Christopher Warner

The problem. Flash doesn’t work for 64bit. The solution? Swfdec. Adobe may not have a 64bit plugin yet but why wait for them? After remembering Company posting about it working sometime ago. I decided to give a whirl after my gtk theme stopped working with my 32bit version of firefox. That after I upgraded to 2.0. It was time; now, i’m up and running Flash via my 64bit browser and it all took about 5 minutes. Here is how to get it working using Ubuntu Fiesty.

sudo apt-get install autoconf firefox-dev liboil0.3-dev libavcodec-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev gcc g++ automake
wget http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/download/swfdec/0.4/swfdec-0.4.4.tar.gz
wget http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/download/swfdec-mozilla/0.4/swfdec-mozilla-0.4.4.tar.gz
tar -xvzf swfdec-0.4.5.tar.gz
tar -xvzf swfdec-mozilla.0.4.5.tar.gz
cd swfdec-0.4.5/
sudo ./autogen.sh –prefix=/usr; make -j4; sudo make install
cd swfdec-mozilla-0.4.5/
sudo ./autogen.sh –prefix=/usr; make -j4; sudo make install
If firefox is open close it; restart it. Done.

Updated for: 0.4.5 release

US Patent 4322015

Would be pretty useful if executed properly. I’ve yet to see the idea executed with a strong enough lid. The problem always seems to be that you put the lid on. You pull the tab that is a perforated cut out and flip back onto the raised post. However, if you have an extremely hot cup of coffee and the plastic material isn’t strong enough the perforated cut out will not hold onto the post. Forcing it down presents the possibility that the amount of force it takes is greater than what the cup is willing to bear. Also the fact that the center of the plastic lid, sitting over a hot liquid for any time will be structurally weakened.

The best way to avoid this is to setup the lid before you put it on the cup. Many people are using the lid for transport though so most people don’t go through the process until they are sitting down by which time the lid has been weakened.There are alot of other problems with US Patent 4322015. Such as pulling the perforated tab and accidentally pulling a bit to far. Destroys the “hinge” or groove and when that happens things can get messy.

What usually happens after a bout like I had in Au Bon Pain this morning is that I leave the cover in it’s current useless state. Get to where ever i’m going; and take it off; that is if I was already on the move and simply didn’t get another cover.

There are other lids but each with a deficiency. At Dunkin Donuts there were a set of lids that come up with a little tab that comes forward and clips into the space made for drinking. That seems to work well depending on if you think the hole is big enough or not. I’ve seen another lid at Starbucks without any tab at all but they’ve raised the cover I suspect to allow for convection and a small hole to allow for some minor amount of evaporation. That also seems to work ok if you can accept the size of the hole.

I’m not sure how it came to this but I feel better now