[K12OSN] Slow flash on terminal?

["Terrell Prudé Jr."]

It sucks, Dave, but I happen to agree with you. 

This is yet *another* reason to avoid proprietary formats like the
plague.  Oh, and now Adobe's -- get this -- pushing for new Digital
Restrictions Management (DRM) in Flash!

  http://www.gnashdev.org/?q=node/51

If only actual IT people made the actual IT decisions....

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David Hopkins wrote:
> True, but I'm not in a position to tell teachers that they cannot have
> sound or flash-delivered content on the thin clients.  If I try, I'll
> get the dreaded "But the Windows systems work" statement and that
> could be a prelude to ending the thin client usage completely.  Since
> the State firewall/proxy is filtering content and blocking almost
> every possible site with questionable content, it is a risk I'll
> accept until the issues with .124 (slowness and sound) are sorted out.
>
> Sincerely,
> Dave Hopkins
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Robert Arkiletian <robark at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On 4/18/08, David Hopkins <dahopkins429 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  > Adobe has an archive file of all their older flash installs at Adobe's
>>  >  website http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14266
>>  >
>>  >  I ran rpm to uninstall the .115 versionm and the downloaded the Flash
>>  >  Player 9 archive, unzipped it. I cd'ed to the 9r48 archive directory,
>>  >  unzipped the  file located there, and ran the install script.  Things
>>  >  'just worked' after that for flash.
>>  >
>>
>>  Unfortunately, anything below .124 has serious vulnerabilities:
>>
>>  http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb08-11.html
>>
>>
>>  --
>>  Robert Arkiletian
>>  Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada
>>  Fl_TeacherTool http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/Fl_TeacherTool/
>>  C++ GUI tutorial http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/
>>
>>
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