VLC - Inhibit the power management daemon during playback

[Ric Moore]

On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 00:23 -0600, ANDY wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:59 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>         I'm not sure I get this, since 9.10 has been EOL'd, and you
>         say they are
>         fixed with later releases, why not go for 10.04? 
> 
> My point is that Ubuntu does choose to withhold fixes for current
> versions, pushing them to future versions -- along with new bugs.
> 
> Each new Ubuntu version is a crap shoot on what bugs it will have,
> which ones will be fixed and which ones will be pushed to a future
> version -- along with new bugs.
> 
> Sometimes its better to manually fix what you can and accept what is
> broken, then burn time fixing a new round of bugs.  9.10 is EOL, but
> not obsolete.

I have Caldera installed on "Mom's Machine", an older PIII. Heck, I love
it, but it's pitiful to watch it want to update Netscape Explorer. Same
thing, Netscape did everything I could ever hope for in a browser,
including editing HTML. But, times move on and I run 10.4 on my main
computer as that is what is supported, in the here and now and I'm too
lazy/old/canny/crufty to pursue updates that won't happen. 

Caldera, no matter how much I love it, is obsolete in terms of support.
So is 9.10. I'm sure we both wish it were otherwise, but there it is.
I'd give an arm and a leg to see Caldera still being supported by it's
original staffers. Ubuntu might never have gotten off of the ground had
Caldera remained intact. 

Alas and alack, it didn't happen that way. The trick is to complete the
cycle of grief, get past the Bargaining, Anger, Denial, Depression into
Acceptance. Ric

-- 
My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say:
"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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