Since you love Flash so much, Adobe now has TWO versions for you Adobe says a buggy installer is the reason some people have two different versions of Flash Player on their Windows PCs. The software house told The Register it had to create an additional build of the browser plugin specifically for Microsoft's Internet Explorer after the version made for other browsers – such as Mozilla's …
I took the decision to totally remove flash from any machines on my network.
Missus isn't happy but the security of my network and files is WAY more important then her being able to play some stupid idiotbook based game.
The only site it's an issue on is the bbc new site, but then again, the Biased Broadcasting Corporation isn't the only place I can get news.
Well this is in my OS X Dictionary:
administrate |ədˈmɪnɪstreɪt|
verb
less common term for administer ( sense 1). the person administrating the database system has left the company. the cost of administrating VAT.
ORIGIN
mid 16th cent.: from Latin administrat- ‘managed’, from the verb administrare (see administer) .
Is this a word?
One of the wonderful things about the English language is that almost anything can be a word. We can form nonce-words from the kits of parts that make up the established words of the language, and we can do so with fair expectation that our meaning will be clear.
We have the word "administrator" (presumably because the alternative, "administerer", seems faintly clumsy) and the word "administration" (which does not have the same meaning as the gerund "administering") and it seems obvious (if misguided) to form a verb "administrate" from them (even though "administer" might be preferable). It's ugly, yes, but even I find myself unable to rail against it given its ubiquity.
So, yes, it's a word. Get used to it.
Can't we just put the stupid package to permanent death already. I've given up on the games as an enticement to keeping Smash Player loaded several years ago, and would like to see any accounting package (Sage, you're in the crosshairs) that demands Flash Player be loaded for part of their software display interface to be removed from the planet.
"and would like to see any accounting package (Sage, you're in the crosshairs) that demands Flash Player be loaded for part of their software display interface to be removed from the planet."
Which piece of Sage software is that? It wouldn't be the newer cloudy rubbish, would it?
I use Line 50 - the 2013 desktop version* - and I've never encountered any call for Flash.
* I stopped updating after I decided they had become spammers.
"Can't we just put the stupid package to permanent death already."
Not as long as there are very expensive pieces of kit that require Flash to operate. Since the costs are sunk and being actively amortized, they cannot be replaced. Since they already exist, they cannot be forced to be replaced by legal means (because they're currently legal, they can't be made illegal retroactively).
So IOW, SUAUI (Shut Up And Use It).
"Amortisation is the practice of reducing the value of assets to reflect their reduced worth over time."
No, that's depreciation.
Amortization is the practice of smoothing out financial shocks (such as a large one-off like a capital investment) over time by splitting the large single payment over the expected useful life of the investment. It's still been paid for, but by spreading the cost in the books, it helps provide a better long-term view of its impact on the business (of course, if something happens to cause a write-off, the balance has to be immediately applied).
After taking it off my own and then all the ones I look after at work over a year ago, I now uninstall it from family and friends computers without telling them.
If they ask me to install an application or look why the printer doesn't work or some such, I fix that, uninstall Flash and then pass it back.
What's more, if you do find a page that requires Flash, change the UserAgent to iOS iPad and it almost always works fine. Why do BBC still demand flash but it still works fine if it thinks you are using an iPad.
> Why do BBC still demand flash but it still works fine if it thinks you are using an iPad.[?]
They don't. BBC's iPlayer supports HTML 5 on most browsers, except for Safari on OSX. You can easily search Google for the BBC's technical rationale, along with a list of supported browser/OS combinations.
Now when they issue a patch to fix this and it doesn't install correctly on machines that only have Firefox so they issue another patch to cover that scenario users could end up with four installations of Flash (because the patch for Firefox-only obviously won't apply smoothly to IE-only scenarios). Which means that they will have to issue another patch to fix it...
That will escalate quickly.
And yet it is strangely reassuring to know that while the number of bugs in Flash is being chipped away at, the total number of Flash-related security holes on machines with it installed is only increasing, exponentially. All is as it should be.
"it had to create an additional build of the browser plugin specifically for Microsoft's Internet Explorer after the version made for other browsers – such as Mozilla's Firefox and Microsoft's Edge – wouldn't install properly for IE."
Hasn't that always been the case? IE uses the ActiveX plugin, and Mozilla uses the NPAPI plugin. Of course the NPAPI plugin won't install properly for IE - it was never intended for IE....
You would think that Edge is backward compatible with IE and hence they can use the same plugins... but no...
By the way, I'm not an anti-Flash fascist. Flash is required for some websites, and of course, those excellent classic Flash games. There are instances where HTML5 just wouldn't give the same quality experience.
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