state of flash on FreeBSD 7?

2008-03-15 Thread C Thala
Like Javascript, with regards to Flash, what was once a nuisance has more or less become a necessity. I turned off JS on my browsers for several years and avoided most popup/web issues that people had. Nowadays, I can leave it on because Firefox plus some plugins do a good job of blocking most of

Re: state of flash on FreeBSD 7?

2008-03-15 Thread E. J. Cerejo
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:09:00 -0400 C Thala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Like Javascript, with regards to Flash, what was once a nuisance has > more or less become a necessity. > > I turned off JS on my browsers for several years and avoided most > popup/web issues that people had. Nowadays, I can

Re: state of flash on FreeBSD 7?

2008-03-16 Thread LtCdData
On Sunday 16 March 2008 00:09, C Thala wrote: Like Javascript, with regards to Flash, what was once a nuisance has more or less become a necessity. I turned off JS on my browsers for several years and avoided most popup/web issues that people had. Nowadays, I can leave it on because Firefox plus s

Re: state of flash on FreeBSD 7?

2008-03-16 Thread LtCdData
On Sunday 16 March 2008 00:09, C Thala wrote: Like Javascript, with regards to Flash, what was once a nuisance has more or less become a necessity. I turned off JS on my browsers for several years and avoided most popup/web issues that people had. Nowadays, I can leave it on because Firefox plus s

Re: state of flash on FreeBSD 7?

2008-03-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 02:55:20PM +, LtCdData wrote: > > So what's the deal with Flash? Occasionally, I will get a link on > YouTube/Google Video that looks interesting, but for the most part, > I've ignored them. Over the years, I have occasionally tried the > mozilla flash plugin, but that

Re: state of flash on FreeBSD 7?

2008-03-16 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:15:34 +0100 Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For youtube, you can use the www/youtube-dl port to download them, and > mplayer to play them. I just want to watch them. I've friends on youtube and kids who make movies of their 3days vacation i.e. Don't want to downlo

Re: state of flash on FreeBSD 7?

2008-03-16 Thread Gerard
On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:15:34 +0100 Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 02:55:20PM +, LtCdData wrote: > > > > So what's the deal with Flash? Occasionally, I will get a link on > > YouTube/Google Video that looks interesting, but for the most part, > > I've ignored

Re: state of flash on FreeBSD 7?

2008-03-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 06:17:22PM +0100, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:15:34 +0100 > Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > For youtube, you can use the www/youtube-dl port to download them, and > > mplayer to play them. > > I just want to watch them. I've friends on you

Re: state of flash on FreeBSD 7?

2008-03-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 16/03/2008, Dick Hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I think it's a pity fbsd people > tend to ignore modern internet. I think it's a pity that "modern internet" tends to ignore rfc1855, but that won't likely soon change, so put modern internet on a boat with a reliably diverse cast of lik

Re: state of flash on FreeBSD 7?

2008-03-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 01:37:03PM -0400, Gerard wrote: > On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:15:34 +0100 > Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 02:55:20PM +, LtCdData wrote: > > > > > > So what's the deal with Flash? Occasionally, I will get a link on > > > YouTube/Google

Re: state of flash on FreeBSD 7?

2008-03-16 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
I Think the real trouble here is that Adobe, does not want to make us a native FreeBSD version. I bought into the whole FreeBSD is not popular enough thing for awhile, but then I thought wait a minute. Nvidia has a FreeBSD binary Driver, surely there are more FreeBSD users that want to browse the w

Re: state of flash on FreeBSD 7?

2008-03-16 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:32:06 +0200 Ion-Mihai Tetcu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your mails are constantly marked as spam because of spamhaus' PBL > http://www.spamhaus.org/pbl/query/PBL169796 Too bad for spamhaus that they can't make a difference between legitimate mail and real spam. Not my faul

Re: state of flash on FreeBSD 7?

2008-03-16 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:32:06 +0200 Ion-Mihai Tetcu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe you can remove your IP from the list on the page above ? DONE. OK, Removal Pending The IP address has been added to the PBL Removals database. Please allow 30 minutes for servers around the world to update th

Re: state of flash on FreeBSD 7?

2008-03-16 Thread Robert Huff
Sam Fourman Jr. writes: > I Think the real trouble here is that Adobe, does not want to > make us a native FreeBSD version. The last time I looked into this: Adobe does not (seem to) have a problem with FreeBSD; indeed, I got the impression they barely know we exist. Wh

Re: state of flash on FreeBSD 7?

2008-03-16 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:40:42 +0100 Dick Hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:32:06 +0200 > Ion-Mihai Tetcu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Your mails are constantly marked as spam because of spamhaus' PBL > > http://www.spamhaus.org/pbl/query/PBL169796 > > Too bad for

Re: state of flash on FreeBSD 7?

2008-03-18 Thread C Thala
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 11:17 AM, LtCdData <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After a long time of putting up with crashing browsers and lack of access to > flash content I need, I am now using firefox / opera with flash for window$ > under WINE, and the only thing I am thinking is, why did I not do t