Posts tagged with: flash

Links of interest for 12 Dec 2008 - 24 Dec 2008: Sun boosts OpenSolaris on Atom - Oooo. When this becomes a reality without any hoop jumping, I may just have to get myself a small Atom based netbook. It's recession time and Sun has the best recession kool aid. - Who needs Oracle and BEA when you can have MySQL and Glassfish, and you can even use Ruby on Rails. I agree with the final comment in the article - Sun just isn#039;t selling the whole idea very well. I hope someone sees this post and takes it#039;s content... Continue reading ►

Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you my first Habari plugin: HB-Cumulus. HB-Cumulus is a Flash-based tag cloud for Habari that displays your tag cloud in a rotating sphere just like the one shown here. [WP-CUMULUS] (The example demonstrated here is actually WP-Cumulus as this site is still on Wordpress, but the appearance and functionality is identical in HB-Cumulus, with slightly different configuration options) HB-Cumulus is a port of the brilliant WP-Cumulus by Roy Tanck and supports pretty much everything WP-Cumulus does. Further details, and download links can be found on the HB-Cumulus project page. If you encounter any... Continue reading ►

As you will have no doubt heard today, Adobe are making available a 64-bit version of the Flash Player for Linux to those who want to be on the cutting edge (it's still alpha). When I heard this, I couldn't help but ask myself "Why? Why on earth do you need a 64-bit Flash player?". I don't think there is a single Flash application out there that has reached the constraints of a 32-bit environment and I doubt a single Flash developer has wished he had a full 64-bit address space, nor do I think they ever will. What's more, Firefox, in which you're likely to be running the Flash player is only 64-bit if you compile it yourself. Why do you need a 64-bit version of Firefox anyway? Are there plans for it to gobble up even more memory than it used to? Anyway, I headed over to the Adobe Flash Player 10 labs site to see what this was all about, and then I found my answer, I think: 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 ►

Links of interest for 13 Jan 2008 - 27 Jan 2008: Transactional ZFS Upgrades on Nexenta - This is pretty impressive usage of ZFS. Once Solaris officially supports ZFS boot, this is a fantastic feature that could be added to patching and live upgrade. Mystery web infection grows, but cause remains elusive - Pity no one seems to have been able to pin-point an underlying OS for the affected web servers. If something like Solaris, FreeBSD or OS X are involved, DTrace could be used to work out what's going on. Fixing ptrace(pt_deny_attach, ...) on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard... 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 ►