After trying to run a .M4A and a .MP4 (aren't they same thing?) I get a message saying I need to install extra codecs. When attempting to do this, I get an error window stating 'dependencies not met' for the codecs. The error report is this:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gstrea...
What does peer review consist of on Ask Ubuntu?
Peer review means someone else must review and approve your edit, before it is applied.
On at least one other Stack Exchange site (Stack Overflow), more than one person must review it before it is definitively accepted or rejected. But on most Sta...
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Do we have a question about how to determine if updates have been installed that recommend rebooting? (Logging in non-graphically informs the user of this, but I mean to find out efficiently and conveniently.) If we do, this can probably be closed as a duplicate of it:
I find it almost impossible to get my applications included in Ubuntu.
There are many needs-packaging bugs in Launchpad that are going nowhere. The packaging wishlist I find with Google is last updated in 2011. Wtf? Submitting app through the developer portal makes you wait several months for a ...
@jokerdino i said it a while back here or somewhere else. there needs to be something like gun.io where people can "bounty" launchpad bugs. if they really want something done, they could put their money where their mouth is
@Mochan you have sort of a point in that windows doesn't fail to boot if you use a different boot loader. then there's the boot from usb policy. then there's that they use a bunch of OSS software as the core of their everything. then there's.... list goes on
@AbrahamVanHelpsing True story. Although will W8 do similar? Like block out the different boot-loaders from the new... BIOS... thing? (mindblank) like... the protect boot thing...?
@jokerdino The majority of 'Australians' are English/'white'. After... some historical events.. there are not many Aboriginals left. You would be lucky to see one if you came on a holiday.
The only calculator I know is bc. I want to add 1 to a variable, and output to another variable.
I got the nextnum variable from counting string in a file:
nextnum=`grep -o stringtocount file.tpl.php | wc -w`
Lets say the nextnum value is 1. When added with 1, it will become 2. To calculate, ...
I find it almost impossible to get my applications included in Ubuntu.
There are many needs-packaging bugs in Launchpad that are going nowhere. The packaging wishlist I find with Google is last updated in 2011. Wtf? Submitting app through the developer portal makes you wait several months for a ...
@jokerdino good, a touch busy. I got tired of drinking crummy Chinese beer so I've managed to mangle together a brewery and yeast culturing lab in my apartment over the last week.
What does peer review consist of on Ask Ubuntu?
Peer review means someone else must review and approve your edit, before it is applied.
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This site started with a de...
Following a periodic, in my case weekly, run of:
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
is there much benefit from rebooting?
The only calculator I know is bc. I want to add 1 to a variable, and output to another variable.
I got the nextnum variable from counting string in a file:
nextnum=`grep -o stringtocount file.tpl.php | wc -w`
Lets say the nextnum value is 1. When added with 1, it will become 2. To calculate, ...
