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The perpetual Flash problem with Ubuntu

Posted November 6, 2010 at 2:46 pm in General | No Comments

If any of you have recently updated your Ubuntu packages, you may have found a previous working instance of Adobe Flash player to now be broken. This problem seems to have occurred with 32 and 64-bit versions.

The solution that worked for my system was to run the following command:

sudo dpkg --configure -a

You’ll see a bunch of packages being downloaded/updated/etc. In particular you’ll notice the following:

2010-11-06 15:34:54 (1007 KB/s) - `./adobe-flashplugin_10.1.102.64.orig.tar.gz' saved [4970105/4970105]

Download done.
Flash Plugin installed.

Restart your web browser and Flash should once again be working.

Only $260 for $2.3M?!? Hook, line & sinker

Posted June 19, 2010 at 12:08 am in General | No Comments

The following e-mail was sitting in my Spam folder and I thought it seemed like a good read. After all, it is from the Director of the FBI, Mr. Robert S. Mueller III. A quick summary of my favorite parts include:

  • “As a result of this we hereby advise you to stop communication with any one not referred to you by us”
  • “We guarantee 100% receipt of your payment, because we have perfected everything in regards to the release of your Two million and three hundred thousand us dollars to be 100% risk free and free from any hitches as its our duty to protect citizens of the United States of America”
  • The portion where I am provided with two FedEx tracking numbers to help “prove” that people are receiving their money (both “packages” were received Nov 11, 2009 — one in Stillwater, OK and the other in Baltimore, MD).
  • “Help stop cyber crime.”

Now that’s what I like to call going above and beyond the call of duty. Without further ado, the e-mail: Continue reading..

Remedying the Windows dual-boot clock

Posted June 13, 2010 at 8:17 am in General | No Comments

If you have a dual-boot setup and are switching back and forth between Windows (XP in my case) and Linux/OS X you’ll notice that Windows is unable to set the clock to the correct time after switching from Linux/OS X to Windows. This can be a real headache at times when you look at the clock and think it’s 5 hours later in the day than it actually is. Continue reading..

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