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Alright, I'm going extra-pedantic on this one.
John, you always make a point of numbering lists starting at zero, which you did in this case. (I've always assumed that was to annoy the VB coders out there, with their silly idea of having arrays start at 1.)
However, your two observations in the first paragraphs start at 1. 
But on the actual topic:
I know where you're coming from. I transferred a few hundred DVDs to a hard drive last year. In any case, that exercise took an entire month of "swapping discs when not busy" work. In my case, I wrote a script to keep dumping DVD files in a folder without user interaction, which saved a bit of time (the script detects a disc, copies it, ejects it, and waits for the tray to get closed and restarts)...although I suspect in your case you're using Brasero because you need to remove copy protection, so this wouldn't help you here. But, if Brasero can be scripted, maybe you can set it up so you don't need to respond to prompts to start the next disc...
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dandy72 wrote: However, your two observations in the first paragraphs start at 1
I'm just trying to keep everyone on their toes. 
dandy72 wrote: if Brasero can be scripted, maybe you can set it up so you don't need to respond to prompts to start the next disc
I haven't investigated that yet, but even if you can, there's no excuse for a crappy user interface.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: there's no excuse for a crappy user interface.
[Open source advocate]
But you have the source!! You can fix it if you're not happy!
[/Open source advocate]
[Me]
That's great, Sparky, assuming your time has no value.
[/Me]
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I really have no desire to write code for Linux. I have a Windows VM I'll use for VS2017, but that's it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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My point exactly. "Being able to fix it yourself because it's open source" isn't a selling feature for any software, IMO. As far as I'm concerned, it seems to absolve the author of any responsibility if he decides to disagree with what you think it should do or how it should operate.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Depending on the KVM switch you're using, this could become a problem because the monitor might not be turned on when you switch back to the machine after the monitor has been turned off by the OS.
You can also ssh into the remote machine and have the application display on the monitor for the current machine...no kvm necessary. A command shell login is what you get by default, but add a -XY as the first parameter and it will open xwindows and show the graphics from the remote machine on your current machine.
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If I had known it was going to corrupt the superblock, I would have looked for that kind of solution, but I'm kind new at this Linux thing.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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So I'm at this web shop and they have a product which is expected on "30-11--0001" (for Americans, that's the logical order of day-month--year).
That's a pretty weird date, I'd expect 01-01-0001 or 01-01-1970 or even 01-01-1753 (the SQL min value), but never 30-11...
The extra dash between the month and the year bothers me too, that's not a standard notation anywhere as far as I know.
The best part though, is that I can pre-order the product, so apparently 30-11--0001 is a date in the future!
And to make it worse, it's a best selling product, so they've already sold plenty.
I can only draw one conclusion from all of this: this web shop is centuries, if not millennia, ahead of us (or at least they serve time travellers)! 
Is your software Y10K proof?
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Sander Rossel wrote: Is your software Y10K proof?
Actually it is. When the y2k problem rolled in, we decided (as a joke) to resolve the y10k problem too, so we can rest a bit when it became actual...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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There's an RFC for that... RFC 2550 - Y10K and Beyond 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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That's a whole lot of words for "add another digit"
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Sander Rossel wrote: "add another digit"
...only when necessary!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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By mutual agreement of the partners in the interchange?
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How many orders did you put on that date?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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None, I got the hell out of there
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Just place as much orders for that date as possible.
Stuff from this era will be worth a lot by then, and you have time enough to save for the bill 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Sander Rossel wrote: I got the hell out of there
What you don't trust a site that stores it's dates a strings?
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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1 BCE?
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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Unless they're using the Xiqorcian calendar
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Or Mayan calendar which would be 7.17.18.10.10
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Isn't that an IP address?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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WouldntYaWantToBeAMayan.com I believe?
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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MostSanePeopleDoNotWantToBeExtinct.org
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Its an IP address of a point in time!
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Mike Hankey wrote: 1 BCE?
or maybe 2 BCE?
When Y2K was a hot topic, I was surprised to learn that the church (at least the protestant ones, but I assume that catholic ones agree, and then the other (Christian) ones follow suit) have a discontinuous time line: Year 1 BC is immediately followed by year 1 AD, with no intermediate year 0. So the question is if the time format used here has a year 0. We must assume that value 1 is AD (or if you like: CE), but is a value of 0 then 1 BC, and a value of -1 consequently 2 BC? Or is value 0 illegal?
I was surprised to read in Wikipedia that the numerical value of AD/BC and CE are identical, with "400 BCE corresponds to 400 BC" explicitly given as an example. So the CE concept has adopted a discontinuous number line for labeling years. It is kind of curious that in an attempt to mark an independence from religion defined time scales, still we stick to a highly religion defined number line, rather than a mathematical one.
Maybe it has to do with the zero being invented by the Arabs, and as we all know, their culture is not quite as we want it to be, so we reject it. What I am now waiting for is some (secular) standard that requires 1 = 3.
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