061207 02:29 by iDRMRSR

1. I actually got my old PC to play a commercial, encrypted DVD, with menus and subtitles, from my Firewire connected external DVD writer! Took a couple shots. The old PC had just USB 1.0 connections, so long ago I threw in a Firewire card. It actually reconized the silly DVD writer the minute I plugged it in. I also managed to get it to play some DIVX files with subtitles. Wooo!!!

2. I then tried to boot my laptop with the Ubuntu Live CD. It actually worked, but wasn't able to get to the wireless network I have floating around here. Kinda hard to download drivers and new applications when you can't even GIT to teh intarwebs! Dunno what I'm gonna do about that. I don't want to repartition and install permanently to the HD if I can't get teh wireless working.

Heh, a lot of the web articles for troubleshooting wireless tell you to go here and there and install wireless managers and drivers, but if you are OFFLINE, t'aint possible. I may have to plug the thing wiredly and do some more hair pulling.

Now I need to find a good Linux video editing package like Windows Movie Maker. Simple and something that doesn't just save in OGG THEORA format.