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I got Skyrim. See you all next year!
I got Skyrim. See you all next year!
Bought that for myself in the Steam sale - haven't installed it yet though. I'm sort of scared to, in a way!
I'm tempted to get a few microsoft points with the money I got, but is it really worth it?
X box? Burn it. PC is better in every regard
No it isn't. You may argue that the benefits of PCs outweigh the benefits of consoles but you cannot say that one beats the other in every regard, because that's just wrong.
agree with snakeXe.
The Xbox (or any games console for that matter) is more enjoyable than the PC (games wise) because, for me, that's all consoles are - games.
The PC Games aka, Football Manager, is more of a passion!
I'm joking of course, but Xbox's/PS3's are more for fun than anything else, in my eyes.
What consoles do, they do very well but to me, consoles are for bite sized fun, the PC for, as HotChoc said, passion and in depth.
The likes of Football Manager (in the depth we get), World of Warcraft, Starcraft etc etc would never work on a console with the depth we have.
Hence I go for PCs.
I only use PC's for FM, not interested in anything else a PC has done.
Merry Christmas folks. Been stuck at my parents for 4 days, with no FM to keep me company. My hands are starting to shake, and every now abnd then I get hallucinations of signing players.
I suppose hallucinations is the next step, the voices I hear telling me they are unhappy with my team talks and want first team football might not even be real.
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I was in the bath last night, reading the ant and dec autobiography (a great read, just saying) and half way through, I started to contemplate something. What am I doing with my life?
All day yesterday, I was on Football Manager, okay, I did go into the real world for a bit and did have dialog with real people but still, the majority of my day was on FM. I was intrigued as to if anyone else has ever thought, 'it's just a game, the amount of time I spend on it is ridiculous, I should stop'?
But then, just like when you try to eat 5 a day, you get a bad result/good result/job change etc and you're hooked again. The same as trying a bag of crisps/bar of chocolate or pizza, you suddenly forget all about 'fruit'.
Is it just me who finds this 'odd'? I only think about it when away from the game, of course
Thoughts like that is pretty normal and common. When in my FM periods I play the game a lot. Probably more than I should. The thing is, though, it's fun. Certainly a lot more fun than converse with relatives over stupid crap our cat couldn't care less about, or watching filth on TV.
It would of course help to live in a place slightly less desolate than here, where stuff actually happen, as going down to the local pub and listen to crap music all night long is only slightly more enticing than checking how far into my eyes I can stab needles before my sight goes even more down the drain.
I've spent the last couple of weeks unable to play FM and I can't say I've managed to do anything more productive in that time. I got a bit of work done, but the only difference was I didn't leave it until the last minute, I'd have got it done anyway. A lot of the time I'd have spent playing FM I've just spent on the forums, watching TV or playing PS3.
I do sometimes think about what I could accomplish if I didn't play games at all. What if I spent all that time practicing and writing songs on my guitar? Or I spent it working on my PhD? Or exercising?
But then I think if I didn't play FM I'd just find another way to kill time, I wouldn't spend it productively either way. I still get my work done, I still practice and write songs on my guitar and I still get to the pool and swim. I'm just thankful the thing I do to kill time isn't destructive to me or my relationships and doesn't drain my wallet beyond the £20 or so per year for the game.
If I didn't play games, I'm sure I'd get a lot done around the house and with the wife. But then I wouldn't have any fun!
I think it's safe to say that nearly all of us on here aren't addicted like some little kids are to the Xbox/PS3, which is obviously a good sign.
But it still does make me wonder what I would do without FM, if I didn't spend the holidays playing it for almost all day, would I actually get something productive done? Work? Exercise (as SnakeXe said). Or would I just mope around the house all day doing virtually nothing, it's an interesting thought, but one experiment I will never take part in
Sadly it is an experiment I have been forced into
I do spend a fair bit of time moping around the house at the moment
I wouldn't be pleased if I was in your position, but at least you have the PS3 to keep your mind ticking
I must say the PDC darts are a perfect accompaniment to a FM session. Who says men can't multi-task?!
As hobbies go, FM must be up there as one of the best for value for money. Based on my current game time, and the price I paid for FM12, it works out at 7p an hour already! If I didn't play so much FM, I'd probably end up going to more live sporting events, maybe once a week. The atmosphere at a live match is usually amazing and impossible to replicate in a game, but works out pretty expensive if you attend regularly. I still go to a handful of live games a season, not just football too, but playing FM gives me the sporting fix I need without breaking the bank account.
Darts + FM, AK you've got me weak at the knees!
Gents, I don't suppose any of you could do me a favour?
Basically any of you who have won trophies that count towards Hall of Fame at two or more clubs/countries, I'd really like to take a look at your hall_of_fame.dat file, which on my Windows 7 install resides in Users > Public > Documents > Sports Interactive > Football Manager 2012. Basically through playing my save on two different computers I only have some trophies in each file, and I'd like to work out how to merge them. The obvious thing I tried was to open them in Notepad and paste the two together but that didn't work. I'm hoping if I can take a look at some other files, particularly those with multiple clubs/countries, then I might be able to work it out.
A really minor, cosmetic thing, since all I'm missing from one file is a single Premier League win, but would just be nice to have it right.
Drop me a PM if you can help
I'd love to help. Sadly, however, I'm nowhere near making it atm.
I often think the same too...I mean, I'm a grown man with a wife and son and yet I still play a game quite a lot. Couldn't or rather, shouldn't I spend my time more wisely? Don't get me wrong, I always make time to be with the missus and my boy but I mean, shouldn't my time be spent on things that actually matter in real life like excercising, reading, home improvements etc. I often wonder if I spent the time I spend on FM on other things then I'd probably get a lot accomplished...but then as has been said, for the enjoyment I get out of the game and considering how little it costs in comparison to time spent on it, I think it's justified. If I wasn't on FM I'd probably spend more money down the pub or end up watching the crap on TV that the missus watches.
I think when FM starts to take over my life (which has come close a few times!) then it's time to start prioritising...but until then, I guess it's ok for us to play FM .
As for New Year...we're round friends for a few drinks...but it won't stop me thinking about taking Coalville Town to the Football League on my save .
My New Years Eve plan? Avoid SI, they'll be after me if they see what I post on here
I was wondering if you guys could give me some advice.
