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- Mental dialogues, yak-shaving & the triumph of the “mini-review”
Give yourself 10 or 15 minutes to review your work and see if it really squares with your goals. Are you shaving an unnecessary yak? - Jargon File Entry on Yak Shaving
- lifehacks.com
Danny O'Brien's web site. - 43 Folders
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It all started when I read this article. Then, I browse through the issue 1 of Make, and found an interesting article to convert a DVD into an mpeg file that could be played on a palm, on page 135. Handbrake was what I was looking for. Unfortunately, I do not have a Mac; so, I downloaded the sources on my linux box, and tried to compile it. For that, I needed , a utility called jamjam. So I'm on my way the jam WEB site. jam did not exist compiled for my linux box. So, I decide to download the sources. I could not find a compressed file with all the sources, and since I did not want to click on the 40 sources or so listed on the ftp source directory, I started to look for an ftp client ...etc ... etc...
Two days later (not full time though), I had Handbrake compiled on my linux (took me a while to discover that gtk2HB was the name of the actual executable...)
Yesterday, I started Handbrake on a brand new Shrek 1 zone 2 DVD. Guess what, it does not like it. I'll tell you more when I figure out what's wrong. Until then, I'll keep shaving the yak...
Regards. Bruno, a french reader.Posted by bpagis@gmail.com on March 29, 2005 at 13:26:00 Pacific Time
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Bruno, check out this webpage http://www.bunkus.org/dvdripping4linux/single/
There are linux native apps that can rip DVDs for you.Posted by jmassaglia on April 04, 2005 at 14:31:12 Pacific Time
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Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed this article. To know that my symptoms have a name and that there are other yak shavers out there. I thought it was heridtary (sp) and that I got this from my mother ;)
Ok, I'm off to surf the web more, after I check my email, after I...
CyenPosted by cyenobite on February 28, 2005 at 09:48:17 Pacific Time
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