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tlhIngan writes "Despite all the lawsuits and injunctions by Sony to keep the PS3 Jailbreak out of modder's hands, it appears that a third party has made a clone. The best part is, it only requires a cheap (approximately $40) development board by Atmel, and the requisite software is open-source. Get the Atmel code from GitHub and apply a small patch which will enable backup play (the code by itself only lets you run unsigned code, the patch allows for BD backups). The code is GPLv3. It would be highly ironic if someone ported this to Linux USB Gadgets, then you could use a Linux device to jailbreak your PS3, to which Sony removed Linux functionality. An Android phone would be suitable."

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I think that more than 2 panels its useful and practic.
Like the terminator multi-view, and other key to restore the default view for example F9.
2 panels when you're moving to diferents folders(films,games,webs...) sometimes isnt enough in graphical mode.

[-2 votes] Solution #1: Iterative adds with F3 keypress
Adds the tittle idea to the next version of nautilus.

Ubuntu's use of sudo to simplify Linux administration is ingenious, but barely scratches the surface of what sudo can do. Follow along as Yvo Van Doorn of Likewise Software unlocks the powers of sudo.

Mongrel2 is a language agnostic web server capable of routing web requests to applications written in any one of ten languages...

Some programs / plugins add items to nautilus context menu. If item text is long, then menu becomes very ugly

See screenshot
http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/9544/nautilusmenu.png

[-4 votes] Solution #1: Autocut long items and animate sliding text when mouseover
two steps:

1. Really long items should be cutted automatically

2. If item text is really significant (like in example), it should be automatically slided from left to right, when mouse over.

May be, this solution can be applied to other areas too. Don't know. My use-case is for "diff-ext" extention for meld. Use it often for development.

[10 votes] Solution #2: Send a bug report to the plugin project
everything is in the title

Google adds a new labs feature to its bleeding-edge version of Chrome to make it easier for users to test features that are still in development, but at least partially ready for users to explore.

Back in July we reported that Unigine Corp, the company behind the advanced Unigine gaming/3D engine, was working on its own strategy game. This game was supposed to be announced by the end of July, then in private we were told it got pushed back to the middle of August,...

dotarray writes "An Australian man who took Sony to court over the company's decision to remove Linux functionality from the PS3 console has now lost his claim, with the court clearing the manufacturer of any wrongdoing regarding the upgrade."

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jj110888 writes "CyanogenMod has just been updated to version 6.0, bringing Android Open Source Project 2.2 (Froyo) to several devices. This fork includes enchantments to many of the built-in apps, Ad-hoc network connectivity, OpenVPN support, Bluetooth HID, Incognito browsing, extensive control over audio and UI elements, and more found in the extensive CHANGELOG. The CyanogenMod team uses an instance of Google's gerrit tool for code review and patch submission, helping make this former backport of Android 1.6 to T-Mobile's G1 into thriving development for the G1/MyTouch/MyTouch 1.2, Droid, Nexus One, HTC Aria, HTC Desire, HTC Evo 4G (minus 4G and HDMI output), Droid Incredible, and MyTouch Slide. HTC Hero (including Droid Eris) are coming soon for 6.0, with Samsung Galaxy S devices expected to be supported in 6.1."

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New features enhance collaboration of the distributed version control system with GitHub's hosted service...

An anonymous reader writes "Ksplice, the technology that allows Linux kernel updates without a reboot, is now free for users of the Fedora distribution. Using Ksplice is like 'replacing your car's engine while speeding down the highway,' and it can potentially save your Linux systems from a lot of downtime. Since Fedora users often live on the bleeding edge of Linux development, Ksplice makes it even easier to do so, and without reboots!"

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When I try to move a folder from one parent folder to another parent folder "and there's already a folder of the same name in the target folder, Nautilus prompts me: Cancel or Merge?

When re-naming a folder, though, if there's already a folder in that parent folder with the same name, the only option is "No."

I recently re-structured my Music folder, and merging saved me a ton of time. However, I had to move "Foo & Bar" to the desktop, rename it "Foo and Bar" there, and them move it back to ~/Music to merge it with the existing "Foo and Bar" folder. If renaming would prompt "Cancel or Merge?" the way moving does, things would have gone much more smoothly.

[29 votes] Solution #1: Cause renaming to promt to merge or cancel in case of conflict
Give the user the opportunity to merge two folders in a given parent folder by attempting to rename one of them to the name of the other, just as it works now with copying and moving.

[-6 votes] Solution #2: Alt+Drag first folder to the second folder
When dragging a folder with the Alt-Button pressed and dropping it over another folder, there should also be an option to merge the two folders.

[-8 votes] Solution #3: Select folders and press (for example) Ctrl+J
You should be able to select two or more folders and press some key combination like Ctrl+J. A dialog should appear where you can select the name of one of those folder or define a new one.

You have the same on MacOSX: There is an "open" command you can use in your shell and it will open a file with the system default application.

On Linux/Unix, it is quite similar to what xdg-open does.

For people who don't know about xdg-open and/or who are familiar with MacOSX and/or who want the shell to behave more natural, it would be nice to have the command "open" just behave this way.

