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I just ate something I haven’t had in almost a decade and I thought for sure didn’t exist anymore …

How many of you remember the chili cheese burrito from Taco Bell? Well, I remember it and I found it rather tasty when I could still get them. Turns out, the days of the ‘chilito’ are not gone. Thanks to a site called chilicheese.org that I found on a google search, I was able to find a taco bell that still serves this tasty burrito; and it’s only 2 blocks from my apartment. Score!

Anyway … sign the petition if you miss this one. I liked it and am glad it’s still around. They’ve changed it some as it’s not as cheesey as I remember it, but it’s basically the same.

Long live the Chilito!

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I hadn’t been following this story, but I was reminded of it when it popped up on CNN today. It seems that police no longer have to announce themselves when serving a warrant.

Now I can hear those of you on the right side of your monitors already … ‘Bout damn time! Those people just get rid of the evidence or run out the back when the cops knock on the door!.

To you I say That’s all well and good until it’s your door they don’t knock on by mistake …

Bush and his appointed “judges” are going to have us goose-stepping around the town square by the end of 2008.

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After spending about a half an hour trying to figure out why wine wouldn’t run DVDDecrypter correctly[1], I decided that there must be a better way.

Indeed there is. It’s now possible to rip and shrink DVDs in Linux using 100% completely native Linux code. The two applications I use are dvdbackup and k9copy. It’s pretty braindead easy really. Here’s how it’s done.

1) Rip the DVD to your HDD. You’ll need enough disk to hold the DVD (9GB should be sufficient). Run dvdbackup thusly:
dvdbackup -M -i/dev/[yourdvddevice] -o/path/to/folder/with/9GB/free

2) Wait for the above command to finish (it can take a while)

3) Run k9copy. Point it at the directory that was created in step 1 above and hit the ‘copy’ button.

4) Wait some more.

5) Burn the iso file with k3b or cdrecord or whatever.

6) Watch your new movie and rejoice that you didn’t have to go through any headaches to make it work

“I’m Chainsaw .. and I’m Dave … and we’ll see you … At the movies!”

[1] To be fair, wine ran the app fine, it just didn’t see any CD drives. I tried everything I could find on the oracle, but nothing seemed to help.

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