Burning (Read 12814 times)

dave · January 17, 2003, 02:01:59 pm

Can anyone recomend some decent CD-burning software i can get free of t'internet? - the stuff i've got on my work machine (roxio EasyCD creator5) sucks a big fat sweaty dick - has just fucked up on 2 attempts to write a CD, thus wasting 2 CDs and not giving me a decent reason why. :evil: cheers

Bubba · January 17, 2003, 02:10:02 pm

Are you using decent discs - don't bother with the very cheap ones, they're a waste of time.

An easy one to use is NTI Cd-Maker which is a free trial, and then can be "modified" later if you know what I mean :wink:

Another is Nero, but not as user-friendly....

dave · January 17, 2003, 02:14:49 pm

They are TDK ones, so no, not the 500-for-ten-bob ones on a stack. I did one the other day and it was fine.

dobbin · January 17, 2003, 02:36:33 pm

I have a cracked copy of Nero 5 which I think is pretty good... I could er, make it available on one of my servers when I get home?

dave · January 17, 2003, 02:41:01 pm

Not to worry, i think my administrator rights have changed so i'll have to get that sorted before i can go installing owt again. Fuckin bastards.

Bubba · January 17, 2003, 02:41:29 pm

I did actually meet somebody once who actually paid for all of their software. Poor thing.

Bubba · January 17, 2003, 02:42:59 pm

Quote from: "dave"

i think my administrator rights have changed .

That'll teach you to install that "nudey girl heaven" screen saver, you degenerate.

dobbin · January 17, 2003, 02:47:15 pm

Quote from: "Bubba"

I did actually meet somebody once who actually paid for all of their software. Poor thing.

Naah mate, they'll have been winding you up. Noone pays for software. do they?

Bubba · January 17, 2003, 02:52:56 pm

They were very nice, but a devout Christian and so dodgy software probably contravened a commandment or something....

dave · January 30, 2003, 03:09:13 pm

Quote from: "Bubba"

An easy one to use is NTI Cd-Maker which is a free trial, and then can be "modified" later if you know what I mean :wink:

Got this heap to work now, so does any o' you muthaz know where i can find a crack/serial key for this? Cheers.

Bubba · January 30, 2003, 05:51:25 pm

You'd do worse than to have a look at astalavista and I'm sure you'll find what you're looking for....

Avoiding the Traitor · January 31, 2003, 08:53:45 am

Downloaded the Nero from the www.nero.com (which is demo version) other night.. then get yourself a keygen and it will provide you a serial number is readily for you to copy it onto Nero's registration serial number

Then it become FULL version ! God I love warez

dobbin · January 31, 2003, 09:04:02 am

Have a butchers at CRACKS.am, if you can cope with the 'Enlarge your Penis' banners (BUBBA - NO! Put your mouse down dammit) then its a crackin crack site. :D

Avoiding the Traitor · January 31, 2003, 09:47:00 am

I am quite tempted to click on that banner.

Bubba · January 31, 2003, 09:53:09 am

Warez are a disgrace, and I couldn't possible ever condone them :wink:

Apparantly some people do actually buy software though, which is odd given how easy it is not to.

A word of advice though, the occasional nasty crack will rear it's head and attempt to trash your system or give you a nice little trojan or something so it's probably worth testing things out on a non-critical pc first...

Avoiding the Traitor · January 31, 2003, 10:18:17 am

And this is another good site

http://astalavista.box.sk/

Bubba · January 31, 2003, 10:26:01 am

Try the one I posted above (astalavista.com) - it acts as a wrapper to many sites, including the astalavista.box.sk

Also, try searching on google groups for good results.

hongkongstuey · February 03, 2003, 01:55:08 am

Quote from: "Bubba"

Warez are a disgrace, and I couldn't possible ever condone them :wink:

i could possibly find a copy of a nice cracked version of kazza to e mail people if they thought they might find it useful (no tojans or spyware etc on it)

Bubba · February 03, 2003, 07:51:22 am

Or use winmx which AFAIK spyware free anyway....

dave · February 03, 2003, 03:19:39 pm

I couldn't glean anything from the above links, they were giving me all sorts of trojans etc.

Bubba · February 03, 2003, 03:24:15 pm

How do you know there were trojans involved? I worry that I pick them up too often, but most of the time, stuff from the above is ok.

The link that dobbin posted is usually fine and one I've used a lot in the past.

dave · February 03, 2003, 03:46:19 pm

Theres loads of antivirus software on my machine which tends to kick-off when i go anywhere near downloading owt usefull, but its probably being overcautious.

Bubba · February 03, 2003, 03:49:23 pm

A clever trojan will bypass your antivirus/firewall. I think sometimes a network monitor is the only way to see them, but I'm no expert.

