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Saturday 23 January 2010
 Number  1913
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Subjects for today
 
1   Interesting move away from Flash. : Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
1  Re:  Interesting move away from Flash. : Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
2   ThinkPad R40  2722-9BM Recovery CD : Ian Manners" <deadmail>
2  Re:  ThinkPad R40  2722-9BM Recovery CD : Ian Manners" <deadmail>

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Date:  Sat, 23 Jan 2010 07:44:13 +1100
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
Subject:   Interesting move away from Flash.

First YouTube, Now Vimeo: How HTML5 Could Finally Kill Flash Video 
<http://feedproxy.google dot com/%7Er/AsusEeeModsAndHacks/%7E3/9geEP5bhtxo/first-youtube-now-vimeo-how-html5-could.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email> 


Posted: 21 Jan 2010 04:48 PM PST

 From Gizmodo 
<http://gizmodo dot com/5454115/first-youtube-now-vimeo-how-html5-could-finally-kill-flash-video> 
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Vimeo has followed YouTube's lead in making its library compatible with 
HTML5 video. HTML5 video, which currently only works with Safari and 
Chrome, is expected to become standard feature in all major browsers in 
a few years' time.

The current video standad, Flash, actually performs terribly on Mac OS X 
and Linux, is not available in some popular mobile devices and is not 
even native in browsers that do support it. HTML5, on the other hand, 
allows video to be rendered in the browser natively, like JPEGs or GIFs 
are now. It's also simpler and more efficient In fact it would be the 
obvious choice, notwithstanding the massive investment in Flash video.

However, YouTube, which accounts for probably the most substantial 
library of Flash video, has also already rendered them in HTML5-friendly 
h.264 format for the iPhone and Android devices. So with smaller sites 
like Vimeo joining the bandwagon, the switch may be sooner than expected.

-- 
Cheers/2

Ed

eComStationAustralia podcast http://eComStationAustralia.podbean dot com or iTunes

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Date:  Sat, 23 Jan 2010 07:56:47 +1100
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
Subject:  Re:  Interesting move away from Flash.

Ed Durrant wrote:
> First YouTube, Now Vimeo: How HTML5 Could Finally Kill Flash Video 
> <http://feedproxy.google dot com/%7Er/AsusEeeModsAndHacks/%7E3/9geEP5bhtxo/first-youtube-now-vimeo-how-html5-could.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email> 
>
>
> Posted: 21 Jan 2010 04:48 PM PST
>
> From Gizmodo 
> <http://gizmodo dot com/5454115/first-youtube-now-vimeo-how-html5-could-finally-kill-flash-video> 
> -
>
> Vimeo has followed YouTube's lead in making its library compatible 
> with HTML5 video. HTML5 video, which currently only works with Safari 
> and Chrome, is expected to become standard feature in all major 
> browsers in a few years' time.
>
> The current video standad, Flash, actually performs terribly on Mac OS 
> X and Linux, is not available in some popular mobile devices and is 
> not even native in browsers that do support it. HTML5, on the other 
> hand, allows video to be rendered in the browser natively, like JPEGs 
> or GIFs are now. It's also simpler and more efficient In fact it would 
> be the obvious choice, notwithstanding the massive investment in Flash 
> video.
>
> However, YouTube, which accounts for probably the most substantial 
> library of Flash video, has also already rendered them in 
> HTML5-friendly h.264 format for the iPhone and Android devices. So 
> with smaller sites like Vimeo joining the bandwagon, the switch may be 
> sooner than expected.
>
Additional Info - the HTML 5 Video we have in Firefox/2 currently is 
Vobis not H.264 as H.264 has to be licensed, so being an open source 
(and free) product,  I wonder if  Firefox will ever be able to get this 
capability. Also the capability of H264 in Chrome is apparently only in 
the Binary (already compiled) code not the released source code, so we 
couldn't even compile  the Chrome source to get a browser with this feature.

I suspect someone will come up with a hack or plugin for FF to give HTML 
5 H.264 support but one of the points is not to require a plugin so that 
the video works on any platform that FF is compiled for.
 

-- 
Cheers/2

Ed

eComStationAustralia podcast http://eComStationAustralia.podbean dot com or iTunes

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Date:  Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:46:02 +1100 (EDT)
From:  "Ian Manners" <deadmail>
Subject:   ThinkPad R40  2722-9BM Recovery CD

Hi all,

Probably a big ask but I'll try anyway.

Anyone here have a Thinkpad R40 ?
If so, do you have the original partition that you could make a recovery
CD from, or do you have "a" recovery CD for the above model ?

WindowsXP Pro.

Cheers
Ian Manners
http://www.os2site dot com/

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Date:  Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:49:28 +1100 (EDT)
From:  "Ian Manners" <deadmail>
Subject:  Re:  ThinkPad R40  2722-9BM Recovery CD

IBM cant seem to find the FRU's for the recovery CD.
Which I was happy to buy if the webstore could find.
01R8517 which replaces 01R7190 and 01R7010

Cheers
Ian Manners
http://www.os2site dot com/

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