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Mon, 10 Dec 2007

Burning a DVD under Linux (1)

Now I've got enough stuff to fill a DVD, I'd like to burn a disc which our DVD player (for the TV set) will accept. I thought this was easy to do on a Mac, but B's computer keeps trying to persuade me that my .mpeg and .vob files, which my Ubuntu box can play without any problem, aren't video files. Sure they are, stupid OS X! Yet they're obviously not supported by Quicktime, iDVD and what have you. Hmm ...

I'm now trying dvdauthor - and, because I know so little about MPEG, DVD, burning etc., I'm going for the GUI (qdvdauthor), too. I'm not sure if Brasero can burn DVDs which will play in a DVD player. The catchily named growisofs looks promising: I love command-line software! But first of all, I want a DVD which I can actually use. And time is running out - two more days before we leave for Germany.

Posted on 10 Dec 2007 at 18:57 in /technology. -- Permalink

Completing a Hong Kong tax return

Completing a tax return is easy to learn and easy to remember:

I still managed to mess up my form completely - after filling in all the fields, I realised that the tax year runs from 1 April to 31 March, not from 1 January to 31 December. Also, it was only when I found it strange that we've managed to survive for 8 months on HK$ 20,000 or so that I realised there's a difference between HK$ and euro ...

The Inland Revenue Department doesn't even want to see your documents, you just have to keep them for 6 years in case they want to check at some point in the future.

Just like escalator safety ...

Posted on 10 Dec 2007 at 11:52 in /life. -- Permalink


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