Go grab a copy of mac the ripper. It copies your dvds into
directories, where you can watch them with the dvd program that comes
with osx, or you can then use idvd to write them back to blank dvds.
(this is assuming you obtained the ilife suite when you bought yur
mac. I did not, so I have to do things differently, but it's much
simpler if idvd is available to you. Then when you get a new dvd,
make a copy, and put away the original so he can't break it. After
the copy gets broken/scratched/cracked/muddy/what have you, simply
burn another copy, and you don't have to spend 20 bucks on another
copy. I wish I'd had a mac before my 3-year old sun started watching
thomas videos. We've had to replace several of those. *sigh*
On Dec 20, 2005, at 6:43 PM, Scott Howell wrote:
Ok, not sure if my long-winded msg reached the list, but I'm just
posting my questions. Any resources etc. very much appreciated.
First, I have a son and as careful as he is, he has hosed a few
dvds. Now my Mac has a dvd burner and I was curious if there's an
application that would let me make copies of these dvds so I can
have a spear on-hand. Of course not to resell etc. just for my use.
I'd like that app to be as VO-friendly as possible.
Ok here are my final questions for a while and thanks to all in
advance.
somewhere on the web, but I haven't found it and it covers the guts
of Tiger. I really want to learn all the magic that makes this
thing work so I can do some other things like trying to port a few
Linux-based applications over to the Mac. Next thing is and I'm
sure this is a completely silly question. If the Mac has gone to
sleep and you have a cron job schedule to run, will the machine
wake itself up and run the job or would I have to set the power
management such that the box never goes to sleep?
Also, I have an APC ups which there is Mac software for, but what I
want to do is connect my Mac and Linux box to this ups. I have on
the Linux box a program called apcupsd which has the ability to
notify clients of itself via the network that the client machines
need to shutdown do to a power loss. I am not sure if it can be
compiled to run on OSX, but if anyone is familiar with this or
knows if there's APC software etc. I can use to accomplish this,
I'd appreciate it.
Finally is it possible to port applications that run on Linux over
to OSX without having a vast programming background?
Oh did I mention how much I love my Mac?
