Surfing

[xiphmont]

Denton's well aware that the mouse moves a pointer on the screen and when you click on things in a web browser, you might get flash slideshows of birds, or jaguars or puppies. But not on 64 bit linux, because the flash plugin doesn't work. This doesn't stop him from trying to hack a fix.

And dude... clean your desk. I don't care if you're busy banging out code. ;-)

Comments

[flaggday.livejournal.com]

"Alright... 1/3 of my body weight in iced coffee, check.

Enough moisturizer to cover myself in a 1/4" thick layer... check.

Enough baby powder to cover myself in a 1/4" thick layer on top of the moisturizer... check.

Some extra vitamins, already had my bowl of soup... yeah, I think we're ready.

Houston, things are looking fine with that third monitor at 40%. Let's go ahead and increase window size, on my mark..."

[yakshaver.livejournal.com]

He's looks so intent!

[cheesyhill.livejournal.com]

I can just imagine the racket when he starts playing with that keyboard keyboard...

[cheesyhill.livejournal.com]

And apparently I have developed a stutter...

[zenala.livejournal.com]

It looks like that etrade ad...

[kenshi.livejournal.com]

It's never too early to start them bashing machine code.

[mama-pipa.livejournal.com]

you no longer own that computer... its officially his now ;)

flash on 64-bit linux?

[kcr.livejournal.com]

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/

Re: flash on 64-bit linux?

[xiphmont.livejournal.com]

I dodn't say there was no 64 bit flash plugin, I said it doesn't work... (It's currently broken for FF3 betas, which I'm running for the Ogg support)

Flash

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm, my kid who is now 3 has been playing with Flash -based toys (especially
from BBC and poissonrouge) on my 64-bit Linux system for a long time, courtesy of the nspluginwrapper system that came with the distro (Mandriva). It runs so well for getting 32-bit Flash plugin to just work I have trouble understanding why people gripe about this issue all over the net. Is Mandriva the only 64-bit distro that makes this work? it is not like nspluginwrapper is anything proprietary, it is GPL'd software.

Re: Flash

[xiphmont.livejournal.com]

nspluginwrapper, for me, has always managed to start a flash application, crash during, and lock up the whole browser. :-(

For those who care

[xiphmont.livejournal.com]

...I've found that the most recent 64 bit flash download works nicely. yay! Except for that one kernel panic. Which I can't blame on flash, but I'll secretly resent it anyway.

Re: For those who care

[(Anonymous)]

If gnash doesn't work on your 64-bit browser -- with ogg support -- then there's something wrong, please file a bug for the gnash team. Thanks for the 2008 theora work! It'd be fun to read about what's to come.

BTW I've always wondered something. Say a video camera keeps looking at the same scene (or 90% of it is the same scene), and you're compressing it. As you play the resulting file, why don't the background details get sharper and sharper as bandwidth is available, until the background looks exactly like it would in an uncompressed video? Seems like an obvious improvement, sort of like how in a browser, progressive jpegs come in fuzzy to give you the general idea, and then sharpen up over a few seconds. Would really improve lots of those talking-head videos.

John Gilmore