codergeek42

For various reasons I am again moving my blog and whatnot, but this time to a far more permanent solution: my own domain name (which I've had for quite some time, but have used almost entirely for email only).

I intend to keep my LJ account active, but mainly for the purposes of staying updated on various friends-only postings and being able to comment/etc.

You should go check it out!

Well, this is proving to be far more difficult than I thought it would be. Rhythmbox, my favorite music player, currently just does not support this functionality, though it is under development. I've also tried Banshee, which uses Brasero for its CD-burning functionality, and that also fails quite epically. Next up in my attempts was K3b, which correctly burned the CD, did not add the CD-Text as I wanted it to. (It would not display any metadata in Rhythmbox on my Fedora desktop, and also failed on both my stand-alone CD player and my mom's Windows XP machine with both iTunes and WMP.) Lastly, I searched on Google and found a way to do it with cdrdao, but that attempt also went quite unsatisfactorily:

Writing lead-in and gap...
ERROR: Write data failed.
ERROR: Writing failed.

Oh Great Lazyweb, is there a straightforward way to accomplish this feat? Or am I doomed to copy the songs to my dad's PC and burn them with Nero (which I really don't want to need to do...)? For the record, my burner is a Pioneer DVR-110D.

Thanks!

To whom it may concern:

Your attempted usage of "was like," "is like," and similar phrases consisting of a copular conjugation prepended to the word "like" is not a proper verbum dicendi. English has a myriad of ways to introduce a quotative clause, especially (though not limited to) transitive and ditransitive verbs involving speech such as (also not hereto limited) "to say," "to speak," "to tell," "to inform," and others. The english language is filled with different ways to express that someone said (or says, et al.) something: each with their appropriate and inherent variation in exact meaning or method by which that something is, was, or would be said.The language is there to more fully express oneself and more clearly define verbal actions. I suggest it be used as such.

Thank you.

I have the following as a reference for myself; but since it may be helpful to others, I've decided to post it here. This is a how-to based on the official F@H FAQ, but giving it its own user account for a bit tighter security.

Become the superuser ("root"):

$ su -

Add the user, and switch to its ID:

# useradd -d /opt/folding -c "Folding@Home user" -m --user-group foldinguser
# su - foldinguser

Download and unpack the F@H client stuff:

$ wget http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/release/FAH6.02-Linux.tgz
$ tar xvzf FAH6.02-Linux.tgz

Configure it, as necessary:

Switch back to root:

$ exit

Create the startup script

# echo "# chkconfig: 345 93 14" > /etc/init.d/folding
# echo "# description: will start FAH client as a service" >> /etc/init.d/folding
# echo "su - foldinguser -c \"cd /opt/folding; ./fah6 -smp -verbosity 9 </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 &\"" >> /etc/init.d/folding
# chmod +x /etc/init.d/folding

Enable the startup-script and begin folding!

# chkconfig --add folding
# service folding start