Daily Archives: July 7, 2006

Making Flash 8 and 9 Work on Linux

By | Published: July 7, 2006

The idea for this came from a discussion with Paul Sladen at a recent meeting of Hampshire Linux User Group. A collegue of mine has recently installed Linux and has a website which uses a flash based gallery system. Unfortunately the gallery requires a modern version of the Flash player from Adobe (formerly Macromedia). …

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Oh Jono with your persuasive ways

By | Published: July 7, 2006

I’m off to LUGRadio Live. The premiere UK-based Linux show.

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My Sick Dell Inspiron XPS Gen 2 Laptop

By popey | Published: July 7, 2006

UPDATE: Follow up articles:- http://popey.com/blog/2006/07/10/My_broken_Dell_Laptop_part_2/, http://popey.com/blog/2006/07/20/Joined_up_Dell_support/, http://popey.com/blog/2010/03/08/roast-laptop/

My gorgeous (but massive) Dell Inspiron XPS Gen 2 has a problem. It locked up on me the other day. I thought this might be a software problem of some kind. These things happen now and again. However after rebooting to clear the problem it didn’t go away. …

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