More Programing Work – Yay.

March 15th, 2011 Thomasso

As luck would have it, I needed more money, as if none of us do, and there in a text message plea for help, from a friend, came an offer for a small job. An offer popped up that sort of landed on his lap, and then he slid it over to me. I said yes. A company in the lower mainland (Vancouver, BC) needed a whole pile of web development work done on their sites. They have their own servers, and tons of clients, but not enough specialised staff to keep up with the demand and workload.  I guess lately they had gone through a substantial increase in business when they took over some foreign contracts, and then found themselves short handed.

I had a good talk with the company owner. He told me that it was actually finding the qualified talent that is hurting him. He had several hundred applications, but the manager learned through some rough experiences with former workers that people often over qualify themselves, so he now checks everyone’s credentials. He told me that roughly, off the top of his head, that at least a quarter of all his applicants lied on their qualifications when they submit their resumes. I thought this was a very interesting bit of news.

So, for a small fee, I created some XML code for their favourite piece of graphics software to make fancy widgets that they can customise. They wanted a dedicated button program that they could use for one of their clients, a school. The goal was to create buttons that could have text customised, change colour and logos easily, and have it uploaded to this website with a press of the Enter button. In less than an evening I had three different prototypes that they could test. They liked two out of the three, so the deal was made. And did I mention that was for Linux applications?

The great news is, there could be more opportunities later on down the road.

I bet you are asking why I did not get a job with them?

They were sufficient with their IT department and had no software/programmers staff vacancies. None of the other positions I qualified for, or would want. But I am sure they will keep in touch with me. They like my work, service and price.

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A byte of Twitter

February 8th, 2011 Thomasso

It was a hot summer day in June of 2008, when I was invited to a gathering of Bloggers, when I first made the plunge of jumping on board the Twitter bandwagon. I never really thought much of it before that day, and even afterwards, as it never gained instant appeal with me, but I kept it going nonetheless, posting the odd Tweet now and then and using it to alert fellow bloggers that I posted. As time went by, my twitter avatar would make a tweet every couple of days announcing a post on my blog, but I never really turned on my account to see the tweets of those of whom I followed. I think I had maybe 10 people that I followed at that time. But the emails would periodically pop up alerting me that I have “so and so” following me. I never paid that much attention to it at that time.

I was still an undergrad, well into my third year, in the summer of 2010, when I took a class in Business Communications. About five weeks into the course we were on the topic of social media, and how the Internet was the tool for business people, and those who are connected, use programs like Twitter when communicating. In fact the prof proclaimed that this was the new tomorrow, the next wave, the new generation of how things are moving, and that we needed to be prepared for it, and take full advantage of it, as this will be the age of communication hence forth!

Now back in June, 2008, at that blog meet-up, I was already sold on the usefulness of Tweeting, but I was so consumed with my classes, work and personal affairs that tweeting was the last thing on my mind. Tweeting and blogging, I thought, were virtually the same thing. I heard that Twitter was just micro blogging, so I was satisfied with just focusing on posting to my webblog instead as my site was well into its sixth year, and tweeting was, in my mind, just an extension of that. I thought that I was far more intelligent that writing 140 character posts was beneath me.

From my Communication’s class, the prof, Bob Basil, showed us the ways of social media. It was not until that day that I really jumped on the Twitter bandwagon and started tweeting. In hindsight, I had already jumped on board, started the ball rolling, but never really ran with it until that summer day in a hot and sweaty class at Kwantlen Polytechnic Universality.

Since then, Tweeting has shifted my life. Whether for good or for worse, I have started running with Twitter, as it has made me keep in touch with with old friends, and gained me many more. It has gotten me involved in a whole host of new adventures. It has drawn me down new paths that I would not have ventured down in my old life, and it has made me more proactive in social circles that I otherwise would not have entered into before.

Student politics is my latest adventure. Sadly, my days as a student are at a close, and I leave behind many fond memories, and many new friends from my time as a student. But I always felt that there was something missing from those days while being a student. As a mature student, I sort of had this opinion that the affairs of mainstream student activities should be left for, well dare I say it, the students. The problem was that I never really looked at myself as a student. I started my degree well into my thirties, so the joys of youthfulness and discovery were, in my mind, totally different than had I been, say, in my twenties. So entering into politics was, well, foolish in my mind. It was not until I was in my fourth year that a fellow student who was majoring in journalism pointed out to me that one of the student reps at that time was in his mid thirties, and that older students have held office before in their history. So, as a student, I would have qualified. Nothing like kicking myself in the butt now, eh?