[13 votes] Solution #1: open should be an alias to xdg-open
Currently, open is a symlink to openvt which executes a command on another virtual terminal. I think, this is a bad idea because it is not very natural. This symlink should be changed instead to xdg-open.

I have filled in a bug report about it:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xdg-utils/+bug/619913


[1 votes] Solution #2: Remove /bin/open and create /usr/bin/open -> /usr/bin/xdg-open
Remove /bin/open, and create /usr/bin/open to link to /usr/bin/xdg-open.

Many Ubuntu users find that they are the only user on their laptop/desktop. They rarely, if at all have to sign in as another user.

Give the user the user a secure way to get to an up and running desktop without clicking on anything. In other words, hit the power button, make your morning tea, type your password and you are staring at an up and running desktop read for your day. The login settings screen allows you to select an auto login after x seconds, but your computer is not secure when it loads up if you are away from your desk. others can access you desktop and apps.

[4 votes] Solution #1: Login Settings option to boot to screensaver
Give the user an option in the administration>login settings menu to have the computer auto login and then load straight to the screensaver. All your always-on and start at boot apps will be coming up and will get running such as social clients and email, all behind a nice safe screen saver. You come back to your desk, enter your password and you are looking at a desktop that is ready to rock and roll. Perhaps there is a way to do this now if you are really good around the terminal, but I for one am not that good. New users are looking for the experience, not looking to google tips and secrets online.

[3 votes] Solution #2: Add a 'default selected user' option
so that people can have their lazy hands satisfied. Then they don't have to click. 5 seconds to a desktop on a 5 year old machine is not too long...

The Lightspark project has released version 0.4.4 of its free, open source Flash player, adding support for localisations and ActionScript exception handling.

The KDE team has announced the release of KDE Software Compilation 4.5.1 less than a month after the release of KDE SC 4.5.0...

Wine runs many Windows programs nicely these days, including more and more serious music applications. Dave profiles some of those applications running under the latest & greatest Wine 1.2.

In English, "File" and "FiLe" are the same word, however, Ubuntu/Linux which treats the file as 2 separate words. If someone renames a file named "Grade11.doc" to "grade11.doc, recent item links and programs are broken, and for some files, configs may break.

Furthermore in console/bash, one not only needs to know the filename they want, but also whether it is capitalised to access it. Why should they? It makes life difficult, especially in your home directory.

No person in their right mind would keep a file named Grade.doc, and grade.doc in the same directory anyway.

[-18 votes] Solution #1: Case Insensitive Filesystem
Introducing filesystem case-insensitivity (for optional use) solves this problem. Case insensitivity means that Grade11.doc and grade11.doc are the same file, and you can access the file using either. However, it still allows you to capitalise files as you wish. Users don't expect file1.doc and File1.doc to be 2 separate files, and even elite users rarely need case sensitivity (it just annoys them in bash).

OSX (based on BSD) and Windows already do this, and it works extremely well. In fact, OSX allows their filesystem case type to be selected during format (accommodating all users needs, because those who need a case-sensitive filesystem can still do so).



[-4 votes] Solution #2: Preserve Legacy Features by...
Adding an option to recover from file lookup errors.

On error:
use glibs case-insensitive string compare to resolve spelling errors.

There are already some clunky terminal work arounds.. like

(move to a home directory with the letters "des in it")
cd ~; dir=`ls | grep -i "des"` ; cd $dir ; unset $dir

Security problems....
an if two executables are in a directory with similar name, one is compromised, the other not; a spelling mismatch could cause the execution of the wrong executable. So ambiguous execution paths must fail.

[8 votes] Solution #3: set completion-ignore-case on
By adding "set completion-ignore-case on" to ~/.inputrc bash's autocomplete will be case-insensitive.

As for open/close dialogs and file managers, that is very easy to do at the application level (90% of filemanagers already do it and QT/GTK can probably do it for open/save dialogs).

CEDET brings project management, code completion, reference analysis, code generation and more to the Emacs editor...

The idea is simple... the whole reason I use nautilus is because I'm being too lazy to pull out a terminal because I don't want to move my hands over to my keyboard. So instead of moving over to the keyboard to press control H, I generally go to view and show hidden files when I want to see hidden files. This works fine, but the Show Hidden Files is like midway down and takes some effort to make sure you're clicking the right thing. Call me lazy, but any increase in efficiency is a bonus on a project.

[-12 votes] Solution #1: Double-click Nautilus whitespace to toggle hidden file display
I think it would be neat to be able to double click in the whitespace between folders in nautilus to toggle showing hidden files. It's quick, it's easy, and it's not that hard to implement. I think it would be a simple, crisp feature that would add to the overall appeal of the project.

[-3 votes] Solution #2: A quick button on the toolbar to toggle hidden file visibilty
Just click the button to show/hide the files. it would be on the Main Toolbar

[2 votes] Solution #3: an option to permanantly show hidden files/folders
Hidden files are hidden to keep N00Bs and non-techies from messing with them and breaking their system accidentally. However I have not found a permanent 'show hidden files/folders', so this would be appreciated for those who KNOW what they can break by messing with them.

[2 votes] Solution #4: An option for double-click in behaviors tab of preferences
Hidden files on double-clicking could confuse new users, so why not have an option on the behavior tab of preferences for this or for adding a toolbar button to toggle show/hide hidden files.