Archive for June, 2007

Springwatch in School

Since Thursday, Jason and I have been working on a project to bring a little nature over to the St. Peter’s website.
I got the call on Thursday asking me if I could source a camera to take in to the school. Apparently a nest had been found outside one of the classrooms, and the school [...]

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Extract Audio from DVDs in Ubuntu

I wanted to extract Marillion’s cover of Toxic today, which lives on the DVD release of Thankyou Whoever You Are / Most Toys.
I found a useful page over at Ubuntu Geek which covered the topic nicely using a tool called transcode, which I’ve used a little of in the past.
I was having some difficulties with [...]

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Ubuntu 7.04 fails to mount USB drive after kernal upgrade

After the recent Feisty kernel update, I found that I couldn’t access a USB drive without using root privileges in the command prompt.
When plugging a USB flash drive in, I’d get the following error:

Cannot mount volume.
You are not privileged to mount the volume ‘drivename’.
The problem is the new way that Ubuntu identifies disk drives on [...]

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