection'.
Regarding verifying, we could make a question dialog -->
This may take long time if burn contains many files. Do you want to continue?
I have now a working Pburn using graft-points. It still uses the symlink directory in /tmp/pburn. So it now burns symlinks as symlinks and still gives the user freedom to edit burning input (files and directories). But what I don't know: will this fix the trouble with the whiteout files?
But now the size calculation does not work, and there will be trouble if there are too many files in the burnlist. This will give mkisofs error - 'argument list too long'......I need some more time.
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Joined: 23 Nov 2006
Posts: 11331
Posted: Tue 25 Mar 2008, 19:47
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Hi zigbert
Something like that but maybe just as a warning in the 'finished' dialog..there's plenty of room.
On the subject of missing files when I tried the same directory later that day everything was present
I gather adding directories from within unionfs is a bit hit and miss whereas outside of this is ok. a fair statement?
oh no I just went crosseyed again
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Posts: 6629
Location: Valåmoen, Norway
Posted: Wed 26 Mar 2008, 13:57
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Mike told us the other day that 2 heads thinks better than 1. I guess we need several heads right now.
The situation for DATA burning is:
Pburn strength is the way user can edit input files/directories before burning. You can add a new directory, remove a not wanted file inside a directory you want to burn, and you can give the file on CD/DVD another name than the original file.
Pburn weakness is that symlinks always will point to its source file. The problem occurs when adding an entire directory with symlinks. You may then get more datas than you expected (such as /root/). Also Barry has trouble with this combined with whiteout files (which I don't know a sh** about).
Some refers to TkDVD which is a great app, but it also has its weakness. In a compare you could say that TkDVDs strength is Pburns weakness, and the other way around. While TkDVD burns a chosen filelist as graft-points, Pburn builds a temporary directory which contains symlinks to the actual file, and burns this directory as is with the mkisofs parameter -f (follow symlink).
I have now started an approach to see if it is possible to combine the 2 ways of burning. My idea is to use 'readlink'. This tells us the original source of every symlink in the temporary directory (default in /tmp/pburn/). Now we can build graft-points like
'symlink=`readlink symlink`'
. Since 'readlink' only read 1 level of linking, it will point to a symlink in the original directory. The problem will now occur when Barry uses Pburn as backup for a huge amount of files. - mkisofs command will be very complex (many graft-points), and we get the error: 'Argument list too long'. Mkisofs fails and cdrecord has nothing to burn. Now you maybe think. Why not just burn the list in Pburn the same way that TkDVD do. It is certainly possible, but then we will loose all edits (remove, rename, new dir) which is not in the main directory (the list shown).
So I wonder. Did it came any clever ideas while reading this.
- is there a way to split up graft-points. Adding 100 every turn...
- is there another way of adding datas to an iso. mounting *.iso in rox is readonly, so I guess it is not THAT easy.
- other...
I have a '
' proto if you want to dive along.
Some load thinking. We keep the temporary directory as it is now. In addition, we split all inputs (adds and edits) into 3 categories.
: If user add file or directory (add selection, add all), choosen file/directory are written to list 'ADDS'. Here are directories NOT listed recursively, so it will only apply ONE graft-point.
: If user rename an item in the burnlist this file/directory are written to the list 'EDITS'. This file will get its unique graft-point. All items added to a 'new directory' also needs a unique graft-point. But this is only in the first level of the new directory. It means that if user adds a directory inside this 'new directory' we needs only 1 graft-point for the added directory.
: If user remove or rename item it will be written to list 'EXCLUDERS'. This must be checked against original file/dir in case user renames an already renamed file. List with excluded items fits with mkisofs parameter -exclude-list.
Edit 2:
This is simpler:
: If user add file or directory (add selection, add all), choosen file/directory are written to list 'ADDS'. Here directories are NOT listed recursively, so it will only apply ONE graft-point.
If user rename an item in the burnlist this file/directory are also written to the ADDS list. Format of ADDS list is equal the graft-points format: "path/name_on_CD"="/path/original_name". Since ADDS list contains complete information about where it should be placed in iso-filesystem, 'new directory' does not need to be handled else, and renaming doesn't need its own EDITS-list.
: If user remove or rename item it will be written to list 'EXCLUDERS'. List with excluded items fits with mkisofs parameter -exclude-list. EXCLUDERS-list must be checked against original file/dir in case user renames an already renamed file.
Edit 3:
My last theory will fail because 'remove' an item in the root-directory on CD/DVD shouldn't be added to EXCLUDERS list. It should only be removed from ADDS list. Pburn needs to know the main directories, and then check against them. A main directory will be the root directory and any 'new directory' made of user in the burnlist. If user renames an item in a main directory it should only be renamed in ADDS list, not added to EXCLUDERS list.
When 'Save' a *.pbn file, Pburn saves all links in /tmp/pburn. To keep graft-points and -exlude-list it also needs to save the files containing ADDS, EXCLUDERS and main directoies.
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Joined: 29 Mar 2006
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Location: Valåmoen, Norway
Posted: Fri 28 Mar 2008, 17:02
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I have been fiddling with graftpoints, and begins to see where the road is leading us. Including graftpoints affects many functions, but users will only get one checkbox more - Follow symlink. when TRUE, Pburn uses the original burning mode. When FALSE, Pburn will use graftpoints. Default will be FALSE.
There are many functions that are touched by graft-points, and therefor the next release will NOT be stable. When I have managed the graft-point burning mode, I will upload the code. Then it will remain:
- Calculating size when 'follow symlink' is TRUE. I haven't looked at it, and I don't have a solution. This could be tricky...
- Some new Help-text
- Bugfixing - YOU are important.
- Maybe a documentation that explains the underlying structure of the Pburn code.
The graft-point todo-list looks right now like this: (+ is finished)
+ add selection browser
+ add selection search
+ add all browser
+ add all search
- add list (import)
- import iso
+ remove
+ rename
+ make dir
- save *.pbn
- open *.pbn
- size calculation
+ build_command
+ clean_up
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Joined: 29 Mar 2006
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Location: Valåmoen, Norway
Posted: Sun 30 Mar 2008, 14:40
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Dear Burn-People
Here is a test-release of Pburn using a new method for burning (graft-points). It has been a rather complex task, because it touches many different functions. Because of this, there may (sure) be new bugs. It has been very kind of you if you could burn a disc the way you use to do it, and report back if it works as it used to do.
The benefits with this new burning method are:
- Optional 'follow symlink'.
- Better integration with imported sessions.
- Faster calculation of required disc-size
Yes that's all
- This release also contains a patch from mikeb: Change order of songs for audio CD (move up/down).
- If getting trouble with this new burning method, you can start Pburn with parameter -f (pburn -f) to use the old burning method.
- Complete changelog will come with stable 1.4.0
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Posts: 7024
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Posted: Mon 31 Mar 2008, 01:31
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It uses the correct font to match my GTK theme when I try it on Puppy 1.x (no - it doesn't work there - the substitutions in line 777 and 75 of func don't work).
It disobeys my GTK font setting in Dingo, and just uses sans.
Do you know a good
program? Please post a link
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Posts: 6629
Location: Valåmoen, Norway
Posted: Tue 01 Apr 2008, 05:57
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It disobeys my GTK font setting in Dingo, and just uses sans.
I'll do test in dingo. Thank you.
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Location: Valåmoen, Norway
Posted: Wed 02 Apr 2008, 03:11
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Pburn - developer information
Pburn makes a iso-image using mkisofs' graft-points. All adds and edits are stored in files (see chapter 'system files') to give information about graft-points and excludelist. In addition there is a clone filesystem in the directory /tmp/pburn/. It mirrors the content shown in Burnlist, but all files and links are only symlinked. Directories are made new to be sure that the clone filesystem will be complete. A symlink directory points to its source, and deeper levels wouldn't exist in the clone system. This clone are used to:
- Navigate into and edit items in deeper levels of burnlist.
- Verify burnt datas. The content on disc are mounted and compared (diff) with the clone system.
- Save a *.pbn file with all adds and edits.
- Run the raw burnmode (pburn -f). This burns /tmp/pburn with 'follow symlink'. Graft-points are not used here.
When user press the burn-button, Pburn uses the settings in preferences (~$HOME/.pburnrc) and info from mediacheck to build a burning-command. This is done with the function ../pburn/func_build_command. Settings shown in the burn-dialog represent the burning-command. Now when user press the button to start burning, there are 2 ways of actually define burning:
1. Normally Pburn runs ../pburn/func_build_command to update burning-command with the user-changed settings.
2. If user has activated 'Manually edit command', burning uses content of text-field <edit> as its burning-command.
Saving a *.pbn file uses 'tar' to pack the clone filesystem into one file. But before this it copies files to determine the status of graft-points. This include:
- /tmp/pburn-graft_points
- /tmp/pburn-exclude
- /tmp/pburn-main_dirs
- /tmp/pburn-isosize_graft_points
- /tmp/pburn-isosize_exclude
They are put into the directory /pburn-graftfiles on burnt disc. When open a *.pbn file, these files are copied back to /tmp/, and removed from the clone filesystem.
The func_build_command places the CD-text info into a *.inf file with the same name as the *.wav file. It contains info like this:
Albumperformer= 'Artist on this album'
Performer= 'Artist on this song'
Albumtitle= 'The name of album'
Tracktitle= 'The name of song'
The command 'cdrecord dev=/dev/sr0 -v -dao -useinfo -text *.wav' uses this *.inf file to write CD-text information. Pburn checks the filename for ' - ', and uses this as the separator for artist and song. Note that tao does NOT work with cd-text. Use dao or raw96r. Special characters in CD-text info may give unexpected result. If copy Audio-CD it is also possible to connect to a cddb server. It uses a CDDB-number on the CD and finds the matching number in the database. (To find tags about actual song, see musicbrainz.org). The default connection is: freedb.freedb.org / port 8880. Note that cdda2wav fails with 'cddb=x option', while icedax works. (icedax dev=$INDRIVE -vall cddb=1 -B -Owav pburn).
