Flash (was: Admin Job at Oxford University.)

[Jon Mercer]

On Thu, April 26, 2007 14:07, James Clarke wrote:
> I got stuck in a bit last night and got linux-firefox and
> linux-flashplugin9
> working, but with no sound (?) and ff crashed after about 30 seconds :(

I can't help wondering whether there is a way (using the firefox video
downloader in the case of youtube, for example) to launch those absolutely
must see flash clips outside of the browser.
>
> On 26/04/07, Jon Mercer <jon.mercer at achean.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, April 26, 2007 12:07, James Clarke wrote:
>> > The only advantage I could find for running Ubuntu instead of FreeBSD
>> was
>> > a
>> > reliable Flash plugin for Firefox. (If you happen to have a clue about
>> how
>> > to do this in FreeBSD, i'd love to hear about it).
>>
>> I wish, I wish, I wish!
>>
>> >
>> > On 26/04/07, Jon Mercer <jon.mercer at achean.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, April 26, 2007 01:43, John Murphy wrote:
>> >> > Hi Joe
>> >> >
>> >> > The list has been quiet recently so I doubt if anyone noticed the
>> down
>> >> > time.
>> >> > Except the occasional noise about the Manchester BSD UG "Thing" of
>> >> course
>> >> > :)
>> >> > Paul's most recent missive on the subject was a good read.
>> >> >
>> >> > If you're looking for a new ISP I recommend an enta.net reseller.
>> Enta
>> >> > are,
>> >> > to some extent, an FreeBSD shop, and UKFSN (whom I've been with for
>> >> about
>> >> > a
>> >> > year now) donates its profits to fund OSS. In fact I first heard
>> about
>> >> > Free
>> >> > BSD from enta's CTO when I used their dial-up service about ten
>> years
>> >> ago!
>> >> >
>> >> > I've been messing with a certain Feisty Fawn on the desktop
>> recently.
>> >> > My first experience of any Linux. It's good, in some ways, but I've
>> >> > already
>> >> > decided to blow it away and put Free back in its place. I won't go
>> >> into
>> >> > the
>> >> > reasons for doing so here, except to say has certainly made me
>> >> appreciate
>> >> > Free's documentation and man pages all the more.
>> >>
>> >> I'd be very interested to hear those reasons. Have been using Dapper,
>> >> Edgy
>> >> and now Feisty on the desktop and on the whole it works really well
>> but
>> >> it's not FreeBSD and it's not so easy to configure. I also really
>> miss
>> >> the
>> >> ports collection...
>> >>
>> >> Jon
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > --
>> >> > ATB, John.
>> >> >
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