Walking the streets in the ra …

Walking the streets in the rain: the Taoiseach, Mr Ahern, viewing flood damage in Millmount Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin, in the early hours of yesterday morning. (Irish Times)
No doubt this photo will get dragged up again and again when the Taoiseach is in hot water!
Irish Times Article – Anti-flooding measures may cost ‘hundreds of millions’

dvd::rip – A full featured DVD …

dvd::rip – A full featured DVD Ripper GUI for Linux, written in Perl – From first impressions this looks very good but I’ll post more later after I’ve ripped a DVD.
I already tried DRIP but it wouldn’t compile on Red Hat 8.0, gcc gave an “internal compiler error” (no, I’m too lazy to post a bug to RH bugzilla.. 😛
Both these programs depend on other software to do the ripping and encoding but everything needed was readily available on freshrpms.net through my local apt-rpm mirror in Dublin!