This special-mode does as follow:
1. convert images to video-stream with ffmpeg
2. join all image-videos to *.m2v. This is video without audio.
3. multiplex audio and video to one videocompatible movie-file. (using ffmpeg)
But since ffmpeg is not the most mature multiplexer, I had to make a workaround to get the DVD load in my cheap DVD-player. If I put a more compatible movie as the first movie, the rest of the slideshow runs ok.
Copy Audio-CD on-the-fly uses dao, while off-the-fly uses raw96r. This to get bad drives works with at least one of the modes.
Almost all newer drives has a protection agains buffer underruns. Cdrdao and growisofs turns this on if drive supports it, but cdrecord doesn't. Pburn uses the parameter 'driveropts=burnfree' to activate burnfree. It seems not to harm when using a drive not supporting this. Therefor no setting to disable burnfree.
Pburn checks if there exist image-files for chosen theme. Gtkdialog <pixmap> code are set depending on this check. Also it tries to run a unique gtkrc-file in the theme-path. Content of gtkrc-file will appear only in Pburns main-window. All gtk-settings are reset first in ../pburn/func.
Differs beetween browse and search.
Add selection/all uses this to determine from what <tree> to add.
This is what shows up in the Burnlist <tree>.
First sorted -lsdir, then sorted -lsfile.
Directories in Burnlist.
To get all dirs sorted first in -burn.
Files in Burnlist.
To list all files sorted after directories in -burn.
Where user are in the hierarcy of Burnlist.
/tmp/pburn/ represent / on the burning filesystem.
Holds burner device.
This is the active browser dir.
This is the command executed when burning starts.
mkisofs -exclude-list uses this.
mkisofs -graft-points syntax are build here.
Input from imported session(s) are put here.
When open burning dialog, its content are removed from Burnlist.
This is the info-text in main-window.
This the human readable of isosize_graft_points - isosize_exclude.
Used by <entry> in main window.
When add/import - 'du' puts its size here. Sum of list - isosize_exclude = required disc-size.
When remove - 'du' puts its size here. See -isosize_graft_points.
This is what shows up in the browser <tree>.
First sorted -lsdir, then sorted -lsfile.
Dirs with its own graft-point. This is the root-directory and when user make 'new directory'.
Remove/rename item not listed in main_dirs require input to -graft_points and -exclude.
Detection of inserted disc. CD or DVD (DVD or Blu-ray are both detected as DVD).
*.pbn file opened from menu 'open' or from terminal command 'pburn file'.
Temporary storage. Defined in preferences.
Contains some of mkisofs parameters.
Renamed files not listed in main_dirs. This is used to check if file has been renamed before.
Content of search <tree> in main window.
Contains the value of variable $SHOW_HIDDEN. Needed to update browsers action without rerender gui.
This is the value of progressbar in %.
Pburn doesn't show the progress here, but sending 100 exits the splash-dialog.
Image used in splash dialog. Defined by chosen theme.
available free size of filesystem used by temporary storage (-outdir).
All adds to the Burnlist will be mirrored here. This is a symlink clone of the original filestructure.
In bash code it is pointed to with variable $TMPDIR
See chapter PBURN MAIN STRUCTURE
- GtkDialog: Quit Pburn from window-manager (X-button, upper-right-corner), exits program but doesn't kill PID.
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Posted: Fri 04 Apr 2008, 14:49
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Version 4.3.19, 23.Jun 2019
- Allow files larger than 4 GB (thanks to wert)
Version 4.3.18, 27.Jun 2017
- Bugfix: Read UDF disc (thansk to davids45 and rcrsn51)
Version 4.3.17, 23.Nov 2015
- Bugfix: Syntax in error-msg (Not enough space in temp...)
- Bugfix: Dependency check when wodim is present in system gives messy output (thanks to vizmc)
Version 4.3.16, 14.Jun 2015
- Tooltip for generic action-button in burn-options dialog is changed to 'Start operation'. (thanks to don570)
- Bugfix: Log filename uses : and won't work in a fat32 filesystem. (thanks to don570)
Version 4.3.15, 4.Jun 2015
- Error msg if trying to blank a non-rewritable disc. (Thanks to B.K. Johnson)
- Detection of CD-RW disc (thanks to sheldonisaac)
- Bugfix: Blanking of Audio-CD (CD-RW) has wrong default values. (Thanks to B.K. Johnson)
- Bugfix: Blanking of BD-RE doesn't set correct default mediatype drop-down menu.
- Bugfix: DVD-R burnt as Video-DVD (closed) are not detected in statusbar in main window.
Version 4.3.14, 9.May 2015
- Bugfix: Add items (when all items is selected) includes parent dirs. (thanks to SFR)
- Bugfix: Import music playlist doesn't autoset correct burn-mode to Audio. (thanks to don570)
Version 4.3.13, 4.Apr 2015
- Bugfix: Icon in window heading in Fatdog (thanks to SFR)
- Bugfix: Correct xml/svg info for app icon (thanks to SFR)
Version 4.3.12, 28.Mar 2015
- Bugfix: fix the switch -m copy_audio
Version 4.3.11, 20.Nov 2014
- Bugfix: DVD multisession burn (thanks to backi)
Version 4.3.10, 6.Sep 2014
- Bugfix: Burn DVD off-the-fly (thanks to charlie6)
Version 4.3.9, 30.Aug 2014
- New Overburn/overwrite-msg if size requires it.
- - - - Specific DVD/BD info in the 'overburn' dialog to alternatively overwrite existing data.
- - - - Added the attribute -use-the-force-luke=tty to skip interactive msg from growisofs.
- - - - Added the attribute -use-the-force-luke=spare:none to overburn BD.
- - - - Help: Adjusted overburn info.
- Bugfix: Auto-set overburning of BD/DVD if chosen/required.
- Set uid and gid to 0 for rockridge filesystem on the burnt media.
Version 4.3.8, 22.Aug 2014
- Extended DVD/BD-info in 'Disc is not blank'-dialog
Version 4.3.7, 19.Aug 2014
Bugfix: Do not rely on busybox ps (thanks to jamesbond)
Version 4.3.6, 22.Jul 2014
- Added Error-msg if growisofs wants you to do a full blanking. (Thanks to Charlie6)
- Bugfix: Export iso with only 1 non-video-file in burnlist gives option to build video-iso.
- Bugfix: Broken symlink to rox:OpenWith - Burn with pBurn. (thanks to SFR)
- Bugfix: Removed dead NLS-link from pet. (thanks to rg66)
Version 4.3.5, 21.Apr 2014
- Bugfix: Correct detection of free space on a multisession BD-RE.
Version 4.3.4, 25.Jan 2014
- Use svg icon in *.desktop file.
- Bugfix: Activate Publish/Volume fields for blank DVD/BD
Version 4.3.3, 23.Nov 2013
- Do add Preparer, Publisher, Volume to command only for first session.
- Faster disc-info (Tools menu).
- Bugfix: If Volume/Publisher is set empty at first session, Default values shows up in burn-option dialog at second session.
- Bugfix: Publisher nor Volume can contain space when burning CD.
- Bugfix: Dummy burn a CD on-the-fly
Version 4.3.2, 20.Nov 2013
- Bugfix: Burn iso-image (thanks to OscarTalks)
Version 4.3.1, 18.Nov 2013
- Bugfix: Execution fails (thanks to OscarTalks)
Version 4.3.0, 16.Nov 2013
- Authoring Video-DVD.
- - - - build filesystem for Video-DVD (video_ts) from Tools menu.
- - - - build iso image compatible with Video-DVD from Tools menu\.
- - - - Option to export iso-image (File menu) compatible with Video-DVD, if burnlist contains only valid movie/image files.
- Option to save ripped video-DVD-movie has been moved from burn-command to finish-box.
- Burn data-CD on-the-fly by default.
- Option to do a dummy burn - Advanced tab.
- Reorganize the on-the-fly/'use temp storage' options. Now only 1 checkbox.
- Move some options in the burn-tab into expander 'More options'.
- Import list (pburn -i):
- - - - check for numbering if list is video-DVD valid as well as for audio-list.
- - - - If no playlist build full filesystem on the burnt disc.
- - - - Increase numbering to 0-999.
- - - - Skip import-message if burn-mode is set (-m switch).
- - - - Always number imported file if burn mode is set to 'audio' or 'video'.
- libcdio
- - - - Show existing labels in the Publish tab in burn-option dialog.
- - - - Disc info now uses cd-info to read label, publisher and preparer of disc.
- - - - Make libcdio an optional dependency.
- - - - Add to dependency check. - in 'others' dependencies.
- - - - Bugfix: Multisession validation was hardcoded to /dev/sr0.
- Hide column with paths in builtin browser.
- Update helpfile: Chapters Burn, Filesystem, Audio and Publish.
- Bugfix: Trouble when combining several switches from commandline.
- Bugfix: Error msg when try to burn if no optical device is installed on system.
- Bugfix: Correct message in sizebar if drive is not found.
- Bugfix: 'Export to iso' shows warning about 'not valid multisession disc'.
- Bugfix: Helpfile says plugins while gui says tools (menu)
- Bugfix: Helpfile states version 3.x.x
- Bugfix: Main window too tall on my netbook - height decreased from 570 to 550.
- Bugfix: Show burn-options dialog when using the -c switch.
- Bugfix: Msg 'Disc not initialized by pBurn' should exit if close from window manager.
- Bugfix: Set volume label should only be possible for the initial session.
