Robert Darlington <[email protected]> wrote: > >Are you sure it uses Silverlight? I had no problem viewing the videos with >FireFox (under XP Pro). Then again, maybe they have a Silverlight plugin >for FireFox that I didn't realize I was running. > >-Bob
Hi Bob, Yes, if you don't have Silverlight installed, the only thing you see is a message to install it. You didn't notice it being installed since you probably have Automatic Updates turned on. You will find it in your \Program Files\Microsoft Silverlight\ folder, where it puts about 14 MB of new DLL's. It also adds four language files: mscorlib.resourc system.resources mscorrc.dll Microsoft.Visual in the following folders: \Program Files\Microsoft Silverlight\3.0.40624.0\de \Program Files\Microsoft Silverlight\3.0.40624.0\es \Program Files\Microsoft Silverlight\3.0.40624.0\fr \Program Files\Microsoft Silverlight\3.0.40624.0\it \Program Files\Microsoft Silverlight\3.0.40624.0\ja \Program Files\Microsoft Silverlight\3.0.40624.0\ko \Program Files\Microsoft Silverlight\3.0.40624.0\zh-Hans \Program Files\Microsoft Silverlight\3.0.40624.0\zh-Hant These take about 40k for each folder. These will probably never be used, so it might be possible to erase them and save ~300KB. No files were added to any other folder in my version. Now I really have to say this. I distrust Microsoft intensely. I have wasted years of my life fighting problems caused by their sloppy programming. I run Win98 as my main os since it is the snappiest of all the operating systems I can find, and after years of work, I have finally solved all the problems with registry corruption that require a complete reinstall. Since WINE is such a joke, I really need XP to run engineering software that is simply not available in Linux. But until I could lock XP down, it was silly to start using these programs and risk losing everything downstream when XP started going unstable. To solve this problem, I run WinXP in VirtualBox in Ubuntu 9.04. VirtualBox has a severe snapshot corruption problem that eventually destroys the entire installation. There is a simple solution: don't use snapshots. Instead, make new folders in your Home directory named .VB01, .VB02, etc. Then copy the entire contents of .VirtualBox to the appropriate folder when you want to make a backup. Now you can revert to any previous installation whenever you need to. This works like a charm. For WinXP, I turn off Automatic Updates since it completely corrupted one installation and I had to reinstall everything. I turn off Restore Point on each drive, and turn off the firewall since I use a NAT router. I disable the antivirus warning, and erase Outlook, MSN, Messenger, NetMeeting, the games folder, and any other programs or folders that are not needed. Where needed, I replace these with other programs that often outperform the Microsoft versions, and do not suffer from the same vulnerabilities. I use the System File Checker from Win98 to verify the file integrity. It has the same name as another program in XP, but they are completely different programs. The version in XP is crippled and useless. Now I can tell exactly what files have been added or changed, and can completely restore the system after some program has dug itself deeply into the os. I also use ERUNT to archive the registry: http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/ Along with good backups, I now feel I can recover from any disaster that Microsoft can inflict. But after wasting weeks on Microsoft Virtual PC, I swore I would never again install any Microsoft program. So I was extremely reluctant to install SilverLight, since I felt it would be just another example of sloppy Microsoft programming that would end up making me sorry for the wasted time. But I do have to say that Silverlight appears to be completely different than most Microsoft crud. It is fast, smooth, displays very high quality images, and it seems to outperform Adobe Flash by a wide margin. It appears that Bill Gates has completely outsmarted me. The only way he could get me to try Silverlight would be to offer the complete Feynman lectures in Silverlight format. Nothing else would have been compelling enough. Now that I am hooked, I will search for other technical articles in this format. It is very good! Best, Mike _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
