Movie studios are not particularly happy about a certain number doing the rounds on the interwebs. This number can be used to allow playback of HD-DVDs on Linux.
Movie studios are issuing takedown notices to sites hosting this number, and a quick search on Google shows they’re not doing too well at keeping this number secret.
Yesterday, all hell broke loose on Digg as the moderators tried (in vain) to stop the spread of these stories. They couldn’t, and eventually capitulated to the users demands.
Nice one Digg. Nice one Digg users. The revolution starts here (well, maybe).
Techcrunch has more on this.
Edit: I wonder when someone will change their name by deed poll to the number..
At last, Dell is going to ship Ubuntu on certain machines! This is great news for consumers (who will pay less - no OS license), it’s good news for the Ubuntu community, and it’s bad news for Microsoft, who can’t be too happy with Dell’s decision to start shipping XP again, as no-one wants Vista 
I first installed Ubuntu about a year ago, while I was testing a MythTV setup, and i’ve pretty much been a convert ever since. However, as most of my work involves Flash, it’s tricky to move away from Windows completely - I can’t afford the downtime that might be caused by using an OS that doesn’t run Flash natively.
Hopefully i’ll find a solution to this problem as Ubuntu really is a fantastic OS, and i’d like to use it exclusively.
Silverlight - the next big thing? It certainly could be:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/30/silverlight-the-web-just-got-richer/
Some interesting points from the article:
- It’s a 4MB plugin for IE, Firefox, and Safari.
- A subset of the full .NET platform can be accessed from within the browser.
- You can code in C#, Javascript (ECMA 3.0), VB, Python and Ruby.
- Developers take their existing Javascript, copy it into Silverlight and have it perform multiple times faster than it does in the native browser environment.
- Silverlight applications can access and manipulate the browser DOM
- Silverlight Streaming allows users and developers to host their Silverlight content and apps with Microsoft, taking advantage of their extensive global network of datacenters and their content delivery network. This service is free, and while currently it is only in alpha it allows users to upload up to 4GB of content, and to stream up to 1 million minutes of online video delivery at 700kbps, around DVD quality.
With MS behind it, this could be huge…. Although i’ve not yet seen anything impressive that’s been made with it.
I am famous, originally uploaded by yezzer.
I’ve just seen that they’ve changed my name to the correct spelling. Hurrah.
Although i’ve done a few AJAX’y things over the past year, i’ve yet to touch AJAJ.
After reading about Aral’s SWXFormat, I thought it would be a good idea to familiarise myself with JSON, so when it looked like i’d have to use some AJAX in my portfolio, I looked up a JSON example, and I must say i’m pleasantly surprised that using JSON with jQuery can be so simple.
Here’s the JSON:
[js]
{
“wintitle”: “Window Title”,
“url”: “http://domain.com”,
“height”: 415, “width”: 720
}
[/js]
And this is JS loading the JSON (using jQuery):
[js]
$.getJSON(”http://domain.com/script.php”,
{ field: “value” }, // send field value pairs
function(json){//return function
GB_showCenter(json.wintitle, json.url,json.height,json.width)
});
[/js]
How simple is that! All that time i spent parsing XML in javascript is over, yey!
As soon as i have a spare minute i’m going to create some swxformat tests - looks like it could be an even easier way to get data into flash!
I was taking a look at ThickBox earlier, and having a nose around calling it from Flash. To do this, I needed to call JavaScript from flash.
Although if you’re using Flash 8, you should probably use ExternalInterface, the quickest way to do this is by calling:
[as]
getURL(”javascript:functionName(param1,param2)”)
[/as]
It’s been a while since i’ve needed to to do this, and it just wasn’t working on a simple test. Even simplifying this wouldn’t work in either Firefox or IE:
[as]
getURL(”javascript:alert(’hi’)”)
[/as]
Turns out it works fine when the content is served through a webserver.
Also, after reading one of Mike Chambers posts, I found you can run this locally, if you put this in your object and embed tags:
[html]
allowScriptAccess=”always”
name=”allowScriptAccess” value=”always”
[/html]
Of course, this has other implications, so best not to do this unless you know what you’re doing.
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