- Bugfix: Burning Audio-CD leads to veeery slow refresh-rate of burn-option dialog.
- Bugfix: Close pBurn PIDs when starting with the -m switch.
- Bugfix: Copy video-DVD without using the manually-option in the Advanced tab in burn-options dialog
- Bugfix: Delete vob file after copy-video if process fail.
Version 4.2.0, 13.Oct 2013
- Make it impossible to close logbox (where the command output shows), without stopping all burning operations. (thanks to brokenman)
- Commandline in advanced tab (burn-options) are now auto-refreshed. Refresh-button is removed.
- Msg about multisession burning with non-pBurn-disc has got options: blank disc, continue, disc info.
- Helpfile updated - Advanced chapter.
- Helpmsg if burning fails and CD only requires a reload.
- Remove Normalizer as dependencies. ffmpeg (requires ffmpeg-1.1)do the job instead.
- Set normalizing to true by default.
- Don't activate the 'eject disc' option after blanking. You probably want the disc still inserted.
- Bugfix: Remove the file the_video_you_wanted1.vob.partial by 'Emergency STOP' if using the gtkdialog tail-box.
- Bugfix: Kill also cddetect at Emergency STOP.
Version 4.1.2, 5.Oct 2013
- Use comboboxtext instead of combobox widget when choosing mediatype for video-DVD and blanking.
- Minor update in the helpfile - Filesystem.
- Bugfix: Detected mediatype shows up twice in list when burning data disc.
Version 4.1.1, 28.Sep 2013
- Adjusted msg: 'Multisession disc is not initialized by pBurn'.
- Minor update in the helpfile < Multisession > chapter.
- Fix alignment in burn-options 'Publish' tab.
- Change name from Pburn to pBurn.
- Clean up gui for burner-drive selection. Both at first-run and in burn-options.
- Fix alignment in burn-options - Advanced tab - CPU priority.
- Bugfix: Choose mediatype manually should (de)activate checkbox to overwrite.
- Bugfix: Heading in filechooser (temporary storage should be pBurn.
Version 4.1.0, 15.Sep 2013
- Store filesystem info in preparer-id for correct multisession settings. (thanks to matiasbatero)
- Squeezed multisession/close disc into one option.
- Remove preparer-id from gui.
- Updated Help file - Burn chapter - multisession.
- Option to delay message-boxes to ensure them to on top.
Version 4.0.5, 7.Aug 2013
- Fontsize adjusted in mini-theme to fit 96dpi
Version 4.0.4, 2.Aug 2013
- Added some more multi-session info in the help-file. (thanks to gcmartin)
- Bugfix: Use signal "delete-event" instead of "hide" when exit gui (thanks to SFR)
- Bugfix: Allow burning isofiles with ) and ( in name. (Thanks to 01micko)
Version 4.0.3, 15.Jul 2013
- Bugfix: Correct dependency check for cdrtools and gtkdialog (thanks to sheldonisaac)
Version 4.0.2, 12.Jul 2013
- Improve Saveboxes. (thanks to otropogo)
- Bugfix: get rid of testfile /root/test. (thanks to SFR)
Version 4.0.1, 2.Jul 2013
- Activate rubber-banding in file-browser
- Syntax improvements in help file. (thanks to don570)
- Bugfix: Dependency check shows missing gtkdialog
Version 4.0.0, 19.Jun 2013
- cdrtools 3 is the only supported backend. cdrkit is not supported anymore.
- Burn discs compatible with Windows XP/7/8 (thanks to Ted Dog and JamesBond).
- Filesystem options is completely reorganized.
- UDF is removed as burning option for data-burning. isolevel 4 is used instead.
- Set option -shorttrack as default for copying audio-CD.
- Scalable Burn-options dialog.
- Improved support of non-Puppy systems.
--- Replaced 'ps' with 'ps -eo pid,command' to support full (non-busybox) ps command (thanks to 01micko)
--- Use 'type' instead of 'which'. (thanks to 01micko)
- Gui refinements for burn-options-tabs Burner-device and Publish.
Version 3.7.17, 29.Mar 2013
- Bugfix: Info button in burn-option dialog doesn't work.
- Add finnish (zephyr2) to the credits
- Dependency check should use yellow (not red) for missing optional dependencies.
Version 3.7.16, 14.Mar 2013
- Bugfix: Burn UDF with cdr-tools backend (thanks to jamesbond)
Version 3.7.15, 7.Feb 2013
- Bugfix: Calculate size of directory content when tmpdir is on another filesystem than Puppy.
- Bugfix: Calculate free space in bar when tmpdir is on another filesystem than Puppy.
Version 3.7.14, 4.Feb 2013
- Bugfix: Rely on ONLY gtkdialog as executable - not gtkdialog4 (thanks to Charlie6 and don570)
Version 3.7.13, 13.Jan 2013
- Depends on gtkdialog 0.8.3
- Bugfix: Use markup in splash
Version 3.7.12, 12.Jan 2013
- Bugfix: Verifying using MD5. (thanks to otropogo)
- Bugfix: gettext string in MD5 splash box.
- Bugfix: Missing icon in gtkdialog-logbox heading.
Version 3.7.11, 2.Jan 2013
- Bugfix: nrg2iso detection in dependency check. (thanks to jamesbond and smokey01)
Version 3.7.10, 30.Dec 2012
- Include VIDEO_FORMAT to dvdauthor for burning video. (thanks to jamesbond)
Version 3.7.9, 10.Dec 2012
- Msg if burning on-the-fly, and read-drive and burn-drive is set to the same device. (thanks to Jades)
- Bugfix: Dependency check using xterm. --hold should be -hold. (thanks to bigbass)
Version 3.7.8, 23.Nov 2012
- Run ffmpeg pre-operations without opening xterm.
- Box_splash uses usleep (busybox), now set to sleep (bash). (thanks to bigbass)
Version 3.7.7, 9.Nov 2012
- Bugfix: NLS: Wrong button-label in blank-disc-box.
Version 3.7.6, 19.Oct 2012
- Support *.mkv video files. (thanks to TheYoungOne)
- Bugfix: Splash would show text in KDE (thanks to big_bass)
Version 3.7.5, 19.Sept 2012
- Bugfix: Detect correct helpfile. (thanks to rodin.s)
Version 3.7.4, 10.Aug 2012
- Use gettext for NLS. (thanks to rodin.s)
- Bugfix: Build help-text for burnoptions.
- Bugfix: Advanced info-dialog also shows heading of chapter 4 of help file.
Version 3.7.3, 28.Jul 2012
- Multi-selection in builtin browser
- Dependency check either from Help-menu or parameter -D
- NLS:Added: LOC142
Version 3.7.2, 18.Jul 2012
- Bugfix: Improved definition of burn command for blanked BD-RE (thanks to Flash)
Version 3.7.1, 17.Jul 2012
- Hyperlinks in helpfile.
- Bugfix: Show Help when not using english language. (thanks to shinobar)
- Bugfix: Detect correct mediatype when copy data-disc.
- NLS: Added: LOC602
Version 3.7.0, 15.Jul 2012
- Multisession support for BD-RE.
- No need to blank/erase rewritable DVD and blu-ray.
- Correct detection of BD-RE.
- Verify burnt iso-image to multisession DVD/Blu-ray. (thanks to rerwin)
- Move translated help files to /usr/share/doc/help to be compatible with pman. (thanks to shinobar)
- Burn options: Keep 'Temporary storage' widgets to the left when scaling gui.
- Bugfix: Tab-label missing when exporting ISO. (thanks to don570)
- Bugfix: Find help-file when Language is set to 'auto'. (thanks to Bigpup)
- Bugfix: At first run, language was overwritten from 'auto' to $LANG. (thanks to shinobar)
- Bugfix: Verify multisession CD. (thanks to rerwin)
- Bugfix: BD-RE does always report free-space to be equal to total-space.
- Bugfix: Burn iso-image as mutlisession then disc is DVD/BD.
- Bugfix: DVD/BD always asked to blank disc if burning other mode than 'data'.
- NLS: Added: LOC244, 404
- NLS: Changed: LOC351
Version 3.6.1, 16.Jun 2012
- Move native language file to /usr/local/pburn (thanks to shinobar)
- Bugfix: Improved detection of free size of temporary storage. (thanks to shinobar)
- Bugfix: Show message at startup about missing temporary storage if storage is smaller than recommended. (thanks to shinobar)
Version 3.6.0, 23.May 2012
- Optional support of NRG-image (nero format) if nrg2iso is installed. (thanks to 01micko)
- Optional tool: Convert NRG to ISO.
- Verify iso-image burnt mulitsession to CD.
- Move locales to /usr/share/locale/.
- Bugfix: Ask to blank disc if required when entering burn options (bug introduced in 3.5.0).
- Bugfix: Define Audio-CD correct in statusbar.
- NLS: Added: LOC_IMAGE, 137, 205, 356, 357
- NLS: Changed: LOC126, 306, 307, 322, 351
- NLS: Removed: LOC_ISO, 124
- DOC: Multisession: Now supports verifing (md5sum) of CD-R(W).
Version 3.5.2, 9.Apr 2012
- New startup mode (-m info) goes straight to disc info.
- Bugfix: Blank CD-R is reported as RW in the tools>info dialog. (thanks to otropogo)
- Bugfix: Discinfo of CDDA shows free space.
- NLS: Changed: LOC126
Version 3.5.1, 4.Mar 2012
- Verify copied data-disc. (thanks to otropogo)
- If more than 1 device is detected, show startup-check window. (thanks to Jades)
- Choose temporary-storage-directory is now more flexible. (thanks to sebus)
- Set a unique date/time tag to default logfile name. (thanks to otropogo)
- Do not show terminal pre-operation window if ffmpeg is NOT in command.
