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CENTOS 6.5 (32 bit) Chromium-browser Adobe Flash Player vs. Pepper Flash Player

2015-09-01T13:20:00.000-07:00

I'v switched to Linux from Windows for a while now. No need to mention why, right !
Everything was working fine until today, but if you are using Linux for for a while now, you might have already faced a problem with a multi-monitor setup and flash 11.2.
But I'll still take the leverage to explain it a lil bit to keep the context clear.

The Issue :

So here it goes, I like to work and watch videos side by side. I have two monitors and I usually play an online video / a already downloaded movie in VLC in my secondary monitor and keep my working stuff on the primary.
Today for the first time I tried playing a flash video with Mozilla and adobe flash player, I found the following errors while trying to full-screen the video:

The video full-screens only on the primary monitor, no matter the embedded/browser window is.
If I accept the above fact and tries to use the secondary monitor for work, the video minimizes to the embedded mode as soon as the full-screen mode looses focus.

So finally you cannot multitask with a full-screen flash video playing.

The Root Cause :

After a little googling, I came to know this an already known bug in adobe flash releases. This really is a big shame on Adobe, not to fix it till now. I am not really sure which version first triggered this issue (mine was 11.2.202.508), but I am damn sure it was not there from the beginning.

The Pain Time :

It was really a long search and a lot of options jammed my mind. Explaining this part just to save your efforts a lil, so you can really skip this long pain time details.

I tried Installing linux alternate for flash player. GNASH or LIGHTSPARK did not worked for me.
Then I tried playing/streaming online videos using VLC .
Next I tried to install Chromium-browser, but I found no flash player plugin installed for it.

What to do now ? After some more research I found there is another version of Flash Player maintained by google called Pepper Flash. I am all time fan of google so finally decided to give it a try.

So I started researching more, but now I had a target. I somehow knew what to look for.

The Solution :

STEP 1 : Run the below listed commands to get pepper flash in your machine.

cd /tmp
wget https://raw.github.com/hughesjr/chromium_el_builder/master/chrome_pepperflash_copy.sh
chmod +x chrome_pepperflash_copy.sh
./chrome_pepperflash_copy.sh

This will install pepperflash in some directory like "/tmp/google_chrome/opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/" in my case.

STEP 2 : Then type "whereis chromium-browser" which resulted into below in my case :

[deep@localhost bin]$ whereis chromium-browser
chromium-browser: /usr/bin/chromium-browser /usr/share/man/man1/chromium-browser.1.gz

Now you know from where chromium-browser is loaded from. (i.e. /usr/bin/chromium-browser)
Remember "/usr/bin/chromium-browser" is not a directory though it looks like one.

STEP 3 : /usr/bin/chromium-browser is the shell script that prepares the chrome-browser for start up. But we just need to note that it reads for Pepper Flash.
It tries to look and load 2 files listed below in a directory structure (now I'm not going to tell you how to find which directory for your system, use your imagination and skills. I used mine.). im my case the directory it looks into was "/opt/chromium/PepperFlash/". The files it looks for was :

libpepflashplayer.so
manifest.json

so move the entire folder content "/tmp/google_chrome/opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/" to "/opt/chromium/PepperFlash/". You can make the directory "PepperFlash" in "/opt/chromium/" if it does not already exist.

STEP 4 : Start OR Restart chromium-browser. Enable Flash from "chrome://plugins/" (typing it in your chromium address bar).

Wallah you are done :)

Let me know if you need some help on this. I'll be more than happy to "TRY" to help you out.

Enabling SSH in UBUNTU 10.4 LTS as Vbox Guest

2014-10-02T14:55:00.001-07:00

Setting your own EJB environment with Vbox and Ubuntu 10.4LTS

Here this tutorial is for setting your own environment for EJB with VBOX and Ubuntu 10.4LTS.
Assuming you already have Vbox installed in your Win7 machine and one virtual machine with Ubuntu 10.4LTS installed in Vbox...

This is the first Step......

Now without wasting anymore time lets start the tutorial.

Start Ubuntu.

run the below command...

