Jason L. Froebe - Tech tips and How Tos for Fellow Techies

The fine folks over at PhrankDaChicken@Ubuntu have come up with an excellent and simple GUI for the open source Cisco VPN client (vpnc).  The nice thing is that you won’t have to decrypt the group password in your cisco PCF file as VPNWiz will read the PCF files directly!
I don’t know about you, but I’ve [...]

After much trial and error, I chose HandbrakeCLI for ripping a dvd to a h.264 mpeg4 file that I can play on my Sony Playstation 3 console. Please note that HandBrake does quite well on live action video but not so good on animation.
% sudo aptitude install build-essential
% sudo aptitude install zlib1g-dev jam yasm
% [...]