I’m thankful to Julie in her Edublog for drawing my attention to Google Gears. It’s main usefulness at the moment seems to be that it allows editing of Google Documents while offline. Later when a connection is established to the Internet, the documents stored on the computer are synchronized with the web-based versions. It is [...]
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I’ve had no end of trouble recently with Firefox crashing whenever flash content is being displayed. Apparently, it’s been an ongoing problem with Firefox and Ubuntu over the years because there are posts I’ve come across dating back to 2005. I came across a post here that claims to fix the problem. The advice is [...]
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I’d been to the Technology Review site before but this time I noticed that there was an audio button. I had begun reading a very interesting article on Quantum Computing and while still on the first page I’d noticed the audio link. I decided to listen to the remaining three pages rather than read and [...]
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The Totem Movie Player that comes with Ubuntu when you download the operating system is a dead loss when it comes to playing DVDs. No amount of downloading of additional files on my part could get it to play a DVD, all it would say was that the necessary codecs were missing but it did [...]
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My recent Flash problems were aggravated by the fact that my Indonesian ISP banned access to YouTube on the very night I was struggling to access it. Since then I’ve been to http://unblockyoutube.org and succeeded in accessing YouTube and while I can’t get a video to play on the screen, I am able to download [...]
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Just when things were going well, I ventured to YouTube and that where the problems all began. At first my browser simply froze and so did the entire operating system. I had to reboot. I thought that I was probably missing a flash plugin for Firefox and so I downloaded and installed the Adobe flash [...]
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Well, I must say that so far so good with Ubuntu 7.10. Neither the music nor the DVD played out of the box but I was prompted each time for suitable codecs that were quickly downloaded and installed. So far I’ve managed to play an MP3 file, a WMA file and a DVD using the [...]
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I now have Ubuntu 7.10, the Gutsy Gibbon, installed and the additional 204 additional components have been downloaded from the Internet. I started up Firefox in order to make an entry in this blog. I was immediately prompted for a plug-in for Firefox and had to choose between Adobe Flash Player or GNASH SWF Player. [...]
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Seeing that Ubuntu 7.04, known as the Feisty Fawn, has been superseded by Ubuntu 7.10, known as the Gutsy Gibbon, I thought I might upgrade to the newer version and maybe solve some of my difficulties. There is an update option that does all the work for you and the night before last I set [...]
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