- Open support of xterm as an alternative terminal to rxvt. (thanks to big_bass)
- Accept netsurf, midori, chrome, iron as alternative html viewers.
- NLS: Removed: LOC317
- NLS: Helpfile: New item in chapter 4, potentional pitfalls. (thanks to Jades)
Version 3.5.0, 25.Feb 2012
- Improved Blu-ray (BD-R) support.
- Detection of DVD-mediatype in disc-info window.
- Detection of Blu-ray in burn-options window.
- First run installation is now done in 'no' time. (thanks to big_bass)
- Bugfix: Blu-ray discs was detected as DVD in statusbar. (thanks to flash)
- Bugfix: Size-detection of burnt BD-R sessions in statusbar. (thanks to flash)
- Bugfix: mkdir $HOME/my-documents/tmp if not exist and using as the default temporary storage. (thanks to big_bass)
- Bugfix: Startup-check for temp-dir always shows up if placed inside /mnt/home. (thanks to otropogo)
- Bugfix: Pburn won't open burn-option dialog if previous sessions contains not valid joliet extensions.
- Bugfix: Detect optical device in Porteus (thanks to Ahua in the Porteus forum)
- Bugfix: Not allowing capitals in file extension - *.CUE and *.TOC (thanks to sebus)
- Bugfix: Tray autoloads at once it has opened tray.
- NLS: Added: LOC395
- NLS: Changed: LOC126, 240, 333, 392
- NLS: Removed: LOC400
Version 3.4.3, 1.Jan 2012
- Turn UDF option ON if required. (thanks to edV)
- Bugfix: Pburn hangs during media-check if burning files larger than 4Gb. (thanks to edV)
- Bugfix: Rename file in burnlist that contains reg-expr-char in name.
Version 3.4.2, 5.Dec 2011
- Improved detection of $LANG (thanks to shinobar)
- Bugfix: Do not flicker the rxvt window if no preburn operations
- Bugfix: Save over an existing .pbn file. (thanks to disciple)
- Bugfix: Syntax error in LOC355. (thanks to disciple)
- Bugfix: Open pbn-file resulted in another statusbar daemon to start.
- Bugfix: Update statusbar after open a new pbn-file. (thanks to disciple)
- Bugfix: Rename directory in burnlist. (thanks to disciple)
- Bugfix: Rename file in burnlist, and then back to its original name. (thanks to disciple)
Version 3.4.1, 1.Oct 2011
- Faster startup (thanks to thunor)
- Make it possible to downgrade Pburn.
- Bugfix: More fixes for X-freeze in Slacko.
- Bugfix: Update temporary storage size after Warning: Less than 9GB for shrinking.
- Bugfix: Warning: Less than 9GB for shrinking. - NLS could give trouble with size checking.
- Bugfix: graftpoints could be corrupted when staring a new burn-session.
Version 3.4.0, 24.Sept 2011
- Moved from gtkdialog3 to gtkdialog4 (rev297).
- Improved scaling of windows. (thanks to thunor)
- Bugfix: X freeze in Slacko (Puppy 5.3 beta)
- Bugfix: Troubles after unstalling NLS. (thanks to shinobar)
- NLS: Removed LOC101, 109
Version 3.3.7, 21.Sept 2011
- Copy video-DVD: More info in the 'please insert a new disc' dialog about the ripped file.
- Message if temporary storage is less than 9GB when trying to copy a video-DVD.
- Do not open the rxvt window if no pre-operation is required.
- Bugfix: Ensure use of gtk stock icons.
- NLS: added: LOC466, 467
Version 3.3.6, 4.Sept 2011
- Bugfix: Video-DVD copy
- Bugfix: Remove vob file (from vobcopy) after vamps has built a new shrinked file.
- Bugfix: Increase size of rxvt (during preburn operations) window to show header info.
- NLS: Changed LOC391
Version 3.3.5, 30.Aug 2011
- Spare some place in sizebar (2Mb) for filesystem burndata like udf, joliet, rockridge... (thanks to disciple)
- Skip 'search' from menu if pfilesearch is not installed.
- Use sleep(bash) instead of usleep(busybox). (thanks to vinayv)
- Bugfix: Improve disc-size detection. (thanks to disciple)
- Bugfix: Pburn won't run without pfilesearch. (thanks to hazer on Artch forum)
- Bugfix: return value of fileselect dialog - gtkdialog 0.7.21 (thanks to BarryK)
Version 3.3.4, 6.Mar 2011
- Bugfix: save a pbn file (in data mode) when temporary storage is VFAT. (thanks to disciple)
- Bugfix: Detect macrolanguage (fr, en..) when lang contains utf or similar post info.
- Bugfix: 'Pburn /path_to_some/file.pbn`, "File-Save" works like "File-Save-As". (thanks to disciple)
- Bugfix: When /root/.gtk-bookmarks has got two empty lines (or more), pburn doesn't run. (thanks to Agrolance)
- Bugfix: Should be error when add file/dir to location/name already in burnlist. (thanks to disciple)
Version 3.3.3, 17.Jan 2011
- Bugfix: Improved detection of blank DVD (thanks to Country Bumkin)
Version 3.3.2, 16.Jan 2011
- Info in rxvt header to avoid user to close tiny black window (thanks to capoverde)
- Bugfix: Adding both audio_ts and video_ts fails for video-DVD. (thanks to Country Bumkin)
- Bugfix: Preburn command holds text 'Pburn preburn operations'. (thanks to Country Bumkin)
- Bugfix: Header in main window doesn't show all information.
- Bugfix: Overwrites existing file if closing Save-dialog via window manager
- Bugfix: Save-dialog points to box_yesno which doesn't exist
- Bugfix: 'Save' in Save-dialog is not localized.
- Bugfix: Detection of iso-file in burnlist (for redirecting user to iso-mode) accepted too many files.
Version 3.3.1, 30.Nov 2010
- Repeat ONLY burn-action without clearing the temporary storage (thanks to BarryK)
- Bugfix: Downgrade Pburn, still shows the highest version number (thanks to 01micko and disciple)
- Bugfix: Didn't check if DVD was blanked before burning audio, video or iso.
- Bugfix: Didn't check if DVD was open before burning data.
- Bugfix: Recieve cddb info for audio-CD when temp-dir is a hidden dir. (thanks to BarryK)
- Bugfix: Installation at first run in Quirky 1.4.
- NLS changed: LOC408, 474
Version 3.3.0, 22.Nov 2010
- Allow some more audio codecs. (thanks to TheAsterisk!)
- Bugfix: Set CD-speed when burning Audio-CD corrupts the burn command (thanks to kozak6)
Version 3.2.9, 5.Sep 2010
- improved calculation of Video-DVD shrinkfactor. (thanks to Country Bumkin)
- Strip special chars from CD-text information.
- HELP: {3.5} AUDIO: Warning about using RW-discs for Audio-CD.
- Bugfix: Rename item in burnlist with ` in name (thanks to don570)
- Bugfix: Burn an audio-CD fails if track names includes ` (thanks to don570)
- Bugfix: Manual edit of command fails when it contains variables. (thanks to Country Bumkin)
- Bugfix: Remove partial ripped (vobcopy) file after 'Emergency Stop'.
Version 3.2.8, 1.Sep 2010
- Bugfix: Directories in Burnlist stops with 'do not exist' error (thanks to disciple)
- Bugfix: Hide splash if switching from data-mode to audio/video and there is no items in burnlist
Version 3.2.7, 27.Aug 2010
- Improved language detection. (thanks to wow)
- Cleanup in language file. (thanks to potong)
- Bugfix: Import playlists with # in filename. (thanks to don570)
- Bugfix: Remove a subdir from burnlist. (thanks to disciple)
- Bugfix: No eject/verify after exporting to iso. (disciple)
- Bugfix: Checking for existing filename when exporting to iso.
- Bugfix: Check if file(s) to be burnt really exist (thanks to disciple)
- Bugfix: Open a .pbn file in the working dir without specifying full path. (thanks to disciple)
- NLS: Added: $LOC355
- NLS: Changed: $LOC105
- NLS: Update in helpfile: Import (play)list (thanks to don570)
Version 3.2.6, 25.Jun 2010
- Bugfix: some changes in the 'pburn -h' info.
- Bugfix: setting DVD-speed gives burning error (thanks to Oneel)
- Bugfix: kill splash when starting copy/iso/blank with the -m switch
- Bugfix: dependency check for 'Fixate DVD' reports missing 'readcd' instead of 'close'
Version 3.2.5, 1.May 2010
- NLS: Added LOC512
- Bugfix: Detection of audio-CD in status bar (thanks to 01micko)
- Bugfix: The Tools-disc info dialogue says "blank disk" when there is no disk inserted. (thanks to disciple)
- Bugfix: The Tools-disc info dialogue says "blank disk" when a music CD is inserted. (thanks to disciple)
- Bugfix: Try to burn with a audio-CD/video-DVD inserted, you get to the burn dialogue. (thanks to disciple)
- Bugfix: link disc-status-detection to Pburn-burner-device rather than /dev/cdrom.
Version 3.2.4, 30.Apr 2010
- NLS: Added LOC354
- Bugfix: Write debugging file to /root/gtk (thanks to EdV)
- Bugfix: Auto-reloads of tray after eject (thanks to 01micko, flash, tubby, jrb, smokey01....)