I've got a thread on this forum (Move aside, Barcelona), which I'm updating fairly regularly and putting quite a bit of effort into, but it's not getting any comments whatsoever. Now, I'm really enjoying the save and will play it regardless, but I'm wondering if I should just stop updating the thread, since it seems a bit pointless for me to continue it when no one is interested in reading it. I suppose the career of someone managing an already established club isn't too appealing to people.
So yeah, should I stick it out and keep updating, or should I just not bother?
Keep updating it, there will be people who are reading it that just aren't commenting (I'm one of them) sometimes they don't comment and don't realize they haven't.
Usually once you've done a few seasons you get more and more interest.
most people just like to read and maybe give a comment.
All right, I'll keep going with it. Thanks for the advice.
I wish everyone a happy new year.
Happy New Year one and all! Keep on with your save, JEinchy, enjoyed reading it!
Happy New Year FMCUer's!
Happy New Year
As for posting in threads I am getting more and more limited time so I only read threads that have an interesting title and over a page of content. Out of those I comment on those I find interesting so it reminds me to read them if updated. There are a few users who I read the threads of no matter what because I like there writing style and layout.
Just as a side thought maybe the "veterans" could post up some guides about BBCode and style so new users can read and have an idea of how it all works and maybe the style they want?
Happy New Year all!
I want to make some time to play more FM in the coming year. Maybe a bit more on my FM10 save to see if I can continue with Vermeer's record breaking goal scoring and also to see if I can get that new St. Albans City stadium named after me! And also, I want to start an Italian save on FM12. Anyway, I hope everyone on here is enjoying their current FM saves!
I don't know if any of you have been checking out the Steam sales or trying out the Steam Gift Pile objectives? Just thought I would mention that I have completed a bunch of the Steam Gift Pile objectives and I now have an inventory with a bunch of stuff that I don't want! So, would anyone like any of the following: Saw (full game), 50% off Patrician IV, 50% off Silent Hill Homecoming? Let me know. Will trade, especially for some coal!
BTW, if anyone wants to add me on Steam, my username is Crouchaldinho. Would be nice to see some of you guys on there.
Happy FMing for 2012 everyone!
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Happy New Year everybody. Let's hope it's a better one than 2011.
As to BBCode, you don't really need that if you use the advanced panels and such. Maybe it's not on by default (think so tho) so may need to activate it in forum settings. Then it's basically like typing in Word, with buttons for Bold, Italic, Font size, Links, and a whole lot of other stuff.
BBCodes are here though.
Happy New Year everyone. Haven't posted much in here recently, was just taking a break from fm. Back now and ready to continue my fm11 career
This forum is horrible when you can't play FM
Anyway, happy new year everyone
Personally I write everything in Word and then paste it into here. I just set-up templates for pre-season, mid-season, etc, so writing my updates doesn't take too long.
I started off stealing ideas from other peoples' updates but slowly developed it into my own style to suit how I wanted to write.
I tend to use many links in the updates so prefer to write it in the forum and then fix the links there. But I copy it over to Word every now and then just in case I lose it, particularly just before hitting submit because losing a good hour's work is not something I fancy. Thankfully the forum itself can sometimes retrieve it, however, as it saves what we write. There is a button on the bottom left under the text area that should retrieve what you have written in case you lose it. This happened in my recent update as I started writing hours before so the token expired before I actually posted the thing Had it backed up in Word, but the forum retrieved it for me.
Think we all start out by looking at other people's styles and then customize it to fit with our own style and preferences. I've changed mine over the seasons too, but am fairly pleased with my current format. Probably write too much most of the time so can imagine very few people actually read it and just check the league table, but I like to write them out properly so I can enjoy reading it further down the line myself.
Yours is one of the few threads I read but haven't commented on it, i think you either have to be very brief or very deep
Happy New Year all!
As for my writing style I write it all in the browser, but if it's an update that's taken me a while I do a quick CTRL+A and CTRL+C just in case the token has expired. I usually have a little think about what I'm going to say as I finish off the season/take screenshots, I find that makes the final prose flow better.
I'll c+p it into Notepad if I'm worried. I'll also take notes throughout the season on things in there
I use a quite simple format although I'm looking to change it over the next few updates, get a few more images into the updates rather than full of links.
I like to read the updates of everyone's, but sometimes you just don't have enough time and have to settle with just looking at links.
A belated Happy New Year to one and all. I hope all your FM dreams come true in 2012
I got some good football books for Christmas, which I think will get me back in the mood for some virtual football management.
My mother-in-law bought me the new Jonathan Wilson book, Nobody Ever Says Thank You, written about Brian Clough, which should be an excellent read. Looking forward to starting this!
And my brother-in-law got me Patrick Barclay's book on Mourinho, called Further Anatomy of A Winner (at least, I think that's the title). Anyone read it? Is it any good?
I have a feeling that these will impact upon my managerial style, so you can expect a reinvented arrogant and egotistical Crouchaldinho in my next FM save.
On an unrelated note, my parents bought me Ian Ridley's new book There's a Golden Sky. Another book that I'm really looking forward to starting. It's written by the current St. Albans City chairman.
Also, someone has passed on some books to me to borrow, which I have on my 'to read' pile. I've finished Matchday: What makes Saturday special? by Chris Green. A decent enough read. I have The Ghost of White Heart Lane by Rob White and Julie Welch, plus Brian Moore's autobiography, The Final Score, both still to read. I'm also reading the Luton Town history, Staring into the Abyss, on and off, which somebody let me borrowand is quite an interesting read so far.
Just thought I would share. Anyone get any good football books for Xmas or in the sales?
I got the one about Robert Enke. I haven't started it it yet though.
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I've actually never read a football book - well, apart from some autobiographies. But I'm currently re-reading the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy (there is a Hitchhiker-motivated update here btw), which is an excellent series, and still have not finished War and Peace, which I started several years ago and have been reading on and off. Should probably start over now tbh, as it's been in a box for too long for me to even remember where I was last time around
Have heard many great things about Inverting the Pyramid, so if I were to pick up a football book that would probably be it.
Crouchy I can't seem to find you...
I'm over here. Look!
What do you mean? On Steam?
Everyone should get Calcio btw. The book that inspired my thread!
