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I'm waiting on a USB key from Linux Emporium - am I right in thinking I have till the END of April to upgrade from repos?

Hi folks,

I've left it a long time so bugs can be ironed out - please oculd you confirm whether Ubuntu 12.04 will run happily on a Lenovo Ideapad S12, spec as above, with full hardware...

For my part, I just don't care. Please could Canonical ink whatever deals are needed to give me applications I can download from the Partner repo to play Blinkbox content. I don't care if it's...

Blinkbox is a film and TV streaming service now mostly owned by Tesco..

Hollywood have leant on them and insisted they go to Silverlight and PlayReady along with Lovefilm and Netflix...

Apologies. msg duly edited.

And Hollywood, when the Moonlight devs offered to add the DRM logic, flatly rejected them - I understand the second word was "off".

And they want to defeat piracy?

Oh - this is bloody unfair - BLINKBOX now locking out Linux users
Hi folks,

got the following email from Blinkbox...

Dear Alex,

Here at blinkbox, we’re always trying hard to deliver the...

What really ought to have happened is that rather than Flash 11 being packaged as Flash 10... it should have been packaged separately, and adobe-flashplugin repointed as a meta-package...

Would...

I have just learned of an album I wanted to repurchase ONLY being available via iTunes. TIME - The Musical.

And as I'm 100% Ubuntu - I'm blocked from buying the thing.
THIS really grinds my...

... for Lucid or Precise?

One that could hook into Flash playout... was reading a bit about Loudness Wars and would be interesting to watch...

So.. give it a week? I'm not about to dig into Software SOurces to see where I'm pulling from if the servers are under that much stress.

Umm - couldn't Canonical flex their distribution servers...

Hi folks,

I normally accept updates on a Saturday morning - normally get upwards of 900-1000kB/s from the Uk update servers. Did a Check Updates - it was running SLOWWWWW! As in UNACCEPTABLY...

One massive dealbreaker this side of the pond will be the case of BBC iPlayer, ITV NetPlayer, 4OD and Demand5. All of which use Adobe Flash - and instst on the Adobe product.

Even *I'm* thinking...

Yeah - but also without Flash and other stuff - especially if the requirements for services like iPlayer go beyond Flash 11...

Just would be safer than going off around the web for all the...

Do Canonical have plans to offer Chrome through the Partner repository? Thus making it easier to get and manage?

Maybe have something akin to the Flash installer package of old...?

LAtest update gives me accelerated rendering again on my Lenovo Ideapad S12, but it doesn't allow me to search back in the clip I'm playing without crashing Flash.

Another step forward, though...

It gets worse - on an Intel Atom N270+NVIDIA ION - iPlayer loses video - or freezes a short way in.

Basically - it looks as though the Beeb have broken iPlayer completely for Ubuntu+NVIDIA by...

From memory, while it appears to support VDPAU enough to call hardware decoding (which definitely helps my netbook along), I think they ripped out the experimental Stage Video logic (possibly where...

We7 is only using 60-75% cpu,load average about 1.9-2.2

Accepted the Flash 11 update onto my Lenovo Ideapad S12... however, I was a little concerned that when playing out off Youtube, it's dropped to software video rendering, while still runnign...

Critical requirement. Can you use this addon to access BBC iPlayer, 4OD, Seesaw etc? if not - dealbreaker.

I've just raised that on a BBC Internet blog thread, especially covering Adobe not providing builds for all architectures - and asked them to look into backing the DRM off just enough so iPlayer...

Hmm - seemed to recover on 2nd boot - after I ran under 2.6.32.32 and called for help...

Maybe I ought to just look into switching off the splashscreen.

Sudo lshw -C network's output was the...

Here's lspci - under previous kernel.

00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Host Bridge (rev b1)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Memory Controller (rev b1)
00:03.0 ISA...

I am running 10.04LLTS on a Lenovo Ideapad S12.. accepted updates today (linux kernel 2.6.32.33.generic, Sun Java, Evolution)... after rebooting, it was sat at the splash screen for AGES... I...