So, I got my degree results. 2:2. Not really happy about it, but nor terribly upset. Slightly frustrated’s all, I’m not quite sure how I drifted from a 1st to a 2:2, but I can’t say as I ever felt like I understood what they wanted from essays, so…
Anyway, this is just wrong. So wrong. Seriously. It’s wrong.
No, that’s not why I’m here though, I’m sat here ‘cos it’s 8 days ’til I move. I’ve got much packing shifting and sorting to do, my laptop is scattered in pieces in the lounge ‘cos I need to make it a new back-piece (the plastic’s given up the ghost on the back of the case) – it’s going to look a bit butchered, because the local B&Q sell aluminium at *INSANE* prices. A chunk big enough to do the repair I wanted to do is about 15 quid!
So, yeah, it’ll be a strip of slightly rusty steel instead. Mmm, stylish.
Anyway, it’s weird. I don’t know how Trey did it, chucking so much stuff; I mean, I’ve got rid of *lots* as far as I’m concerned, but there’s still loots. There’s still lots to get rid of too, and I’ll be starting that later today. After I’ve fixed my laptop.
If anyone has suggestions for free dvd playing software for the mac that’s region free and uses the quicktime playback system then please, tell me. VLC’s Quartz / Quicktime stuff doesn’t work, Niceplayer’s DVD playback stuff seems to rely on the Apple DVD player which just reports “no valid device found for playback” – and whilst I could rip every DVD I own to the disks (probably, nearly, at least); I don’t think it’d do my DVD drive an awful lot of good, nor do I think it’s really a practical solution.
I also can’t find my 100Mbit super-crap hub, which makes getting the music onto this machine somewhat harder. But I’d definately prefer to take my macinhac with me than my windows box. Which is silly really, ‘cos the PC can play DVDs and so on. Perhaps I should let common sense win and take the XP box. Someone, save me from this fate. Give me video playback on the Mac (ignoring of course the fact I’ve not got sound working properly yet either).
Anyway. I was going to write about how weird it is to be leaving bristol, how after living here it really feels like home, and my friends are all here, but I’ve wasted the last hour in battles vs the non-DVD playing HackinMac, so, err, I’m going to bugger off now.
Download this: 0Sex. It’s a DVD ripper. :-) Creates a DVD image on your hard disk you can then play with the dvd player but which is completely unprotected.
And/or get Handbrake. It’s also a DVD ripper, but in this case can rip to various AVI/MP4 formats. h.264 is the one of choice but it does take a *while* to rip a dvd that way.
well, i tried leaving a comment on your dvd playing problem but the site ate the comment, and will presumably eat this one too.
Nope, must have been a temporary glitch
Aaah. No, it was awaiting moderation… ‘s ‘cos it’s got links in it