Version 3.2.3, 26.Mar 2010
- Sound when finished (thanks to ttuuxxx)
- Unmount disc if currently mounted (thanks to ttuuxxx)
- NLS added: LOC376, 600, 601
- NLS changed: LOC375
- Bugfix: Show/hide tooltips didn't work in multiuser system
- Bugfix: Bookmarks shows empty list when gtk-bookmark has been named. (thanks to disciple)
- Bugfix: Open a .pbn file won't burn (thanks to disciple)
Version 3.2.2, 17.Mar 2010
- Bugfix: burn a Copied dvd video
- Bugfix: Override $LANG for default language (thanks to esmourguit)
Version 3.2.1, 17.Mar 2010
- Bugfix: burn video_ts directory as video-DVD (thanks to nibl)
- Bugfix: add items inside a video_ts directory in video mode (thanks to nibl)
- Bugfix: Show helpfile in correct language, if language is set to 'auto' (thanks to esmourguit)
Version 3.2.0, 13.Mar 2010
- External dialogs are placed ontop in Stradust (error, save, open...)
- Bugfix: Open other iso than *pup*.iso with rox-right-click
- Bugfix: <frame save> in box-save is not NLS
- Bugfix: kill splash after initial error, running with -m switch.
Version 3.1.9, 3.Feb 2010
- Bugfix: Check whether a CD is inserted before trying to 'Verify CD quality'. (thanks to disciple)
- Bugfix: Open iso from rox (-m iso) run installation every time
- Bugfix: Set cpu priority (nice)
- Bugfix: Audio-CD: Check if valid disc is inserted
- Bugfix: Navigation in right pane --> Required media-size showed less than actually needed.
Version 3.1.8, 14.Jan 2010
- Bugfix: ffmpeg freezes X on some systems (thanks to Charlie6)
Version 3.1.7, 19.Dec 2009
- Syntax error: UDF description. (thanks to disciple)
- Bugfix: 'Verify Disc quality' works only for CD. Syntax changed. (thanks to disciple)
- Bugfix: Error message if trying to burn to a mounted disc. (thanks to otropogo)
- Bugfix: Burning VCD. (thanks to zenmeister)
- NLS Changed LOC134, 257
Version 3.1.6, 29.Nov 2009
- Bugfix: Burn iso by Rox-right-click.
- Bugfix: Gtk-issues in Puppy 2.14X.
Version 3.1.5, 26.Nov 2009
- Option to ignore the startup message. (thanks to snail)
- Bugfix: media-checking hangs (data-CD) if device is not /dev/sr0. (thanks to ttuuxxx)
- Bugfix: media-checking hangs (data-CD) if wodim is not in $PATH. (thanks to ttuuxxx)
- Bugfix: Do not close startup splash until gui is up and running.
- NLS Added LOC490, 495
- NLS Removed LOC323
Version 3.1.4, 16.Nov 2009
- Improved handling of installed
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Posted: Sat 05 Apr 2008, 05:19
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1. "Transtalors" rather than "translators" in the credits.
2. I think the information button needs information for the "follow symlink" checkbox.
3. Looks like a bug when removing an item with spaces in the name from the "Files to burn list":
du: cannot access `(01)_01': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `Only': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `Love': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `Is': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `Spoken': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `Here': No such file or directory
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Posted: Sat 05 Apr 2008, 06:18
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Thank you Disciple. You are great!
1. done!
2. I'll consider it. What did you have in mind?
3. Have already fixed it this morning.
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Posted: Sat 05 Apr 2008, 07:31
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What about just more info in the checkbox label:
Follow symlink - ('Minimum disc size' shows probably less than you actually need)
Or is it other useful information that should have been stated?
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Posted: Sat 05 Apr 2008, 18:56
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That might be enough.
I don't really know enough about it. Presumably it means that all symlinks that have been added to the burn list (even ones that are inside several folders, and you may not be aware of) are followed, so you can end up with a lot bigger image than you expect. It would be good to make this clear.
I think it is an "advanced" option that people usually won't want?
Is it also the same as running pburn -f ?
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Posted: Sun 06 Apr 2008, 00:02
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- It still doesn't obey my GTK theme's font, but I think I was confused. It is supposed to override the whole theme, not just colours, isn't it? I think I was confused because it didn't override my theme when I tried it on Puppy 1, but maybe with an older GTK it
override it...
- Look what happens if you open pburn when it is already running - that doesn't seem very good.
- When I move a file up and down in the order for an audio CD, or when I add a file, I see lots of this. Should I see this, or is it something bad?
mv: `/tmp/pburn/(13)_Paul Stookey - Jean Claude.mp3' and `/tmp/pburn/(13)_Paul Stookey - Jean Claude.mp3' are the same file
mv: `/tmp/pburn/(14)_Paul Stookey - How can I keep from singing - Band and Bodyworks.mp3' and `/tmp/pburn/(14)_Paul Stookey - How can I keep from singing - Band and Bodyworks.mp3' are the same file
mv: `/tmp/pburn/(15)_Paul Stookey - Revolution 1x1.mp3' and `/tmp/pburn/(15)_Paul Stookey - Revolution 1x1.mp3' are the same file
mv: `/tmp/pburn/(16)_Paul Stookey - Something New & Fresh - 4D.mp3' and `/tmp/pburn/(16)_Paul Stookey - Something New & Fresh - 4D.mp3' are the same file
mv: `/tmp/pburn/(17)_Paul Stookey - The Minstrel Boy - demo.mp3' and `/tmp/pburn/(17)_Paul Stookey - The Minstrel Boy - demo.mp3' are the same file
I also see quite a few
expr: syntax error
- When I rename something I see this, which doesn't look right:
XConsortium: xmessage.c,v 1.6 95/01/04 16:29:54 gildea Exp $
usage: gxmessage [-options] [message ...]
where options include:
-file filename file to read message from, "-" for stdin
-buttons string comma-separated list of label:exitcode
-default button button to activate if Return is pressed
-print print the button label when selected
-center pop up at center of screen
-nearmouse pop up near the mouse cursor
-timeout secs exit with status 0 after "secs" seconds
Also, we could probably improve the message we get if you click rename, then click OK without changing anything.
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Argh! Blog silence, blog silence, and yet more blog silence!
Things just get more and more labyrinthine in their franticness chez Sycorax Pine, until I feel just barnacled over with endless work. The job search gallops apace (I have a couple of interviews now, which means I have made it past the first two rounds of cuts for a few schools, which will now live forever in my affection), the dissertation is moving into turbo-drive, and another semester of teaching is winding down.
But meanwhile, I had to make a brief bloggy appearance to tell you about another delight that LibraryThing has brought into my life: SantaThing.
SantaThing is a program that LibraryThing is inaugurating this year, a program that allows you to send books off to a total stranger and receive some in return this holiday season. It is like an even more surprising BookMooch, a gift economy that is entirely speculative and thus a good bit more thrilling and adventurous (and you know how I love the idealism of BookMooch).
Here's what happens: before this Thursday, prospective SantaThingers should go to the SantaThing site and pay $25 via PayPal. Then you will enter in some basic words of guidance: how would you describe your literary interests? The types of books you would like to receive? Hate to receive on the level of cataclysmic disaster? After this you provide your name and address to LibraryThing, which will keep this info private. They will pick a Secret Santa for you on Thursday, and you will submit gift ideas (based on the info you have about your SantaThingee) that are worth up to $20 (on Amazon) to LibraryThing. They arrange and pay for the shipping, and your gifts should arrive at their destination by Christmas Eve.
I have to say, the prospect of getting not just book recommendations, but actual books from a total stranger is thrilling to me. For that matter, the idea of getting to send some of my favorite books on to people who have never encountered them is oddly pleasing as well. Delightful! If it interests you, go and check it out at the links above.
Meanwhile, my apologies for my blog-sluggishness (bluggishness?) - things are just so crazy here that I feel guilty every time I even contemplate writing a blog entry. I will try to pop in for an update whenever I can, but I hope to be back to my full bloggy splendor (ok, perhaps it would be better to say my full bloggy devotion) in February or March. Meanwhile, my love to you all!
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Opening Day: new season, old friends
The big day is here, and it's always something special. I can't even describe what the adrenaline rush is like on Opening Day. It's my 12th Opening Day, and the butterflies will be there as always. Once the game starts, though, it's back to doing what we do. It's a thrill to take the field and get another season going.
We're meeting my old team, the Twins, to get it started for the second time in my three years with the Angels. Everyone knows how it all started for me in Minnesota, so this is special.
The truth is, I'm looking forward to this one a lot more than the opener at the Metrodome in 2008. That series went four games and was hard on me emotionally, mentally and even physically, being on artificial turf.
Opening Day at the Metrdome, my first game in an Angels uniform, that was really rough on me. I was kind of in a daze, running around trying to see so many people who meant so much to me for such a big part of my life. I knew everybody there, from the janitors to the vendors.
My nerves were shot before the game even started. I didn't play very well and we lost, but it was just one game. As the series went on, I started feeling better and playing better. I hit a home run, got a few hits and we came out of it all right. But I'd be lying if I said I wasn't glad it was over.
This time it's all different. The Twins are coming to our house, to my place. It'll be good to see all those guys again, from Ron Gardenhire and Joe Mauer through the ranks. That's always been a great organization, and I was proud to be a Twin from June 3, 1993 to the end of 2007.
It's a new era with the Twins. They showed that when they stepped up and did what it took to keep Joe. They showed they didn't want to be a small-market team anymore. They've got their new ballpark, and a whole new era. It's great to see.
Guys like myself and Johan Santana, we were there at the wrong time. They couldn't keep us, but I know it means the world to those great fans that they signed Joe, their hometown guy, to that eight-year deal. I was really happy to see that.
It's going to be exciting for those guys to come to our turf. It'll be cool to see Gardy, Jerry White, all those guys who taught me so much.
I'll also get to see some guys I helped raise as players. Denard Span, who's taking my old spot, is my prot�g�. He came to stay with me in Texas, in my house. I talked to him about everything, from finances to family to the game.