Maybe known, but according to him Carroll/Torres were so pathetically expensive because it was basically up to Newcastle, because Liverpool wanted 15 million more for Torres than Newcastle wanted for Carroll, to finance the buy of Suarez (spit) too. Think we all knew it was a ridiculously good deal for Newcastle at the time, which looks even better with 20/20 hindsight vision. If the Carroll buy has been loosely or strongly based on his stats with Newcastle in the Championship, hopefully (or rather not) Liverpool have learnt their lesson.
Just goes to show, if correct, that you want people with football knowledge to make the crucial footballing decisions in a football club, not business men. After all, he has admitted he knew next to nothing about Liverpool prior to buying the club, and I suspect football more generally too.
Henry can waste money however he wants though, as I hate the clubs owned by him abroad and stateside.
Flamers, I tried to add you on Steam, so hopefully you get a message when you're next online. If not, I also joined your group.
Hrbfcrule, funny you should be browsing this thread, as I found you on Steam through Flamers and so added you as a friend.
Deisler, I couldn't find you via your SI Games username.
As for people trying to find me, it is caps sensitive? If it is, my name is Crouchaldinho with a capital 'C'. Not sure that would make any difference though, surely?
Maybe we should make an FMCU group on Steam?
Flamers will sort us out with a group, I reckon. I'm not very good at Steam yet. I wouldn't know what to do!
Mines acidburn81 if anyone wants to add me. Tried searching for a few of you but the search just keeps searching and returns no results.
Yeah, I think the search is broken at the moment. Or working intermittently, anyway.
If someone makes an FMCU group, that will make it easier for us to find each other.
Finally returned the results and could not find a Crouchaldinho.
Acidburn, try looking for Flamers. When you find him, go to his group (Illogical Gamers, or something like that). I should be on it.
Hopefully you can find me that way.
Won't let me add you.
Weird, I wonder why not. Maybe it's just a bit broken at the moment?
How did you add me?
I've just sent you an invitation AB.
Just got it now. Yeah definitely coming up as Crouchaldinho.
This is AcidBurn's page, for anyone who wants to add him - http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198002268010/
You should be able to add me via AB's page.
Okay guys, I started an FMCU page on Steam
Go here in order to join it - http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FMCU
It's pretty blank at the moment. I'll try to get some details and some pictures sorted out.
If anyone who knows there stuff on Steam wants to be an admin, let me know (I'm looking at you Flamers!) and I'll add you. I'm not too great at this stuff, so happy to add some admins to be in charge of it.
I think I added Crouchy and AcidBurn...
Any suggestions for a profile picture for our Steam group?
Yeah, received loud and clear Deisler. Just accepted!
I didn't realize or remember that you can have a username different from a logon name. qrexranger's me in case that throws anyone, definitely threw me when I saw it.
For now, I've just put an FM12 profile picture. If anyone wants to design something different or just to suggest something else, that would be good.
FMCU page - http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FMCU
Guys, I am now struggling with motivation to play FM. I usually do around this time of the year after 2-3 months of solid play. Any advice on what game to try would be appreciated. I dont use editors and wont either - too many threads on here get far too many crashes with editors.
I added AcidBurn, Crouchy, and Deisler!
Sure Crouchy that group is for my community which is all about having fun while gaming I will hopefully be on tomorrow so i can accept
I've joined the steam group
I'll make you an admin Flamers. You know more about Steam than me!
We also need a decent group profile picture. any ideas?
Excellent idea about the Steam group; I've joined
Actually done something with my profile for the first time ever. Didn't realize that the notification for the sending of a friend request was so hard to spot, and the program was being unresponsive so sorry if it ended up sending a few to the same person, though it would only have happened to one person I think if it did.


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The title says it all, basically. I have several classes in seperate .as files (i used shootorial for help with my current game; normally i would code in the game, its new for me). Kong only lets you attach one seperate file on the upload screen….I'd try putting them all in a folder, but from my previous experience w/Web design, I'm thinking the .as files would be on a different "level" of folders. Any advice?
I have 10 seperate classes. not the most efficient way of doing things….

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From Smullyan and Fitting's Set Theory and the Continuum Problem:
Which classes are sets? Rather than attempt an absolute answer to this (which some authors have done with dubious success), we regard it as philosophically more honest to take these notions as only relative to any given model of the axioms of class-set theory.
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RILEY COUNTY, Kan. (WIBW) -- A Manhattan man faces 24 years in prison in connection with a deadly shooting along a dirt road in Riley County.
Michael Blake Layne, 20, entered a plea of no contest to reduced charges in Riley County District Court on Tuesday, November 6 in connection with the murder of Steven Freel, 31, last December. Freel, a father of five, was from Topeka but family members say he was staying in Manhattan at the time of his death.
Layne took a plea deal with the state and was found guilty by Judge Meryl Wilson on charges of Second Degree Intentional Murder, Aggravated Robbery and Kidnapping. He was originally charged with First Degree Premeditated Murder and a slew of other charges and his trial was set to start in December but he has opted not to let his case be heard by a jury.
Freel's body was found at 11 AM on December 7, 2011 in the 5400 block of North 48th Street, just north of Manhattan. A passerby found him on the dirt road and called police. Detectives say an autopsy showed that Freel had died from a .45 caliber gunshot wound to the upper right chest. It is believed he was killed the day before his body was discovered. According to police, a .45 caliber casing was later found during a search warrant at Layne's house on Pottawatomie Court.
Riley County investigators say Layne admitted to the deadly shooting but claims he did it to protect himself. Layne told investigators that Freel was at his house on December 6, 2011 with a .22 caliber handgun looking to buy another gun and Layne told him to get in the car so they could go to a friend's house to get a weapon. Layne said that he was just going to drop Freel off somewhere and pulled down the dirt road and told Freel to get out. But when Freel got out of the car, Layne thought he was reaching for the .22 caliber gun and shot him. Layne took the gun from Freel's pocket and tossed it in Tuttle Creek, police said.
Prosecutors say Layne and Freel had been committing robberies together and that the investigation into the crimes was starting to heat up after police convicted two other people the men had been working with. Assistant Riley County Attorney Barry Disney says Layne became paranoid that Freel would talk to authorities and panicked, killing him.
