New Baen CD - Claws that Catch - Page 2

zelda_pinwheel · 11-12-2008, 07:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Lemurion

You forget the hidden super power of all squirrels - gravity control - they get to define their own local direction of down.

one of the hidden powers of all squirrels !! er, among the hidden powers of squirrels are...

(heheheh..)

Dahak · 11-12-2008, 07:59 AM

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Originally Posted by JeffElkins

Neiher GNU mount nor K3B recognize it as a valid iso9960 format file.

I'll look into it.

The real reason I never tried to burn it was that I had - still have - no handy blank CDs.

-JPB

JeffElkins · 11-12-2008, 09:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Dahak

I'll look into it.

The real reason I never tried to burn it was that I had - still have - no handy blank CDs.

-JPB

Props to you (and Baen) for making it available.

badgoodDeb · 11-12-2008, 01:16 PM

Is the aforementioned "Ghost" story on this CD? Or, could somebody add a pointer to it? It sounds interesting!

pdurrant · 11-12-2008, 01:25 PM

Ghost is available on the Ghost CD, freely downloadable from

http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/08-GhostCD/

There's also a method on that web page for just downloading the eBook itself (the 'extract Individual book' link).

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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Is the aforementioned "Ghost" story on this CD? Or, could somebody add a pointer to it? It sounds interesting!

Dahak · 11-14-2008, 01:36 AM

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Originally Posted by JeffElkins

Props to you (and Baen) for making it available.

All of it goes to Baen.

I just happen to have a ton of free space on the service where I host my snippet site, so I wrote a few short scripts to serve the CDs.

-JPB

HarryT · 11-14-2008, 04:12 AM

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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Is the aforementioned "Ghost" story on this CD? Or, could somebody add a pointer to it? It sounds interesting!

Believe me, you don't want to read it. It's just plain sick.

pdurrant · 11-14-2008, 04:54 AM

On Mac OS X 10.5.5 I get "no mountable file systems" when trying to mount the disk image.

The Disk Utility seems happy to burn from the image, but the resulting CD won't mount either.

Under Windows XP SP2, I get "Windows cannot read from this disk. The disk might be corrupted, or it could be using a format that is not compatible with Windows." when I load the CD.

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Originally Posted by Dahak

What kind of error did you get?

I didn't actually burn it to CD before making it live, I used Deamon Tools to read its contents and build the zip archive.

I haven't received any email about it, either.

Xenophon · 11-14-2008, 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by HarryT

Believe me, you don't want to read it. It's just plain sick.

On the other hand, the series it spawned has a few redeeming features; it makes it up to the literary level of the "men's fiction airport novel" anyway. The first book (Ghost), on the other hand, was a "get this OUT of my head, so I can write the real stuff" production.

HarryT is certainly correct to suggest that Ghost is a deeply disturbing novel. As to "just plain sick," I'm not quite sure where I fall on that front. But I'm pretty sure I don't want to get to know anyone who finds it a "fun read".

Xenophon

JSWolf · 11-14-2008, 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Xenophon

Spoiler:

Xenophon

Way to go posting uncovered spoilers for people who may not yet hgave read the book. Please go back and edit the message to add in a spoiler code.

stxopher · 11-14-2008, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Xenophon

But I'm pretty sure I don't want to get to know anyone who finds it a "fun read".

I'd be more worried about the people who can dissect the whole book complaining about things not being "completely accurate". (And I'm not talking military discrepancies.)

I generally like Ringo's work but that was....let's just say I didn't finish it. Some of us just don't fall in that particular demographic.

Robotech_Master · 11-14-2008, 01:26 PM

The operative phrase for Ghost is "oh John Ringo no".

Or so I've been told.

I've never actually worked up the courage to read it for myself. (The really sad thing is, I'd probably enjoy it.)

Xenophon · 11-14-2008, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

Way to go posting uncovered spoilers for people who may not yet hgave read the book. Please go back and edit the message to add in a spoiler code.

Done. (Actually, I edited a different posting that exposed more information). Although I really didn't think that what I posted (in either spot) was a spoiler. It gives little-to-no-info about any important aspect of the book. Oh well...

Xenophon

Dahak · 11-14-2008, 10:18 PM

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Originally Posted by pdurrant

On Mac OS X 10.5.5 I get "no mountable file systems" when trying to mount the disk image.

The Disk Utility seems happy to burn from the image, but the resulting CD won't mount either.

Under Windows XP SP2, I get "Windows cannot read from this disk. The disk might be corrupted, or it could be using a format that is not compatible with Windows." when I load the CD.

In that case, I'll take the ISO offline, for the time being, and try to remember to grab some CDRs from the office (that's my actual missing spindle...) and give it a whirl.

-JPB

badgoodDeb · 11-21-2008, 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by stxopher

....let's just say I didn't finish it. Some of us just don't fall in that particular demographic.

OH! In that case, I won't bother to start. I've got plenty of other things to read.

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11-12-2008, 01:16 PM	#19
badgoodDeb Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,501 Karma: 64095689 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Harrisburg outskirts Device: Palms, K1-4s, iPads, iPhones, KV, KO1	Is the aforementioned "Ghost" story on this CD? Or, could somebody add a pointer to it? It sounds interesting!

11-14-2008, 01:26 PM	#27
Robotech_Master Fanatic Posts: 514 Karma: 2954711 Join Date: May 2006	The operative phrase for Ghost is "oh John Ringo no". Or so I've been told. I've never actually worked up the courage to read it for myself. (The really sad thing is, I'd probably enjoy it.)

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