This script [ubuntuforums.org] should install Flash on your 64-bit Feisty without any problem. Flash is installable by default in the upcoming Gutsy version (Ubuntu 7.10).
Things are getting easier and easier in Ubuntu. mp3 codecs are installed automatically the second you try to open an mp3 file, graphic card drivers are installed for you when you first boot up the system. Flash works practically out of the box on every Ubuntu flavour.
I still laugh when people tell me that Linux is hard to use. Yeah, Gentoo is hard to use. But the most popular distros have made leaps and bounds in the last 5 years. A comparison:
After a fresh Ubuntu install on my PC:
Graphics card is fully functional after a simple two click confirmation of restricted driver install.
Audigy 2 soundcard works perfectly.
DLink network card works perfectly.
Audio players and movie players are installed already.
Open Office is installed and ready to work.
All this takes 25 minutes, from the time I insert the install CD into the drive, to the time I am booted and logged in to my installed OS.
After a fresh install of Win XP:
I have to find my graphics card installation CD to install the drivers.
I have to find my SoundBlaster CD to install the soundcard drivers.
I need my DLink disc to install the NIC drivers, which can't be downloaded off the internet without a functionning network card, of course.
I spend a few minutes downloading and configuring iTunes/Winamp
I then spend another 5-10 minutes installing MSOffice, typing in a very long activation code.
Of course, I never said that everyone would be cured of heart disease if they exercised more and ate better, but none the less, everyone would benefit from taking such actions, and many people would reduce their risk of heart disease.
Everyone else is able to make their systems backwards-compatible, but Sony claims it's too expensive? Sorry Macguire, I'm not buying it. And by "it" I mean both your claim, and your console.
Yeah, I agree, the second part of TFA is actually more interesting. The posted bit is about an excessively intrusive, potential solution to a preventable problem (stop eating so much Mickey D's people!), but the second bit about the eye glasses, that's actually a fairly logical process.
I can't help but prefer logical, non-intrusive processes. The heart procedure is interesting, but it seems a bit much, especially considering TFA even says that they aren't quite sure if the problem is even caused by the heart expanding.
I personally have subscriptions to a few of the websites that I frequent. If a website is worth reading, I'll drop them a few dollars every month for the privledge. The fact that most people won't is nothing new. It has always been like this.
It's like the music industry's charge that music downloads are cutting into their profits. As far as I can see, most people are still paying for the music they love. Yes, I've downloaded some records, but generally it's stuff I don't know very well, or something I want to gauge the quality of prior to purchasing. If I decide it's not worth my money, the artist/label don't lose any money, because had I not downloaded the CD, I still would never have purchased it.
And most people don't run adblocks. While yes, most/.ers do, the average email-solitaire-googler out there (aka 98% of the internet population) have no idea what an adblocker even is.
But hold on... If I send them a message through my fax machine, and their fax machine produces a copy, I suppose that's a really nice way of saying they're stealing my idea.
Would that be like the "crushing" taxes that the Canadians, Cubans, British, French, Germans, and every other Western industrialized nation that does have social healthcare pay? The United States has one of the worst health care systems in the world, with many South American "third-world" countries boasting longer life expectancies and lower infant mortality rates. In Canada, we don't pay one cent for a hospital visit. In France, you can get a doctor to come to our house in under an hour. In England, not only will you not pay for a hospital visit, but they'll reimburse you for any money you may have spent coming to get help in the first place.
I don't understand why the US is so against socialized health care. You've got free government funded education, a government run postal service, government funded police and fire departments. None of this have turned you into the deadly red-menace you all fear so much. Why don't you accept that maybe this wouldn't be so bad either?
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Things are getting easier and easier in Ubuntu. mp3 codecs are installed automatically the second you try to open an mp3 file, graphic card drivers are installed for you when you first boot up the system. Flash works practically out of the box on every Ubuntu flavour.
I still laugh when people tell me that Linux is hard to use. Yeah, Gentoo is hard to use. But the most popular distros have made leaps and bounds in the last 5 years. A comparison:
After a fresh Ubuntu install on my PC:
- Graphics card is fully functional after a simple two click confirmation of restricted driver install.
- Audigy 2 soundcard works perfectly.
- DLink network card works perfectly.
- Audio players and movie players are installed already.
- Open Office is installed and ready to work.
All this takes 25 minutes, from the time I insert the install CD into the drive, to the time I am booted and logged in to my installed OS.After a fresh install of Win XP:
- I have to find my graphics card installation CD to install the drivers.
- I have to find my SoundBlaster CD to install the soundcard drivers.
- I need my DLink disc to install the NIC drivers, which can't be downloaded off the internet without a functionning network card, of course.
- I spend a few minutes downloading and configuring iTunes/Winamp
- I then spend another 5-10 minutes installing MSOffice, typing in a very long activation code.
All this takes roughly 1.5 to 2 hours.I'll stick with Ubuntu, thanks
Of course, I never said that everyone would be cured of heart disease if they exercised more and ate better, but none the less, everyone would benefit from taking such actions, and many people would reduce their risk of heart disease.
Everyone else is able to make their systems backwards-compatible, but Sony claims it's too expensive? Sorry Macguire, I'm not buying it. And by "it" I mean both your claim, and your console.
Yeah, I agree, the second part of TFA is actually more interesting. The posted bit is about an excessively intrusive, potential solution to a preventable problem (stop eating so much Mickey D's people!), but the second bit about the eye glasses, that's actually a fairly logical process. I can't help but prefer logical, non-intrusive processes. The heart procedure is interesting, but it seems a bit much, especially considering TFA even says that they aren't quite sure if the problem is even caused by the heart expanding.
the NSA is not in charge of Gundam.
Now my friend and I can be bored to tears together!
I personally have subscriptions to a few of the websites that I frequent. If a website is worth reading, I'll drop them a few dollars every month for the privledge. The fact that most people won't is nothing new. It has always been like this. It's like the music industry's charge that music downloads are cutting into their profits. As far as I can see, most people are still paying for the music they love. Yes, I've downloaded some records, but generally it's stuff I don't know very well, or something I want to gauge the quality of prior to purchasing. If I decide it's not worth my money, the artist/label don't lose any money, because had I not downloaded the CD, I still would never have purchased it. And most people don't run adblocks. While yes, most /.ers do, the average email-solitaire-googler out there (aka 98% of the internet population) have no idea what an adblocker even is.
..it's only a matter of time before we'll be able to buy clear brain casings to mod our heads! I for one welcome our brain-modded overlords.
But hold on... If I send them a message through my fax machine, and their fax machine produces a copy, I suppose that's a really nice way of saying they're stealing my idea.
Would that be like the "crushing" taxes that the Canadians, Cubans, British, French, Germans, and every other Western industrialized nation that does have social healthcare pay? The United States has one of the worst health care systems in the world, with many South American "third-world" countries boasting longer life expectancies and lower infant mortality rates. In Canada, we don't pay one cent for a hospital visit. In France, you can get a doctor to come to our house in under an hour. In England, not only will you not pay for a hospital visit, but they'll reimburse you for any money you may have spent coming to get help in the first place.
I don't understand why the US is so against socialized health care. You've got free government funded education, a government run postal service, government funded police and fire departments. None of this have turned you into the deadly red-menace you all fear so much. Why don't you accept that maybe this wouldn't be so bad either?
... seeing as I skateboard to work, should I pay a fuel tax on the food that gives me energy to push?