After upgrading to Flash 10 sound stopped working. Installing the flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound package solved that problem for me: aptitude install flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound If your using pulse audio, install the flashplugin-nonfree-pulse package. It doesn’t look like the Debian flash plug-in suggests either package: apt-cache show flashplugin-nonfree|more Package: flashplugin-nonfree Priority: optional Section: contrib/web … Suggests: iceweasel, konqueror-nsplugins, x-ttcidfont-conf, msttcorefonts, [...]

Two great videos on YouTube about the Golden Frogs and 2 scientists attempts to save frogs affected by the chytrid fungus, a fungus that is affecting and killing and driving many of the worlds frogs to extinction. Part One: Part Two: See my previous posting about the Panamanian Golden Frog: http://timony.com/mickzblog/2008/02/02/waving-frog-waves-for-the-last-time/

A friend forwarded the e-mail below to me. It looks like there is a beta or prerelease of the Linux version of Adobe Air available. However, poking around Adobe’s site I can’t any references to this release and Googling hasn’t turned up anything useful (except for doc from last year saying Air for Linux will [...]

Sad: The Panamanian golden frog communicates with other frogs by semaphore in the form of gentle hand waves. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7219803.stm What’s is amazing is that they took video of them in the wild before the last wild populations were destroyed by a fungi: … after filming for the BBC One series Life In Cold Blood, the [...]

Flash 9 was released a few days ago and Debian has packages to install it! But, it, at least for me, hasn’t made it’s way out to the repositories. You can download the package using wget: wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/contrib/f/flashplugin-nonfree/flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.31.0.1_i386.deb Then install it using dpkg either as root or using sudo: sudo dpkg -i flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.31.0.1_i386.deb Also, make [...]