Re: software to edit dvds
I always laugh with new format introductions by the media cartels to get people to buy the same thing all over again, now these streaming services, and still somehow get fed ads for your patronage. Or I can just download a clean, perfect version of that already in about 2 minutes of effort from piratebay. Unless you really feel some guilt or enjoy the technical practice of ripping video, just download it using a vpn to some random place and save the effort someone else already did. I haven't paid for media or seen commercials in 25 years, and rather spend for new hard drives and bandwidth over a new movie I'm going to download on said hard drive, watch exactly once (if that), delete, and forget. Apparently people like me haven't ruined the business that the Disney's and the other mega media cartels go out of business yet and still maintain record profits. Go figure. -mb On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 8:00 AM George Toft via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > What I do in the privacy of my own home is none of the Government's > business. It's in the Constitution. Not that the Government cares much > about that, either. > > Regards, > > George Toft > > On 11/3/2022 9:16 PM, Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > Altering a dvd for any reason is against federal law. It displays that > on the beginning of the dvd or Blu-ray. > > > > On Thu, Nov 3, 2022, at 20:06, Jim via PLUG-discuss wrote: > >> I bought some DVDs recently that have those annoying trailers before > >> the main menu that I can't skip or fast forward to. Is there some > >> llnux software that would let me remove those trailers from a copy I > >> make of one of the DVDs? thanks > >> > >> > >> --- > >> PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --- > PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: T-Mobile Home Internet followup
I tried it for about a month. Worked great for work. But then the Earth got hit with a Solar Storm and the service went to crap for a couple days. And that ended my T-Mobile 5G Home Internet relationship. Regards, George Toft On 10/30/2022 3:43 PM, Daniel Stasinski via PLUG-discuss wrote: A while back I gave impressive stats and glowing praise on my switch to T-Mobile Home Internet. It had a few limitations that I had to work around, but it was fast. However, for almost a month now it has dropped to just above T1 speed most of the day and is pretty much useless. I'll be switching back to DSL, which unfortunately is my only other option where I live. *Daniel P. Stasinski* dan...@genericinbox.com ✞ /Jesus Is King /✞ --- PLUG-discuss mailing list:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss--- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: software to edit dvds
What I do in the privacy of my own home is none of the Government's business. It's in the Constitution. Not that the Government cares much about that, either. Regards, George Toft On 11/3/2022 9:16 PM, Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss wrote: Altering a dvd for any reason is against federal law. It displays that on the beginning of the dvd or Blu-ray. On Thu, Nov 3, 2022, at 20:06, Jim via PLUG-discuss wrote: I bought some DVDs recently that have those annoying trailers before the main menu that I can't skip or fast forward to. Is there some llnux software that would let me remove those trailers from a copy I make of one of the DVDs? thanks --- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: software to edit dvds
If I had this task, I would rip the DVD then use an editor to cut out the ads. If I were really adventurous, I might even upscale the DVD rip to HD. The more I work with 4K, the more I believe it has its place, but not as an everyday replacement to HD. Regards, George Toft On 11/3/2022 8:06 PM, Jim via PLUG-discuss wrote: I bought some DVDs recently that have those annoying trailers before the main menu that I can't skip or fast forward to. Is there some llnux software that would let me remove those trailers from a copy I make of one of the DVDs? thanks --- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Dot Local Domains
Short answer to all of your questions is yes, you can do this. I did it for several years, and it came in really handy when I wanted to control the Internet usage of my pubescent children. I set up DNS locally - I used georgetoft.com and had it split - outside my house (public) only had the simple entries for the A, MX, CNAME records. Inside my house, I included the file server, FTP, web and mail server hosts. Then I set up a DHCP server that issued my DNS server's IP as part of the DHCP response. That way, everyone in the house could access the internal resources. Now when my teenage children got the hormones and thought they knew more than me, I set up two different DHCP configs and used cron to activate one profile in the daytime and a different one at night. To make this work, I turned off DHCP and WiFi on the Internet Gateway and used my own DHCP server and WiFi Access Point, with a TTL of 60 seconds. At the appointed time, the nighttime profile kicked in which only allowed the approved MAC addresses to get a DHCP address, effectively cutting them off from the Internet both by their PC and their phones. They were out of high school before they figured out how to make their phones into hotspots - LOL. As far as running your own mail server - yes you can (and I did for a while), but the effort really isn't worth it. Back when I would get 1 or 2 SPAM per week, and took great delight in tracking down their mail provider and ISP and filing SPAM complaints, but when it ramped up to 50/day, I outsourced it to a provider that managed SPAM blocking. I tried blacklisting entire countries by IP - that helped. I tried subscribing to blacklists - that helped, but in the end, I had more important things to do than spend hours per week managing an email server. Regards, George Toft On 10/29/2022 8:07 AM, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote: Hi, For some reason .local popped into my head this morning. From what I read it appears I may be able to create an Intranet that has a private domain name such as MyBusiness.local, on a private IP, and I am thinking I can run BIND and make a zone file for this Intranet. In this case, if I am in he local net I can bring it up with MyBusiness.local?? If so then I should be able to add subdomains to the local BIND/zone... So will this private network work like the public Internet? This makes me believe I can create a mail server on this private net for the users of this private net. Not that I want to, however it is interesting. I read that MAC is doing something with the .local domain so it was recommended to use: .test .example .invalid .localhost Would it be possible to create a private network using one of these private TLDs and can I use BIND to control this? How will my browser know to go to my private domain if I use one of these private domains - I seem to recall needing to put this in the hosts file on Linux and Windows so it would resolve. Would BIND override this? Thanks!! Keith --- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Gimp
Awesome! Thanks. Regards, George Toft On 9/22/2022 10:53 PM, Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote: On 9/22/22 12:53, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote: Another Gimp problem is that its toolbox of tiny icons is actively hostile to those of us with lesser visual accuities Edit -> Preferences Interface -> Icon Theme Change"Guess icon theme from resolution" to "Custom icon size" and crank it up till you can see it. Brian Cluff --- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Why am I not receiving any messages frrom plug?
Silly me, I thought this group died because of the lack of emails. Then I looked and there were hundreds of unread emails. Regards, George Toft On 10/20/2022 6:54 PM, joe--- via PLUG-discuss wrote: Why am I not receiving any messages frrom plug? For several weeks, I have not received any email messages from plug. Who do I need to contact or what do I need to do to get this fixed? j...@actionline.com === --- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: unlock cell phones
He also wants me to download and setup a blue light blocker on the laptop. I thought blue light filters were physical screens. am I mistaken? Could I have a recommendation on where to get one/download one? this is a vista laptop. On Sat, Nov 5, 2022 at 8:13 PM Michael wrote: > I have a friend who wants me to unlock his cell phones. The phones > are: phone boost marquee, LG style 6, and he doesn't know what his third > phone is. I think it would be best to send them to someone who does that > professionally. What do you think? Anyone want a job? > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