Authorities say after Layne shot Freel, he drove away, leaving Freel on the side of the road to die. Layne later told several people what had happened and when his friend's didn't believe him, detectives say he drove them back out to the dirt road to show them Freel's body.
Layne's plea comes on the heels of a guilty verdict in the trial for his former "boss."
Domingo "Diablo" Soto, 42, was convicted last Wednesday of Aiding and Abetting First Degree Murder for the part he played in Freel's death.
Soto admitted to lending his gun to Layne, who sold drugs for him.
Layne asked Soto if he could borrow his pistol so he could kill Freel, the state maintains.
Prosecutors say Soto gave his gun to Layne, knowing that it would be used to murder him.
Soto told police he didn't think Layne would actually go through with the killing when he gave him the weapon.
Soto was also found guilty of Possession of Cocaine With the Intent to Distribute, Possession of Methamphetamine With the Intent to Distribute and Possession of Marijuana. His sentencing has been set for December 17th at 3:30 PM.
Layne, meanwhile, is scheduled to be sentenced on December 19th at 1:15 PM at the Riley County Courthouse. Disney says both the prosecution and defense have "agreed to jointly recommend" a prison sentence of 287 months, or 24 years.
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I want to know how to enable all HiDPI modes, particularly the 1280x800 mode for my 1440x900 MacBook Air. How can I do this?
The answer is that it is not possible, when the 13" MacBook Air's higest native resolution is 1440x900. It simply does not support 1280x800 or 1440x900 HiDPI modes, since it does not have a retina display or a display with enough pixels to do HiDPI. For the MacBook Air in its current form, it would need to have a LCD display with at least 2880 X 1800 pixels to enable HiDPI modes.
To do HiDPI 1280 x 800 you would need a display with resolution of at least 2560 x 1600, again, not possible on the 13" MacBook Air's display.
As noted in Signs in Mountain Lion point to "retina" display MacBooks sooner than later retina displays and graphics require 2x the resolution of normal graphics and displays.
You can add HIDPI on any Display Monitor with or without retina using Quartz Debug: http://www.osx86.net/view/2224-quartz_debug.html (It's official, extracted from Apple's Xcode).
The problem is that it will only enable half native resolution for HiDPI.
For instance: my MacBook Air is 1440x900; with this tweak, I could pick 720x450 (Native Resolution / 2).
The hidpi on OS X is only for 200% increased size, not just a 110%-150% to fit a resolution near your native resolution (like 1280x800, etc.).
Yes, this is possible:
First you need to get SwitchResX.
After installation, you then click System Preferences > Other > SwitchResX > select your Mac / Monitor from the right column -> Custom Resolution > and click + button to add a new resolution.
Now you need to select "Scaled resolution" inside the select option field & enter the resolution inside the scaled to Text field. So lets say if you want a 1920 x 1080 Hidpi setting, you need to create a custom 3840 x 2160 etc.
After all, just click save and then restart it, once you restart your mac, you should be able to see the new hidpi setting under display setting.
It took me a while to figure it out but you need to do two things:
In my case, an 11" MacBook Air, the only HiDPI resolution I get is 640x400, which is the highest resolution you can get on the 11" MacBook Air (1280x800) divided by 2 in each dimension. With a 1920x1080 external monitor, I could get 960x540 on that in HiDPI mode.
The end result is a bit small resolution for certain applications like iTunes, but otherwise looks fantastic with fonts just the right size.


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P&P Symposium 2010 - Keynote: Windows Phone 7 Unplugged - Charlie Kindel
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Charlie Kindle's walkthrough and demonstration of the latest and greatest for Windows Phone 7.
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Charlie Kindel joined Microsoft in 1990 and has helped ship numerous technologies and products to developer, IT professional, and consumer customers. In the 1990s and early 2000s he co-founded Microsoft Premier Support, drove Microsoft's platform strategy, designed & shipped Microsoft's distributed object technology, ran engineering teams responsible for home networking, Windows Media Center, and Windows Media Center Extenders. From 2002 to 2004 Charlie was the Executive Technical Assistant to Sr. Vice President Bob Muglia driving technical and business alignment for Microsoft's enterprise server products. Charlie was the driving force behind Windows Home Server. Most recently Charlie has been responsible for defining and evangelizing the Windows Phone Developer Experience.
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After running the dvd guide and i see the iso video in fx the VLC player or others. the menu text disapers. I only see the background colour.
Im running Ubuntu 12.04 on a ACER desktop. I used the version 0.8 and tryed to upgrade to 0.9 but its stil the same.
Hope you can help me..
Wed, 10/10/2012 - 16:31
This problem still exists in version 0.9.2 with Ubuntu 12.04 .
I added a note in the bugtracker in issue 0001545.
Does other people also have this problem?
Sun, 10/14/2012 - 02:45
I also have this problem Ubuntu 12.04, 0.9.2
Sun, 10/14/2012 - 14:36
I have the same. Plus, when dragging the mouse over the menu, I get orange blocks, and can play, using VLC.
Kxstudio 12.04, kdenlive 0.92.
Sun, 10/14/2012 - 22:02
Same problem with kdenlive 0.9.2 and Kubuntu 12.04.
I tried changing the font and colors, but it is the same. I see only color blocks with no text.
Mon, 10/15/2012 - 18:58
Should now be fixed in current git, please confirm when you can test (fix is not yet in sunab's experimental version, will be in the next update).
Wed, 10/17/2012 - 19:14
Thanks j-b-m.
I will test this in a few days because I'm working on a few films now and I don't wont to mess up my projects by upgrading to a new version :-)
Thu, 10/18/2012 - 19:18
Ok, I can confirm that this bug is solved.
I tested this with Totem, VLC, harddisk-multimediaplayer and with a dvd-player.
Thanks so much for this wonderful and amazing program.
Thu, 12/27/2012 - 13:55
I'm sorry, but I'm a new user of kdenlive and I have the same problem on fedora 17 with the Version 0.9.2. Can you help me please I don't know what I need to do for solving the problem.
Thank You
Thu, 12/27/2012 - 22:54
You could try installing 0.9.3 from Suanbs PPA
However, based on a thread running right now there may be some major crashing issues with the build available from it.
