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.