On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 04/14/2012 09:11 PM, Joel Rees wrote: >> With the old flash plugin, youtube works fine. >> >>> > May put >>> > flash in one account on the box I'm using here, to see if it's perhaps >>> > a CPU or other hardware issue but not now. >> Okay, the current flash plugin and yesterdays both work on this box. Except that >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_GpxCUg9Vo >> >> (heart playing heartless on TV back in the 70s) doesn't. >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a03S9o4sFxE >> >> B52s playing Roam, does play. >> >> html5 setting doesn't make any difference on this box, either. >> >> This box is a netbook with the accursed Intel Atom N455, 32 bit >> fedora. That box is AMD Sempron 2600, all 32 bit. >> >> Guess I need to file a bug somewhere. (Specifically, with Adobe, not Fedora.) > I am unable to follow what you are doing. I thought there was one box...your > daughter's. Now there are 2. This and that. Well, I'd blame it on my age, but several members of the list trump me on that. 8-P My wife tells me I've always been hard to follow. :-< There was one box, and then there are two. That is, since I'm having problems on the one box, I thought I'd see what happens on the other. > FWIW, both of those URLs you cite play just fine under F16/Firefox/HTML5 on my Intel > i5 system. I seem to be missing support for HTML5 somewhere. But I'm not really looking to fix that just now. > As I said, and as Sam has also pointed out, there really is no reason to > mess with the tar file. Nobody I know jumps through hoops longer. Same thing as using sudo and xhost to sandbox FF without depending on SELinux. I don't follow the crowed. Here are my reasons for not enabling the repository and yumming the thing: (1) I don't care to have lots of repositories enabled. Not for mpeg stuff, not for Adobe. (2) I don't want to have to use Adobe's settings tools to disable Flash in my admin and banking accounts. I only want Flash to run in the account the kids surf from and the account I sometimes use for testing those kinds of things. I suppose I could Yeah, I'm baroque enough to have separate accounts for surfing, work, admin, and money. And I don't surf in bad water, either. A former co-worker bragged about how much malware he had to remove from his PC, back in the days of MSW95. I'm kind of the opposite. I've seen hints that I could use yum or RPM locally to the two users in question, I suppose I should nose around for more on that sometime. > Good luck. > > -- > Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke > of the century. -- Dame Edna Everage Heh. -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
