🚀 go-pugleaf

On Feb 19, 1:25 am, thanatoid <wait...@the.exit.invalid> wrote:
> Penang <kalamb...@gmail.com> wrote innews:a054afca-65ad-4918-a768-e92384d46529@z1g2000prc.googlegro
> ups.com:
>
> <SNIP>
>
> > In NERO or ImgBurn and many other CD burning programs they
> > have the "verify" step to make sure that the CD/DVD burned
> > is the same as the ISO image.
>
> > And what I am looking for is a stand alone utility to do
> > just that --- Read in an ISO-Image file, and then compare
> > it to the (CD/DVD) disc that is on a CD/DVD drive,
> > directory by directory, file by file, byte by byte.
>
> > Again, please accept my sincerest apology for the vagueness
> > of my original message !
>
> I basically understood what you want/ed to do and I do not know
> of any such utility.
>
> You were given /so many links/, especially by "johnw" and you
> seem not to have bothered to check any of the links out. I wrote
> you a post earlier today before this latest "clarification" but
> did not bother posting it since all I said had already been
> said.
>
> While it is nice of you to "clarify" for the great unwashed, it
> would have been nice of you to THANK all the people (not just
> ONE) who gave you so much info. It doesn't happen with a snap of
> the fingers, you know - YOU were too lazy to just Google for the
> answer to begin with, weren't you? No one here is God, you know.
> We can't tell you of something that does not exist, while Google
> knows everything.
>
> Still, if you get a utility like WinImage (there are several),
> you can open any ISO file and write it to your HD and then
> compare the contents with what went into the ISO file in the
> FIRST place. I am not aware of ANY utility which can magically
> overcome the fact that AFAIK every ISO file burned from the same
> material by different programs will be slightly different, have
> a completely different checksum, and can not be "compared" bit
> by bit except to a copy of itself with a good file manager or a
> file compare program.
>
> Of course, the easiest, and free, solution would be to use
> imgburn - or to plonk down 40 bucks and get CDRWin from
> goldenhawk (which is what I have been using for years, started
> before imgburn - which is /supposed/ to be even better - came
> out) but if you don't want to do that and insist on using a
> plug-in instead of a real program, that's your problem.
>
> Just out of curiosity, does this miraculous plug-in allow you to
> set the burning speed? Or do you just burn everything at MAX
> like so many other modern "computer users"?
>
> No offense, it's just a little tiresome to see SO many good
> replies and then get a re-post which implies you haven't looked
> at ANY of the links and appear to refuse to accept any of the
> info given.
>
> BTW, ANY program the author of which proudly says "It is
> recommended by MSDN download site along with Easy CD and Nero
> and is used by a number of companies around the world." is
> (IMHO) to be avoided like the plague.
>
> SOME recommendation... MS made BOB, WinME and Vista, remember?
> But they STILL won't let you print the contents of a directory
> in ANY version of Windows without using the command line or a
> 3rd party program... The ONLY thing they know how to do is spy
> on their customers and make lots and lots of money...
>
> AFA Roxio and Nero, they make incomprehensible illogical pig
> bloat. Adaptec may have been the first - I remember burning a
> Quantegy/Ampex CDR with Adaptec software at 1x on an external HP
> burner which cost more than a good computer costs today, and
> Roxio is "related" to it, but I know of *few* programs that did
> not change for the worse (if not simply became complete trash)
> when the kinds of changes that Adaptec made in its company
> structure were made. (Let alone when someone just buys someone
> else out, a favorite MS/Adobe tactic of destroying quality
> competition.)
>
> AFA Nero, I find it simply insane. Anyone who uses either it or
> Roxio is not anyone I would trust to recommend a ball-point pen,
> let alone ANY software.
>
> --
> The Onion:     Is there a God?
> Winona Ryder:  Is there a God?
> The Onion:     Yes, does God exist?
> Winona Ryder:  Um, I don't know. I really don't know. I hate to
> be so boring, but I don't know.

What's your favorite CD burner software?
After griping about various others, shouldn't you say?