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I will be silent ... The logic of militancy


Sometimes I feel the need for silence.

When the constant chatter of the world come to overwhelm everything without carrying a grain of sand to the house of Truth,

when words are not only liars and unrealistic, but they become a disorder that prevents thinking,

when I got to the point of not being able to distinguish not only what is the right path for me, but even if a road exists,

when I know I have arrived on the edge of a cliff and get in front of me and the sea vertigo vacuum, and shoulder a gentle wind that pushes me to open the wings,

when I hear that after you have inflated and deflated lungs with the air of the world have nothing left, neither the world nor me ,

then came the moment of silence ...

Funny Anniversary Wording

Make backup copies of DVD movies in Ubuntu

Dopo tanto peregrinare da programma a programma per riuscire a trovarne uno per creare copie di backup di film in dvd, penso di aver trovato il programma giusto. Si chiama K3B. In realtà non è un programma che fa solo copie di dvd ma è nato come software di masterizzazione, come il più famoso Nero. Quello che ho trovato in K3B e che non ho trovato in altri software è la possibilità di effettuare una copia 1:1 del dvd. Altri programmi permettono di convertire il dvd in divx oppure di estrapolare dal dvd solo il titolo principale (quello del film) escludendo però il menù e gli altri titoli inclusi nel dvd.

Per installare K3b in Ubuntu basta digitare nel terminale:

sudo apt-get install k3b

Siccome K3b è un software destinato all'ambiente KDE e non Gnome è necessario install several library packages along with K3b. The packages will be automatically downloaded and installed by apt-get.

To be able to copy protected and encrypted DVDs you need to install 2 additional libraries that are not downloaded automatically when you install K3b. To install type:

sudo apt-get install libdvdread4

and

sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2

Warning: this library is contained in the Medibuntu repository, which must first activate it.

To copy a DVD should be incorporated into reader and, after opening the program:
1) Click Copy support ...
2) Select the options
3) Click on Start

I have not found, if there is the option to compress a DVD double layer in a single layer. Simple thing to do with DVD Shrink which also works very well on Ubuntu (with WINE) despite being a program designed for the Windows environment.