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Comment Re:Linux - How "Free" is it? (Score 1) 508

by dmlr3d (#27579497) Attached to: He's a Mac, He's a PC, But We're Linux!
I know this doesn't address your point, but here's a couple ideas to solve those problems.

If you're using Gnome, try Gnome Art Next-Gen. It's not very polished, but it has a simple GUI that lets you customize your UI easily.

And about stuff working out-of-the-box? I know "try another distro" is a worn-out answer, but seriously... instead of installing Ubuntu, next time try Linux Mint. It's an Ubuntu-derivative that has lots of extra stuff already set up (Flash, Java, codecs, DVDs, mp3s...). It goes a long way toward making the "bare basics" work immediately, so there's less stuff you have to tinker with to get it functional. Although I still like to install VLC.
Education

College Police Think Using Linux Is Suspicious Behavior 1079

Posted by CmdrTaco from the so-is-your-mom dept.
FutureDomain writes "The Boston College Campus Police have seized the electronics of a computer science student for allegedly sending an email outing another student. The probable cause? The search warrant application states that he is 'a computer science major' and he uses 'two different operating systems for hiding his illegal activity. One is the regular B.C. operating system and the other is a black screen with white font which he uses prompt commands on.' The EFF is currently representing him."
Movies

Decent DVD-Ripping Solution For Linux? 501

Posted by timothy from the digital-camera-one-frame-at-a-time dept.
supersloshy writes "I'm a user of Ubuntu Linux and I have been for a little while now. Recently I've been trying to copy DVDs onto a portable media player, but everything I've tried isn't working right. dvd::rip always gets the language mixed up (for example, when ripping 'Howl's Moving Castle,' one of the files it ripped to was in Japanese instead of English), Acidrip just plain isn't working for me (not recognizing a disc with spaces in its name, refusing to encode, etc.), Thoggen is having trouble with chapters (chapter 1 repeated twice for me once), and OGMRip has the audio out of sync. What I'm looking for is a reliable program to copy the movie into a single file with none of the audio or video glitches as mentioned above. Is there even such thing on Linux? If you can't think of a decent Linux-based solution, then a Windows one is fine as long as it works."
Intel

Linux Foundation To Host Intel's Moblin Project 30

Posted by Soulskill from the degrees-of-openness dept.
gustavopuy writes with news that Intel will be transferring control of Moblin, its Linux-based OS for mobile devices, to the Linux Foundation. Quoting Ars Technica: "We spoke with Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin, who told us that the Linux Foundation offers a vendor-neutral setting for advancing the Moblin project. He believes that such an environment will help stimulate third-party involvement in the process of building the platform and could also encourage broader adoption. ... Zemlin explained that the Linux Foundation's stewardship of the project will empower third-party contributors to expand the platform beyond its Intel-specific roots. He assures me that Intel sees value in making Moblin open to everyone — including companies that are leveraging Linux on competing processors, such as those based on the ARM architecture."

Comment Re:Agreed. (Score 1) 1127

by dmlr3d (#27435697) Attached to: Linux Needs Critics

What's the point developing an application and releasing it along with the source code for everyone to use if no one wants to use it because you wont listen to their criticisms?

You can't know if anyone else wants to use it before you release it.

Because the alternative (simply keeping it to yourself) has a zero percent chance of being useful to someone else.

So if you have a little app you wrote for yourself, you think, well it can't do any harm if I make this available. Maybe some will find it useful.

If someone downloads it and gets angry that you won't listen to them, that's their problem. "No warranty" kinda sucks in this way, but it gets you a heck of a lot more free stuff.
Media

Scientists Create Easier Way To Embed Objects Into Video 236

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the advertising-agency-wet-dream dept.
Ashutosh Saxena writes "Stanford artificial intelligence researchers have developed software that makes it easy to reach inside an existing video and place a photo on the wall so realistically that it looks like it was there from the beginning. The photo is not pasted on top of the existing video, but embedded in it. It works for videos as well — you can play a video on a wall inside your video. The technology can cheaply do some of the tricks normally performed by expensive commercial editing systems. The researchers suggest that anyone with a video camera might earn some spending money by agreeing to have unobtrusive corporate logos placed inside their videos before they are posted online."
Displays

The Pocket-Sized Projector Has Arrived 220

Posted by timothy from the wistful-longing-fills-my-chest-cavity dept.
mallumax writes "David Pogue of New York Times has reviewed the Pico, which is a pocket projector from Optoma. The review is quite entertaining (Pogue projects the images on to a plane's ceiling, leaving passengers baffled) and detailed. The highlights are: It is a pocket-sized projector which runs on batteries and can project images and videos from a variety of sources like iPhone, iPod and DVD players with a 480x320px resolution, with a maximum screen size of 65 inches at 8.5 feet. It uses a non-replaceable 10,000 hour LED lamp and a DLP chip from Texas Instruments. The battery lasts for 90 minutes and can be recharged through USB or with its own power cord. The device weighs 115g and comes with an inbuilt speaker which is practically useless. If you want one, it will set you back by $430."

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