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DVDs that won’t play in Linux, and how to make them behave
Playing DVDs in Linux is generally a pretty painless process. The libdvdcss library does a sterling job of allowing us to watch our DVDs on legitimate hardware using the operating system of our choice, legal machinations notwithstanding. It also manages to circumvent the region encoding of the DVD (an abitrary and legally dubious restriction), allowing [...]
January 8, 2010
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Getting your numpad working again
Recently, I discovered that the number pad wasn’t working on my keyboard. No matter what I tried, I couldn’t get any of the keys to work – the Num Lock key changed nothing. Having freaked out for a while (had I poured a pint of water into the number pad without noticing?), I started searching [...]
December 29, 2009
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