(OT)Re: Number One Bug and the Olympics

Knapp magick.crow at gmail.com
Sat Aug 16 13:06:27 UTC 2008


On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 3:59 AM, Michael Haney <thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wasn't there supposed to be a Linux version of Micro$oft's
> Silverlight?  I forget what its called but I'm certain I've heard of
> it before.  I watched the opening ceremony of the Olympics on my Vista
> (ack) laptop and was very impressed with the show.  Best opening
> ceremony of any Olympics I've watched ever.  The Chinese have really
> shown what they are truly capable of.
>
> Anywho, I was sort of impressed with Silverlight.  It worked pretty
> well, a FAST, especially in Firefox 3.  I've had problems with Flash
> in the past on WinXP, Vista, and Ubuntu.  Recently upgraded to Flash10
> on my Vista machine and many of those problems have done away.  The
> main one is random lockups and BSOD when watching Flash video in full
> screen for too long.  With Flash10 that's gone.  Can't wait for
> Flash10 for Linux to come out of Beta.  I'm impressed with its Windows
> counterpart, its faster and uses less system resources.
>
> --
> Michael "TheZorch" Haney
>  <thezorch at gmail.com>


I would say that was a good thing until Silverlight takes over the internet
and Linux users are forced to pay MS for the rights to surf the net.

-- 
Douglas E Knapp

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