Re: [G3-5]Re: PPC Flash Player UPDATE NEWS

2011-12-09 Thread Jesse
Sent from my iPhone 4 On Dec 9, 2011, at 9:24 AM, MaGioZal magio...@gmail.com So are you saying that we can run Flash 11 on PowerPC? No, it's a hack that involves feeding the wrong version number to the player. It is NOT flash 11 on ppc. Most of these sites require a newer version

Re: [G3-5]Re: PPC Flash Player UPDATE NEWS

2011-12-09 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 9, 2011, at 10:02 AM, Jesse wrote: On Dec 9, 2011, at 9:24 AM, MaGioZal magio...@gmail.com So are you saying that we can run Flash 11 on PowerPC? No, it's a hack that involves feeding the wrong version number to the player. It is NOT flash 11 on ppc. Most of these sites require a

Re: [G3-5]Re: PPC Flash Player UPDATE NEWS

2011-12-09 Thread Dan
At 3:01 PM -0600 12/9/2011, Kris Tilford wrote: Yeah, it's only a version # hack, but the latest Flash Player 11 is totally vulnerable to outside attacks anyways. The discoverer of the vulnerability has promised an OS X version of the exploit tool soon. Damn I wish every website would ditch

Re: PPC Flash Player UPDATE NEWS

2011-12-07 Thread QuoVadis
Hello all, I agree with Bruce that we're using machines that are 'principally' outdated. Even if they do 99% of the tasks you ask them do just like a newer machine (albeit slower). I think mainly G5 owners have this problem, since most G5's (especially dual or dualcore) have loads of processing

Re: PPC Flash Player UPDATE NEWS

2011-12-07 Thread David W. Morris
On Dec 5, 2011, at 4:31 AM, Bill Connelly wrote: Isn't it a shame about Adobe's non-support of so many PPC folks ... doesn't make any sense to me. I doubt there are enough PPC desktop/laptop users world wide to make Adobe think twice about abandoning support for them. But I agree that

Re: PPC Flash Player UPDATE NEWS

2011-12-06 Thread Bill Connelly
On Dec 4, 2011, at 10:26 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: I believe some other sites have also instituted this Flash Player test. Since Adobe quit supporting PPC Macs at v.10.1.102.64, and the current version is 11.1.102.55, it appeared that we PPC users were out-of-luck and seeing our access to

Re: PPC Flash Player UPDATE NEWS

2011-12-06 Thread Bill Connelly
On Dec 5, 2011, at 6:57 PM, Ken Daggett wrote: http://sports.yahoo.com/video/player/news/Graham_Bensinger_InDepth/25954415 Hmmm. I wonder why it just works on this MDD dual 1.25, running 10.4.11 and using Firefox 3.6.24. I certainly don't recall doing any sort of

Re: PPC Flash Player UPDATE NEWS

2011-12-06 Thread Bill Connelly
On Dec 5, 2011, at 6:57 PM, Ken Daggett wrote: On 5 Dec 2011, at 12:55:26 PST, Kris Tilford wrote: On Dec 5, 2011, at 9:08 AM, Jeff Bequette wrote: Amen! It was seriously annoying! Opps! I thought it was fixed for all sites, but I just found a site that won't play with the hacked PPC

Re: PPC Flash Player UPDATE NEWS

2011-12-06 Thread Geke
@JohnV, Kris: With my 10.4.11 and Safari 4.1.3 it works, so that isn't the problem. John, maybe give more details about your software? To be exact, my Safari shows 5 mobile options, from Mobile Safari 4.1 iPhone through Mobile Safari 3.2.2 iPad. That solution is to go to

Re: PPC Flash Player UPDATE NEWS

2011-12-05 Thread JohnV
Is there a problem with this hack? Anything untowards within? JV On Dec 5, 2011, at 12:09 AM, John Ruschmeyer wrote: The problem is you'd need an Intel Mac to get the current version from, or you can download it ready to install manually from here: http://www.steelbin.com/FPforFBPPC.zip

Re: PPC Flash Player UPDATE NEWS

2011-12-05 Thread Jeff Bequette
On Dec 4, 2011, at 11:37 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Dec 4, 2011, at 11:09 PM, John Ruschmeyer wrote: According to the file, the Zip actually contains a copy of the last PPC-compatible version which has then been hacked to report a later version number as required for the Facebook test.