So Twitter has allowed me to peer into this murky world of student politics. Although I sit on the sidelines, I seem to have a window into it from the vantage point of using Twitter, as if I am right there, hands on. Through Twitter, I have met some of the students who are in office today. And with the closing of the most recent elections, I have had a chance to get to know some of the new candidates in student politics, as some of the candidates have used Twitter to launch their platform with.

My modus operandi of Twitter has been to find everyone who is part of Kwantlen Polytechnic University and follow them. So whenever I see someone posting a tweet using “Kwantlen,” in it, I add them to my Follow list, and hopefully, if they are active, I try to interact with them, increasing the size of my social circle. So far, it has reinvigorated my relationship with my University, even though I am now only connect to it through the alumni.

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Walking the Binary Landscape

February 1st, 2011 Thomasso

I love drawing. When I starting to get into computers way back when, I kept on drawing the old fashioned way, with paper, pen, paint, and so on, so computers and art were two separate worlds for me. To do it on a computer, well, that was a dream because the software and hardware needed to perform those tasks were out of reach both in terms of costs and knowledge.  In other words, out of reach of digital happiness.

Then, in early 2000, I converted over to Linux which really alienated me from the mainstream digital world, as the Desktop GUI was just being developed on propitiatory OS’s, we were “still” working from a command-line terminal. The corporate OS’s were dominating the markets, while Open Source was still in its, “half stagnated and half embryonic” stages, leaving Open Source art software scattered all over the place. Source code was challenging to get running as the Linux platform was  hugely unorganized.

With the creation of Ubuntu, by its founder Mark Shuttleworth from South Africa, the Linux world leaped forward, and finally became a force to be reckoned with. In the last five years, the Open Source world has flourished, expanding, and organized itself so that computer users of all stripes could use it right out of the box. The proof is in how the makers of propitiatory systems have started noticing this new force, and stepped up their campaigns, as they see their market share shrinking.

My first drawing tablet was a PS2 connected 3 x 4 inch Wacom graphic tablet back in 2001. It took me over a month before I could use it. I practically had to write several scrips and hacks in the operating system to finally make it usable, and even then the performance was lacking. However, it did work, and used it extensively for about four years. Since then, as money became more plentiful, I graduated up to a  USB 9 x 6 inch, and a USB12 x 8 inch tablet. Today, installing the tablet, and getting working now takes less than a minute to do.

Software for Linux today is also in somewhat of abundance too, as the Open Source developers have flourished, and numerous projects have sprung up proven themselves to be very exceptional to use. And, if you are not happy with the free stuff, you can buy and operate commercial software too to run on Linux.

Have a look at my BLOG as it is dotted with posts that contain my paintings and other types of art work that I have done over the years. Ninety-nine percent of all the art work here on this site has been done on a Linux box using Open Source software.

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Spreading Open Source Goodness

January 24th, 2011 Thomasso

Last week I gave a small lecture on the “Power of Open Source” in today’s highly competitive social media craziness at the University of the Fraser valley, where I was invited to speak at a open student workshop. My lecture focused on the rapid development of Open Source, the Open User and GNU Licence agreements, and the free operating systems, explaining as how this is all effecting our social Intranet climate. The overall theme of the workshop was to develop further the knowledge base that students and faculty members could gain by adopting and utilising Open Source systems, such as Ubuntu into their everyday lives. But most importantly, I explained and demonstrated the security benefits that open source OS’s, and software, has over mainstream preparatory licensed systems. You do not like spam and  hackers, then go Open Source!

The presentation was, in my opinion, a huge success. Nearly fifty students and members of the public attended, and the Q&A session was over whelming, lasting nearly forty-five minutes longer than anticipated. I covered lots of ground and I felt at times that I was going too fast for the audience, but I believed that, judging by the reactions, everyone was keeping on track. I should point out too that I offer handouts so that anyone who is listening to my lecture, they can follow along in the handout, and use it for reference material if they so choose.