So other options would be to wait to 0.9.3 to be offically released or to build 0.9.3 from the build script., or wait and see if sunabs repository gets a version that does not crash.
Thu, 12/27/2012 - 23:02
There are daily Fedora 17 builds available here, Ubuntu too:
Fri, 12/28/2012 - 00:48
Thank you for your answers, But after the download from
http://builds.meltytech.com/kdenlive/kdenlive-fedora17-x86_64-20121227.t... I tried to start start-kdenlive from the console but I get this message: Way to run = Normal
running kdenlive
./start-kdenlive: line 224: /home/jacques/kdenlive-test/kdenlive/./bin/kdenlive:
if Someone have an idea ?
Thank you
Thu, 01/03/2013 - 13:42
I've got the same problem, no letters in the menu ...
Debian Wheezy / kdenlive 0.9.2
Sun, 01/27/2013 - 10:08
I am running OpenSuse 12.2, 64 bits on a brand new i7 CPU and I have the same issue too.
Kdenlive version is 0.9.2, KDE version is 4.8., creating the menu shows the letters on the background but after the iso is burned the places where
the text should be are empty.
starting the dvd in VLC shows a orange block when you hoover the mouse over on the place where the text should be.
Clicking this orange block starts the right part of the movie.
I have created two screenshots of this the first is called dvd-menu-in-kdenlive.png and shows the layout as it is in the kdenlive wizard.
the second screenshot dvd-menu-in-vlc.png shows how it looks like in VLC.
Mon, 01/28/2013 - 00:01
Known issue. Fixed in 0.9.3 see Post 10. http://www.kdenlive.org/forum/no-letters-menu-after-creating-dvd-dvd-gui...


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ST. LOUIS - When you first walk into the Salus Processing Center at Saint Louis University, the first thing you notice is the kitchen is chock full of students in aprons and hairnets. Located in the Salus Building on SLU's Medical Center, the kitchen has been transformed into an interactive classroom.
A quick sweep over the kitchen and you will see each student is responsible for a task, and are working in a synchronized, systematic manner. You might assume that these are SLU culinary students, but you would be incorrect; all are students enrolled in Saint Louis area public high schools.
These students are all participating in a six-week culinary training program that is part of the Healthy Eating with Local Produce - Saint Louis Public Schools (HELP-SLPS) grant that is funded by the Missouri Foundation for Health. The program, which runs out of the Salus Processing Center, is managed by SLU's Department of Nutrition and Dietetics.
HELP-SLPS, a Farm to School program dedicated to bringing fresh local foods into schools and supporting local agriculture builds on the original MFH grant written by Dr. Mildred Mattfeldt-Beman that centered on the Maplewood-Richmond Heights School District. HELP-SLPS is a new chapter and forms a partnership with Saint Louis area public schools to provide local produce, nutrition education and culinary training. The goal of the program is to process local foods that can be used in each school's cafeteria throughout the school year. Some examples of processed items are tomatoes into marinara, sweet potatoes into sweet potato fries, and apples into applesauce. HELP-SLPS works closely with school food service staff to create delicious healthy foods for students while educating them about the benefits of a more healthful diet and the importance of supporting a local food system.
"Providing children with healthy food at school is a monumental challenge and well worth the effort" says Mildred Mattfeldt-Beman, Ph.D., chair of the department of nutrition and dietetics at Saint Louis University's Doisy College of Health Sciences. "One of our goals is to connect children with their food system - eating locally grown fruits and vegetables. HELP-SLPS plans to get more produce from the farm to the school, which benefits the local economy while providing food at its peak of flavor. We're fighting childhood obesity as we increase business for local farmers. We want to build a healthy school lunch program that will endure long after our three-year grant has ended. This project demonstrates the power of partnership - Saint Louis Public School District, SLU, Chartwells-Thompson food service, Missouri and Illinois Farmers and Farm to Family Naturally resulting in a win for everyone, most importantly for the students, and it keeps dollars in the region."
Chef Steve Jenkins, HELP-SLPS Program Director and Instructor at Saint Louis University, believes the program serves two purposes: educating students about local foods, and orienting students to food service. "This program is hard work and teaches students a good work ethic. I see this program as a career orientation for many of them, introducing them to food service and opening their eyes to a future in this industry," said Jenkins.
Entrance into the program is not easy, and students must go through an admission process. The students that are invited to participate learn a range of skills. The days consist of food processing, educational seminars, and culinary classes. The food processing is the main component since the goal is providing local schools with the final product, but each day is different.
The culinary aspect is what a lot of the students enjoy the most. Michael Jackson, current student at Cleveland NJROTC High School, says, "My favorite activity has been making pasta. I loved learning how to make pasta from scratch. I had never seen anyone do it before and I had never tried. I think it was the most fun because we made it ourselves, and it tasted excellent."
The curriculum also focuses on entrepreneurship and business aspects such as food costing. Sanchez Smotherman, current student at Normandy High School, says, "I really enjoyed when we got to market our own product at Fresh Gatherings Café. We made chips that had cinnamon and ranch, I was really proud of what we had done. The two ingredients were really good together and I enjoyed telling others about our product."
The goal is that each student completes the program, and continues to assist the school in sourcing local foods and processing them. The hope is that the knowledge instilled in these students will be taught to peers, educators and administration to initiate change in each school.


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I've had my NN3 for about a year and I'm very pleased with it. The workmanship is first rate.
Recently, I purchased an Arca style QR clamp and have a question about the setup.
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If I install it so that the camera plate is inserted vertically, then the lever clears the camera body allowing the clamp to be closed. However, the clamp must be moved to the end
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5 Reasons the English Language Makes No Freaking Sense
As much as we might judge people for their bad spelling, the truth is that English spelling doesn't make any goddamn sense. Just look at that sentence: Why is there an "n" but no "n" sound in "goddamn"? It turns out there's one perfectly good reason for that and many other eccentricities of the language, and that one good reason is actually a bunch of stupid reasons that are all shitty and terrible. Like ...
#5. "O" and "U" (and "C" and "K") Sound the Same Because of Sloppy Handwriting
The Crazy Rule:
Writing has become second nature to us, so it's easy to forget how schizophrenic the letter "o" is. You get the word "con," where its sound is basically "aw," but then in "son" it's encroaching on "u" territory, and that's a good way to get your face cut ("u" don't take no shit). Then you have "comb" and "tomb," which are totally different "o" sounds despite having no right to be. Then there are phrases like "some honey tongue" and ... whoa, this article is already way dirtier than we expected it to be.