Re: PPC Flash Player UPDATE NEWS

2011-12-05 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 5, 2011, at 7:42 AM, JohnV wrote: Anything untowards within? I think it's legit, just a change in version #. I know it's fixed several sites that would no longer play flash for me, including Facebook, my local television station site, and SoundCloud audio player. These three were

Re: PPC Flash Player UPDATE NEWS

2011-12-05 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 5, 2011, at 9:08 AM, Jeff Bequette wrote: Amen! It was seriously annoying! Opps! I thought it was fixed for all sites, but I just found a site that won't play with the hacked PPC Flash Player, it's Yahoo Sports. Here is the sample video I tried to play, and only got the error

Re: PPC Flash Player UPDATE NEWS

2011-12-05 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 5, 2011, at 1:55 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Dec 5, 2011, at 9:08 AM, Jeff Bequette wrote: Amen! It was seriously annoying! Opps! I thought it was fixed for all sites, but I just found a site that won't play with the hacked PPC Flash Player, it's Yahoo Sports. Here is the sample

Re: PPC Flash Player UPDATE NEWS

2011-12-05 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 5, 2011, at 3:33 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: Well this will happen as you run into sites that actually use the features of the later versions... I remembered another solution that seems to work even better than the hacked Flash Player. That solution is to go to

Re: PPC Flash Player UPDATE NEWS

2011-12-05 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 5, 2011, at 2:57 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: It seems crazy that any website would use new features that harm their customer experience. Yahoo seems like a sinking ship, probably too many places to bail water to worry about PPC Flash Player video. At least there's a work-around

Re: PPC Flash Player UPDATE NEWS

2011-12-05 Thread JohnV
On Dec 5, 2011, at 4:57 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: That solution is to go to SafariPreferences...Advanced and check the Show Develop menu in menu bar and then go to the Develop menu and change your User Agent to Safari iOS 4.3.3 – iPad. Now most of these video sites that use Flash as their

Re: PPC Flash Player UPDATE NEWS

2011-12-05 Thread schaffpa
- Original Message - From: Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, December 5, 2011 12:55:26 PM Subject: Re: PPC Flash Player UPDATE NEWS On Dec 5, 2011, at 9:08 AM, Jeff Bequette wrote: Amen! It was seriously annoying! Opps! I thought

Re: PPC Flash Player UPDATE NEWS

2011-12-05 Thread Ken Daggett
On 5 Dec 2011, at 12:55:26 PST, Kris Tilford wrote: On Dec 5, 2011, at 9:08 AM, Jeff Bequette wrote: Amen! It was seriously annoying! Opps! I thought it was fixed for all sites, but I just found a site that won't play with the hacked PPC Flash Player, it's Yahoo Sports. Here is the

Re: PPC Flash Player UPDATE NEWS

2011-12-05 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 5, 2011, at 4:57 PM, Ken Daggett wrote: On 5 Dec 2011, at 12:55:26 PST, Kris Tilford wrote: On Dec 5, 2011, at 9:08 AM, Jeff Bequette wrote: Amen! It was seriously annoying! Opps! I thought it was fixed for all sites, but I just found a site that won't play with the hacked

Re: PPC Flash Player UPDATE NEWS

2011-12-05 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 5, 2011, at 4:43 PM, JohnV wrote: On Dec 5, 2011, at 4:57 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: That solution is to go to SafariPreferences...Advanced and check the Show Develop menu in menu bar and then go to the Develop menu and change your User Agent to Safari iOS 4.3.3 – iPad. Now most of

Re: PPC Flash Player UPDATE NEWS

2011-12-05 Thread JohnV
On Dec 5, 2011, at 8:54 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Dec 5, 2011, at 4:43 PM, JohnV wrote: On Dec 5, 2011, at 4:57 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: That solution is to go to SafariPreferences...Advanced and check the Show Develop menu in menu bar and then go to the Develop menu and change your

Re: PPC Flash Player UPDATE NEWS

2011-12-04 Thread John Ruschmeyer
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: Fortunately, there's a solution. This seems crazy, but they're saying that the current version and all previous versions that were Intel only actually work fine on PPC Macs, the problem is that Adobe's installer won't

Re: PPC Flash Player UPDATE NEWS

2011-12-04 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 4, 2011, at 11:09 PM, John Ruschmeyer wrote: According to the file, the Zip actually contains a copy of the last PPC-compatible version which has then been hacked to report a later version number as required for the Facebook test. I think the assumption here is that while sites may

Re: PPC Flash Player UPDATE NEWS

2011-12-04 Thread Tina K.
On 2011/12/04 22:37, Kris Tilford so eloquently wrote: On Dec 4, 2011, at 11:09 PM, John Ruschmeyer wrote: According to the file, the Zip actually contains a copy of the last PPC-compatible version which has then been hacked to report a later version number as required for the Facebook test.