Hello all,
After a discussion between myself, Ahmuck, and Lns yesterday, wherein
Lns revealed the mysteries of the ".hidden" file to me for hiding things
from Nautilus, I banged together "hide-tool" last night, a brief shell
script that does the following:
1) Create '.hidden' files
for /, /usr, /
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Scott Balneaves
wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> After a discussion between myself, Ahmuck, and Lns yesterday, wherein
> Lns revealed the mysteries of the ".hidden" file to me for hiding things
> from Nautilus, I banged together "hide-tool" last night, a brief shell
> scrip
Hi,
I've been reading recently of how various vendors, notably Google and Apple
are pushing to use new features of HTML5 to avoid the Flash plugin for
situations like video playing. Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome are all
implementing HTML5 at present.
http://lifehacker.com/5416100/how-h
Also, don't forget that if you hide the right directories in the root
(such as /usr) it's not really necessary to also hide the subdirs with
.hidden files (unless you think someone's going to be manually typing a
path such as /usr/local/bin to Nautilus).
Also, this *only* affects Nautilus (I'm sur
HTML 5's codecs are unfree.
On 2 February 2010 15:38, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been reading recently of how various vendors, notably Google and Apple
> are pushing to use new features of HTML5 to avoid the Flash plugin for
> situations like video playing. Firefox, Safari, Opera, Ch
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/07/decoding-the-html-5-video-codec-debate.ars
Caroline Ford wrote:
> HTML 5's codecs are unfree.
>
> On 2 February 2010 15:38, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been reading recently of how various vendors, notably Google and Apple
>> are pu
Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been reading recently of how various vendors, notably Google and Apple
> are pushing to use new features of HTML5 to avoid the Flash plugin for
> situations like video playing. Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome are all
> implementing HTML5 at present.
>
>
After a few weeks of testing, I'd like to make a, err... Possibly controversial
suggestion. :)
Certainly not for Lucid, but say, for 12.04, it might be interesting to switch
to Epiphany for Edubuntu's "Default" web browser. Here's why:
1) It's based on WebKit, which, with my initial testing, wor
