I’m documenting this for my own use and hopefully someone else can benefit from this. Transcode has a useful utility called tccat that can read from a DVD and output a single vob file. I use it to rip the feature title to a single file for later conversion to xvid. tccat -i <path to [...]
Linux.com | ESR gives up on Fedora ESR gives up on Fedora For the record, I gave up on Fedora for exactly the same reasons about a year ago. Ubuntu rocks, and to date I’ve only had one small dependency issue which occured when I attempted to jump two full versions with one dist-upgrade. The [...]
Debian Package of the Day » Blog Archive » qalculate: the ultimate desktop calculator So what is qalculate? First and foremost, its a calculator. Which means that it can do what you typically expect a calculator to do, no surprises there. A very cool desktop calculator. Handles polynomials, unit conversions, and much more.
Adobe Labs – Downloads: Flash Player 9 Update Yipee, the Flash Player beta is out for Linux. Get the Installer for Linux tar xzvf FP9_plugin_beta_101806.tar.gz cd flash-player-plugin-9.0.21.55 locate libflashplayer.so (On Ubuntu it’s often in /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/) sudo cp /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/backup.libflashplayer.so sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so restart firefox and you should be good to go. The audio lag [...]
CM-X270 Computer-On-Module – XScale PXA270 SBC with WLAN/WiFI 802.11b, 2700G, PCI bus, 100BaseT, Flash Disk, LCD and Audio The CM-X270 is a small Computer-on-Module board designed to serve as a building block in embedded applications. The CM-X270W has all the components required to run operating systems such as Linux and Windows CE. Ready packages for [...]
Tech-Recipes.com – ZFS: Ten reasons to reformat your hard drives The much anticipated release of the new ZFS filesystem in Solaris 10 will revolutionize the way system administrators (and executives) think about and work with filesystems.