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Pulse Fiddling

All was good. Pulse was working fine. I added it to my /etc/rc.conf so it would start on boot with the rest of my daemons, so I turned my computer off happy in the knowledge that it would work fine when I turned it back on. I was wrong.
module-hal-detect
module-hal-detect is a module that, using HAL, [...]

Filed in Linux, under , , , , , on June 22, 2008
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Can read a DVD with a DVD player but not Linux? Try this.

I have no idea why, and logic dictates that it shouldn’t work as error messages appear, but nevertheless it works! I have found how to play/read a DVD that is just not being detected at all, and it seems to work with all my DVDs that weren’t working before.

First, you add an entry for the [...]

Filed in Computing, under , , , on June 8, 2008
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DVD::Rip vs AcidRip

I decided to back up my collection of DVDs, and so needed to install a DVD ripping utility. I couldn’t remember the name for the dvdrip package in Arch (as I have never installed it in Arch) and decided to find it with pacman -Ss dvd | grep rip, well, that returned DVD::Rip and AcidRip. [...]

Filed in Computing, under , , , , on June 4, 2008
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