Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] not smart enough to update adobe

2013-09-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-09-20 at 17:38 -0500, Joseph Ronne wrote: Tried 'start page' .. for Zimboanga it gives ads and zero information.. a pretty poor showing as a search engine About 10 results with family filter enabled, the same with family filter disabled. The advantage of Google might be this:

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] not smart enough to update adobe

2013-09-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2013-09-21 at 08:11 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2013-09-20 at 17:38 -0500, Joseph Ronne wrote: Tried 'start page' .. for Zimboanga it gives ads and zero information.. a pretty poor showing as a search engine About 10 results with family filter enabled, the same with family

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] not smart enough to update adobe

2013-09-21 Thread Joseph Ronne
thanks .. works nice after resetting a search parameter On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 1:24 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.netwrote: On Sat, 2013-09-21 at 08:11 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2013-09-20 at 17:38 -0500, Joseph Ronne wrote: Tried 'start page' .. for Zimboanga it

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] not smart enough to update adobe

2013-09-21 Thread Pete Wright
Monster crawler: http://monstercrawler.com/ gives spartan but useful results distilled from main engines. Duckduckgo: https://duckduckgo.com/ also claims privacy, gives decent results But (dare I say it?) richest result seemed to be from Bing (and this morning it also gave me a wonderful

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] not smart enough to update adobe

2013-09-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-09-20 at 10:39 +0200, reSet Sakrecoer wrote: What is inside that tar.gz file? doubleclick it and see if you find some .deb file. Then mostlikley you just need to unpack the tar.gz file and double click it. It's irrelevant what's inside the tar.gz, since all major distros,

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] not smart enough to update adobe

2013-09-20 Thread Pete Wright
Thanks, all. Good to hear that things are as automatic as I had come to believe. I generally ignore everything Adobe, and would have this time, but the nag came from the Mozilla folks, and I tend to trust them. Again, thanks to all for the guidance. This is a great group. cheers Pete On Fri, Sep

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] not smart enough to update adobe

2013-09-20 Thread leo
rather than Adobe Flash Player then? Regards, Leo Newburn From: Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net To: ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 3:44 AM Subject: Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] not smart enough to update adobe

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] not smart enough to update adobe

2013-09-20 Thread Hazan Pérez
Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net *To:* ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com *Sent:* Friday, September 20, 2013 3:44 AM *Subject:* Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] not smart enough to update adobe On Fri, 2013-09-20 at 10:39 +0200, reSet Sakrecoer wrote: What is inside that tar.gz file? doubleclick

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] not smart enough to update adobe

2013-09-20 Thread Pete Wright
Many can. _I suspect that YouTube videos that start with a commercial, can't be played without flash._ On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.netwrote: On Fri, 2013-09-20 at 08:59 -0700, leo wrote: [Ralf wrote]: The best thing to do, is to ignore home

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] not smart enough to update adobe

2013-09-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-09-20 at 11:54 -0500, Hazan Pérez wrote: To answer this... You can activate the HTML5 playback in youtube in this webpage http://www.youtube.com/html5 Firefox (version 4+, WebM, available here) Google Chrome (WebM, available here) Opera (version 10.6+, WebM, available here) At

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] not smart enough to update adobe

2013-09-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-09-20 at 19:37 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2013-09-20 at 11:54 -0500, Hazan Pérez wrote: To answer this... You can activate the HTML5 playback in youtube in this webpage http://www.youtube.com/html5 Firefox (version 4+, WebM, available here) Google Chrome (WebM,

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] not smart enough to update adobe

2013-09-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-09-20 at 08:59 -0700, leo wrote: [Ralf wrote]: The best thing to do, is to ignore home pages that need flash player for flashy effects or to play videos with advertisements and/or proprietary codecs, all the rest, e.g. playing YouTube videos, can be done with HTML5. My

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] not smart enough to update adobe

2013-09-20 Thread Joseph Ronne
Tried 'start page' .. for Zimboanga it gives ads and zero information.. a pretty poor showing as a search engine On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Kaj Ailomaa zeque...@mousike.me wrote: Visit http://youtube.com/html5 Not all videos are available in html5 On Fri, Sep 20, 2013, at 05:59 PM,

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] not smart enough to update adobe

2013-09-20 Thread leo
, September 20, 2013 4:38 PM Subject: Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] not smart enough to update adobe Tried 'start page' ..  for Zimboanga it gives ads and zero information.. a pretty poor showing as a search engine On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Kaj Ailomaa zeque...@mousike.me wrote: Visit http

[ubuntu-studio-users] not smart enough to update adobe

2013-09-19 Thread Pete Wright
Mozilla newsletter today said check plugins so I did. It said adobe shockwave plugin was out of date. I downloaded the tar.gz file, but now I don't know what to do with it. (couldn't make head nor sense of the instructions on Mozilla support.) I thought Linux was going to become easier than

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] not smart enough to update adobe

2013-09-19 Thread Mike Holstein
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Pete Wright pnwri...@gmail.com wrote: Mozilla newsletter today said check plugins so I did. It said adobe shockwave plugin was out of date. I downloaded the tar.gz file, but now I don't know what to do with it. (couldn't make head nor sense of the instructions

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] not smart enough to update adobe

2013-09-19 Thread Pete Wright
thanks, Mike Problem is Mozilla says it is vulnerable whatever that means. Might this just be a MS Windows issue I can safely ignore? On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Mike Holstein mikeh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Pete Wright pnwri...@gmail.com wrote: Mozilla

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] not smart enough to update adobe

2013-09-19 Thread Mike Holstein
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Pete Wright pnwri...@gmail.com wrote: thanks, Mike Problem is Mozilla says it is vulnerable whatever that means. Might this just be a MS Windows issue I can safely ignore? i would see that you are up to date with upgrade.. flash, java, the linux kernel..

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] not smart enough to update adobe

2013-09-19 Thread Pete Wright
Thanks, Mike On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Mike Holstein mikeh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Pete Wright pnwri...@gmail.com wrote: thanks, Mike Problem is Mozilla says it is vulnerable whatever that means. Might this just be a MS Windows issue I can safely

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] not smart enough to update adobe

2013-09-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I don't install Adobe flash player. YouTube videos likely can be played by Firefox without Adobe flash player and assumed it's needed by a web page, then Linux anyway doesn't provide an up-to-date version and believing Adobe, there never will be an updated version for Linux again. If I ever should