Gardy was one of the first guys I met when I signed with the Twins out of high school in Pine Bluff, Ark. I was 17 when I signed. We met in Spring Training in 1994. He was the third-base coach then, and he was so cool to me. I'll always remember that.
Gardenhire reminds me of Mike Scioscia in some ways. Both those guys are really into the game, always studying the game. I don't know if Gardy has changed any – I seriously doubt it — but when I was there, he was a players' manager. He was always joking with the players, staying close to us. Guys loved playing for him.
I've been lucky to spend almost my whole career playing for two of the best managers in the game. We're going to do everything we can to take Mike back to the World Series this season. It's a long process, but everything starts with that first step, that first game. Let's get it going.
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Torii, Twins fans still LOVE you. I wish the Jim Pohlad era had begun earlier so that you could have remained a Twin. It makes me very happy to read about your continued warm feelings toward the Twins. You are a class act all the way.
Hi Torii-
I'm here in Minnesota and it's still strange to watch you play in an Angels uniform. My dad (baseball fan of 50 years and your personal fan of 11 years) and I were just talking about how much we miss you! It's great to see you play and I can't wait for an Angels game at Target Field. Thanks for all the great years!
Your fan, (no matter what team you play for)
Torii, It was nice to watch you play ball again. Wish you were still with Minnesota but I can tell you are happy where you are now. All four games were fun to watch!
I am so excited to watch you play at Target Field in August! To see you in person will be so AWESOME! I will be there for the series for sure.
Keep up the great work you are a awesome player where ever you play. Best of Luck with the baseball season.
Your #1 Fan.
Hayley from Minnesota
Torii went to the game on friday night against the A's. How are you? You looked much to serious. Are you hurting? What is going on amongst the players. Seems like the nerves are flarring up all around. You are a good team and can play excellant baseball. I will keep the faith that one day it will all turn around. Good Luck!!
Hey Torii I Love the Angels… I WAS soo excited for baseball season to start we even bought tickets to about 7 games, but I gotta tell you right now im so disapointed in the whole team! Pitching is bad, hitting is worst. Whats going on? and whats even more sad is that there are A LOT of men being stranded on bases. Right now im watching you guys against the Yankees (4-13-10) and it looks really bad so far 7 men stranded on bases! Were is the clutch… Im not even excited about going to next weeks game at anaheim. Hope tomorrows game go's better for you guys….
We can't wait for your visit to MN later this season. It won't be but a couple more years and you'll be back home in a Twins uniform, playing for the team and the fans who will end up enshrining you at Target Field. Play well this year, TH – We're still rooting for you 🙂
It's always great to watch you play and do what you do best! It was hard for me when you left the Twins, mostly because I placed you up there with Kirby as the 2nd greatest Twins centerfielder that would be there until the end, but now it's great to see you doing well and the Twins still competing. I hope the Halos take the West! See you at Target Field!
You're STILL one of my fav players man! You play the game the right way. I still remember when you robbed Bonds of a HR in the AS game. Vintage Torii.


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Editor's note: For those of you joining us late, Peter Rubin's a roadie making his first foray into mountain biking. He knows nothing – seriously, zero – about that side of cycling, so he's chronicling his adventures in the hope that others might learn from his inevitable mistakes.
I've done a lot of things on a bike. I've climbed mountains. I've ridden 100 miles before lunch. I've broken 40 mph and weaved through New York City traffic banging on cars with one hand (not, I should note, simultaneously). I really thought I knew how to ride. Then I went to mountain bike camp, and the first thing they taught me was how to sit on a bike.
Let me repeat that: They taught me how to sit on a bike.
It turns out that all those hours on the road don't really translate to the trail. And by "don't really," I mean "in no way at all." And that is why I found myself in a parking lot last Friday morning, listening to Better Ride founder Gene Hamilton and coach Dylan Renn tell me that I don't know jack about jack.
Not that I can dispute that.
In the month since I've decided that I really, really want to master the art of off-road riding, I've gotten a mountain bike. I've learned the difference between a cross-country and all-mountain and downhill bike and which one I ought to be riding. I've ridden some of the most beautiful trails the Bay Area has to offer. I've learned how to pedal wheelies. I've (obviously) fallen over. Hell, I've even ridden alongside a buck that ran out of the woods to lope with me down a gravel-strewn fire road for a quarter mile before he looked back, lowered his antlers and bounded away. But other than watching YouTube videos and trying not to take riding advice from colleagues, I haven't gotten any actual instruction. Which is where Better Rides comes in, and why there were nine of us gathered in that parking lot in Palo Alto.
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Gear Up For Cycling's New Golden AgeThere was a chef who'd been riding for 30 years, and his X-ray tech wife. The director of engineers at the company that developed the technology behind this year's America's Cup telecast was there. So was a guy with a Pac-Man ringtone. A doctor who, when she wasn't practicing medicine, races XC mountain bikes showed up. For (im)moral support, I had Wired.com photo director Jim Merithew with me. The only thing that united us was we all had mountain bikes, we all wanted to ride better and we were all willing to fork over $700 for a three-day skills camp.
Better Ride founder Gene Hamilton is 46 and a longtime pro downhill racer. After years spent coaching snowboarding and skiing, he started the company in 1998, and made it a full-time endeavor about 10 years ago. A staff of coaches now run BR's clinics and camps, among them our sensei for the weekend, Dylan Renn. However, Hamilton also came along for the weekend, which gave us an unexpected coaching twofer. (The fact that he's essentially the lovechild of Ted Nugent and Jeff Spicoli also balanced out Dylan's Zen demeanor and gave us an unexpected entertainment twofer.)
So we stood around and introduced ourselves, and then we stood around and listened while Dylan and Gene explained proper climbing and descending riding positions. And then we stood around and listened while Dylan and Gene explained the importance of long-range vision. And then we stood around and listened some more while Dylan and Gene explained bike setup. During the eight hours of the first day, we spent the first six and a half on concrete — and six of those were spent off the bike (including one point when we trooped around the parking lot in a circle on foot). This is the point, I imagine, at which you yell something like, "Why would you spend $700 to talk about mountain biking?" To which I say, bear with me.
Here's the thing. Every mountain biker knows how you're supposed to arrange yourself on a descent: Weight on the pedals, hands light, chin up for vision, chest out for clear breathing, hips back, elbows out, skeletal structure stacked over the handlebars for cornering. And every mountain biker knows that you're supposed to look far ahead on the trail. Looking down is disaster, and looking at the stuff that scares you is even worse. But as any Karl Rove knows, theory and practice are two very separate things. Have you seen yourself on a bike? No? I have, if you're anything like the vast majority of the riders who zoomed by us out on the trails. And let me tell you: It's not as pretty as you think it is.
But that's what we did on that first day: We learned all over again how to sit on a bike. How to climb in the saddle (which is more efficient and somehow more stable than coming out of the saddle to climb steep grades). How to scan the trail by scanning quickly for obstacles, then picking out points in the middle distance and focusing on those while letting our peripheral vision handle the rest. Eventually, we rode out of the parking lot and into Pearson-Arastradero Preserve to put those new skills to the test on the trail and in the dirt bowl. But before we actually hit the trail to ride, we also learned how to pedal wheelie and manual (aka coaster wheelie). It felt like a strange interruption to the day, mostly because it seemed a somewhat more advanced pair of skills compared to the elementary ones we'd concentrated on so far, but seeing two people pop their very first pedal wheelie made me begin to suspect that Gene and Dylan's baby-steps method might actually work.
In our next post, I'll run through exactly how their method works — from the actual mechanics they taught us (many of which flout conventional MTB wisdom) to the results, which began to surface on the second and third days of camp. But first, I offer...
The Five Biggest Surprises of My First Day At MTB Camp (According to the Gospel of Dylan and Gene)
5. If you don't have a dropper seatpost, you're losing. Not being able to remotely lower the saddle before a descent is going to make cornering hairier than it needs to be. (Actual discussion of cornering techniques to come on Day Two.)
4. A longer stem is fine for road cycling and its stretched-out riding position, but on a MTB a shorter stem (50 to 80 mm) gives optimal handling in a variable terrain environment.
3. Not only are pedal wheelies initiated with the legs, but they are so very much initiated with the legs that you can do a pedal wheelie without your hands ever touching the handlebars. (Or at least Gene can.)
2. When things get below 3 mph, chances of me falling over spike dramatically.
1. In related news, adjusting the tension on my clipless pedals might be a good idea before Day Two.


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Mobile World Congress (MWC) is one of the biggest mobile event of the year held annually in Barcelona. MWC attracts some of the biggest mobile manufactures and vendors who create mobile hardware and software and exciting new mobile accessories as well.
MWC 2012techi will be held at Fira Montjuïc, in Barcelona from 27th February, 2012 to March 1st, 2012. This years schedule and keynotes are filled up with some great press conferences and keynote speakers. You will find a schedule of MWC 2012 below.
Please note that all times are in Central European Time (CET) which is +1 UTC, so you might want to click on the Time mentioned below to find your local time.
MWC 2012 Keynotes Schedule
Monday, 27th February, 2012
- Bret Taylor – CTO, Facebook at 13:15 CET
- William Clay Ford, Jr – Executive Chairman, Ford at 18:00 CET
Tuesday, 28th February, 2012
- Eric Schmidt – Executive Chairman, Google at 18:00 CET
Wednesday, 29th February, 2012
- Hans Vestberg – President & CEO, Ericsson at 18:00 CET
In addition to the keynotes, there are several other high profile speakers who will be speaking at the event. Some of the speakers include:
- Stephen Elop – President & CEO, Nokia
- Peter Chou – CEO, HTC
- Warren East – CEO, ARM
- Anne Bouverot – Director General, GSMA
- Brian Dunn – CEO, Best Buy
- John Partridge – President, Visa
- Sunil Mittal – Chairman & MD, Bharti Airtel
- Vittorio Calao – Chief Executive, Vodafone
- Li Yue – President, China Mobile
- Dan Hesse – CEO, Sprint Nextel
- Raplh de la Vega – President & CEO, AT&T Mobility
- John Chambers – Chairman & CEO, Cisco Systems
- Vikram Pandit – CEO, Citigroup
- Rene Obermann – Chairman & CEO, Deutsche Telekom
- John Riccitiello – CEO, EA
- John Donahoe – CEO eBay
Please visit this page for the complete list of speakers at MWC 2012 or this page for MWC 2012 Agenda.
