Adobe no longer maintaining yum repo for flash-plugin

[Richard Vickery]

On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 6:12 AM, Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I <eoconnor25 at gmail.com
> wrote:

>
> On 06/22/2012 08:47 PM, Tim wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 14:28 +0200, suvayu ali wrote:
>>
>>> I don't know the details but if this makes all Flash sites start
>>> working reliably on Linux, I would be willing to put up with work
>>> arounds like using VMs for a year or two.
>>>
>> If by "VM" you mean Windows software working in a virtual machine, then
>> that's /not/ something I'm willing to do.  Even if my hardware was meaty
>> enough to run one OS inside another, or partial emulations of the
>> Windows environment, I don't want any part of that lousy programming
>> scheme on my PC.
>>
>> I really do not see using Windows inside a box, inside a box, as being
>> any better than just running Windows natively.  The entire ethos of
>> programming for Windows seems to be done by idiots.  For instance, how
>> many decades of buffer overruns does it take before they get it through
>> their thick heads that you have to handle input properly?  Or that you
>> don't just execute random data coming through the internet?  Or that
>> dropping security, running as admin, etc, is not the correct answer to
>> working around some daft programming?
>>
>>
> Had to bust out laughing after reading this! I agree with you Tim! I think
> the only reason someone would go the VM route would be to access or do
> something on a Windows box without having to give up their Linux. As for
> the buffer overruns and other "maladies" seen on Windows throughout the
> years, from the B.S.O.D.'s to the system freezes, it seems that most of the
> moves made by Windows and Microsoft in general were geared towards making
> as much money as they possibly could! LoL! Thanks for giving me a morning
> joke!


Many thanks here, too, for the laugh!
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