Vintage electronic memory
Having relatively cheap, 64-bit, multi-core processors readily available for desktops is great. The boost in performance is more than welcome. The only monkey wrench in this scenario is that some software still has to get properly ported to run as 64-bit applications.
I recently had a nearly week-long nightmare trying to get Firefox to play Flash content. I moved to a newer, Intel-based 64-bit system running CEntOS 5.4, from my four-year old, single-core AMD64-based system. Things generally went well, even though I had to manually reconstruct a few mail directories. The real big snag was when Firefox just would not play any Flash content.
I got to working on the problem as soon as I could. I followed the instructions to download the Adobe Flash plugin. Then I made sure to download and install the nspluginwrapper plugin and Viewer (nspluginwrapper and nspluginwrapper-i386), which you can download from here. I ran nspluginwrapper and imported the Adobe plugin, which was copied into the correct directories.
Then I ran Firefox. No cigar. it just wouldn’t work.
Posted by Maddog 