MWC 2012 Press Conferences
There will be several press conferences that will be held during MWC 2012, here is a list of the key conferences that will be taking place.
Monday, 27 February 2012
- Sony Ericsson (Sony Communications now) Press Conference – 8AM-9AM CET
- Nokia Press Conference – 8:30AM-9:30AM CET
- Ford Press Conference – 10:00AM-10:15AM CET
Tuesday, 28 February, 2012
- Jabra Press Event – 10AM CET
- DRF/Brightstar Press Conference – 10AM-11AM CET
- Roamware Press Conference – 15:00-17:00 CET
- New Pace Press Conference – 16:30 – 18:00 CET
Apart from this, there will be several other events and press conferences spread over the 4 days at MWC 2012. We will update this list with the date and timings of newer press conferences and speakers as they become available. You might also want to keep an eye on our MWC 2012 tag for the latest announcements from Mobile World Congress 2012 and visit the official site as well.


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Need a fresh approach to one of the most familiar and widely used scales on the planet? Look no further. Daniel teaches the five basic patterns, offers some unique sounding sequences to practice, and improvises over a track to illustrate how to blend sequences with other ideas.
Taught by Daniel Gilbert in Improvisation with Daniel Gilbert seriesLength: 10:00Difficulty: 2.0 of 5
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This series covers scale positions, arpeggios, modes, advanced blues and more! Learn creative, outside the box ways of applying your knowledge and ideas to your improvisation.
Lesson 1
Known around the world for his inspirational approach to guitar instruction, Musician's Institute veteran Daniel Gilbert outlines his series on Improvisation.Length: 6:01 Difficulty: 0.0 FREE
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Learning can be frustrating! Daniel kicks off his series by taking you through 3 basic stages of how to learn, specifically on guitar. He provides a basic lick to illustrate how to apply these learning...Length: 13:03 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Whether you've practiced a lot of scales or you are new to lead playing, Daniel's presentation of the CAGED major scale patterns is one you won't want to miss! You'll also receive valuable practice advice...Length: 11:40 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Daniel shares and demonstrates a large variety of basic and advanced scale sequences and shares his philosophy behind using them in your playing.Length: 14:59 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Daniel continues his study of "Scale Basics" by teaching the five natural minor scale patterns. He discusses the similarities and differences between the major and minor scales and takes a look at improvising...Length: 11:03 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Need a fresh approach to one of the most familiar and widely used scales on the planet? Look no further. Daniel teaches the five basic patterns, offers some unique sounding sequences to practice, and improvises...Length: 10:00 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Daniel teaches the patterns of the major pentatonic scale and discusses what makes this scale unique from its minor counterpart. He also shares two unconventional sequencing ideas.Length: 8:32 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Daniel wraps up his "Scale Basics" mini series by sharing a few ways to make simple scales sound a bit more interesting. Ascend one and descend another. Sequence one and play another one straight through....Length: 8:41 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Daniel teaches the "quick change" and "slow change" blues progressions and provides a blues comp idea that he calls "The Chicago". Play with both forms over shuffle and straight backing tracks!Length: 10:57 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Daniel covers one more chord-based blues comp as well as many riff-based comp ideas for the quick change blues. He then goes on to introduce the 5 positions of the Blues Scale.Length: 13:40 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Daniel continues his basic blues mini series by discussing bending as a prominent style defining attribute of one's playing. He then takes you in to the possibly less common realm of Major Blues licks...Length: 9:34 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Daniel introduces the Hybrid Blues sound and uses two B. B. King "boxes" to illustrate some ways that it can be applied.Length: 7:48 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Take the 3 distinct blues sounds you've practiced during this "Basic Blues" mini series and learn a really tasty way to apply each sound over a different part of a blues progression. Getting a grasp on...Length: 9:45 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Daniel kicks off his "Arpeggios Mini-series" with the major 7th arpeggios. He teaches the five CAGED shapes as well as some alternate fingerings for a few of the patterns. Then, he demonstrates some of...Length: 13:17 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Learn the minor seventh arpeggio shapes and how to apply them over a couple of different chords. Apply these arpeggios over the provided backing tracks.Length: 11:09 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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If you took Daniel's "Basic Blues" lessons, you won't want to miss this lesson on dominant seventh arpeggios! These patterns provide you with a nice 'wide' sound when compared with regular scales and are...Length: 11:31 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Finishing up the last of the seventh arpeggios, Mr. Gilbert teaches the m7(b5) patterns and demonstrates a few conventional and unconventional ways of applying them. Blues players, this lesson will rock...Length: 14:38 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Taking all of the arpeggios learned so far, Daniel takes you through two chord progressions and demonstrates many ways to apply the patterns musically over backing tracks.Length: 8:48 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 19
Saving the three note arpeggios for later in his series was a strategic one. They are actually harder to play! Once you have the seventh arpeggio shapes down, start getting these shapes in your fingers!Length: 9:47 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Daniel begins by teaching the basic CAGED minor arpeggio patterns and then shares an etude that provides a beautiful musical context with which to apply some of the shapes covered so far.Length: 9:54 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 21
Daniel teaches the fully diminished 7th arpeggio shapes and explores several ways of applying them over chords and progressions we use every day.Length: 9:54 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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In this last installment of his arpeggio mini series, Daniel teaches the augmented patterns. As usual, there is a backing track provided so that you can, using Daniel's insights, practice making music...Length: 7:01 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 23
Modes are generally a source of mass confusion for many guitarists. If you're new to modes or struggling to apply them, Mr. Gilbert's mode mini series is for you. In this lesson, learn the Dorian patterns,...Length: 10:31 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 24
Apply Daniel's same easy method for learning the modes to the Phrygian mode. Daniel outlines the scale patterns and teaches some short musical phrases that help drive home the unique nature of the scale....Length: 9:27 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Daniel teaches the CAGED Lydian patterns, some tasteful phrasing ideas, and explores some chords and progressions that are appropriate for the Lydian mode.Length: 9:47 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Being one of Daniel's favorite sounds, he takes extra care in explaining and demonstrating the Mixolydian mode. Learn the patterns, some musical phrases and put it all together with a backing track!Length: 8:43 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Daniel wraps up his mini series on modes by teaching you how to play over two different modal backing tracks. Learn how to switch between modes and keys and apply scales as well as arpeggios.Length: 12:07 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 28
Welcome to Daniel's "Advanced Blues" mini series. This is an incredibly interesting lesson about how arpeggios and scales in different keys relate to the A7 chord. If you like your blues with a bit of...Length: 16:53 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 29
Daniel explores some conventional and unconventional ways to use triads over an A7 chord and an Am7 chord. When added tastefully, triads really spice up the old blues and pentatonic scales.Length: 12:42 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 30
Sticking with the 12 bar form, Daniel looks at different chords that can be used in place of the more traditional blues. He then dives deep into utilizing modes as a form of improvisation over the blues...Length: 8:25 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 31
Put it all together with this monster modal blues beast and Daniel's series finale. If you've been following Daniel's series and practicing diligently, this is your test... your chance to reach further......Length: 10:21 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
Lesson 32
Daniel now takes this series to the next step. Here he explains where this series will take you in your improvising techniques.Length: 3:21 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 33
Daniel explains some practice techniques that will enable you to improvise over a key change of a whole step.Length: 17:22 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 34
Learn some practice techniques that will help you improvise over two different key centers that are a minor third apart.Length: 18:31 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 35
This lesson is all about intervals, specifically switching between keys that are a major third apart.Length: 11:44 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 36
In this very detailed oriented series, Daniel now discusses some unique ways to use the A minor scale to you improvisational advantage.Length: 9:21 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 37
Here, Daniel covers ii-V-I progressions and explains some scale choices that can be used when improvising over them.Length: 9:31 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 38
Still sticking within the ii-V-I progression, Daniel delves much deeper into the scale options available when improvising a solo.Length: 15:43 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 39
Daniel will mellow things out by demonstrating how to play over ii-V-i progressions in minor keys.Length: 8:17 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 40
This lesson diverts into more of a chromatic direction. Learn how to incorporate basic chromatic ideas over the ii-V-I.Length: 11:27 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
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Vern Raburn has this habit of finding the next big thing — way too soon.
In 1976, he opened the third computer store in Los Angeles, years before PCs came to the masses. Struck with the computer bug, he headed to Albuquerque, N.M., where he joined up with some guys who wanted to sell software.
That happened to be Bill Gates and Paul Allen, and Raburn was one of the first employees at Microsoft (a partner in MSNBC). But he bailed when Gates shipped the company north to Redmond, Wash., and moved on.
So what is he doing back in New Mexico, in an airport hangar?
"If in 1996, you'd told me I'd be running an airplane business," Raburn says, "I'd tell you you're absolutely, completely, totally out of your mind."
He aims to make small jets affordable enough for the rest of us. Raburn's vision is to build a large fleet of these jets barely more expensive to fly than the price of an airline ticket. Except they take you exactly where you need to go, exactly when you need to get there.