There were some issues on incorrect data and research information put out there in the workshop by other speakers who lectured, but that was quickly ironed out once the Q&A started. I was able to back one-hundred percent of my claims up by the way.

So here is what I have learned from the last two weeks of giving and attending lectures on open source and social media. An overwhelming majority of academics, mostly in the teaching profession, are lagging badly behind. I had a chance to review some of the core teaching materials that some of the faculty members were using with their students, and was surprised at just how outdated and out of touch some of the material this was from an Open Source perspective. For example, in all of the course materials that I saw, three course outlines on Social Media, from both the University of the Fraser Valley and Kwantlen Polytechnic University, there was no mention of Open Source Operating Systems. It was as if this segment of the Social Media Universe never existed. At first I though perhaps that the corporate influences of Microsoft and Apple were to blame, but that was quickly ruled out as all the teaching instructors told me that they somewhat have free and autonomous say in their teaching material. So the fault lay at their feet, not the intuition’s. So, it appears to boils down to ignorance.

So why not spread the word of Open Source in the classroom. The divide between the students and instructor is huge in this area. Here, the student is already well prepared and accustomed to the Open Source world. Realistically, one could argue that some of the laptops and notebooks that enter the classrooms today are using pirated software, and that the OS is pirated too. Another group, although a minority at this point, is using systems such as Fedora-Core and Ubuntu, Linux based, but for these students I have found that over half have are using dual-boots system comprising as Microsoft as the other choice of OS. So I argue that none of these students will ever want to pay for their software, so finding cracked and pirated software is a fact of everyday life. So, I urge these students to make the jump completely to fully immerse themselves in Open Source, and live a life in the free society.

I had made several arguments as to why we should be urging students into the world of Open Source, and I also point out some of the major stumbling blocks to achieving this. The shortage of skilled people who have a sufficient knowledge base is what I see as the primary problem for getting this message out there in the Universities that teach computer and Intranet related subjects other than Computer Science. The instructor can only teach what they know. Regrettably, the learning curve for Open Source is bumpy and problematic. I have a minor in Computer Science, and with that knowledge base I find myself knee deep in problems of broken software and total changes in maintained programs, almost on a daily bases. I find myself still using command-line as my preferred method of using Linux, but for a person brought up on a Graphic User Interface, GUI, command-lines just do not cut it. Added to this is that the world of Open Source is vast and follows many flavours, so depending on what variant is followed that may not be the best solution to utilizes all the wonders of Open Source with. So teaching it can be a bit of a challenge, but I believe it is very possible to do it in a well structured format, that is, point them to where the answers are—not reinvent the wheel.

I will be writing more on this in the near future. Stay tuned.

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Pressing Buttons

January 22nd, 2011 Thomasso

I just had to jump on this when I seen the term “Social Media Craze” leaped across my screen this morning from a concerned blogger who was just fed up with the hoopla about Social Media stupidness lately. I have to agree with him, on so many levels. I see it as an avalanche of information that is losing its lustre as we move forward in this so called information age. I really do.

Sure, I’m not against social media in its purest form. However, with what is going on in the social media front now, I see it as getting somewhat out of control as there seems to be a sense of a “lets make some capital,” and this is causing the push and pull from the developers and users of this media to shove it down everyone’s throats. I guess it is a natural feeling to put up your guard when someone tries to sell you something aggressively.

In fairness, the last thing I want to do is label all social media with one broad brush. In fact, I want to do the opposite. My target is FaceBook (FB) in this rant. We are well aware of FB’s copy-write and privacy policies. Why anyone would who want to fork over their personal identity and content to this organisation, just for the pure enjoyment of keeping in contact with you friends and to make news friends, is beyond me? You are handing them your personal information, every last detail—hello?

On top of all this, you are bombarded with ads and your information is tracked so that future marketers can follow you, so that they can give you “custom” advertisement. For me, this is going too far. I like my Internet experience to be “ad free.” When I want content, I go out and grab it.

I should point out that one is able to turn off about 80 percent of the ads that are plugging the Internet, but the rest of the ads that get through, they come in the form of spam, or unwanted solicitation. Just about every aspect of the net has these leaks. But am I really telling you something that you already do know?