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We know what that sentence has all of you thinking about: that "mouth" is spelled pretty weirdly, too.
The Stupid Reason:
It all comes down to sloppy handwriting. In medieval times, highly stylized writing focused on the "minims," or vertical lines in a letter, and the smudgy nature of ink confused people trying to read it. For example, "in," "ni," "m," "iii," "ui," and "iu" might all look exactly the same because the horizontal lines written into each letter were so thin, they tended to smudge or just fade away. For example, this:
This says "animal," like you fancy yourself in the sack, or "annnal," which is a rather annoying way to ask for it, or "aiiuiiai," which is the sound you're going to make when you head for your partner's fire door without permission and get punched in the throat. The solution to all this buggery was to just stop using "u" for some words, like "some," "love," and "come," and wow, we just cannot get out of the gutter here. This is the reason why you see an "o" for a "u" sound when it's next to an "n" or an "m," like in "monkey" and "ton," and also why you see a "c" before a "k" when the letter appears next to more minims. The "c" was a good way to separate the "k" from letters it could be easily confused with, which led to spellings such as "lick" and "flick" and ... we're going to open a new tab here and take care of some things before this next entry.
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By which we mean listening to some classic Slick Rick.
#4. Some Words Are Spelled Wrong Because Academics Are Pretentious Jerkwads
The Crazy Rule:
Every once in a while English words will have silent letters in them -- like "receipt," "debt," "scissor," and "island." And there's actually a really interesting explanation for that: English teachers hate you and want you to fail. Why else is the language so littered with invisible minefields of perceived stupidity?
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"I contain 19 words that have a 'q' not followed by a 'u.' Enjoy guessing, motherfucker."
The Stupid Reason:
Over the last 500 years, there's been a continuing effort to standardize all spelling -- and a lot of the stuffy academic types making the rules made a real mess of it. In the 16th century, the people putting together dictionaries decided to insert a "b" into "debt" and "doubt" to remind everyone that they had evolved from the Latin word "debitum" -- even though the preferred spellings, "dette" and "doute," made way more sense. But hey, at least the common man would forever be reminded of precious Latin, thus ensuring that it would never become a dead langua- oh wait, no, it died more completely than an engineer on the away team, didn't it? The academics did the exact same thing with "receipt" (then spelled "receit," but drawn from the Latin word "recepta") and smugly smirked down at generations of dyslexics accidentally writing "recipe."
"You've never heard of the silent 'x'? Enjoy your mainstream spelling, sheeple."
Changing the spelling to match the Latin origin is at least mildly understandable, if kind of a dick move -- but less understandable is changing spellings to match Latin words they have nothing to do with, which also happened.
At least they resisted the urge to use that stupid font.
The origin of the word "island" is the Old English word "yland" or "iland," but since the Latin word "insula" has a similar meaning, academics decided to just throw an "s" in there, because more Latin = more smarter. That one was so influential that it actually changed the word for the central walkway in a church -- up until then spelled "aile" -- to "aisle," because "s" is friggin' sexy, we guess. All those curves. Go ahead and toss it in there. Liven that sucker up.
#3. The Difference Between "-el" and "-le" Is Due to Stubbornly Clinging to Tradition
The Crazy Rule:
Actually, there are no rules here at all. This is the Thunderdome of English spelling. You know what? That's not even fair. The Thunderdome had at least one rule. This shit is way worse: Some words that end in an "L" sound are spelled "-el" ("novel," "level," "cancel"), and some are spelled "-le" ("little," "cable," "purple").
Warner Bros.
Not that Thunderdome stuck to the two-man rule too closely either.
The Stupid Reason:
Most words that end in "-el" used to have the stress carried on that last syllable (so "angel" used to be pronounced "ang-EL"). As the language evolved, those pronunciations slowly blended together, but we still clung to the old spellings for no reason other than tradition, which apparently doesn't count for pronunciation as well.
No, really: One of the most frustrating and counterintuitive quirks to our language exists just because. There's no practical reason, no aesthetic reason, no etymological quirk. It's just some leftover fat dangling off the side of our language like a syntactic appendix. The only use it has now is to help prospective employers distinguish between people who were able to take SAT prep courses and those who weren't, primarily so they can tell the latter that they're just not Waffle House material.
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6 Famous Unsolved Mysteries (That Have Totally Been Solved)
#3. The Tunguska Explosion
On June 30, 1908, a mysterious explosion occurred several miles in the air over a spot of land known as Middle Of Nowhere, Siberia. That's right, because real life falls short of the spectacle demanded in disaster movies, this explosion pancaked over 80 million trees over an area comparable to Rhode Island but failed to decapitate a single Statue of Liberty.
Tough luck, Michael Bay.
Eyewitnesses as far off as Great Britain reported that the skies lit up like the Fourth of July, and since an event as awesome as the Tunguska explosion had flooded the human imagination with countless questions, thousands of hypotheses have been offered surrounding this phenomenon. Suspected culprits ranged from meteorites and natural gas to a natural H-bomb explosion, antimatter, black holes, aliens and Nikola Tesla.
Winner of Cracked Awards in "Mad Science" and "Coy Grins."
The Answer:
It took over 100 years and god only knows how much bullshitting, but in 2009, some researchers at Cornell University finally found something else to brag about besides being researchers at Cornell University.
Just because they didn't pay for their degrees in cocaine and lap dances they think they're somehow better than us.
Those bright skies over Britain? It turns out they were noctilucent clouds, which are like the plumes of cigarette smoke that a comet would puff out after a wild weekend playing hot and cold with Mother Earth. They realized this entirely by accident after watching a space shuttle launch create the exact same effect, and because these clouds are only produced by comets and space shuttles, it considerably narrows down the list of culprits for a phenomenon that occurred in 1908.
As spectacular as Hollywood likes to portray the idea of an honest-to-god comet collision, the reality is decidedly more mundane. No New York tsunami, no ragtag team of deep-core drillers; just a mere 5.0 on the Richter Scale.
