problems

I had intended to create blog post about my frustration with Vista and how I finally installed Linux on my almost one year old PC.  A funny thing happened on the way to Linuxland, a roadblock whose name is Jaunty.  

So arrives the much hailed Jaunty, destined to be the final stake in the heart Vista.  For the few Windows applications I need, I begin by giving less than half of my disk to the new Vista install, a common clean start to a gradually failing Windows operating system.  Suspecting I wouldn't be using Vista anytime soon, I didn't bother with updates or anti-virus, saving those wonderful tasks for a later date.  The next step was the uneventful install of Jaunty, updates, multimedia codecs, and Virtual Box, nothing unusual.

My first indication of problems were burning a audio CD for my daily commute.  One of the touted features of Jaunty was the much improved Brasero CD/DVD burning software.  After building my list of tracks I began the burning process.  Stepping away and returning to my machine, there sat Brasero with a message “normalizing title...”  After a short on-line search, I found there is a bug with the normalizing plug-in for Brasero, that is installed and enabled by default.  No problem, turn off the plug-in and a audio CD is created, albeit with varying volume between tracks.