According to a blog post by Reed Hastings, Co-Founder and CEO of Netflix; Netflix will end DVD's by mail and turn into a streaming only service. They are going to start up a new company called Qwikster for DVD's by mail only. This news comes as Netflix stopped DVD rentals off their $7.99 streaming plain and recored price hikes.

Source: Netflix Blog http://blog.netflix.com/2011/09/explanation-and-some-reflections.html

As you may know, Canonical freezes software packages a few weeks before a new distribution comes out.
Only security updates will be installed after the freeze.
If you want new fectures for your software, you need to install a ppa.
To add a repository on your system the new way (9.10 and higher) all you do is “sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonoomph/openshot-edge”
This article was writen for Ubuntu 10.10. You may not need all 9 repositories listed here on newer systems.
 
1: Chromium - Stable: ppa:chromium-daily/stable [10.04+]
2: Firefox - Stable: ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable [10.04+]
3: Thunderbird - Stable: ppa:mozillateam/thunderbird-stable [10.04+]
4. Openshot - Bleeding Edge: ppa:jonoomph/openshot-edge [9.10+]
5. LibreOffice -Stable: ppa:libreoffice/ppa [10.04+]
6. The Gimp - Trunk: ppa:matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn [9.04+]
7. Pidgin - Stable: ppa:pidgin-developers/ppa [10.04+]
8. Shotwell - Stable: ppa:yorba/ppa [8.04+]
9. WineHQ - Stable: ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa [6.06+]

Senate Passed The America Invents Act. H.R. 1249

Today the Senate passed H.R. 1249 after being passed in the House in June. Bill now goes to the president who is expected to sign.

The bill changes the US patent system from a First-to-invent to a first-to-file system that will move ownership structure of patented inventions towards large corporations, away from independent inventors and small businesses.

This bill has strong support from some of the largest corporations in the world, including:*

3M
American Bankers Association
BP
Exxon Mobil Corporation
General Electric
Intel
Johnson & Johnson
Merck
Microsoft
Motorola
PepsiCo, Inc.
Pfizer
Procter & Gamble Company
(Full list at MapLight.org)

Some businesses and organizations opposing this bill are:*

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
American Civil Liberties Union
Generic Pharmacutical Association
IP Advocate
National Small Business Association
(Full list at MapLight.org)

*Source maplight.org

The list of Senate Members who voted on this bill can be found at http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/112/senate/1/129

While using VirtualBox you may get this error “Failed to access the USB subsystem.
VirtualBox is not currently allowed to access USB devices. You can change this by adding your user to the 'vboxusers' group. Please see the user manual for a more detailed explanation.” to fix this you must add yourself to the vboxusers group.

To fix that error follow these steps:

1: Enter this into the terminal, gpasswd -a 'yourusername' vboxusers
2: Logout of your account then log back in.
3: Open up VirtualBox and USB support should be enable. Sellect the USB drive like you would on Windows.

If you have the daily build of Chromium installed but you want to downgrade to the stable build, this blog post may help you out.
1: Open up the Synaptic Package Manager and type in chromium-browser.
2: Right click on chromium-browser then click on Mark for Complete Removal.
3: Click on Apply. Wait for Chromium in uninstall.
4: Click on chromium-browser then Package on the Menu Bar then click on Force Version... Choose the version you want to install Eg. (your ubuntu version-updates) then click on Force Version then click Apply.
5: After Chromium is back installed, run this command in the Terminal to delete your old user data profile (Not as Super-user!) rm -f './.config/chromium/Default/Web Data'
6: The stable build of Chromium should now be install and work without any errors.
 

It looks like Microsoft is pulling DVD playback support in Windows 8. Some OEM's might stay away from Windows 8 for the Laptop and Desktop if they don't want to buy a license for each system or they might charge the consumer extra. OEM's that make netbooks and tablets will probably stay will Windows 8 since most don't have a optical drive. Microsoft started including DVD playback support in Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows 7 Home Premium and higher has DVD playback support. If Microsoft does end their partnership with Dolby and they don't find a alternative, customers will have to get their own license for DVD playback. Eg. CyberLink PowerDVD SE (Around $15 retail).

With movie streaming on the rise, it's only time until all movie disks become obsolete. Apple is already phasing out optical drives.

 ~darkfur93 Written on LibreOffice 3.4.2

If your still on Ubuntu 10.10 you know every time you open the Update Manager it alerts you to upgrade to 11.04. You're wondering if there is a way to remove the annoying box? Yes there is!

After playing a few days on the gconf-editor (Linux like regedit) I learned how to do it and it wasn't that difficult.


=====If you have gconf-editor installed=====

Steps:

1. Open up the Terminal and type in gconf-editor
   
   
2. Click on apps > update-manager > untick “check_dist_upgrades”
   
   
3. Exit out gconf-editor of then logout of Ubuntu.
   
   
4. The Update Manager should not ask you to upgrade again!
   
   

=====If you don't have gconf-editor installed=====

Steps:

1. Enter this into the Terminal: sudo gedit ~/.gconf/apps/update-manager/%gconf.xml
   
   

(Replace gedit with the text editor you use like nano, mousepad or kate)

1. Enter your password in the terminal.
   
   
2. Add this code under <gconf> <entry name="check_dist_upgrades" mtime="1309071139" value="false"/>
   
   
3. Save and exit then logout of Ubuntu.
   
   
4. The Update Manager should not ask you to upgrade again!
   
   

Feel free to comment on this blog post if you need any help!

Everything should now be working as intended. :3 If a link doesn't work or if something don't look right on this site, please let me know. Thanks ~ Darky

This domain has been siting around doing nothing for awhile after my old host closed down my account. So I got idea to set this domain up into a website with a blog! I'm going to be posting tech stuff on here and how to guides. So keep a look out! ^^