Any recommendations for a high-end Mac CD ripping program?

Great show, information to use, ponder and internalize.....
Keep up the great work!!
until the next show.....

Ok. I haven't seen the episode yet so I can't comment about what you guys have to say, but in the article "Feisty Fawn should be called Crappy Cow" (I'll refrain from how utterly wrong that title is...) you'll notice that some of his questions were answered by the user Intely, a user of ubuntu not some outsourced agent reading from a script, there in less than 12 hours,

"Install video driver
System > Administration > Restricted Drivers Manager
Click the check box that correspondes to your card

Install Codecs
In Add/Remove find Ubuntu restricted extras and it installs Flash, Java, video and audio codecs

They don't install them because of community and legal issues..."

Lets Keep in mind that is is a community Maintained Operating System though, so I will concur that it isn't ready for Every little old lady.
Finally, sure Feisty isn't completely automated, but how lazy do you have to be to not even click through a few menus... What's next? Will people complain about pushing the power button to turn on their computer?

Just a thought...

You forgot to mention Folding@Home... a great show as usual. Will you guys do a spot on the Wii? Like pros and cons, things of that nature. Thanks....

Show Great

Open source alternative for Windows.

CD ripper.
http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/

Audio converter. I think it's interface is better than dbpoweramp.
It can output to folders it creates based on metadata.
http://omniencoder.autobotcity.net

On the Ubuntu "review":

To install Nvidia/Ati drivers in Ubuntu 7.04 go to System->Administration->Restricted Drivers Manager and then, and here's the (apparently) hard part, CHECK THE BOX MARKED "Nvidia" I know, I know, its utterly ridiculous. How can Canonical expect *anyone* to figure that out?

I think what happened is Mr Lynch took one look at Ubuntu and said "Hey this isn't Windows. I give up! Oh well. Time to write a review so that I look hip. After all, Ubuntu is the cool thing to write about these days..."

And flash isn't hard to install in Ubuntu. Just click on the flashing bar that pops up on the first site that requires flash. Same as in Windows. Earlier Ubuntu versions required a few extra steps, but now it's just as simple as Windows.

"Extreme" Tech...? Extremely lame. There's no point in doing an O/S review (Win/Mac/Linux/Whatever) if you only spend 10 minutes checking it out.

I would like to ask 1 question...
When are the ISP's going to change there Speed statements...
form kbps to KBps.

I prefer to use url(x) instead of tinyURL. It includes the original domain in the new short URL, and it's nice to get an idea where you are going :).

An example: the link for the dl.tv forums will be: http://urlx.org/extremetech.com/8735a

dbpoweramp looks good. the tinyurl toolbar works in opera 9.2 as well

I don't agree with your negative review of ubuntu. If you complain about installing a driver or installing flash then you must think windows xp or vista are even worse. Think about how many drivers/programs/service packs/updates you would have to install on a fresh windows installation if your hard drive crashes right now.

I have to agree with Will J. The review that Jim Lynch wrote made it seem like he has never used a computer before and shouldn't be writing tech reviews. He must have a Phd.? I found Feisty Fawn very easy to setup and use. All of his complaints would be the same for Windows. I always have to install flash in Windows and you should try playing a DVD in Windows without the Codecs. He better stick to buying PCs with everything already installed.

Changing gears, I loved TechTV and I'm glad you guys are doing this show. Thanks for staying involved.

I don't think they were claiming it was a full-on O/S review. I agree, a proper O/S review takes weeks if not months, but there's no harm in giving things a little exposure on a video show - much like a video game, piece of hardware, article of legislation, workflow technique, etc. A few minutes gives none of these topics any justice - so what then? A 3 hour podcast about Ubuntu? ZZZZZZzzzzzzzz

@Tim Lioi & Will J
If you read his review you'll see that he did exactly that--however the drivers did not work at all for him; he wasn't able to go past 1024x768.

He already knows that he if were to go and edit xorg.conf he could probably fix it with a bit of help... but he has a point. Why should one have to in the first place? Seriously, I wish the applet in Gnome would do more--e.g. setup dual monitors.

your assessment of the ubuntu article is incorrect, the author of the article has a one star rating which means he's considered a horrible author by the members of extreemtech.

