If you start having DNS resolution issues after upgrading to Ubuntu 12.04, you can disable dnsmasq in Network Manager by commenting out the line “dns=dnsmasq” in “/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf”.
Supports one or two page display, automatic bookmarking and most importantly, free and open source :) (via lifehacker)
Great piece by Malcolm Gladwell talking about Steve Jobs and how he works.
CouchPotato is an automatic NZB and torrent downloader. You can keep a “movies I want”-list and it will search for NZBs/torrents of these movies every X hours. Once a movie is found, it will send it to SABnzbd or download the .nzb or .torrent to a specified directory.
A million guys walk in to a Silicon Valley bar. None of them buy anything. The bar is declared a rousing success.
Avoid jump kicks. While you may be tempted to employ this manly move, jumping diminishes your stability which causes you to lose power.
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This is priceless: “I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.”
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/10/24/steve-jobs-walter-isaacson/
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The short answer is because “it’s much easier to find a female voice that everyone likes than a male voice that everyone likes.
A lot more user friendly too. I can never remember the syntax to do advanced search, even the autocomplete it’s still hard.
If your VLC (or any other video player) only shows a green screen instead of playing mkv files properly, it means that it doesn’t support the encoding format. In my case, the mkv is encoded in 10 bit H.264 which is pretty cutting edge.
If you run into this problem as well, I recommend using MPlayerX (App Store link) or Movist.
