From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 16 22:12:22 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0466B16A420 for ; Sun, 16 Oct 2005 22:12:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A5FD43D48 for ; Sun, 16 Oct 2005 22:12:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 8so748403nzo for ; Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:12:20 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=tQiwmFkKEM3R4YHAuz/3vEkorNAY9j1M/reYZM+pyeJCWe/+wGKJvClSW/nkvG1diYpoDvmJxqQGaLteP4ssmQHz/mHxqLCYOvzDbwwPPo0tJHbad/xC2fr8XaoMp+FRkKtemJ9Q1j/OAsn4A0NqshMXLEHn4RcQ0xTriHL8v5c= Received: by 10.37.15.79 with SMTP id s79mr2000239nzi; Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:12:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.37.20.34 with HTTP; Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:12:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 02:12:20 +0400 From: "Andrew P." To: Bill Schoolcraft In-Reply-To: <20051016141617.D48641@liam.billschoolcraft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <200510170014.36661.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> <20051016141616.GA10606@yoafrica.com> <20051016092201.A48641@liam.billschoolcraft.com> <43529782.4010201@mkproductions.org> <20051016124158.D48641@liam.billschoolcraft.com> <4352ADE2.5090502@mkproductions.org> <20051016134218.T48641@liam.billschoolcraft.com> <20051016141617.D48641@liam.billschoolcraft.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: .wma music files (amd64 woes...) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 22:12:22 -0000 On 10/17/05, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > At Mon, 17 Oct 2005 it looks like Andrew P. composed: > > > > > > > It's not a problem with FreeBSD, really. The ports > > themselves should get to work under amd64. > > Ahh, very good point. I didn't look at it from that angle. > > > 2006 will probably become the year of widespread > > adoption of 64-bit computing. Until it ends, you'd > > better use FreeBSD/i386 on your desktops. All > > server software that was popular enough was > > ensured to run on FreeBSD/amd64 smoothly. > > Yes, the "flash" plugin had me sigh also... From being used to > using Unix based OS's for a while, I've come to "not" expect > flash to work on anything, sad as it may seem. I guess it's > like the "unix-fonts" in our browsers, you kinda get numb to the > whole thing. > > Thanks for the replies. > > -- > Bill Schoolcraft > PO Box 210076 > San Francisco, CA 94121 > http://billschoolcraft.com > ~ > "You do best what you like most." > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > > Only through everyday work with FreeBSD did I understand the whole "scam" with claims that technologies like Java and Flash are cross- platform. While a thing remains proprietary, it won't be open and free, however hard one tries to advertise it. Try to convince me to develop in ActionScrip or Java now, I'll just tell you "Thanks, but no, thanks."