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[kbun at xpresso.seaslug.org]

On Mon, 29 Jul 2013, Nils Kassube wrote:

> kbun at xpresso.seaslug.org wrote:
>> The latest versions of flash software use sse and sse2.
>>
>> The problem? I have a Pentium 3. Processors under Pentium
>> 4 _don't_have_ sse2 or further up.
>>
>> Don't you just love commercial programmers who can't be
>> bothered to write for everyone, just those who have the
>> newest, latest, greatest machines?
>
> I don't think it is limited to commercial programmers. After all the
> current 32bit Ubuntu kernel doesn't support machines without PAE any
> more. And I think calling something with SSE2 "the newest, latest,
> greatest machine" is a bit of an exaggeration. From
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE2>:
>
> | SSE2, Streaming SIMD Extensions 2, is one of the Intel SIMD (Single
> | Instruction, Multiple Data) processor supplementary instruction sets
> | first introduced by Intel with the initial version of the Pentium 4 in
> | 2001.
> ^^^^
> That SSE2 feature you're missing is more than a decade old.
>
> BTW: Did you try to watch the flash videos with gnash? Maybe the open
> source version can play the videos and maybe it still supports your
> ancient hardware.

Thanks for the extra info. Gnash doesn't seem to like
firefox, or maybe it's the opposite. Anyway, it don't
work. Gnash does *sorta* work with chrome. It jumps
around, stuttering like crazy, and it gets worse if you
even think about using the mouse for anything. At least
I can use it to check if I want to use downloadhelper in
firefox on it, which does still work. Chrome doesn't
seem to have that function for linux, just everyone else,
which is one of my beefs with it.

That, and the fact that it _still_ keeps hy-jacking
my system. I've been told that you can in

system settings --> file associations --> text for HTML

you can make something point to something else in order
to cure that, but there's nothing obvious that shows
what or how to do that.

Bill