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Re: Install Handbrake In Ubuntu 12.04

Skippyp — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:13:31 -0000

FYI, I went back and changed repo source to oneiric from precise and reinstalled... no difference. once I select a source it closes automatically.

Re: Install Handbrake In Ubuntu 12.04

Skippyp — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:48:01 -0000

crash and burn every time :( loaded an iso and then the original disc the iso was ripped from. within a second or two Poof! handbrake crashes. Love the program, can't wait till it's stable. any advice in the meantime?

Re: From Lucid To Precise: An Upgrade Diary

Henry_mao — Tue, 15 May 2012 00:33:42 -0000

Exactly the same problem, Nvidia 6100 native driver keeps crashing on me.

Re: Pwn Plug Software Release 1.1 Now Available

IrmaSDean — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:15:38 -0000

http://goo.gl/vqJjN

Re: Is Google Burying Firefox With User Agent Strings?

Yash Pal — Mon, 14 May 2012 11:30:19 -0000

I am not an I T person but a simple(ton) user and cannot carry out any of the tests to prove or disprove that Firefox is being throttled.

But I am very sure that 'fear of the Orwellian future they are capable of realizing for us all' is not unfounded. I have also watched with trepidation the rise and rise of google and their diversifications (which are required to expand their businesses). It should not happen that ultimately their dominance strangles us all.

Re: First EA Games ‘Arrive’ In The Ubuntu Software Center

Asdfas — Mon, 14 May 2012 01:39:08 -0000

ubuntu : change your life... to be better

Re: Sony Signs Death Warrant For The Dash

172pilot — Fri, 11 May 2012 21:00:20 -0000

Of course.. Sony finally got tired of having to pretend that they were supporting the customer.... When I bought my Dash, it took me 6 months before it would take a required firmware update, and Sony was no help.. It's been working for about a year now, 'till they just released their new firmware a couple weeks ago, and now it just sits on a white screen saying that it can't load the control panel, and now I find out they're ditching the product..

Sony has always had pretty good hardware, with ZERO customer support, or any ability to make good business decisions about it.. Betamax, memory stick, and now the Dash... all good products that they dont have the management skill to allow them to succeed

Re: Handbrake 0.9.6 Released, More Features Lost

Huff — Fri, 11 May 2012 14:19:17 -0000

Yeah, and why don't they just remove the "Browse" dialogue button as well? It isn't actually rocket science to type in the file path either... That's what we have keyboards for! Hell yeah, why just make the bloody thing command line only, while we're at it?

Re: Android, Tizen and the End of Java

Julien Gouesse — Fri, 11 May 2012 08:05:13 -0000

"The end of Java"? Is it a joke? HTML 5 is a presentation layer and Javascript cannot be as fast as Java as it uses dynamic types and its JIT compiler is not as optimized as Java Hotspot JIT compiler. It has been possible to make 3D applications in Java for more than ten years and faster than with WebGL even on mobiles, JOGL 2.0 works fine on Android and any Linux embedded distro. It's possible to use Java on IPhone with JamVM + MidPath, XMLVM, Avian... Sorry to contradict you, forget fashion, Java is still "life, the universe and everything", it's crossplatform and fast.

Re: Install Handbrake In Ubuntu 12.04

Marcel Booth — Thu, 10 May 2012 15:02:04 -0000

would just like to say thank-you for this! works great on my ubuntu 12

Re: First EA Games ‘Arrive’ In The Ubuntu Software Center

sola — Thu, 10 May 2012 04:50:55 -0000

In case you are a Linux afficionado which have a slight disgust for Ubuntu:

Like it or not, Ubuntu is the most visible Linux and rapidly expands the userbase of Linux. I don't very much like Unity myself but I have to say it is a good environment for non-tchie users.

In case you are a Linux hater: just ignore my comment.

Re: First EA Games ‘Arrive’ In The Ubuntu Software Center

Anonimous — Thu, 10 May 2012 01:35:51 -0000

m$oft

Re: First EA Games ‘Arrive’ In The Ubuntu Software Center

Joehulanweberson — Wed, 09 May 2012 21:40:48 -0000

ubumtu.... who cares!

Re: Is Google Burying Firefox With User Agent Strings?

devnet — Tue, 08 May 2012 15:29:46 -0000

Mine had the reverse effect with Chrome finally crashing my entire system while Firefox nightly had 0 problems and ran with lower memory. Weird eh?

Re: Android, Tizen and the End of Java

Dean Howell — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:54:31 -0000

Yeah, how is HD-DVD better the Blu-Ray? They use the same container and compression yet Blu is far more dense as far as optical media is concerned.

Re: Android, Tizen and the End of Java

JohnnySmith0 — Tue, 08 May 2012 10:52:21 -0000

How is HD DVD better than Blu Ray.

Re: Chrome For Android Update Not Working On Custom ROMs

Yorrany Braga — Mon, 07 May 2012 18:27:39 -0000

The tip of the foggytown, worked for me.
I used the application "build.prop Editor" and ready, simple and fast.

CM9 @ Atrix

Re: Is Google Burying Firefox With User Agent Strings?

Dean Howell — Mon, 07 May 2012 11:49:34 -0000

What CAPS??

Re: Is Google Burying Firefox With User Agent Strings?

lefty.crupps — Mon, 07 May 2012 11:04:15 -0000

it's hard to read your page when you're constantly yelling in CAPS.

Re: [How to] Install Faenza Icons In Ubuntu 12.04

podshot / Smartie — Mon, 07 May 2012 01:27:41 -0000

perfect :-)

Re: Is Google Burying Firefox With User Agent Strings?

Xorlev — Mon, 07 May 2012 01:14:07 -0000

SPDY is in Firefox 12, just not turned on by default.

Re: Is Google Burying Firefox With User Agent Strings?

arete777 — Sun, 06 May 2012 18:52:05 -0000

I would guess they're doing some custom Javascript that depends on your browser. Then a simple bug in the Firefox-specific code would explain it. I do use Firefox and haven't had these issues at all so it might just be something specific with your setup.

Re: Is Google Burying Firefox With User Agent Strings?

Daniel @warmth Delgado — Sun, 06 May 2012 17:37:52 -0000

Try this: Pin Gmail to Firefox +12, open a ran manager and see how it exponentially increase the memory consumption of Firefox! Do the same thing on Chrome and all stays under control... Weird? Coincidence?

Re: Why Mozilla And Canonical Should Join Forces

Tom Nardi — Sun, 06 May 2012 16:44:53 -0000

That has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not Android is a Linux distribution or not. It even says as much in the article you just linked to:

"Android is an operating system primarily for mobile phones, which consists of Linux (Torvalds's kernel), some libraries, a Java platform and some applications. Linux aside, the software of Android versions 1 and 2 was mostly developed by Google; Google released it under the Apache 2.0 license, which is a lax free software license without copyleft.

The version of Linux included in Android is not entirely free software, since it contains non-free "binary blobs" (just like Torvalds' version of Linux), some of which are really used in some Android devices."

More to the point, the FSF doesn't even consider the Linux kernel to be truly free software (which is why Linux-libre exists: linux-libre.fsfla.org), so I don't know how you can come to the conclusion that Android is not Linux because the FSF says Android isn't free software. Neither of them are free software, they are both open source projects. There is a big difference.

Re: Why Mozilla And Canonical Should Join Forces

fcassia — Sun, 06 May 2012 16:39:13 -0000

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tech...

Android is a lot less "free" than a truly mobile linux like Nokia N9's MeeGo or Moblin.