And on the Seventh Day, God Made Ubuntu. All Was Well. 2 Awesome Companies Changed the Entire World this Week!

In one fell swoop...

In ONE WEEK...

The whole world has been changed.

FOSS (free open source software), I think is best described as: "A
movement..... A movement of programmers and computer developers all
over the world volunteering and donating their time to create and
improve software.... and then giving that software away... for
free.... as their personal gift to the world... as a gift to all
humanity."

One great example of FOSS is the computer operating system that you
use more than any other. You use Web Sites (Linux), the internet
(Linux), Google and all Google services (Linux), TiVo (Linux), Android
phones (Linux), NASA's Mars Lunar Rovers (Linux), and the list goes on
and on and on....

Linux has been continually being improved for about 50 years now....
by volunteer programmers. That's why it is the best in the world.

I know you've heard of a company called Google...

Another company.... called EditShare ....you might not have heard of before.

But... You've read the headlines this week... Haven't you?

"Oscar and Emmy Award Winning Video Editor Comes to Ubuntu"
http://is.gd/clL6r (and to get it.... http://is.gd/clLhA )

Some professionals claim it is THE BEST video editor in the
entire world... OF ALL ON ANY PLATFORM. Better than Avid, Final Cut
Pro, etc.

It's called, Lightworks.... by EditShare.

The reason it lost

This new contribution to the world of FOSS... is an enormous game-changer.

But... even it.... Pales in comparison to the announcement this
week by Google....

Google announced, at the "Google I/O Developers Conference" this week,
that the new superior, patent un-encumbered, video format for the web,
dubbed "WebM"..... (which, for you techies, is a new name for a
container for VP8 video + Vorbis audio codecs, see
http://webmproject.org )...

Google.... BOUGHT IT.... and then they immediately GAVE IT
AWAY..... to YOU. Merry Christmas in May!

That's right. They purchased it. Then they Open Sourced it. And
now the entire world is free to use it. Royalty-free. Free Open
Source.

And.... Google is currently in the process of CONVERTING ALL OF
YOUTUBE into it this new format. NOW! ( see How to Play WebM
Video on YouTube http://is.gd/clMag ) WOW!

Soon..... And When I say "Soon", I mean, "Within a COUPLE OF
MONTHS"...... The entire internet will have standardized on WebM ---
THE FOSS FORMAT FOR ALL AUDIO AND VIDEO.

This is HUGE! No longer will there be "MP3 Players"....
EVERYTHING will be WebM.... (for video).... and Vorbis...... (for
audio). Superior quality. And totally Free (as in Freedom). No
royalties to pay some Patent-holder.

What does all this mean to YOU.... the average end-user?

It means that 10,000 times more programmers and developers and
creative content creators..... from all over the world.... will be
competing fairly.... to bring you new cool awesome programs, software,
apps, and content.... because they won't have to pay huge fees to do
it!

Isn't the world of FOSS an awesome thing!

People working with, and helping, People. Nothing can beat it!

The World Has Been Changed This Week.

Mark My Words.

If you don't get how big of a deal this is.... Just remember what
I've told you.... And in the future, remember that "you heard it
here first"...

Only Love,

Bruce

http://bredtv.com
646-368-0000
http://bredtech.com
646-719-9000
bruce@brucewagner.com

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Oscar winning Lightworks Open-Source Video editor –IS- Coming to Ubuntu Linux

Read this Comment below...

Then follow the link to the article he's talking about.

THIS IS HUGE NEWS FOR UBUNTU LINUX.

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From: "Disqus" <notifications-KBXUG2U870@disqus.net>
Date: May 22, 2010 9:36 AM
Subject: [omgubuntu] Re: Oscar winning Lightworks Open-Source Video editor –IS- Coming to Linux
To: <bruce@brucewagner.com>

Pete_G (unregistered) wrote, in response to Calvin:

For those of you that have never used LW, if it is indeed ported to Linux, you are going to be very happy indeed. I've used it for almost 20 years and can confidently say that it's a fantastic application, especially for straight-forward cutting, where it is faster and more flexible than ANY NLE out there. Don't be put off by the apparent simplicity of the interface, everything you want is there. The GUI is unique and doesn't conform to any other paradigm, there is no menu bar, all menus are context sensitive. It has many unique features; a very powerful, flexible timeline for easy trimming, the ability to have multiple timelines and viewers on screen at any time, analogue audio scrubbing to die for, a fully databased backend allowing for easy FIND functions on large projects and it has always been designed to be used with a special controller that has a STEENBECK like paddle lever to control playing, backwards and forwards at many speeds coupled with user definable buttons for common  editing commands such as Mark,Insert,Overwrite,Delete etc. It has always been stable and backs up in the background, invisibly. Only in the VFX area is it weaker than the competition and possibly in it's abilty to deal well with newer file formats, although I suspect it will catch up on this soon. It is so simple to use that it is suitable for both amateur and professional use. It lost it's market to Avid in the same way as Betamax lost it's battle with VHS, not because it was an inferior product but because of many other reasons.

Believe me, get excited.

Link to comment: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/05/oscar-winning-lightworks-open-source.html#comment-51510269

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Canonical's Big Fail with the Premature Release of Ubuntu Linux 10.04

But what the heck happened!? Did Canonical fail bigtime due to a
forced 6-month release schedule rushing the product out the door?

Perhaps the thinking was/is that fixes can always be done afterward...
and continuously... HOWEVER, if the darn OS won't BOOT... from the
LiveCD... You've got SERIOUS problems on your hands.

How can anyone recommend to their friends an OS which won't even boot
(black screen of death) from the LiveCD...???