FAA certification expected in two years
The plan isn't quite as expansive as Herbert Hoover's promise of "a car in every garage" (or Gates' of "a computer on every desk"). But Raburn's Eclipse 500 jet, on schedule for Federal Aviation Administration certification in 2006, just may have the right factors to finally make personal air travel a reality.
By no means is this the first plan to build an airplane for the masses. After World War II, the aviation industry envisioned fleets of personal aircraft; it built some popular planes, but the dream never quite materialized. Learning to fly was hard, the nation's new interstate system made long driving trips a breeze and the jet age soon arrived.
Raburn's real invention has been to create a twin-engine jet — already being flight-tested — at a cost no one had imagined possible. The result isn't one revolutionary leap forward but many small, ingenious advances.
"Is this all like 'no one's ever done it before' type of innovation? To be blunt, no," he says.
Riveters need not apply
From its inception, Raburn's Eclipse Aviation has set out to build an aircraft without the baggage toted by most seasoned aerospace designers.
Instead, Eclipse uses stir-friction welding, an advanced process that fuses two metal sheets almost seamlessly. The company didn't invent the process, but Raburn believes Eclipse is the first to use it on aircraft. Rather than a moving assembly line, he emulated automakers' use of movable tooling platforms. "We build this airplane the same way you see Nissan or Ford building their newest cars in their newest factories," Raburn says.
He also embraced a growing movement to computerize small cockpits. With microprocessors replacing many expensive, old-fashioned avionics systems required for jet flight, just a few video screens would substitute for rows of dials — and function like equipment in commercial jets, but for far less money.And he committed to a policy of transparent development — not just for the 2,100 customers who have already placed orders, but also to help expedite FAA approval.
The development of smaller, powerful jet engines also allowed him to drive down operating costs such that the Eclipse 500 will fly for an estimated 69 cents per mile.
Those engines, though, almost proved his undoing. An early turbine prototype from Williams was an utter failure — and was the one Eclipse 500 system without a backup plan. The company retrenched and now uses Pratt & Whitney engines, but setbacks in time and money nearly ended the project.
Strictly a private venture
Otherwise, though, money hasn't really been that big a challenge. Raburn's Microsoft days left him with a bit of extra change — and with friends like Allen (for whom Raburn used to work privately) with even deeper pockets. While the company has spent an estimated $200 million or more of the $325 million it has raised, Raburn keeps Eclipse privately held and privately funded; venture capitalists need not apply. "Those guys wouldn't know a venture if it came up and bit them on the ass," he says.
Rather, Raburn hopes many of the planes will be operated as air taxis, providing affordable direct point-to-point service to the average traveler. They can use the relatively open airspace between 20,000 and 25,000 feet and land at smaller, secondary airstrips. The flights would save passengers from the chaos of major airports, which is a welcome option for fliers fed up with the endless delays and extra route segments that plague major airlines' hub-and-spoke systems.
"That kind of nonsense is what is going to help drive Vern's business," says Jeff Myers, executive vice president of communications for the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association.
Competition already in the wings
Wait … Upstart firm undercuts an industry's economics, shapes a new market and makes a fortune? Founded in Albuquerque? Raburn hates the inevitable Microsoft comparisons ("they're so trite") and Eclipse already has competition. Several other firms, including Cessna, are developing their own very small jets. (Or mini-jets or personal jets — no one can settle on what to call them.)
Raburn would rather focus on getting the Eclipse 500 finished than on building an aviation giant, an increasingly popular decision among modern aviation mavericks, including people like Burt Rutan , whom Allen funded to build the world's first private spacecraft. (Raburn says he introduced them.)
Raburn, who pilots everything from business jets to World War II bombers, obviously enjoys his decision. "I grin a little bit each morning as I drive to work," he says, "because I'm going to the airport, and it's my job."
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Saying goodbye to a local legend, John Welsh
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[February 18, 2013]
For many connected with the
Lincoln High School Railers, last week was a tough one.
From coaches to players, everyone felt the loss of John
Welsh, whom many would consider a local legend.
LDN sports writers
were no exception as both Justin Tierney and Jeff Benjamin set aside
a portion of their articles to remember a man who influenced Railer
basketball and helped make the team and its coaches what they are
In trying to put together a fitting tribute to a man so well
known and so highly regarded, LDN editors concluded that no one
could say it better than our two writers who know the game best and
knew the man who played a supporting role in Railer success.
Here are excerpts from Justin Tierney's Friday morning piece:
Perhaps no one in
the rich history of Lincoln Railer basketball had as wide a range of
experiences as Welsh. He was an assistant to four Lincoln coaches:
Loren Wallace, Cal Hubbard, Don Fults and Neil Alexander.
Perhaps the most
astounding connection between Welsh and the Railer basketball
program, though, comes when examining the program's most decorated
players. On the list of the top 15 scorers in the history of the
program, Welsh can be connected to nearly all of them. He coached
the likes of Chuck Verderber, Geoff Alexander, Don Aeilts, Paul
Kendrick and Larry Lessen.
He coached the
fathers of Jordan Nelson, Ben Brackney and Brandon Farmer, and he
coached with Alexander, whose son Gregg is the school's all-time
leading scorer. He also coached Joe Cook, the brother of Norman Cook
and the uncle of Brian Cook. His son, Pete, was a starter on the
2006-07 team that has a school record for wins in a season,
alongside Farmer and Matt Schick.
In an interview
with friend and longtime area radio announcer Sam Madonia in 2011,
Welsh said he originally didn't know how long he would stay at
Lincoln Community High School, thinking he might pursue a head
coaching job somewhere else. But instead, Welsh came to love the
role of assistant coach on Loren Wallace's staff, where he was known
as the jovial jokester on the staff.
"The head coach has
to do certain things," said Welsh in that interview, which was
posted this week by Tim Rogers on a Facebook page titled "Lincoln
Railers Forever." "The assistant coach is always able to put his arm
around them, comfort them and joke around in the locker room."
Asked about his
former assistant this week, Neil Alexander said Welsh was more than
just a comforting assistant coach. Alexander heralded Welsh as a
defensive mastermind.
"John was very
instrumental and he has a lot to do with the tradition of Lincoln
basketball," said Alexander, who coached with Welsh from 1990 until
1995. "I learned more about our 1-2-2 defense from John Welsh than
any other person. He had the most influence toward me on that side
of the ball as anyone. He knew defense. He worked with Coach
Alexander also
credits Welsh for welcoming him to the community as an outsider in
1990. It was Welsh, Alexander says, who impressed upon him the
tradition of the Lincoln program and its importance to the
"He taught me the
basketball side of it, but he also taught me the tradition of Railer
basketball," said Alexander. "How things were done, how people
thought, how people's kids thought. I got that whole lesson from
him. I'm just very grateful to have had him."
Jeff Benjamin also commented on the loss of Welsh and the tribute
paid to him during the Friday night Railer game:
In a moment of full
disclosure, I have to admit that this article took a while to get
going. How to convey all the emotions that enveloped Roy S. Anderson
on Friday night? What catchy way to grab your attention, leading
into discussion about the Railer victory? But, as I generally do, I
go back to some of the lessons my dad taught me, and one hit me
square in the face: Get to the point and make it.
John Welsh will be
truly missed.
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As Justin Tierney
so effectively pointed out in his preview article, you can't get too
far in a trip to Railer Nation without finding something that was
touched by John Welsh.
"He had more impact
on me than anyone else here at Lincoln," coach Neil Alexander said
after his Railers picked up their 24th win of the season, a 58-42
win over SHG. "It was a sad day when he (Welsh) left us."
Welsh was honored
before the game as the Railers and their coaches stood in front of
the Lincoln bench. As PA announcer Steve Sauer seemed to choke back
his own emotions, Welsh's attributes and involvements were noted as
a solemn crowd listened. As Sauer finished his remarks, a full house
at Roy S. Anderson came to its feet as one for a standing ovation in
tribute to a man who is as responsible as anyone for the tradition
of Lincoln Railer basketball.
John Welsh's influence in the Lincoln community extends beyond
Railer basketball.
As a member of the District 27 school board, Welsh promoted
basketball for all age levels. He encouraged young people to get
involved in the game as well as the schools themselves.
It was Welsh who promoted the idea of a Trojan Basketball
Tournament in Lincoln for young athletes from all over the state.
The tournament has grown into an event that is good not only for
the schools and their athletes but also for Lincoln as a whole. Each
year literally thousands of out-of-town guests arrive in Lincoln for
the two-day event. The tournament is open to boys and girls from
third grade through eighth grade. Games are played nonstop at
Carroll Catholic, Central School, Lincoln Community High School,
Lincoln College, Washington-Monroe and West Lincoln-Broadwell
schools on both days.
That tournament will take place this weekend, and coaches,
players, family and fans will flock to town, taking up space in
motels and filling the tables and booths of local eateries. During
downtime, they will shop, visiting retail businesses in the heart of
the city as well as on the town's west end. It is good, very good
for everyone, and it all came from one idea, one man, John Welsh,
who said, "Let's hold a tournament."
In addition to all this, Welsh also worked with other sports,
including golf, swimming, football, track and baseball. He
participated in 2004 in a fundraising golf tournament for Abraham
Lincoln Memorial Hospital and came out on the winning team. He was
part-owner of the Lincoln Dairy Queen, a summertime gathering spot
where folks sat outside in their cars or at tables, enjoyed a cool
treat, and spent time with family and friends. He also served on the
Junior High Booster Club and pushed for a concession stand at the
ball diamond for the club, and he was a member of the local Elks.
So, what makes someone a local legend? By definition, a legend is
a person or thing that inspires. By our own definition, a local
legend is someone who leaves behind contributions to our future,
someone who helped lay the groundwork for what is yet to come. In
the world of Railer basketball as well as many other venues, using
the word legend next to the name John Welsh is certainly
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