About the digg situation. I didn't participate myself but my understanding was that all started when digg began taking down comments and stories that didn't have the code and only referred to there take down of the code. People where upset because Digg was editing for content not related to the use agreement, and banning accounts for being critical.

Of course once the kids got off of school and started joining in that point was lost.

The Livid Luddite greatfully thanks Justin Forbes for the info and link to Ubuntu.Wow it works great! first time too.Bless you and all your loved ones Justin,It's people like you that make this whole internet thing rock!

Yahoo will close Flickr
Yahoo a little over two years ago acquired now it's over please
talk about this?

i wonder why ubuntu doesn't develop a gui for editing the xorg file. If there was a little applet that could sit in your system tray that when clicked opened up an option to "manually edit screen resolution," it'd make it a lot easier for newbies to edit it without screwing up. (God only knows HOW many times i've borked my xorg file and needed to regenerate it...) Also, it'd be cool if that applet had a "have X try to guess your hardware" button. =)

Who knows though, maybe they have something like that for it nowadays. I haven't used ubuntu since shortly after the dapper drake release.

I cannot remember the rfc for it off the top of my head. To keep an email client from breaking apart a link in an email, simply enclose the link in less than and greater than characters. Any email client that supports the rfc should display it properly.

ex: <http://dl.tv/>

I am interested in hearing about the wi-fi 360 adapter myself. I looked around a bit but could not find any other adapters that work with it. I can't help but feel MS is gouging me on this one - I refuse to buy their 100 dollar wifi when I have a perfectly good USB wifi dongle rotting in a drawer. :-)

Also, did I miss it or is there no entry in the Forums for this episode? It seemed like there wasn't much activity over there given the wide distribution of this wonderful podcast. Am I looking in the wrong place, or are a lot of people just passive and not actively posting?

Peace,

-Michael Moore (Seattle, WA) [no, not *that* Michael M...]

I'm a big fan of interface lift. For years I was using another site which was half paid and half free.

I also know why the "A Little Motivation" is the Most Downloaded. Yes it is cute, but that's not the reason. It is because people have to download it to read the text. Clever.

Look guys I love the show, and unlike these people crying like babies about your short review of Ubuntu, I completely understand your reasoning for not taking a freakin episode to talk about the OS. Anyway, I just thought I'd say, that yes IE7 can *easily* do anything Mozilla Firefox 2 can do :). As for TinyURL.com, why don't you just make your own link LMAO.. I mean, come on, you guys are smart enough to use GMail, theres a link button on the toolbar to MAKE a link (or you could just use a simple HTML tag, but I'm assuming the average user doesn't have even basic HTML knowledge :P)! So if I really wanted to, I could make a freakin period "." link to that picture you uploaded to Image Shack! Speaking of Image Shack and Flickr.. Photobucket can do everything those can do too! Slideshows, printouts etc.. It won't show you the BB Code tag for use on Bulletin Boards (or "forums") but there's usually a button in the text box used for posting/replying in the forum. If you're too dumb (not you guys, I mean people in general) to click the button, BB Code is simple enough anyway, the usual code for an image is [IMG]http://img405.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nerashottv5.jpg[/IMG]! See? Tell me that's not simple! I could type alot more but, eh. If you want to cuss at me or whatever, just reply.

IE7 can do anything Firefox can do! BWahhhhhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhhhhhhhhhhhahhhhhhhhhhhhhhha ahaha hahahahah! hah. ha.

Oh yea, last time I setup a dual boot from scratch. Ubuntu kicked the pants out of XP for how fast it took to get everything working. I was personally amazed myself!

first off, I second that maniacal laugh, and say are YOU serious! It took Microsoft how many years to realize that Tabs rock, and then how many seconds did it take them to slap together a poorly executed version of their own.

Also, David and dave and others, why then did they use this article to evaluate an operating system for the thousands of people who watch dl.tv. I would suggest using a more thorough article by a better author instead leading viewers to this crappy article.

Kev, This perfect Idea hasn't been developed yet, well, because it hasn't been developed yet. With Community driven software such as Ubuntu, It takes users requesting features to get them into the release, or they can just write it themselves (quite easily with Perl I might add). No one cares to do this since it's easier to do a simple search in the wiki to figure out, step-by-step, how to do this.