Flash 9 on Linux?

May 27th, 2006

It looks like Adobe is continuing Macromedia’s plans to release flash on Linux. Hopefully they don’t flake on this. Flash support on opne-source platforms is pretty awful at this point. It works for the basics, but the only people who rely on the “basics” these days are banner ads 🙂

Flash on Linux would really make my life easier here at work. Most of my employer’s games have flash front ends and they almost never run properly in natively in Linux (they do ok under Wine).

Ideally projects like (or the other fl/oss flash projects would get some tracktion going and catch up with the comercial versions from Adobe (formerly Macromedia).

Link:
Emmy Huang: Yes, Virginia, there will be a Flash Player 9 for Linux

Fibertel Sucks

May 25th, 2006

I have 2.5Mb cable modem service from Fibertel here. Its decent, but their 2.5Mb service seems about the same speed as my 384K service in LA.

The most annoying part though is that they have some sort of transparent proxy that prevents me from being able to see many web sites. Its especially annoying when I work from home because I make changes to websites and don’t see them for 1-2 days.

Its insanely annoying.