How to Rip a DVD to Your Computer

http://lifehacker.com/5809765/how-to-rip-a-dvd-to-your-computer

This is a very time consuming process so be prepare to spend oodles of time ripping your collection of DVDs. However, once done, you will reap the benefits of having these movies accessible on multiple devices. My advice is rip all your DVDs and Blu-rays and store all the resulting files on a NAS storage server. Get a NAS that has RAID1 to protect your investment from drive failure. Then buy another NAS (not necessarily with RAID1), store this NAS offsite, and sync the videos files over the Internet as new ones are created. A total investment of $500 and a lot of your time, but if you are a videophile, it's worth it. Of course, you can also store your home movies on the NAS, too, as well any computer files. It's simply a harddrive that is attached to your home network as opposed to an external harddrive that is attached to a particular computer. A NAS greatly enhances the storing and accessibility of your digital data.

USB-N53 Quirk

I use this WiFi adapter for computers that need to receive either the 2.4GHz or 5GHz signal from WiFi access points.

http://www.asus.com/us/Networking/USBN53/

It comes with a CD, but I would go to the ASUS website to ensure that I get the latest driver. Being the minimalist that I am, I would pick to download just the driver and not the utility because Windows already has the wireless connection utility built-in.

Drivers are available for Windows XP, Vista, W7, and W8 both 32bit and 64bit, making this adapter almost universal for Windows machines. After the appropriate driver was installed, to my dismay, the adapter only detected the 2.4GHz signals. There is a button on the adapter that once pushed, nothing happens. Only after I have downloaded the utility and installed it does the adapter detects the 5GHz signals. Stranger still, during the installation process, I am given the choice of installing only the driver. I chose the driver only option and it works. The point being you have to install the barebone driver using the "utility" installer even though the utility itself is not installed.

Weird.

You should go to the ASUS website to get the latest driver for this device or any devices. However if the site is down, you can download from here. This was downloaded from the ASUS site on Feb 2014.

http://tinyurl.com/asus-usb-n53drivers