fucking copy protection

[Erkki]

I just bought Gorillaz' "Demon Days" album, not paying enough attention to notice it had some kind of copy protection mechanism.

When inserted, it said "To listen to the CD a number of files need to be updated on your PC." Ok / Cancel

Not having forgotten about the recent root kit issue with Sony, I pressed cancel and played it manually in Winamp and it's totally fucked up. Some tracks have pauses in them and crackle and shit. Fucking bastards. From now on, I'll take a closer look before I buy a record.

[elmuerte]

You could always return the CD as defective.

[Erkki]

Ha! The joke here is that this CD can easily be ripped using free software and it will sound fine (I just did it on two computers using Sound Juicer in Ubuntu 6.06).

So it only prevents listening it on some standard CD-players and computers, but you can copy it just fine... hmm... somebody should beat up the persons who are responsible for this idiocity with a giant hammer made entirely out of CD-s.

[Moosferatu]

The new Ubuntu rules.

[elmuerte]

I like my old Debian

[Erkki]

The new Ubuntu rules.

Yes it does, except I don't like that Rhythmbox now closes when I press the close button. Previously it used to minimize to tray. And actually, there doesn't even seem to be a minimize to tray option at all.

[brkl]

I want on-the-fly OS switching like that macbook video. Can't be arsed to install linux again without something like that.

Or a Macbook. I could take a Macbook instead.

[Moosferatu]

Yes it does, except I don't like that Rhythmbox now closes when I press the close button. Previously it used to minimize to tray. And actually, there doesn't even seem to be a minimize to tray option at all.

I don't know why, but it looks like you actually have to go to File->Close if you want it to minimize to the tray instead of entirely closing the program. It appears as if they have the 'X' defaulting to quit instead of close for some odd reason. I have no idea if there's a way you can change its behavior.

[Erkki]

Heh. Thanx, didn't notice the Close item in the menu.

Now if only Ubuntu would have a TV-tuner software that worked with my tuner, I'd probably start using it as my main OS again (I used mostly Ubuntu about 3 months in the beginning of this year and then switched back to Windows).

Actually, what would be great to get cross-platform apps to share configuration data -- Firefox, Thunderbird, Democracy, Eclipse etc. so that it doesn't matter which OS you are running -- you'll still have the same config./data.

[Erkki]

Yay! I'm now running Steam on Ubuntu and downloading HL2 Episode One as we speak... I'm using Cedega though, which isn't free (but there's a trial). Steam probably doesn't work with plain Wine (I remember trying but not getting it working).

A pirated version of NFS Most Wanted refused to install (claiming DirectX 9.0c wasn't installed, while it was), although support for the game is very much advertised by Transgaming.

[wes_borland]

you can actually go through the copy protection if you have a good software. But I don't know anything about this...