Archive for May 11th, 2012
Did You Notice Any RSS Feed Problems?
Posted by Ed in Administrivia on 11-May-2012
Normally, about 100-150 people arrive here every day through the RSS syndication feature, mostly looking at the daily post.
Over the last two weeks (more or less), that number dropped to 10-50. I prefer to believe something has gone wrong with the WordPress RSS mechanism, rather than that 100 readers suddenly vanished. Of course, the wordpress.com Happiness Engineers can’t find anything amiss…
If you use the RSS feed and experienced any recent problems, please leave a comment explaining the situation.
Thanks!
Adobe Flash for Linux: Parting Gift
Posted by Ed in PC Tweakage, Software on 11-May-2012
Very recently, Youtube videos (including mine) took on a Smurf aspect: blue skin tones and other weird colors. I don’t spend a lot of time watching videos, but I’m pulling together a talk and wanted to be sure my videos still worked.
- Adobe is dropping Flash for Linux after version 11.2
- The most recent update swapped the UV color channels
- Adobe can’t reproduce the problem, hence no fix is in the offing
At least for Youtube videos, one can turn on their HTML5 video option to avoid Flash, but that doesn’t fix the other issues.
The recommended FlashVideoReplacer plugin didn’t work for me in Xubuntu 10.10, alas.
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