The other thing that often works (but not with the more clever software) is to just get a utility (such as "beyondo") that will change your system clock for a few seconds while you start the app. This will often fool a time-limit trial version check. Apparantly. I'd never do this of course.

dobbin · February 03, 2003, 04:12:29 pm

Very much depends upon the nature of the trojan. I tend to regularly scan my own ports to see if any have mysteriously become opened, get the port banners down and 9/10 times it'll even tell you the name and version of the trojan. Nice.

james · February 03, 2003, 05:06:21 pm

I have just got the keygen for NTI Cdmaker platinum version 6 off CRACKS.am but when I try to use the generated serial number it says "invalid valid serial number". Do I have to just keep generating them and hope one works or is there a problem.
Cheers

James

dave · February 03, 2003, 05:08:46 pm

Yeah i've just had that exact same problem mate. Let me know if you find out what the solution is.

Bubba · February 03, 2003, 05:21:31 pm

Quote from: "james"

IDo I have to just keep generating them and hope one works or is there a problem.

Naah, they usually work first time - you'll have to try another keygen I'm afraid...

james · February 04, 2003, 04:33:29 pm

I cant find another keygen. Does anyone know where I can get a decent one?
Cheers

James

Avoiding the Traitor · February 05, 2003, 08:40:45 am

I'll ask mi mate, and will post the serial number on here later!

Bubba · February 05, 2003, 08:44:23 am

Sorry to be all boring and moderatorish but could you post it to him direct please rather than putting it up on here? The only reason I say this is that I know some newsgroups get grief for putting such stuff up publically, which is why I've not just posted them up here meself!! ( I've mailed James another download link for a full version too)

PS Dunno why, but your avatar still scares the living shit out of me :!:

Avoiding the Traitor · February 05, 2003, 09:06:21 am

Ok da boss, will e-mail to him directly.

Dunno why my avatar scare you! but I quite like it

Bubba · February 05, 2003, 09:12:56 am

Nice one scaryHead - dunno why it scares me, I think coz it looks like some serial killer about to strike!

No problem talking about warez in general and links to find stuff, but when it gets down to a specific serial # for a specific product, then the manufacturer could pick that up on a later search and might "be in touch"... as it were...

dave · February 05, 2003, 09:13:33 am

any chance of emailing it me anall? cheers

Avoiding the Traitor · February 05, 2003, 09:16:27 am

I like that picture cos I am dark and mysterious :roll:

I have heard some story about it - I understand your position. So I will pm to James later.

Avoiding the Traitor · February 05, 2003, 09:17:10 am

Quote from: "dave"

any chance of emailing it me anall? cheers

You asking me?

Avoiding the Traitor · February 05, 2003, 10:21:16 am

James, have sent u a PM with the serial number.

Anyone?

dave · February 05, 2003, 10:24:43 am

if you could send one to me that would be "swell".
Cheerz mate

Avoiding the Traitor · February 05, 2003, 10:35:40 am

Quote from: "dave"

if you could send one to me that would be "swell".
Cheerz mate

Have sent u a PM.

Cheers

james · February 05, 2003, 04:11:55 pm

Did yours work Dave? Mine didnt. It keeps saying Invalid valid serial number.
Cheers

James

dave · February 05, 2003, 04:20:07 pm

Ditto.

james · February 05, 2003, 04:24:44 pm

Good and bad. Means my version is ok but still not the full version. Oh well
Cheers

James

Bubba · February 05, 2003, 04:50:45 pm

The problem with all this is most likely because of the following:

When a software manufacturer releases as trial version that can be made into a full version just by entering a serial number, they're fully aware that bogus serials will be flying around the web soon afterwards.
So, although some manufacturers just accept this as they realise that a lot of people will still pay up, others will spend some time downloading all the available serials and either putting them into some sort of bad serials list, or by subtly changing the format of the serial required for the current version that is available to download. You can't blame them, I'd do the same if I was trying to make living from my software.

You might be better off searching for a full version instead of a serial or crack to the trial version.

dobbin · February 05, 2003, 07:30:45 pm

I've found some trial versions of software to have other limitations in some cases, some miss out chunks of functionality and are implemented in such a way that a serial for a full version isn't enough to make it the full product - features may be missing, etc. Of course, it varies on a case to case basis and its always worth a try.

My er, mate Bob mentioned that if you have a music sharing client installed, such as WinMX you can often find software there, full versions and that...

Avoid iMesh like the plague - spyware, adverts the full shebang. Bob spent ages hacking all its crap out again.

And should you decide to install WinMX or similar, I'd recommend installing a firewall and only opening the ports the app needs - on installing it tells you which ones they are.