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It was always political, though more subtle. Historically, some of the principal advocates for mandatory, monopolized state education were open about its purpose being to turn out good little citizens and workers.
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True, but that is somewhat different from the political ideologies that are taught these days.
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ImgBurn[^] was mentioned in a recent thread, and I questioned that the last version was released in 2013. Especially given the churn of modern mainstream operating systems, a lapse of a few years between releases often indicates an unsupported application.
I've been burned a few times on commercial and shareware software, where the vendor stopped supporting the software after a period of time. In a few cases this caused me a fair amount of work to switch to different software, so I'm cautious on the subject.
Yeah, I'm highly skeptical of software that hasn't been updated in 7 years. In this case, it's not a huge deal -- if the software doesn't work, get another one for burning DVDs, but still?
It was pointed out that the forum for the software is active -- the original author replies regularly. So I read through the support and bug fix threads ... and quickly identified that replies are made, questions are answered, but nothing new happens -- not bug fixes nor enhancement requests. There is a lot of deflection.
Page 4 of the thread for the last release proved very entertaining. The author's reply made my morning!
ImgBurn v2.5.8.0 Released! - Announcements - ImgBurn Support Forum[^]
LIGHTNING UK!
Author of ImgBurn
Posted July 26
What bugs are you referring to?
I’m pretty sure I’d have fixed anything that was actually a bug at the time it was reported. Of course, me fixing them is very different to me fixing them AND releasing a version that includes those fixes.
 The author claims to be implementing updates, but just hasn't managed to release a fix in 7 years.
Is this software supported or unsupported?
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I think I'd class that as "fake supported"! 
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Be careful with ImgBurn.
It could install Adware ...
ImgBurn - Wikipedia[^]
modified 8-Dec-20 8:56am.
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Interesting. I have 2.5.8.0, and I know I've only downloaded it from the official site. Never seen what this is talking about.
The Wikipedia article also points out:
Quote: Both the option and offers it generates are selected by default and will be installed unless the user unchecks them before continuing with the installation
...but then, I always go through the Custom option and unchecked everything I don't want/need. And I don't recall seeing that "OpenCandy" crap.
For the hell of it I just re-ran the installer. I see no sign of anything mentioned by the Wikipedia article, nor did it show up anywhere in the installer when selecting "custom" (which actually is the default, or maybe it remembered my previous selections from years ago).
Suffice it to say ImgBurn is still my burning software of choice, until I find some reason to abandon it.
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BryanFazekas wrote: I’m pretty sure I’d have fixed anything that was actually a bug at the time it was reported. Of course, me fixing them is very different to me fixing them AND releasing a version that includes those fixes.
Well, it works on my machine!
We all know that developers are the worst testers. As a solo developer with no testing or qa departments, ('cause you know, users make the best testers! ) this is the reason why I seldom go longer than a month without posting updates for our lob apps. Critical issues are addressed immediately (updates posted and advertised) and others are triaged.
Software is 'dead' when users give up on it and when the author doesn't give a damn anymore about the product. 7 years with reported bugs seems pretty dead to me.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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I agree, an overly large percentage of developers make poor testers.
One QA guy I worked with was possibly the world's best tester. He ran through the requirements, making sure that everything worked according to spec. Then he got inventive -- he tried to do anything, regardless of how illogical, that a user might try. Bouncing a tennis ball on the keyboard and leaning on the keyboard were classic tests for him.
Working with him was the best OTJ experience of my career. Painful at times, especially in the first few months, but he made me a far better developer.
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I love this post.
Good QA and Testers can be enlightening and so fruitful.
You don't forget it and it does make you better.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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I've made numerous changes to my program over the past two years. No fixes, but some new or improved features.
I haven't bothered uploading the new version, because
A) No one cares
and
B) I'm too lazy to get a new code signing certificate.
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To become a vegetarian, do you need a positive lentil attitude?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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My attitude would depend on the celery that was offered.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
modified 7-Dec-20 12:32pm.
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I'm no foul, so whatever you soy. That bean said, and before I leaf this subject I would like to know:
Does a vegetarian on an airline get adequate legmen in economy seating?
As for this last comment, the devil seitan made me do it!
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I'm a little down on my luck could you asparagus?
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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Forgetting to mention your memory has improved.
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Damnit! I forgot what I was going to say ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Not a problem. Just forget about it.
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I too have a great memory.
Now if I could just remember where I left it. 
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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I have a memory like a steel trap!
Stuff goes in, is trapped and never escapes!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I only need 1 movie in my collection.
Make new friends every day.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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+ and and opportunity for endless deja-vu !
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I had an Engineering Prof tell us that after we graduated
- we would forget 50% of what we learned.
- we would only use 50% of what we learned.
The trick is to forget the right 50%.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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And here I thought this was going to be a post by honey the codewitch. 
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It has in lower access times, size and power consumption. Why is that worth mentioning? Just goto the store and give your computer a little upgrade.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Ever since high school, something like 2000/2001, I've been an almost religious MP3 tagger.
Aside from where I got said MP3's (mostly torrents, back in the day), tagging MP3's can be a lot of work.
Especially when files.are.named.like.this.mp3, or_this.mp3, or worse, このような.mp3.
So back when I started programming, 10 years ago, I thought to myself I could make something to make it easier.
Something that would either read tags and rename the file, or read the file name and tag accordingly.
I wrote something half-assed back then, but never what I had in mind.
Then came Spotify and Bandcamp and I hardly ever needed MP3's anymore.
But last week I started ripping my considerable CD collection into 320kbps MP3's and this project popped into my head.
So after 10 years I finally did it! 
I can specify a file name template, like "C:\Music\{artist}\{album}\{disc}\{track} - {title}.mp3" and all MP3 files inside C:\Music get tagged with the appropriate tag (given the file name follows the template).
Likewise, I can add an output template and my MP3's will be renamed and/or moved to the new folder.
It can even fetch track titles from Discogs.
Ten years too late, and that was already ten years too late, but it gives me a satisfied feeling nonetheless
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