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Looking to have the Youtube video window start out Expanded (or Maximized INSIDE the Firefox window). To me this seems like one of those 'million dollar ideas' that everyone has had, but Youtube is ignoring (like the STOP button!).

Searching Google leads mostly to "Google expands video service" and the occasional semi-relevant link which talks about the expand button being added.
I HAVE found some solutions (Greasemonkey scripts), but they seem a bit more complex than I think they need to be (I imagine that a line that triggers or 'emulates' the expand button when the player loads on Youtube.com would be enough) and those tend to break frequently when one minor thing changes.
I've also found a Chrome addon that does something similar, maximizes the player to the Chrome window, but it's for Chrome.

I'm not looking for something that increases the video quality, can't play 480p videos without stuttering when it's raining thanks to the shitty DSL in our neighborhood.

Grabbed the 11.04b CD of Ubuntu to try out Unity, but it doesn't seem to run on VMWare (Player v3.1.4) or Virtual Box (4.0.6) with the 3D Acceleration option ticked. When available, I max out the available video RAM for my card, I think it caps out at 128MB and my card is an EVGA 9800GT with 512MB.
Anyone know if there's some advanced settings or option I need to change to get it working?

Seems I've run into a small dilemma. On a 'project' I've been working on I've been adding a number prefix to the filename (##. <filename>), and to speed up the process and ensure uniformity, I've been using Magic File Renamer to do it automatically.
However, I think I mistyped "," instead of "." in the filenames on some files.

It wouldn't be an issue to go back and check them, but I'm dealing with 4,864 files and 771 folders -- and growing.
Neither explorer's search nor command prompt return anything useful, they just list all files/folders.

While I'm sure I had them before, I cannot recall a time when I had a download error when downloading with Firefox 3.0/3.6/4.0b#.
However, it seems ever since Firefox 4.0 went 'final', I frequently get write errors when saving which causes the download to fail.

At first I thought it was just a shitty download place like Hotfile and some of the other common but not well know download sites, then it happened to Rapidshare/Megaupload and MediaFire as well. As I haven't done much downloading outside of those kinds of places lately, I thought it was just 'those sites', but now it happened to me while downloading VirtualBox.
After doing an update recently (well after the problem started happening) I did a bunch of Windows Update and after rebooting it did a chkdsk and everything came up fine so I'm pretty sure it's not the drive.

Like I said, prior to 4.0 final, I never had a problem (I don't consider one or two failed downloads in a 3 month time period a problem, I DO consider 3~5 a day a problem). When searching for this the majority of results are from 2007~2009, some of them come with suggestions of resetting download options (which didn't help) and others say to delete files and clear cache (neither worked), so now I'm stumped as to what to do.

On March 28, 2011, NASA’s Swift satellite caught a flash of high-energy X-rays pouring in from deep space. Swift is designed to do this, and since its launch in 2004 has seen hundreds of such things, usually caused by stars exploding at the ends of their lives.

But this time was hardly "usual". It didn’t see a star exploding as a supernova, it saw a star literally getting torn apart as it fell too close to a black hole!

The event was labeled GRB 110328A –a gamma-ray burst seen in 2011, third month (March) on the 28th day (in other words, last week). Normal gamma-ray bursts are when supermassive stars collapse (or ultra-dense neutron stars merge) to form a black hole. This releases a titanic amount of energy, which can be seen clear across the Universe.

And those last two characteristics are certainly true of GRB 110328A; it’s nearly four billion light years away*, and the ferocity of its final moments is not to be underestimated: it peaked at a solid one trillion times the Sun’s brightness!

I apologize for the semi-misleading title, there was not enough room for the full title and it was cut off.
Lots more information and details in the full article below. It is a very interesting read.

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