So I throw caution into the wind with each new social media craze that pops up. And they are happening more frequently, and I am starting to see the patterns of those who are bunk, versus the genuine good media format. If they want to sell you something, and pug it full of ads, then I just walk away, and say, “that is not why I am here.”

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Kweetup: That’s Right!

January 14th, 2011 Thomasso

Today was the Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s very first Twitter seminar. This event was devoted to teaching newbies, and advance users, the art of using Tweeter, and why and how it should be used among learning institutions. If you are wondering, “Kweetup” was the hashtag (# hash mark) used to track the tweets before, during and after the event.

If you are interested, go here to see the trending tweets for Canada: Trending Canada. At this time #Kweetup was trending at the top of the list as a emerging trend. Not bad for just some forty people and a bunch of laptops!

Although I consider myself a medium weight user of Twitter, since March of 2008, I did take with me some really good points that I did not know about previous to my Twitter exposure. I did not know how instantaneous tweeting can be: almost right to the second once the tweet was posted. Also, that so few professionals in education use Tweeter because of various issues and lack of information and exposure. I was happy to see that there is a push to get both instructors and students geared towards tweeting, especially in the classroom.

Yes, tweeting in the classroom! For me I think that this is a great idea because it gives students and instructors a chance to text among themselves, and for the instructor to be brought in closer to answer questions, and gauge the level of the material about the course. It will add another dimension to the classroom that is positive.

Students will do it anyway, so now you are encouraging them to keep the Blackberry and Iphone above the desk instead of hiding them under the desk, as was pointed out in the seminar. Hey, the focus is now fully on the class instead of being a covert action with erroneous texting. By having students responding and asking questions through tweeting, I think, gives a whole new order to the student instructor relationship. Now students are not bound to the confines of a three hour class session to ask questions. Unlike email, students can tweet with a much higher rate of being answered than just an email does. An email does not have the same effect as a Tweet.

Emails are inefficient compared to tweets. We think of email as spam when we send out emails to a large body of people. Twitter, on the other hand, is the opposite because we follow, and the text is short, 140 characters long, which is perfect for just getting the point address without the salutations and excess text that an email has. Micro-blogging, as Twitter is called, means that someone just posts a text message, and you can respond to it whenever you wish, but so does everyone else who is following. And most important, everyone sees it, and it stays there!

I enjoyed the Kweetup very much. I hope the future events will yield more people to show up and participate. These events are good, and it helps spread the world. Kwantlen students are still very hard to find on Twitter. Welcome to the Twitterverse!

ADDED: January 15, 2011

For a really good link that explains the art and concept of Twitter, and Tweeting, have a look at this website: Mom, This is How Twitter Works.  Special thanks to @Hummingbird604 for sharing this.

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Website Proxy

September 20th, 2010 Thomasso

I have gotten a lot of questions thrown at me when I tell people that I can freely serf the net without big brother following me, knowing where I have been, and what I have looked at, but best of all, not having geographical restrictions placed on my access to the Intranet. “The net is slowly becoming corporatize,” as one of my Criminology professors put it. The more we believe it to be free, in reality it is becoming more restrictive, as we fall trapped to the various forms of controls being developed on it.

Everything from your Operating System (OS), to your Intranet Service Provider (ISP), are slowly trapping you each day as new tools are being developed to trim, tailor and subject you to where you can go, and more importantly, were you can’t go on the Internet. The culprit that does this is your Intranet Protocol address, or (IP address). This is truly a huge topic, and I will leave it up to you if you want to do more research on this.

As I was surfing around the net looking for solutions to another problem, I came across this little YouTub video that seems explain enough about the topic of Proxy Servers so the common layperson can wrap their head around this and use it practically without too much background knowledge.  Of course, using proxies is a very in-depth topic, as I personally take a slightly more technical approach where I bought IP addresses from various places around the glob so that I can access information that otherwise would not be accessible to the average Canadian. The Author of the YouTube video I am presenting here has some “Poor Man’s” options that you can try.

I tried her methods, mainly the website that she uses, and the bandwidth for streaming video was expectable, but I can see that as being problematic during certain times of the day or week.