#2. Stonehenge, The Pyramids and Ancient People Moving Huge Stones
Stonehenge in Britain and the Pyramids of Giza have mystified millions of people for something like one trillion years. The purpose of these giant piles of rocks have only ever been hypothesized, but the greater mystery has always been how they were built at all: How do primitive people, with not so much as a single bulldozer, move stones that weigh tons each?
And, more importantly, fucking why?
The popular theory about the Pyramids is the one that we saw in The Ten Commandments, that is that Charlton Heston and a massive Hebrew slave force painstakingly threw them together one block at a time. The problem with that theory is that it would have taken forever, and the project would probably still be going on to this day if nobody ever told the Jews they could stop working.
Hey guys, wandering around in the desert for decades will TOTALLY be more fun than drinking heavily and moving blocks.
Of course, just about every major structure on the planet built before Green Acres has at least one nutjob who believes that no less than three aliens helped build it. Pseudohistorians since time immemorial have sworn that the only way these buildings could have come into being is with the assistance of E.T., or at the very least, Predator.
Then again, these theories all rely almost entirely upon the baffling conclusion that people were incapable of moving stones in the Stone Age.
"A Giant did it" is the answer to a surprising number of ancient mysteries.
The Answer:
Not too long ago, some guy decided that he would build his own Stonehenge in his backyard just for the hell of it. His name is Wally Wallington (a name that only Stan Lee could appreciate) and all he used was observational physics, wood, stones and his own strength to recreate a somewhat sorry-looking but nonetheless impressive imitation of Stonehenge. Oh, but the best part: He did this all by himself.
People who fail to respect the ingenuity of our ancestors MAKE HIM ANGRY.
The architects of millennia past actually had some pretty damn spiffy techniques for moving enormous objects from one place to another, and none of them involved just throwing as many Jews at the project as possible.
For one, the Egyptians actually used independent contractors just like the Empire did when they built the Second Death Star. Researchers have found that small teams of professional laborers could have done much more with a little ingenuity than hundreds of thousands of peons, no matter how hard you whipped them. It's very probable that they simply put the rocks on barges and towed them along the Nile to their destination.
But how did they stack them so high, you ask? Well, fortunately, the Pyramids happened to have a pyramidal shape, which was ideally-suited for a system of ramps. That's right, it was an astounding coincidence that the shape of the building happened to also be the easiest possible way to move the stones up that building.
The incredible worldwide proliferation of the pyramid is due to simple human laziness, not the Predator.
Of course, this still doesn't explain the location of Stonehenge, especially since that whole "middle of nowhere" touch to it always added to the mystique. Why drag the stones hundreds of miles to that particular spot? Aliens, right?
Well, a whole bunch of Ph.Ds found out that Stonehenge was actually a short distance outside the largest Stone Age settlement in Britain, making it about as isolated from civilization as the Chrysler Building.
#1. Anastasia
Did Anastasia Nikolaevna, youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II and heir to the Russian monarchy, survive the massacre of the Romanov family during the Russian Revolution? This question has been the subject of more than one dozen movies and countless storybooks since it was pretty much the story of a real Disney princess.
We're pretty sure having your entire family gunned down by Bolsheviks is more than a "low level" of violence, but hey.
The speculation began in the early 1920s when a woman named Anna Anderson claimed to be the Romanov princess, and that she had been living in exile. Her story drew a huge amount of publicity, and Anderson stuck by it until her death in 1984, at which point CSI was finally able to get close enough to determine that she wasn't even Russian, let alone Queen of the Russians. Still, they didn't take back the Academy Award that Ingrid Bergman won for playing Anderson in 1956.
Also known as bullshit.
In fact, at least 10 other women, and probably some men, have since come forward to claim the title of the real Romanov princess, and nobody ever seemed to find it fishy that most of them were suffering from mental illnesses.
The Answer:
Only one claimant to the Russian throne has provided compelling evidence that she may be the real Anastasia, and that is a corpse who was found buried with the rest of the Romanov family in 2008.
The main reason why the mystery of Anastasia persisted for so long was because it took one hell of a long time for Anastasia's body to be recovered. For most of the 20th century, researchers had that whole "Cold War" thing blocking their access to the Romanov gravesite, and even when they finally got to dig up the bodies in 1991, conspiracy theorists were tantalized by the fact that they still seemed to be missing a couple of stiffs, including that of the mysterious princess.
Nicholi's fabulous mustache remains unaccounted for to this day.
Then, almost two decades later, they went back and found them about 200-feet away. Well, shit.
In 2008, 21st century DNA technology confirmed that these were really the remains of Anastasia, proving that the long-lost princess was, in fact, very dead. But at least they got to make some decent movies.
Still better than Hercules.
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We are traveling to London with our kids. As one of the attractions, Legoland Windsor, is mentioned. I am wondering if this is more a local attraction, or is it a valid attraction to consider when visiting London as a tourist/ How does it for example compare to Disneyland Paris?
EDIT Thanks for the great answers so far. We will be traveling with our own car and I am aware of the distance to the city. What I am trying to find out is how special Legoland windsor is. Is it more aiming at locals as just any other (Dime a dozen) amusement park , or would lego lovers from all over the world be excited.


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Emily Howie
Striding Forward
A few years ago, Emily Howie '12 LL.M. was working at a top commercial litigation firm in Australia when an intriguing pro bono case landed on her desk. A female prisoner was fighting for her right to vote in federal elections, despite a law banning inmates from casting ballots at the polls. Howie, a Melbourne native now ensconced in Morningside Heights while working toward an LL.M., joined the plaintiff's legal team in arguing before the country's highest court.
The case, which Howie refers to as one of the most intellectually stimulating undertakings of her career, resulted in Australia's High Court ruling that the ban constituted a violation of prisoners' rights. "It established a very important precedent," Howie says.
The experience inspired Howie to transition from commercial litigation into public law. She joined the Human Rights Law Centre, a Melbourne-based NGO, as a staff attorney in January 2009, working on cases involving indefinite detention of immigrants, reproductive rights, and police brutality.
Currently on a leave of absence from the organization, Howie says her legal studies—including her participation in the Law School's Human Rights Clinic—have provided a broader understanding of the human rights movement. She plans on returning to Australia to help the NGO community there build its capacity to produce salient research on human rights abuses.
