In the last few days, I’ve been playing around with Ubuntu Linux Version 10.10 on my MacBook Pro. Even with all of the GUI enhancements that are available now days, I still find myself going back to the old school way of using a computer. The Good Ole Terminal. The reasoning behind going back to the Terminal had to do with a bunch of DVD’s I bought back in ’09 with Old Time Radio programs on them. I wanted to start copying them over to a hard drive for save keeping. However, If I used the GUI way of drag and drop (or copy and paste) that I would have to sit still at the the computer and wait to see if there were any errors that I would have to tell the GUI to skip. This is when the Terminal comes into play. Knowing where your DVD shows up on the file system sure helps out. And with the copy command (cp) and a few variables thrown in to read all of the folders on the DVD, you can copy the whole thing and walk away from your computer.
Do I mind not having those mp3′s that didn’t get copied? Not one bit. I will soon get another set of these DVD’s to copy soon. Of course that’s after I order them.
There shall be more coming soon. I have finally finished a mobile media server on the cheap and I will post it as soon as I can.