Why use a proxy? I think the most common reason is, if your access to information has been blocked becuase of the region that you live in, you then will want an IP address that will be recognized by the source that you are wanting to gain access to. Your IP address ties you to your geographical location, so software has being developed to screen those address to prohibit access, and vice versa. Proxy ties you to another IP address that resides in any geographical location you choose. For example, Web TV. I enjoy the TV show “Lost,” while it ran, but was unable to view it on the ABC website because I am not living in the USA. So, with a click of the mouse, I now, virtually, live in the USA, and could watch “Lost” on streaming video while sitting in my home in Vancouver, BC. The YouTube clip does a very good job of showing you this.

Post Script: In the YoutTube clip, she mentions the United Nations Charter, Article Twelve, from the Universal Deceleration of Human Rights. It is a bit of a stretch becuase depending on what kind of authoritarian, or totalitarian government you have running your country, the country’s sovereignty would trump any weight that the UN Charter would give in this argument. Here is Article Twelve of the UN Charter:

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks

Though most countries have signed the Universal Deceleration of Human Rights, including Canada, many countries have been accused of violating human rights at some level, or just ignored it altogether, as enforceability by UN is somewhat lacking.

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TweetDeck on Ubuntu 10.04

September 12th, 2010 Thomasso

I used TweetDeck a while ago, but stopped when I had issues with Adobe-Air as there were some bugs and installation issues when they moved up to a newer version. Since then, 2008-2009, a lot has changed, and both the Ubuntu repository and Adobe have changed to accommodate the tweeting population of LINUX users. Of course, this is my opinion as there are still some who say it still has a long ways to go.

All I’m going to do is show you how easy it is now to stall both the Adobe-Air program and TweetDeck for Ubuntu 10.04, as compared to what it was like back in the of Hardy (Ubuntu 8.04). Oh those were the days. Running the program is another post for later on.

Step one:

You need Adobe-Air Application Loader on your system. This is now so super easy becuase it sits in the repository. Use the repository, as I heard from some of my friends that the downloaded version from Adobe has some bugs in it still.  Just go to Synaptic, type in Adobe, and you should see it there. Mark it for installation, and fifty percent of the work is done. System –> Administration –> Synaptic Package Manager.

Adobe-AIR Application Loader can be found in: Applications –> Accessories. You should not have to worry about it again becuase once it is loaded on your system it should recognise any AIR file when you double click on it.

Step Two:

Click Here for TweetDeck’s Website: http://www.tweetdeck.com/

With the Adobe-AIR Application Loader happily installed on your system, the next step is to get TweetDeck. Go to the TweetDeck website, click on “Desktop,” and you should be whisked of to the page that has the download button on it. Please refer to the image below.

For me the Install Button did not do anything. I think it has to do with LINUX does not like self extracting files from outside sources off the net. Which is a good thing becuase that is how you catch ninety percent of those viruses and other garbage that people like to shove onto your system. So you will have to download the TweekDeck file on to your system. In my case, the file was “TweetDeck_0_35.0.1.air” at the time of this entry.

Make note of were you down loaded the TweetDeck AIR file (Commonly found in $Home/Download, directory)  and you should be able to just double click on it to start the installation. If it does not start the self extraction, then try and make it an executable by right clicking on it and go to Properties, then click on the Permission Tab and choose “Execute.”

On my system TweetDeck is found in Applications –> Accessories –> TweetDeck.

Happy Tweeting!

This is what TweetDeck looks like in action. I will take some getting use to with multiple columns and some of the update/streaming features it has if you are only used to using the Twitter Web Site, or some of the single column programs like GTwitter and Twitux.

A BUG:

One problem I did encounter which seems to be a problem for other users too is I lost my menu and desktop tray icons. I chose not to put the icon on my Desktop, but I figure that must of also meant not choosing to put a Desktop Icon when I first set up DweetDeck. After the next boot-up I lost the menu link.To get it back that took a little working around. This is what I did:

• I first created a launcher right on my Desktop by right clicking and choosing “Create Launcher…”

• I left “Type” as “Application,” and filled in the Name and Comment as TweetDeck

• The “Command” I put in opt/TweetDeck/bin/TweetDeck

• For the TweetDeck Icon, click the icon link (Upper Left hand coroner of the Launcher Window) and follow this directory: opt/TweetDeck/share/icons   and choose the TweetDeck_128.png image as your icon.

