How I installed the flash plugin - libflashplayer.so

These are the official instructions.

I applied the instructions for tar.gz.

I got the archive from the Adobe website, I unpackaged it, moved it to the plugins folder of my browser, checked it had the right permissions, and then restarted the browser and checked the about:config page: everything had gone well.

• tar -xzvf flashplayer_square_p2_64bit_linux_092710.tar.gz
• cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/
• sudo chown root:root /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

What I found in the about:plugins page:

Shockwave Flash

File: libflashplayer.so

Version:

Shockwave Flash 10.2 d161

MIME Type	Description	Suffixes	Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash	Shockwave Flash	swf	Yes
application/futuresplash	FutureSplash Player	spl	Yes

Turn a good app bad

What happened to Amarok? It is really frustrating to see a good, working application turn into something slow, hard to work with and lacking some of its greatest features.


==============

 Two months later, Clementine saves the day.

Snapfish

Or Moo?

So, I'm getting married, and wanted to make custom invitations, which would basically be a different greeting card for each guest, made from photos we took over the years (not photos of us, but photos we took during walks and trips - it's one of the things we've been doing and enjoying from the start).

I remembered Flickr was working with a printing service provider, remembered it was called Moo and began investigating if they're what I need. For once, I learn Flickr had "been busy pushing hard their printing relationship with Snapfish". I still want Moo and check out their site and what they can do. Their website looks great, they can ship from the UK which was a great advantage to me... BUT our invitation text didn't fit. As to-the-point as our text was, we needed more words to fit on the Moo greeting cards. I even used their contact/feedback form to inquire whether there was anything I missed trying to edit the text. I did get a prompt reply saying that unfortunately it wasn't possible.

So I felt I got stuck with using Snapfish, a service that seemed to be preferred by Flickr now. It was rather difficult to find the template we needed (it is Full Photo 5x7 folded Greeting Card), but then it was a nice surprise that we could edit in our text as we wanted. For the back of the card, we added a rsvp note with contact info to confirm presence, and we needed to use the smallest font for that, but it was still fine. SO, Snapfish it was!

We uploaded the photos, and then figured out how to make all of our ~25 different invitations. We had to make them... one by one. It would have been excellent to be able to make one - put the photo, add in the text, save as a template and then just go and change the photo for the rest. But, we made them... one by one. Oh, and the flash text editor they've got doesn't allow for entering diacritics, so I wrote the text separately and then pasted it in - that turned to be OK, since the text needed to be entered every time and pasting was a way to ensure the text was consistent and correct. The size for the text, and alignment, needed to be specified for each card. I can't stress how annoying the creation of (you'd think... just) 25 cards was.

A good thing was that we did get the proper discount for number of cards (I was worried that it only applies to 20/50+ identical cards, but it applied no matter what the photo of each card was). Paying and specifying actual order details went as smooth as with any other service that respects itself.

12 Days later ( USA - Romania), we received the cards, paid no extra fees at the postal/customs office (package marked as gift), and they were of excellent quality. We loved them and so did every future guest of ours.

If they didn't have a rather shitty (pardon my French) editor for these cards (the entire website is much of a let-down for this era of the web, if you asked me) and if they shipped from EU as well, I'd be more than happy to have them as a favourite provider for my other printing needs (photos or postcards for the Postcrossing project, for example). But I'll try Moo next.

Self

Today was warm and inspiring.

Ro Movies

In the last couple of month, I watched some romanian movies:

• Eu când vreau să fluier, fluier - excellent
• A fost sau n-a fost - would recommend
• Poliţist, adjectiv - would not necessarily recommend
• WebSite Story - would recommend

Learning to code

When you have an old unfixed bug and a new one which you're trying to fix, and you are not quite sure if they're related but suspect so, chances are... they are (the second one is not that much of a bug but a side effect of your first). Do your best to fix the old (possibly lower priority) bug first. It may save you some time. It did for me today.

The tickets are now diamonds

Great Old Spice commercial http://www.youtube.com/user/oldspice#p/u/1/owGykVbfgUE
So much fun.

{seen at famapa}

Six-Word Memoires

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123289019&sc=emaf

My favourite in the list:

Overworked and underpaid,
Oversexed and underlaid.
Victoria Hansen

And, from the comments:

Robert Grote (redoak) wrote:

What will they say about me?

