Never Ending Baustelle

Yesterday, the new 64bit Flash-Player browser plugin for Linux was unmasked in Gentoo’s portage tree. This version works great, from my point of view, much better than the previous versions.

The 32bit versions I’ve been using on Linux had an annoying problem (read bug) in that the stacking or layering order was incorrect. There are websites (examples are TomTom, Samsum, Armin van Buuren to name a few), which use Flash basically as a animated background for other simple HTML elements (typically menus). With the older plugins the for instance, menus would open below the Flash animation, so the menu entries became inaccessible, or in case of the Armin van Buuren website the whole website basically became inaccessible because the Flash animation is so big, that it completely hides the rest of the content. This all works much better with the 64bit Linux plugin.

Well, long time no write. The situation of my company and my personal situation within has been sufficiently dragging me down, to keep me from updating this blog. Hopefully changes for the better are on the horizon in the next couple of months, now that Fujitsu has agreed to buy the Siemens’s 50% share.

Anyway, I’ve been wanting to update this blog theme for quite some time. I originally planed to create something from scratch. I think technically I would be capable to create something new, I though it’s not really worth the effort. There are so many great free themes out there, that I choose one from this collection from Smashing Magazine. Currently the Livegreen is deployed. However, there is the chance that I might switch to the Abstractia theme. The sidebar of Abstractia needs some modification to make it widget aware. Independent of the theme I’m going to use in the end, I going to apply some personalisation in terms of colour and photography.