This will create a icon on your Desktop. You can move it up into the Desktop Tray, and edit your menu and place it in there too. If you are not sure, write me a comment and I will add more details on how to do that.

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This is Just a Little Test Post to Get My Twitter-feed Working – Not Important

July 21st, 2010 Thomasso

I’m setting up my Twitter Feed to work with the blog. This is tough getting everything just right with so many settings, yikes.

Lets see if I can get this damn thing to tweet for me.

Added: Success! It worked! Yeah!

Now when I post, my Twitter feeds are send out to alert everyone that I have posted. Am I doing the world a favour by broadcasting my blog posts and jumping on the social media bandwagon, or is all this internet stuff just a complete waist of time and energy? Well, I kind of like it, and I am paying for it.

Heh heh, it appears that there are some who are anti-social media. I guess not everyone is a fan of networking. Hey-this is how you get the “better” employer to notice you, as compared to the social Luddite employers who are still stuck in the 80′s.

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Installing Flash and Java for FireFox for Ubuntu 10.04

May 7th, 2010 Thomasso

This is for my friends who have either upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx, or just did a fresh install, and are having problems with their Flash and Java for web sites like www.pogo.com. If you have installed from a fresh installation, or did a major upgrade from the last long term support release, more than likely your Flash and Java have been reconfigured.

The first part of this how-to is installing Flash, and the second part deals with installing Java and adding the plugins for FireFox, which are easy to follow, but they look daunting and seem labour intensive, but trust me, they are not.

PART ONE

Flash is not open source, it is propitiatory software, meaning that you cannot freely reconfigure it, or copy it and write to it, and is licensed. I personally have some issues with having it, especially on my open source machine, but because it is so wide spread on the net many web sites use it; it is practically unavoidable.

There are two ways of getting it. First is from the repositories used through synaptic (Ubuntu). Although I prefer to use that version of flash, I have found that in my travels it has some bugs that makes some of the web sites not function so well. The second, is to use Adobe Flash Player’s software, which is of the better of the two. I will direct you to use Adobe here.

You can find the download page here: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Once at that page, you should see, “Download Adobe Flash player”, “Adobe Flash Player version 10.0.45.2 Linux,” the current version at the time of this writing. Below that you will see a small drop-down box that you can click on that will have the following four options: choose: “.deb for Ubuntu 8.04+” Click on it, and the file should start downloading onto your hard-drive after you agree with the terms and conditions of the software.

This file should download quickly.

Once the “install_flash_player_10_linux.deb” has finished, double click on it and the installer will open and begin installing it on to your system.

Next, I recommend that you install the flash plugin for FireFox, called FlashGot. You can get it by clicking on tools –> Add-ons, in the FireFox menu, and choose the tab “Get Add-ons.” Then search “FlashGot,” in the search box, and once found, click “Add to FireFox.”

And that is it. Restart FireFox for the plugins to take effect and Adobe Flash to run.

To test to see if your Flash is properly working in FireFox, I would recommend that you try this web site : http://www.barbie.com Why? This is one of the most Flash ridden web sites I have ever seen!

PART TWO

Now for the Java and Java plugin for FireFox. I would only start this process if you plan on playing games over at pogo.com, otherwise, just ignore this section.

You need Java to navigate through Pogo and play the games that are on that web site. This link is the best site I have seen for installing and setting up Java to work with FireFox for Ubuntu. These Ten plus steps look like a lot of hard work, but it is not. The whole process should take you about 15 minutes, and once done you will have the proper Java and Java plugins running with FireFox. Please click on the following link to get to the Java website where the instructions are.

Click here for installation instructions: JAVA. (You are reading the left-hand column!)

Note: if you are running the 64bit version of Ubuntu 10.04, you can find those instruction their also.

If you want, please leave me some feed back here and let me know if this was helpful or not. Good Luck and happy gaming!

***NOTE: After Aug 2010, I have turned off the comments. I am getting too much comment SPAM. This page does get about, on average,  5 hits per day!

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