Use this excellent article if you are having difficulty clicking in your flash window (and you’re running Ubuntu 64 9.10):
64bit Java / Flash Deathroll | Speaking What We See.
He also rightly clears up the Java issue. This is a way to get native 64 bit installations for both Sun Java and Adobe Flash.
Even though I am a Gnome convert, I find I still use these great KDE applications since they are better (in my opinion) than their Gnome counterparts:
A little while ago I decided, finally, that I’d had enough of dealing with Microsoft Vista on my laptop (an HP Pavilion dv7). I had been running Kubuntu Jaunty (Ubuntu with the KDE4 interface) using VirtualBox, and was pretty happy with it. I thought that it worked out pretty well because Vista seemed to handle all the hardware angles and at least I could still get to Linux when I needed it (for example, to make builds for my open source application, SLiteChat). However, when giving a talk about CMake to my company’s client, and using my laptop with a projector attached, the networking decided to freeze, thus making my talk impossible to continue. That’s M$ Vista for ya. :/ Fortunately, I could switch to VirtualBox and at least illustrate stuff from the command line, but this frustrated me beyond belief. So I decided to take action and install a better OS on my system.
I just upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu Karmic. Wow what an impressive OS!!!!! I also moved away from KDE, and well you know what? Gnome works really really well, so much better than KDE 4, I’m sad to say. And I was a big KDE fan up until recently!
SLiteChat is at version 1.4.0 (soon to make a maintenance release 1.4.1). Check out at http://slitechat.dooglio.net/download/
I didn’t realize that someone had video taped my Gtkmm talk that I gave back in 2006 to PenLUG, but here it is:
http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Home/MeetingAgenda20060622
You can find the HTML of the talk here:
http://www.lugod.org/presentations/gtkmm/
For grins, here is the embedded Google Video:
From the article:
The open-source KDE desktop environment is making the jump across platforms with broad support for Windows and Mac OS X. The core KDE desktop programs, the KOffice suite, and the Amarok music player are actively being ported.
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From the article
InfoWorld launches drive to save Windows XP
The clock is ticking for Windows XP, the tried-and-true Microsoft operating system that millions of businesses and individuals depend on. Soon, the only Windows option will be Vista, an operating system that businesses as well as individuals have disliked and often avoided. The lackluster changes to Vista, coupled with the high costs of switching tens of millions of computers to it, have convinced InfoWorld that XP should not be retired as planned on June 30.
I am beginning to believe that Microsoft should just scrap Vista, writing it off as a bad idea. Why scrap a perfectly good, tried and tested OS for a version full of bugs with a huge footprint requiring all new hardware? Where is the benefit? Microsoft forgot about their customers.
Anyway, here is the petition: http://www.accelacomm.com/… if you’re interested–I signed it (but I’d rather run Linux! 
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By Paul McDougall, InformationWeek
Jan. 9, 2008
URL: http://www.informationweek.com/…
From the article:
First off, Microsoft needs to realize that less can be more–especially when it comes to PC operating systems–and start designing products accordingly. Surveys and anecdotal evidence suggest that many users have rejected Vista because of its bulk and resource requirements
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