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Tutorial: DVD ripping on a Mac

The Cult of Mac Blog
Just FYI: Shepmaster’s tutorial for ripping a DVD in OS X. It looks horrifically complicated. Here’s the tools you’ll need. Anyone know of a tutorial for burning DVDs, downloaded from say, um, er, Bittorrent?

Update: Alexander Malov writes, “Just saw the entry on DVD ripping in OS X and their method is over-complicated to say the least. It is much easier to use MacTheRipper to rip the DVD (simple, almost one-click process) and then compress for burning
(if nessesary) using DVD2OneX. Then burn using Toast. Voila.

It is also possible to rip DVDs using DVDBackup.

Here’s another handy hint: Make a PowerBook DVD drive region-free by zapping the firmware.

Update: Mat Simpson writes, “No need to dick around with the firmware to play DVDs from a different region, just use VLC rather than the Apple DVD Player app to play your DVDs. VLC happily ignores the region coding on the disc. It also plays squillions of different kinds of video file, including DivX and many Windows Media files. Rarr! It looks like they’ve just released a minor update today, too.”

Question of the day :: November 15, 2004

QUESTION OF THE DAY // Answered Question
You are the administrator of your company’s network. A user named Peter runs windows 2000 Professional on his portable computer. Peter wants to be able to work at home on files that were created in the office on the company network. Offline folders are configured. From within the Folder Options dialog box, which tab allows you to delete the cached copies of the files?

A)
 Offline Files

B)
 Cached Files

C)
 Cache Settings

D)
 Advanced

E)
 None of the choices.

Your answer is:
E

Correct answer is:
A

Explanation:
According to The MS Training Kit: On the Offline Files tab, you can use the Delete Files button to delete the locally cached copy of a network file. The View Files button shows you the files stored in the Offline Files folder; these are the locally cached files that you have stored on your system. The Advanced button allows you to configure how your computer responds when a network connection is lost. For example, when a network connection is lost, you can configure your computer to notify you and allow you to begin working offline.

Question of the day :: November 16, 2004

Your desktop computer has Windows 2000 Professional installed. You create a new dial-up connection to connect to the Internet. You configure the Internet connection to enable Internet Connection Sharing. After you configure the connection, you cannot see or connect to any shared resources on your local network. You want your computer to be able to connect to the shared resources. Which of the following settings of the dial up connection is the “trouble maker”?

A)
 shared access.

B)
 on-demand dialing.

C)
 data encryption

D)
 routing protocols

E)
 None of the choices.

Your answer is:
A

Correct answer is:
A

Explanation:
According to The MS Training Kit: Dial-up connections include outbound dial-up connection to either a private network or to an ISP. To create and configure an outbound dial-up connection, use the Network Connection wizard. On the Network Connection Type page, select Dial-Up To Private Network to create a connection to a private network, or select Dial-Up To The Internet to create a connection to an ISP. To configure Internet connection sharing, ensure that Enable Internet Connection Sharing For This Connection is selected on the Sharing tab of the connection’s properties dialog box. This would, however, change the IP address settings of the clients and disturb internal resource access.