Mon Feb 8 10:07:49 2010

Never work around a workaround

Needless to say I learned it the hard way. The right approach should always be to remove the workaround and go the straight way.

The complexity has to go somewhere

The complexity has to go somewhere, either in the language, in libraries, or in application code.

One of my favourite posts from John D. Cook - Conservation of complexity.

Google reader on Opera glitch?

I've been using Opera (9.64, Linux) for a couple of days and I noticed something a bit annoying about the Google reader interface. A few seconds after I share an item and add a comment, the comment view turns bold - new comments have been made... But it's MY comment. I get excited over nothing :(. AFAIK, this doesn't happen with Firefox. I really need to check out google reader groups / support.

Later: It just happened under Firefox too. How to reproduce, how to reproduce...

Google Calendar oops

Although I find their "oops" endearing at times, it looks a bit annoying and unprofessional the moment it happens.

Lisa Kokin

Impressive. I don't get it :((, but it looks amazing.

{via design milk}

Short movies

A thousand words

Charlotte's Red

The Yellow Smiley Face 

Great resource [romanian]: http://scurtmetraj.com/

GMail labels glitch. Sad.

:(
I can't apply a label to multiple elements if at least one already has that label. I deselect the items that are already labeled, apply the label and then carry on (reselecting "All", and archiving in this case). Sad.

[using Firefox]

LE: THERE'S AN "APPLY" BUTTON!! Just noticed it, and it does the job right...

Walk with Me

The city sometimes feels bright, and clean.

Last weekend's walk was pretty boring.

It had a promising start though:

I saw that in front of a block of flats near where I live, and on the way to the park. Someone planted flowers, made bird houses, turned the area into a nice little garden... and had *that thing* to watch over it.

The rest of the walk was boring.

But it ended with a smile:

The following day holds more photos from the road...

Belonging to a series of more "Missing Ones":

And something else of an "All around commercial" theme:

I am so tempted to make comments on it. Ah, the pectorals and that skull! 

On the way back this caught my eye:

The following week is my birthday weekend, which starts with a walk that took me around campus.

It's hard to enjoy it when you're a student there, and I always assumed that people like these never went to school here:

I love the photo, esp. desaturated like this.

And then I move on and get amused and inspired by these:

I love all things that feel Broken:

Passing one dorm building:

No, I don't usually see flags around unless it's National Day.

And the horror continues. I have no decent sense of fashion whatsoever, but this has got to be wrong:

Who knows why we do the things we do.

Broken:

I don't get this:

Ah, more inspirational stuff:

One in my Windows series:

Surprising colours:

Another broken home:

And this looks like it had been there for ages:

And then there's the walk next day. I'll leave that to another time.

Firefox Segmentation Fault

Firefox exits with a segmentation fault when my home folder is full. Ugh.

I dropped it

I dropped my...


Inspired by xkcd, created under Google Spreadsheets, with Google results number for "I dropped my <object>".

Boy, the chivalry today.

Alo? Vodafone? Aici userul 4096

De când au pus noua interfaţă pentru utilizatori, pe vodafone.ro au fost destule probleme. Am fost extrem de tolerantă şi nici nu am făcut screenshoturi. Dar acum e oarecum amuzant.

Nu merge brd-net.ro şi voiam să verific dacă s-a plătit ok factura vodafone. Aşa că mi-am zis să intru chiar pe vodafone.ro.

Surpriză:


Ia să vedem mai departe:


Limită de 4096 de conexiuni. Nu ştiu să apreciez dacă e mult sau puţin, cert e ca nu e nici 6 dimineaţa, şi mă îndoiesc că sunt atâţia utilizatori conectaţi.


Ugh, that's a no-no!

Am dat să intru direct pe pagina de login, care evident ducea la aceeaşi chestie, însă cu adevărat user unfriendly:


Ugh.

Random and quick

• Being a huge T9 fan, I can't wait to see Swype get popular.
• The vodafone website doesn't cease to amaze me, I'll add the screenshot soon.
  
• I got myself a new album and a book. I've listened to the album (it's actually a 1992 one), I'm having trouble with the book.
• I got myself a supposed-to-be-pretty dress, and a bag. Need shoes!
• Time is running out, gotta get tickets to see Leonard Cohen.