Re: How hard is it to code this? [Shockwave Flash]

Michael Heiming wrote:
In comp.os.linux.misc Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
s. keeling wrote:
ination <Vivian.D.Lam@xxxxxxxxx>:
Am a beginner to linux coding, so was just wondering if anyone knows
how difficult it is to code a flashy site like this http://www.xbox360.com.au/

Shockwave Flash. Yuck. Crashed Firefox.

It must be pretty hard. It used to crash the entire X window system, but it
has been "improved" to crash only the Firefox. They have been working on it
for years with little apparent success. I wish web sites would not use it;
then we would not have to use it either. More Glitz; more bugs.

Strange, works just fine for me. What ff version are you running?

I do not know what ff I was running. I am in process of upgrading to RHEL5
and it is sure a can of worms. It installs pretty quickly, but configuring
it is a pain between the back pockets.

My old (RHL9) version of PowerChutePlus sort-of works, but I cannot change
the configuration of anything. I guess I will have to use another UPS package.

Lots of stuff is not there, which makes running GnuCash difficult.

Flash does work with current (for RHEL5) FireFox.

I cannot find an Acrobat Reader that works, so I downloaded Xpdf, but that
needs a non-RHEL5 library (libXp) that I got from xorg-X11-deprecated... and
when that was installed, it worked, but it immediately updated to
libXp-1.0.0-8 from somewhere else.

At some point, a lot fell apart. I cannot login as one of my users.
Actually, it does login but I get a completely black screen. Ctl-Alt-F1 will
get me a console, so obviously it is working. I looked at what was running,
and lots of desktop stuff is missing. No idea why.

I can login as myself, but the Nautilus thingie does not know anything about
file types, and tries to open them all with the same tool that does not work
for most things. This works for root user, though.

Also, I cannot make launching icons on the desktop. I go through the drill,
but it makes defective ones. This works for root user, though.

Obviously some kind of permission problems, but I cannot imagine what I may
have done. I have SElinux turned off.

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