Adobe Labs - Downloads: Flash Player 9 Update

Yipee, the Flash Player beta is out for Linux.

1. Get the Installer for Linux
2. tar xzvf FP9_plugin_beta_101806.tar.gz
3. cd flash-player-plugin-9.0.21.55
4. locate libflashplayer.so (On Ubuntu it’s often in /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/)
5. sudo cp /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/backup.libflashplayer.so
6. sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so
7. restart firefox and you should be good to go.

The audio lag in movies seems to be gone now.  Not certain about stability yet, but it can’t be worse than before.

Naneu Pro | Camera Bag & Laptop Case Solutions

In preperation of buying a new camera, I ordered this nice little bag with some of my adsense money.  I’ll be sure to post some real pictures and a good review after it arives.

I’ve finally made a decision on which camera to buy. Now I just need to scrounge up the cash.

It’s got a nice set of features, includung in body shake reduction and a good image processor. While it’s only 6.1MP it’s price ($624) is hard to argue with and it’ll get me back to taking pictures sooner.

[update] Scott upgraded to a Canon EOS 30D so I’m buying his old camera, a Canon Rebel.

SPAM subject of the day.
Does this imply that I am a nerd?  Can Hypnosis really help me?  Am I really interested in a help?  The world may never know, the answer now lies deep inside /dev/null.

A simple project to read a POT and control a couple LEDs using the very cool looking and cheap Arduino.

Maybe the Arduino could be used to implement something like the DaysAgo Timer.

Or maybe find one of the USB Interface chips to build something fun like the USB Hampster Wheel that responds to your typing.

When you write a script to recursive grep through all the files in a tree, do not redirect the results into a file in that tree.

FreeDOS | The FreeDOS Project

FreeDOS 1.0 Yes, the FreeDOS Project has reached the “1.0″ milestone. Download FreeDOS - or buy it on CDROM. This is a very important day for FreeDOS. A lot of you have put in so much work over the years, helping to make everything perfect. Even if you didn’t contribute code, you helped out the FreeDOS Project by submitting comments and bug reports. Thank you!

For those who might care.  I haven’t booted DOS in a long time, but for those who need it this is a pretty cool thing.  Especially since MS-DOS is pretty near impossible to find these days.

25peeps.com

see the 25 peeps above? click on someone you like and we’ll send you to his or her weblog. peeps are sorted by popularity, which is based on clicks and referals. when a new peep enters the roster, the least popular peep gets pushed off the site. with a bit of luck, though, it may end up in the big 25peeps.com hall of fame. go ahead and try it yourself!

I’m up on 25peeps.com. It’ll be interesting to see how much traffic it drives.

The picture was taken while I was working on my daughter’s and my kayaks.  More info on them can be found at KayakBytes.com.

It’s not just Linux: Open Source has arrived

Open-source true believers have been saying forever that open source is the way to develop software. It turns out they’ve convinced most programmers that they’re right. According to a newly released IDC study, open source isn’t just hype; it’s now the way most developers make software.The study, which analyzed IDC surveys from over 5,000 developers in 116 countries in the spring of 2006, found that developers worldwide are increasing their use of open source. IDC found that open source-software is being used by 71 percent of the developers in the world and is in production at 54 percent of their organizations. In addition, half of the global developers claim that the use of open source is increasing in their organizations.

Amazon has dropped the price of the D200 body to $1700.

This would go nicely with the gps data logger I pointed at earlier.