One of the first things your going to need with Ubuntu 9.10 is FLASH player. I’m still not real happy with Ubuntu and Adobe on this mess; it’s just stupid.

How in the world is a new person to Ubuntu to understand half the gibberish crap about terminal commands, the tweaks to get the FLASH player installed?

While the Ubuntu forums are swarmed with them… this is what I did, it worked and it was painless in comparison to going to Adobe’s website to install the latest .DEB.

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OCZ has announced the introduction of its high-performance Z-Drive SSDs, a new line of PCI Express solid state drives which the company first showcased earlier this year at CeBIT. Available in 250GB, 500GB and 1TB capacities, the new offering comprises of up to four 256GB drives set up in a RAID 0 array and housed inside a graphics-card like enclosure, which hooks up to the system via a PCIe x4 link.

The drives are based on MLC NAND flash memory and feature a built-in 256MB cache to help speed things along. For all three models, the sustained write speed is specified at 200MB/s but maximum read and write specs vary depending on their capacity. The 500GB version, for example, is the fastest of the bunch with max read and write speeds rated at 510MB/s and 480MB/s respectively. No prices have been officially announced, but according to listings from a French online retailer, they should cost around €1400, €2200 and €3400.

via OCZ intros Z-Drive SSDs with up to 510MB/s speeds – TechSpot News.

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64-bit PC’s and laptops are hitting the market consistently now. 64-bit systems are flooding the market, just one of the lacking points is the development of a 64-bit browsers and their components.

It’s pretty obvious that the software developers don’t place a lot of emphasis on this fact.

The natural evolution of software says you’ve got to go to 64-bit . You might as well take advantage of another processor and resources; resulting in faster and a more responsive browsing experience.

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I guess I’m among the early few that have a 64-bit operating system. While I can benefit from the speed and the additional resources, I have to put up with the shortcomings of various software providers.

I was looking to take advantage of my system and it’s resources, so I recently downloaded Mozilla’s version of the 64-bit browser called Minefield. It’s an early version of Firefox 64-bit… surely it’ll eventually be renamed to Firefox as it should.

Installing Minefield is no different than installing Firefox, but Minefield obviously performs a lot better in its native environment, but people like myself can’t take full advantage of a web browser like this because Adobe doesn’t provide a 64-bit version of their flash player. This makes using Minefield a problem in most cases.

I can’t watch interactive or rich media, and I can’t watch videos from YouTube. I’m not interested in playing flash games online, but if I were, this would not be my browser.

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In the early days of the Internet, you had no choice on your type of connection. The only connection to the outside world was through dial up communications. Once the genie was let out of the bottle, the general population found out they could do research, download songs, get the news, download recipes, weather and search for just about anything, it was the ISP’s that sprang to life.

Early on the ISP’s were dealing with a fixed rate user. Dialup could only provide about 6kps and telephone/ISP’s could easily charge for Internet service by the hour, but the real issue came up when high-speed Internet service was introduced; evolving to unlimited usage. The issue wasn’t if the service was unlimited or not it’s how fast could you get that information. It was a dog race from there… Read more…

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The process of getting new devices and toys to play with on your computer are always so fun. You get a neat little device with a driver disc; you load the driver disc, install the drivers and then plug in your new toy and wha-la!

But alas, what’s to become of your driver disc? I mean the device is loaded, what do you do with the disc? Will you need it again? Probably. Will you be able to find it? Probably not. Or can you find it and it was used a dogs chew toy because you didn’t put it back in it’s case and take care of it…

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Once in a while you run across exceptional service and support from various software or hardware providers and for a moment your faith in corporate tech support is exonerated, but this is not one of those tails. This is a story of complete and utter failure; an example of the inability to read, absence of an a positive IQ and a barrage of unrelated canned responses will get you.

Allow me to set the stage, I purchased a $90 webcam from CREATIVE in Nov 2008. It was a CREATIVE LIVE CAM PRO Aptia. It’s a high resolution webcam, autofocus, face tracking, animation add-ons and more; supposedly. The reason I purchased the webcam was because I have a 64-bit system I had just purchased and all the normal webcams weren’t working; I had already tried 3 prior and I wanted a good one. And life is full of bad choices aren’t they..

If you’re brave enough to keep reading, this is really funny. This is a support thread of case KMM18331722I15977L0KM from the support staff at CREATIVE.

So thank you for reading and I’m sorry I had to post this as a news article…

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