[K12OSN] Slow flash on terminal?

[Peter Hartmann]

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

Yes. The sad truth is for the lower grades (at this elementary school
anyway) the computer is mainly a platform for Flash, so....not much of
an option there.


> Oh, and now Adobe's -- get this -- pushing for new Digital Restrictions
> Management (DRM) in Flash!
>

That's horrible. But the upside is maybe if they ruin it, it will
motivate people to develop a free alternative, not something that will
always strive to, but never attain compatibility due to the nature of
closed source.  Won't the Gnash people just always be in a state of
catch up, trying to accommodate the new features that Adobe
implements?


Peter


2008/4/19 "Terrell Prudé Jr." <microman at cmosnetworks.com>:
>
>  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....
>
>  --TP
>
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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
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>
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