Sunday: Quiet, peaceful.

Sunday was quiet at the Villa. I tried to write, honestly, but could barely work out the focus to reach a thousand words; any more was simply beyond me.

Omaha and I worked on producing an ISO9660 image for her company using her Macintosh; this was a saga worth recounting. The burning software that's on her Mac only burns HFS, not ISO9600, and so is useless if you want CDs that can be read on a Linux or Windows machine. She needed to find the classic script mkisofs, which converts a constructed directory tree into an ISO9600 image appropriate for CD burning. She tried installing it via fink, a binary-based port of FreeBSD's ports system. That didn't work. She found a java-based version that neither of us really knew how to work. The website that actually maintains mkisofs was down. I finally found a copy for GNU-Darwin, and it ran on her box without modification. This took hours of struggle. It was ridiculous.

On the other hand, I have managed to bring my DVD manufacturing toolchain back on-line, and it seems to be as effective as ever. Excellent.