I've been calling, and complaining, and threatening to cancel my Amazon Prime membership. They will not be releasing an updated client any time soon. It's been at least 18 months, with jack all to...
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I've been calling, and complaining, and threatening to cancel my Amazon Prime membership. They will not be releasing an updated client any time soon. It's been at least 18 months, with jack all to...
This is still really clunky, and it doesn't work on Debian Squeeze. However, there's a simple alternative:
Pymazon
I had given up on being able to download MP3s from Amazon, until I discovered...
Care to post a link that tells us what these "right plugins" are?
How many times do I have to scream this? It's not Netflix dragging their feet, it's either Microsoft (due to Netflix's reliance on Silverlight) or more likely the content producers (Movie/TV...
See, that someone has to be someone(s) like Google. The studios aren't going to let some schmo have the keys to the kingdom. No way no how. And it's not Netflix's bag.
Like I said, it's not...
This is very good news. Let's hope it happens.
This is counterintuitive (meaning I don't know *why* this works) but unplugging the power cable to the Ubuntu machine for 5-10 minutes solved it for me.
Amazon's selection is meager compared to Netflix, and many titles are $1.99 (or $2.99 for HD) for instant download, even if you have Amazon Prime (like I have had for years). I have already...
I searched http://launchpad.net (bug tracker for official Ubuntu releases), and saw that there were new versions of tzdata and tzdata-java available (version 2011c-0ubuntu0.10.10). I downloaded the...
I've tried this, but still tzdata-java is depending on the old tzdata version (2010l-1). Seems like an upgrade went nuts, or at least the current version of tzdata-java depends on the old version of...
Technically this is possible, but in the US you are inviting federal indictments for doing this, because essentially you're breaking the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The same was true of...
This is exactly the behavior I saw when I first tried to connect to Netflix with my Ubuntu HTPC. Even if you could grab the UA from the Linux-based units, the DRM stack still ain't there. This will...
Mendeley is overkill for this. It's like using PowerPoint or Impress as a paint program. Sure, it can do the job, but the specific purpose of Mendeley is well beyond the scope of this user's...
The problem with this is that it's a hack, and requires Windows *somewhere*. I'm trying to eliminate Microsoft from my network, and this doesn't help. We need native support for this thread to...
I'm curious to know this too.
This script worked for me(again), thanks so much!
I've been in a dialog with Amazon support over this issue(lack of 64bit .deb for AmazonMP3), and I just got off the phone with an Amazon support...
Xournal is really designed for marking a PDF. Xournal makes it easy to highlight, or otherwise mark off items on a PDF without having to print it out and do it the old fashioned way. You can also...
As far as I can tell in Maverick, there's still no way to achieve this in the GNOME GUI. Drapes is broken for me, and hasn't been updated in over two years (see...
You can also install your own dictd server on your local machine, and include whatever dictionaries (and thesauruses) you want:
# aptitude -y install dictd dict-moby-thesaurus dict-gcide
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I've tested my Perl script, and it works now. It seems on my current computer pasting formatted text doesn't work right, even with the Ruby code above. Oh, well. I can always use clipboard (the...
I have been looking for a way to make whatever window that has focus react as if I middle-clicked into it (paste selection buffer), using only the keyboard.
Prerequisites
I installed xmacro,...
I filed a bug with Microsoft regarding this, since it's an OS level bug in Win7. I had no problems dual-booting with XP, so you should probably file this under a different forum post.
Looks like my problem is fixed. I upgraded to Linux kernel 2.6.35 (see post #342 on the bug listed above). Both the Ubuntu "stock" kernel and the one patched with iofix worked for me.
If this...
Launchpad bug seems related:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/131094
Nope, after a few weeks of testing, the problem is not gone. Even with Ubuntu One set not to sync anything, I get the high I/O wait in top, and my system is unresponsive for a few seconds to a few...