Posts tagged with: adobe

Links of interest for 22 Apr 2010 - 19 May 2010: Chrome Incognito Tracks Visited Sites - Lewis showed me this yesterday morning before posting this blog post. Guess incognito mode isn't as forgetful as you thought. Funny Photoshop Crash Reports - It's amazing what people write in these crash reports. Oracle on ZFS Whitepaper - Quite a useful whitepaper on running Oracle on ZFS. Warning, it's a PDF. Special Report: Can That Guy in Ironman 2 Whip IBM in Real Life? - Some great hard hitting quotes from Larry Ellison explaining exactly why Sun became such an easy takeover... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 25 Mar 2009 - 2 Apr 2009: Toshiba OpenSolaris Laptops - You can now get your hands on the much touted Opensolaris Toshiba laptops. Sadly, it#039;s US only at the mo with UK availability expected sometime in May 2009. I guess I#039;ll have to wait a bit, but it#039;ll be good to start hearing the reviews to see how these things run. Accelerated Patching of Zoned Systems - Woohooo!!!! Patching of systems with zones is about to get a lot quicker. Jeff provides some good data here just to whet your appetite in anticipation of the... Continue reading ►

I stumbled upon the concept of "Local Shared Objects" for the first time today after reading about the Objection extension for Firefox. For those who have also not heard of "Local Shared Objects" or LSOs for short, Wikipedia define them as: A Local Shared Object (LSO) is a collection of cookie-like data stored as a file on a user's PC. LSOs are used by all versions of Adobe Flash Player and those subsequent to Version 5 of Macromedia's now-obsolete Flash MX Player Well, sounds reasonable enough as I've had to use cookies to my advantage before, so why shouldn't Flash developers have the same functionality? I mean, the user can always reject the cookie if they want, like normal cookies, right? Well, actually NO. Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 19 May 2008 - 19 Jun 2008: June 2008 | TOP500 Supercomputing Sites - Woohoo!!! Sun are finally back in the top 10. Anything But a Flash in the Pan - Sun's shares may be tanking at the moment, but you've got to read this to see where Sun is going. Once again, Sun is light years ahead of the competition. Now lets hope they market this and make a killing from it. (Yes I'm a shareholder). goosh.org - the unofficial google shell. - Google CLI for the hardcore techie Virtualization smackdown: Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6... Continue reading ►

Adobe have finally remembered that there is another OS other than Windows, Linux and OS X that people may use to, oh I don't know, do anything those other OSes do, like browsing the internet - they've finally released Flash 9 for Solaris (go get it). Woohooo!!! Now all we need is for them to remember that we like to read PDF's on Solaris x86 and could do with a nice upgrade so we don't have to continue using Acrobat Reader 4 or the tools supplied as part of Gnome. Continue reading ►