The Hussar’s Grill vs. Home-made Pizza
Despite the cold and wet weather, the Lotters ended up enjoying a nice, mostly relaxed, weekend together I’m happy to report. As always, Saturday was...
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Tag: dvd
How to Rip DVDs to AVI in Ubuntu 11.10
November 25, 2011
by Craig Lotter
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Although certainly not as many easy to use applications for ripping DVDs for viewing on other devices in Ubuntu as in Windows, there are thankfully...
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Heritage Weekend 2011
September 26, 2011
by Craig Lotter
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We enjoyed a pleasant Heritage Weekend this year, pity of course about the public holiday falling on a Saturday, but Chantelle was off so that...
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Ubuntu: How to Force a Clean CD Unmount and Eject
May 27, 2011
by Craig Lotter
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Working with CDs in my current Ubuntu installation is proving to be quite annoying, as more often than not when trying to eject a CD...
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Employee of the Month
October 14, 2010
by Craig Lotter
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Nice. One of the things Simon introduced at Touchwork after starting a couple of months ago as the Development Manager was the concept of the...
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How to Play a DVD in Ubuntu Karmic Koala
April 7, 2010
by Craig Lotter
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Annoyingly, Ubuntu isn't set up to all for DVD playback by default. The reason of course is that most DVDs are encrypted, region-encoded, etc. and...
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Warfare at the Parents’ Pad
February 8, 2010
by Craig Lotter
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So another weekend of Chantelle working has come and gone, but having now learned the trick, Saturday was once more spent in the company of...
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Ooh, Nice Haul
August 9, 2008
by Craig Lotter
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Ooh, the order I placed while trying to cheer myself up after the whole ‘shit with my work situation hit the fan’ finally arrived this...
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