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Back to Adobe® Flash™ Player
Jul 14th
After 4 weeks using exclusively Gnash as flash player, I have switched back to Adobe® Flash™ Player.
Though I had found workarounds for major video sites (including Youtube and DailyMotion), I have had a lot of issues with musical websites, most of them being still designed in Flash™.
To use Adobe® Flash™ Player on my amd64 desktops, I have used Bart Marten’s workaround described in the Debian wiki. It works fine though the player randomly crashes on some websites, and the browser needs to be restarted so that it works again.
This 4-week experience was fine, but I am a little bit puzzled that there is still no usable free flash player. Hopefuly, things will improve over time… the sooner, the better!
My experience without Adobe® Flash™ Player
Jun 19th
Adobe® recently announced they have (temporarily) stopped working on the amd64 version of their Flash™ Player for GNU/Linux.
The previous releases contain a big security issue, which makes them totally unusable.
As I didn’t want to wait until the flashplugin-nonfree package to be updated to support the i386 plugin through nspluginwrapper (as suggested in #586273), I have decided to simply switch to the free alternative: gnash.
Goodbye Facebook
Jun 5th
Today, I have finally permanently deleted my Facebook account.
I have followed Matt Zimmerman’s procedure, and it seems everything went well.
Now, I just need to not login to Facebook over the next 14 days, which shouldn’t be a problem at all (my last connection was something like 2 or 3 months ago!).
My aim is now to make more and more people use identi.ca as their primary social network. I will also follow the Diaspora project.
My identi.ca profile : http://identi.ca/julienvalroff
DSPAM 3.9.0 released!
Jan 12th
The DSPAM team have just announced their first official release, one year after the project was taken over by the Community.
You can download the sources from the SourceForge project.
Unofficial Debian packages are being built right now, but will only be uploaded to my repository after a bit more testing, during the week-end I guess.
They are meant to be uploaded to the official Debian archive once they are considered as ready by the pkg-dspam team.
Hopefully, they will be part of Squeeze.
Moved to London!
Dec 10th
Well, I haven’t moved myself, but my server is now hosted in the new Linode datacenter located in London.
The migration has caused a downtime of more or less 4 hours yesterday, time for the data to cross the ocean.
The migration was successful, though you might still experience issues to connect to the services hosts on this linode due to the new IP adressess (both IPv4 and IPv6). Most DNS servers should however now be up-to-date.
Thanks again to Linode for their great service and support.
Things I like in Ubuntu
Dec 6th
Though I haven’t used (and won’t use) Ubuntu, it has a few things I appreciate (as far as I know them):
Ubuntu One: I wish we could have something similar for Debian users (ideally, it should be extended so that we could sync our calendars, contacts, liferea data etc.).
usb-creator: seems the easiest way to create a bootable usb stick containing a complete and customisable environment. I am aware of the existence Debian Live, but I must say I haven’t given it a try yet.
Desktop orientation: Ubuntu users are in a large majority desktop users. Ubuntu is imho desktop-oriented, and I particularly like the artwork coherence (from boot loader to default desktop).
