I recently bought some dvds and they don't contain films but concerts so after the few plays I decided to extract the audio tracks, possibly keeping the highest audio quality permitted, to convert them later into mp3, ogg or flac as needed. I want to discuss the process.

The first tool I found useful was lsdvd, it tells you the number and length of titles, chapters and angles available on the dvd, which is important …

The guys at TPB and Kopimi have got a great idea. You'll find them at the Biennale di Venezia in the new Padiglione Internet. At the moment they just seem to need hosting, but there is much more, so please give a look at the embassyofpiracy website and hurry up to build your own ... you can get the "template" to print it here. There are already a lot of photos in the gallery!! Oh and …

Learned helplessness is a psychological condition in which a human being or an animal has learned to act or behave helpless in a particular situation, even when it has the power to change its unpleasant or even harmful circumstance.

Learned helplessness theory is the view that clinical depression and related mental illnesses result from a perceived absence of control over the outcome of a situation (Seligman, 1975).

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Do you still remember this? It was a good post about the OS X install via the network using a GNU/Linux install server. I went back to read and use it after a few days to install the version 10.5 (leopard) of OS X and it worked well but there's a couple of things missing in that post which I'd like to share here.

The problems were mainly in mounting the leopard disc …

For three years it was possible to do without it. But now it's become necessary again. This coming New Year's Eve, the radio controlled clocks will, after 0:59:59, instead of jumping to 1 o'clock at the next tick of the second, pause shortly in order to insert a small portion of extra time: a leap second.

The International Earth Rotation Service (IERS) in Paris has prescribed this addition to coordinated universal time (UTC …