I wanted to do a DVD copy, not the copyrighted ones, but a DVD I made using Video editing software. I found it difficult from Ubuntu, and used hours searching the very nice forums. I stumbled upon a program called wine, a 'windoze emulation' sort of thing. Very handy when you have all kind of programs installed on your winXP, and don't have anything similar on your linux. But every post I read was talking about DVDDecrypter and DVDShrink, being the best to copy a DVD, even the copyrighted ones. But the hell I went through, trying to get this wine/dvddecrypter thing to work, was a lot of wasted hours.
Meanwhile, I was updating my Ubuntu every day. I had to update between 50 and 100 files every day, 'Does it really get updated that quickly?' I must say that's impressive. Every day new things showed up, new programs, new layout, and in the end I got this strange feeling that it was actually starting to look very much like my 'old' winXP... The desktop is now equipped with a [Computer] logo, and the familiar [Trash]. WOW! Is this what the public wants? A Linux that looks like XP? hmm, not me!
Anyway, after all these wasted hours, the only thing I had to do was: clickety click on the [Computer], and mouse-right-click on the DVD logo, to find a menu called 'Copy disc', Whaaat!! I was amazed, if not all this time then at least some, I had this DVD copy right by me.... Damn!!!
Next thing I have to do is format my USB harddisk so that I can write to it, it's Partitioned with NTFS, and Linux doesn't like to write that... I can't use Fat32 because it only supports files of 4GB, and I need more to do a DVD image...And I still need winXp to have access to the drive.... well, more searching in the forums...
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