Howie does not hide her passion for human rights issues, though she demurs at the suggestion that altruism alone precipitated her shift into public law. "It's something that I really enjoy," she says. "In some ways, I work for really selfish reasons, because I think my new job is the best job I could have."


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John Grimes
You are hereHome/ John Grimes
We are deeply saddened to share the news that our percussion faculty member, friend and colleague John Grimes passed away Thursday, August 8, surrounded by friends and family. He fought a valiant and courageous battle with cancer for the past few years.
A favorite faculty member here at the Conservatory, John also worked as a solo timpanist with the Boston Baroque and Handel & Haydn Society orchestras, Boston Ballet, Boston Lyric Opera, Cantata Singers and other Boston-based organizations.
He earned his Bachelor of Music from the University of Miami, his Master of Music from the New England Conservatory and pursued doctoral studies at the University of California, San Diego. He studied percussion with Fred Wickstrom and timpani with Vic Firth and Cloyd Duff.
During the summers of 2006, 2008 and 2011, John traveled to Vienna, Dresden, Leipzig and Berlin to pursue his lifelong interest in German and Viennese timpani performance practices. He also served as the vice president of the Boston Musicians Association, where for more than a decade John tirelessly advocated for musicians' intellectual property, economic rights and social justice.
A memorial service for him is being planned in the fall at Old South Church. We will forward all details as they become available.
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I need to change the default browser in my Android device to Opera. Is there any way to do that?
After installing Opera, when you open a link from somewhere in the system, you should see a popup asking you to choose between the browsers available. That popup should have a checkbox for saving the browser you choose as the default browser.
If you have already set a default browser, you must go to Settings > Applications > Manage applications, find the browser you now have as default and click on "Clear defaults" in the details page, then go through the process described in the first paragraph.
Certainly! Go in your Settings, Manage Applications. Click the All tab, and then select Browser. You must then click the Clear Defaults button.
Now next time that an application requires a browser (say, you click a link in your Twitter app) the Complete action using dialog will pop up and you can select Opera and tick the Use by default for this action box.
Followup: Make sure that you have installed Opera (or any other browser of your choice). If you only have the default browser installed, you will not get the Complete action using dialog. Again, look in Settings, Manage Applications but this time go in Downloaded to make sure that your preferred browser is there.
I'm using Android 2.3 and I couldn't find the stock browser to clear defaults. Then I realized that it is now called "Web" instead of "Browser" under
Just as an update, an easier way (on Android 4.0+ ICS) would be to go:
Settings > Apps > App Associations, then tap on "Web URLs" and a box will come up showing all browsers installed, you tap on the one you want to be the default browser. Same way for e-mail address links, phone numbers, etc.
If you're getting an option to choose which browser to use, select the checkbox to set the default and then tap Opera.
If you're not getting an option to choose a browser to use, then you need to go into your settings and clear the default from the current from the current browser:
In my opinion Dafault App Manager is the easiest way to configure the default apps (incl. the browser).
The answer given by @Bushibytes was actually more helpful to me, since I have a Samsung device.
The default browser is called "Internet". I think this was the case on my HTC with Orange (yep, just confirmed that).
I needed to click on "All" as @Bushibytes recommended, and then only can you see all the stock apps.
Download Opera to your device.
When you try to open something which requires a browser, you will be given the chance to select a browser. Select Opera, and press the
Go to the default app that is opening on your android now in settings > apps and click on it, then click disable, the next time you try to open the default browser you will be prompted to choose a default browser, and that's how it's done!
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I have a client who wants albums, pictures from her Facebook account to appear on her website automatically, so she does not have to manage them in two places.
I spent a couple of hours researching and did not find anything that explains exactly this scenario. I read a bunch about authentication and access tokens in facebook developers documentation, but still don't have a clear picture for my scenario.
The thing I know for sure is that end users of my client's web site do not have to have a facebook account.


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Can anyone recommend some good noise removal tools, free and commercial? Should support RAW and JPEG. Are certain tools better than others in particular situations? Do some integrate better with other software? Do plugins or stand-alone dedicated NR programs work significantly better than the noise reduction built in to RAW converters?
Lightroom 3 is pretty good lately.
I think Topaz Denoise and Imagenomic Noiseware are the best. I wrote a thorough review on the previous Topaz Denoise (It's in Hebrew, yet Google Translation makes it readable and understandable in English). It should be even better now (Version 4).
I use Noise Ninja. I don't have any experience with the other so I'm not sure how to compare it, but it did seem relatively easy to use, albeit a little overwhelming in terms of features and controls offered. I think the home standalone is around $35. You can buy plug in versions for photoshop, etc as well.
Don't know about "best" but I quite like NeatImage. Windows 32/64 and Mac OS X, with plugins for Photoshop and Aperture. Prices start at $29.90/€24.90 and there's also a Demo edition.
Here's a link to the User Manual for version 3.12 of Canon's Digital Photo Professional.
(I don't yet have enough reputation to add comments to someone else' answer.)
Noise removal tools are mostly based on the wavelet denoise technique.
You can get a good wavelet denoise plugin for Gimp
This allows you to independently adjust noise reduction in the Y, Cb and Cr channels
I've had decent results with DxO Optics Pro. I hadn't heard of NeatImage, but that looks pretty good, too.
well this answer maybe too late since the question was asked from almost a year but for the sake of others who will search this website looking for a noise removal tool, I do really recommend Noiseware from Imagenomic. In my opinion, it's the best noise removal tool so far and it doesn't degrade the photo sharpness a lot. It's in version 5 now.
Another late answer. I find the noise adjuster in Capture NX2 very good, so I should imagine that the same company's Dfine 2.0 would be worth a free 15 day trial. It allows you to apply noise reduction where you want it which makes it easy to eliminate noise in your some areas of your images while maintaining detail and sharpness overall.
If you shoot Canon, their "Digital Photo Professional" software that comes with the cameras actually has a pretty decent noise removal tool.
I recently purchased Nik Dfine 2.0 and I am really impressed with the results. It does a really good job of removing noise while still keeping sharp details in the image. It performs extremely much better than the noise reduction in Aperture 3.
You can get it as a plugin for Photoshop, Lightroom, and Aperture. There is a 15 day trial so you can try it out.