Two things: How to grab iso or copy a disc?
I cannot see the option on image xfburn09.png in Thunar, although I can see xfburn10.png. And when opening iso in Xfburn, it won’t let me burn it, it will just open as if launched from menu. But it should work as a Custom action (xfburn –burn-image %f).

BTW Please delete my first comment, I haven’t read it before posting

There is more info here http://www.abisource.com/wiki/FaqWhyIsMyTextOverwrittenAsIType

I am so glad to see I am not the only one noticing the situation of propitiatory software in the business world. I totally know what you are talking about! Of the 3 businesses I’ve worked very closely with or for I’ve noticed they’ve all experience vendor lock in. One company has a lock with Sage and a niche M$ Access system developed by a one man band team.
The next company has developed it’s own software for data analysis and presentation because originally any other solution was far too expensive and the vendors insisted on closed source. The company resorted to in house development. The funny thing is, all the competitors did the same. There are probably 10 solutions to the same problem, all not being shared.
Now an independent solution has come out. It means that the possibility of an employee(or, crucially freelancer) learning one system and going straight to another company. However, no established companies are willing to switch to the new system because it does not integrate with any of the existing solutions… and is closed with no extensibility.

Now I’m setting up my own business and from the ground up I’m making sure it’s as hands-off as possible. In terms of being portable and avoiding any lock in so far I’ve gone with Zencart, because it’s open and friendly. I’ve integrated it with online payment solutions and now I’m looking at accounting. I’m excited to see Phreebooks but it’s not established as I would like. Still, as it is free I will give it a go. I hope the developer can get just reward through support.

Thanks for a great article. Stay in touch with any updates.

-j

Thank you so much for your kind words. It’s wonderful hearing from listeners who enjoy the books enough to listen more than once!

Owner’s Share is now in release and I’m hoping to have it complete by mid January 2011 — rounding out the Share series and ending the Trader’s Tales.

Not to say that’s the end of the Golden Age or even of Ishmael Wang, but with the last “share” the series must end.

Happy New Year and again a very belated thank you for your kind words.

NL

My opinion about LyX: On the one hand, it ſeems to be a great way to bring many advantages of the TeX backend, especially the idea of logical markup, to ‘normal’ WYSIWYG uſers. On the other hand, the produced .lyx file looks more or less like PlainTeX, which feels for me as a LaTeX uſer a litle bit bloated (or at least unfamiliar) since i prefer even shorter ’code’ (like writing • inſtead \item with the alttex package)—but for Lyx to the rescue, the LaTeX export ſeems uſeable.

So all in all, i’m not ſure if one ſhould recommend LyX to a existing La/Con/whatever-TeX uſer, but for someone from the WYSIWYG world who’s ſcared of learning the totally different “writing source code” approach of TeX, it’s a really nice, uſe- and powerfull alternative to get “the beſt of both worlds”.

Finally a ſmall hint: There’s even a own lyx group at identi.ca, as i was recently told by ſomeone .