[ale] [OT] New SONY media box features Windisease!

[Geoffrey]

Jim Kinney wrote:
> Hey Jim! I don't think the autoinstaller works worth squat in Linux
> land. Just go to adobe.com and download the flash player. The deb, rpm
> and yum version are automatic and easy. The tarball requires a manual
> link to put the flash lib in the mozilla/plugins directory.

It's a different issue as I had flash installed, upgraded to the latest 
version and yet I get the same message Jim got.  Fedora 8 here.

Weird thing is, I tried it on my Red Hat 5 system and it works!

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> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Jim Lynch
> <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:
>> So I get "You are trying to install adobe flash on an unsupported
>> operating system" ,.  Not very Linux friendly.
>>
>> Can someone summarize what they said so I don't have to boot XP.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jim.
>> aaron wrote:
>>> I am SOOOO glad I put off getting my ATSC DTV tuner
>>> so I can use my coupon to get one of these cool new
>>> SONY Windisease media boxes and avoid feeling like
>>> some toothless hill billie living in a shack:
>>>
>>> [note: strong language, viewer discretion advised]
>>> < http://www.theonion.com/content/video/
>>> sony_releases_new_stupid_piece_of >
>>>
>>> enjoy
>>>
>>> peace
>>> aaron
>>>
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