Installing Flash Player 9 On 64Bit Linux (x86_64) | HowtoForge – Linux Howtos and Tutorials

Someone said, Flash Player 9 doesn’t run on 64 bit Linux, but sure it does… and you can install it, just follow the simple steps below.

If you can’t view or open Flash charts or are not able to play Flash in your browser, follow the simple steps to install it on 64 bit Linux machines.

Google sees new browser displacing desktop software – Yahoo! News

Google Inc is challenging Microsoft Corp with its own Web browser that lets users run many applications that once worked only when installed on local PCs, executives said on Tuesday.

Google introduced a public trial version of its new browser software, Chrome, which is designed to handle not just text and graphics, but more complex computer programs.

I spend a lot of time browsing the various distro forums and it is funny I find a couple of themes that are carried out in each and every forum.

First are the trolls, the ever present lifeform that just posts to see how mad and how many people will reply to their insults of that distro. Now with these folks it has always been the practice of ignoring them and letting a moderator handle these folks in a fast yet firm method.

Second comes the frustrated new user, trying a distro or even Linux for the first time. The usual post is one that always refers to the fact that in windows it was do able however there was not a option in linux. Now on most forums this person is calmly talked off the ledge of returning to windows and given options that will perform that task with as much ease at windows is not better and faster. The people in the forums most times are fast to respond to this type of post and will in varied degrees offer a answer or a link to said problem. So distros are not as friendly and they are the ones with the RTFM answers. Those folks are the same people that a year ago had the same question and don’t remember just how bad they felt when they got that answer.

Third is a part of the second they are the experienced users that take the time to answer questions, from the basic ones to the most advanced. And they do so without a complaint. Why? They love linux they remember how it was when they started, and they are attempting to make it easier on the new users. And they do so without sitting and waiting for a slap on the back or a award for the the best helper, they do it with pride. These are the people that after a while burn out due to the fact they are the only ones answering questions they almost have to be online 24/7 and all this without a thanks or a mention.

Fourth comes the lurker the ones that may have been using a distro for a month or even a year and they sit and watch and read. They are the ones that don’t want to look silly by answering a question that they them selves had. Or for what ever reason they are shy or don’t want to get in the way. These are the people that if they just look for the questins they have had answered could answer it and take a little load off of the guru and is getting burnt out answering the same question 42 times in a row.

Fifth and this is the important one, is you the new user. before you ask a question stop and form a question that is to the point and as close to exact as you can make it, by this I mean don’t start out with a post with this suxs or not working. Try and start out with my sound is not adjustable it is either full on or full off nothing between. And then give the information needed to answer that problem, what version of the distro are you using, what is the sound card you are using a couple of additions that make answering your questions a lot easier and a lot faster. However if you want really fast do a search for the same question and yes it takes a minute to type it out and read the results, but without fail your problem has already be answered by another person and poof you are up and running. If a search doesn’t help then post it in the correct area of the forum. A video question in the compiz area is just going to get a moderator moving it and others missing it because the video gurus are watching that area not others.

Okay that is the entire basics of forums and maybe you will not be scared to ask or answer a question now. Remember the only dumb question is the one that is never asked. Have fun and enjoy.

Okay as you all know, or I hope that you do Comcast has started to enforce a bandwidth on it’s users. While a 250 gig a month cap sounds like a lot, but if you have more than one computer and more than one user, what with movie,iso’s, podcasts, chattting, IM, and streaming music the bandwidth can add up fast. While I have not as of yet done a system wide check of the bandwidth I use monthly, I do have yearly total on this machine one that sits in the living room and has very little use beyond downloading mail and some chatting and surfing. The Grand total for that is 20 gigs for the year. Not much you say but this is not a work machine it downloads no iso’s and I test a lot of different Linux distro’s in a month, not to mention the podcasts and other downloads I have on other machines. Should the providers be thinking caps at all? After all they are the ones that advertise the fast download rates they offer, the advantages of using them to download the huge DVD movies that you can now get online yeah one of those is over 7 gigs by itself , and you see how the providers offer everything under the sun to get users and then they stab the users in the back and enforce a cap for the right to use the services that they themselves have offered. While I understand that business has to make money and there is nothing wrong with that concept it is the idea of offering somethings and and once they have the users the tell them no no you use them too darn well. Will we all be under caps before long or is Comcast once again just playing bully to it’s customers? Don’t forget they have been caught more than once using unethical methods to cap users. I for one am glad I don’t have comcast and I hope I never will. Well I am off the soapbox of now and I hope that I will never have to deal with this issue in my time. Baldy

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