On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 20:45 -0400, John Mitchell wrote: > So now I'm replying to myself. ;-) I can report SUCCESS! However, does > someone have a recommendation on how to enable the playing of windows > media in Linux Firefox? I'll research in the meantime... To play windows media in firefox, you need to install the mplayer, mplayer-plugin and the codecs for decoding things. The main page is here: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html Most distro's have binaries available. The big "gotcha" is for people who are running 64-bit Linux (I run large systems and installations so I use 64-bit for the RAM access - 32GB/server). The catch is to use a 32-bit firefox (and mplayer and friends) so the Java plugins and flash player will work. > > I am in the process of making 21 copies of the SimplyMEPIS disks for a > mass installation tomorrow! Be gone you monopolizing, worm-attracting OS! > > ...having too much fun with this You are still just on the ride _up_ the rollercoaster :) Wait 'till every teacher in the school starts clammering for computer stuff that "Jut Works". BTW: Those bazillion year old machines you are using make pretty good thin clients. Then they will run screaming fast with everything being served from a fast server (a decently new Athlon with 1GB RAM will run around 10-15 clients depending on the application load). (Disclaimer: My company converts schools from windows worms to Linux thin clients :) > > John Mitchell > > John Mitchell wrote: > > Well, I had to nix the Ubuntu. My hardware simply was unable to handle > > it. Now I'm trying SimplyMepis 6. So far so good. I'm installing on > > some NCS laptops that are about 7 years old. I upgraded all of them to > > P3-750 and have memory of 192-256MB. Each has 2 usb ports, a firewire > > port, floppy, cdrom and 6gb hdd. They are originally manufactured by > > Kapok - probably the easiest to configure and get into notebook I've > > ever worked on. Will update again soon. > > > > > -- James P. Kinney III CEO & Director of Engineering Local Net Solutions,LLC 770-493-8244 http://www.localnetsolutions.com GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics) <jkinney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fingerprint = 3C9E 6366 54FC A3FE BA4D 0659 6190 ADC3 829C 6CA7
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