I think Canonical is going to have no choice but to do an interim
update of their LiveCD ISO image asap... BEFORE the next release in
October. We cannot have a LiveCD that won't boot... for 6 months... No
way. Not acceptable. What happened to the quality control testing?
This is an enormous fail. If they don't test ANYTHING else... They
need to test that the darn LiveCD boots correctly on every known PC /
video combination they can possibly come up with.

Everything else can be fixed with updates... But BOOTING is a total
deal-breaker. Nothing works if you can't boot it, and install it, and
then boot the installation.

I'm running a business where I am recommending Ubuntu to everyone.
This is embarrassing, to say the least. I'm just going to have to tell
people that they're going to have to have US install it for them. This
process is nothing that any ordinary user should EVER be forced to
even hear about... much less, attempt on their own.

Not to mention the fact that Canonical labeled this release an LTS
release... meaning "Long Term Support". That means that it's
supposed to be around for a very long time. But there's no way it
can be... not in its current form.

I hope Canonical's quality control team has learned a valuable lesson
from all of this.

And we, the users, might want to learn from this too. I've always
said, the safest place to be is.... six months BEHIND...

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If you can't bring yourself to Delete your Facebook account yet, at Least do this:

Remember, log out of Facebook every time when you are done. Don't just close the tab! Facebook considers you to be still logged in and collecting data from your browsing activity on "partner sites" to other sites... Spying on your internet activity and reporting it back to everyone!

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Android Sync Running Continuously Nonstop

The synch on my Android phone (Motorola Droid) was running CONSTANTLY... slowing down everything to a crawl! I finally just now went in to my sync settings and discovered what was syncing. The official Twitter client for Android. It was trying to match up the 10,600 followers I have on Twitter to my addressbook!!?!? Running nonstop 24/7. And slowing everything else to a near standstill.

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Why Can't Android Developers Get Podcast Playback to Work Well?

I love my Android phone (handheld computer, really)....   And I love listening to my podcasts.... like Leo Laporte, FLOSS Weekly, etc.

However, I hate that my podcasts get interrupted almost every time!  Whether it's because Stitcher requires an uninterrupted signal for the entire duration...  Or because Google Listen is just buggy and crashes.... 

The ONLY reliable way I've found to listen to my podcasts is MANUALLY!  I have to go to the web site of the podcast and manually download the MP3 file (using my Android), and then use the simple Music player to listen to it.

This method works beautifully.  The Music player even remembers where I left off in listening to the podcast - even after a reboot!

The drawback is... It's not an app.  I have to do each download separately.

Come on developers.  This is 2010.  You can make apps like Google Listen, Stitcher, etc. work as reliably as the freaking Music player and manual mp3 downloading.  No!?!?

I'd love to see a button on each item, which could be touched On / Off.

On - would download and keep a local copy of the complete episode.
Off - would delete the local copy.

This way I could be assured that I could listen to those episodes uninterrupted on the subway or airplane.

The button should toggle on and off like the Star to Favorite. 

I just want my Podcasts to download automatically - in their entirety,  and play without crashing, and remember where I was through a reboot, and then delete the file when I tell it to.

And I wanna listen to my favorites WITH NO SERVICE.

Music works great. Why can't  podcasts?

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What institution could be more ANTI the teachings of Jesus....?

In 2004, "the pope" asked for forgiveness..... for....

The ruthless murders... by burning innocent and good people alive at the stake, imprisonment of others for life, and torture of others to secure confessions... in Jesus' name.  ...and the stealing of all their money, property, and material wealth... all ordained by The Holy Roman Catholic Church.   They called it The Holy Inquisition....

The Holy Roman Catholic Church declared the most murderous and ruthless of the Inquisitionors... to be Saints.

The Catholic Brothels run by priests and nuns in Ireland to provide prostiution services to all men in the country, for the monetary profit of The Catholic Church, by compulsory sex slavery of certain "orders" of "nuns"...

The slave labor and torture camps of The Magdeline Sisters, operating all the way up until the 1960s...

The condoned and abeded institutional pedophelia and sex abuse crimes still going on today.

And only God knows how many uncountable other evil acts we don't know about.

What institution could be more ANTI the teachings of Jesus....?

It's sad and pathetic.

What's truly blasphemy is to invoke the name of Jesus or God in defending the evil actions of the Catholic Royal Empire throughout history.

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Spam You Didn't Send

You probably have a virus on at least one of the computers you use.

Also, anyone whom the virus emailed.... ( everyone that was in your
email addressbook.... ) who then clicked on the link in the spam
email.... may also now have that same virus.

Here's how to Fix it:

(1) Disinfect ALL of the computers you have used in the last six
months. All you need is the FREE version of the anti-virus program
you can get at: http://www.malwarebytes.org

(2) Then, immediately change ALL of your online passwords
(including your email, like AOL, Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, and your
online banking, etc.) FROM A KNOWN VIRUS-FREE CLEAN computer.

Good luck.

Questions? I'm happy to help.

Bruce Wagner

http://bredtech.com

646-719-9000

bruce@brucewagner.com

PS - Bookmark the link to THIS web page... and then send the link to
this web page to anyone who gets afflicted with this problem in the
future.

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4.1GB = Ubuntu 10.04 Fully Installed WITH 153 extra apps I love

4.1GB = Ubuntu 10.04 Fully Installed WITH 153 extra apps I love

The antidote to:

- bloatware
- viruses
- big brother software extortion
- low budget (free!)
- low resources (requires 256MB RAM, but 384MB is recommended)
- 4.1GB hard disk (including the 153 extra apps I love most)

Ubuntu 10.04 ROCKS! It's easier to use than any version of Mac or
Windows has ever been, and cheaper (free!) ....and 1,000 times better.
Trust me, I've used them all... for about 33 years now I've been an IT
pro. Your grandmother can use the new Ubuntu with NO instruction or
help.

Bruce Wagner
http://bredtech.com

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