Measure twice, burn once

[mdlbear]

OK, I'm an idiot. But at least I managed to avoid a major embarassment when I decided not to start burning disks last night -- a wise decision, given that it was nearly midnight and I'd already printed a batch of 10 jewelcase inserts upside-down -- and give the CD-ROM part a once-over in the morning. Damned good thing.

In addition to leaving out the copyright license notices on the index page, I had succeeded in leaving out the .ogg and .mp3 files that were the main reason for having the disk in the first place! It took me about three hours to clean up the mess. It's presently held together with spit and baling wire, but somebody reading the CD-ROM in a web browser will at least have valid local links to visit if they start at the top, and somebody browsing the files directly will find the audio in places that at least make sense.

Also discovered that my nice new Plextor drive doesn't seem to want to write any faster than 8x, though it could conceivably have been the media that I did the initial test burns on, or something else I was doing on the machine at the time (since it worked fine at full speed a couple of days ago). OK, I now have two side-by-side boxen in the office, Harmony and Trantor, and they both work.

Comments

"given that it was nearly midnight"

[smalltowndad.livejournal.com]

It's something of a relief to read proof that I'm not the only one to get, ah, creative when fatigue sets in.