This command will set the ether-net 2 to the address 192.168.56.102 you can change this to any address like 192.168.56.XXX....

run ifconfig as in below screenshot to ensure that...

Install openSSH server in Ubuntu using below command...

sudo apt-get install openssh-server

Now try connecting using putty as in the below screenshot

That should be working !!!

If not !! Please leave a command........ I'll try to resolve it....

Java files in current folder

2013-11-14T22:54:00.001-08:00

Its a very simple program, but a great one to get your hands on to java file handling stuff. Lets just don't waste time, and get to the codes.......

package deep.indeed.filesInFolder;

import java.io.File;

public class FilesInCurrentFolder 
{
 public static void main(String[] args)
 {
  File folder = new File("."); //DOT (.) means the current directory
  File[] listOfFiles = folder.listFiles();
  
  for(int i=0; i < listOfFiles.length;i++)
  {
   if(listOfFiles[i].isFile())
   {
    System.out.println(listOfFiles[i].getName());//Returns only the file name
    System.out.println(listOfFiles[i].getAbsoluteFile());//Returns the absolute path of the file
    System.out.println(listOfFiles[i].getAbsolutePath());//Same as getAbsoluteFile
    System.out.println(listOfFiles[i].getParentFile());//Returns the Parent Directory i.e. the current directory
   }
  }
 }
}

No Shortcut to Shortcut Industry

2012-10-24T22:10:00.000-07:00

All of must have heard the quote : "There is no shortcut to success."

Many people may say that I am wrong, but Computers and IT Industries came along with Telecommunication Industries, like a giant to avail shortcuts in your life.

Postal Letters : Only seen in Govt. sectors today. who the hell will write a letter and wait days for it to get delivered.
Bank Passbook : I haven't' seen mine for years. Did you !
Land Phones : Even they exists most of the times because people need them to get a wired internet connection. Who nowadays will use a phone which cant even record miss calls.
Manual Journals : They are rarely seen today.

There are many such examples. So I, in my education life I started believing this sector is all about shortcuts to high ending results. I called it "Shortcut Industry". So if you are a shortcut seeker you can succeed here.
I completed my graduation and joined my Shortcut Industry.
I'v been working here for a little more than two years now. I am quiet a successful contributor till now.

Wondering why am I telling my story !

So Let me tell you if you don't understand and agree to my term "Shortcut Industry", then this post is not for you. Definitely I will not say don't read it, read it, and make my blog popular.
But if you understand and agree to my term "Shortcut Industry". Then let let me ring your bell to tell you that you are only partially correct.
I am rejecting my own concept, yes I am. Definitely you need to be a shortcut seeker, but to seek for that shortcut you need to walk through a long long long way. You cant seek a shortcut to find a shortcut. Actually there is no shortcut. Its' just that automated systems working in long-cut to make it look like a shortcut, and you just teach the machine to take the long-cut faster and perfecter for you. Believe me teaching a system or machine is not that easy. It takes smart brain, hard work, strong dedication.
So finally it is like freedom from repetitive tasks and that's too in a more efficient way.
Its' an one time long-cut but not a shortcut.

Its all about DATA and Presentation

2012-06-16T08:57:00.001-07:00

Internet, what i think it's god today.
But have you ever had a look inside it? Actually it is very simple.
Just two things which creates such a huge play ground.
One the data and two the presentation.
Its all made of web pages, whatever the motive is, either its a business ,political, social or fun page and a lot more than you can even imagine.
The bottom line is the data. All of the sites are aimed to collect data and present them in such a way which users would like.
The most relevant data with beautiful presentation makes a success story of any site .
But data is a strong word, data means industry revenue, product definition, student information etc.
Waaakkkkkkk.....who cares! data means any, literally, any information about anything.
facebook is practically full of crap, which means personal emotions , personal party, even when someone likes to shout you can use facebook. Just login and type "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH". This "AAAAAAAAHHHHHH" is also kinda data, and I am very sorry to call it crap, I myself is a regular user of facebook. As a reason I can say by selling this crap facebook made a $2 billion revenue this year. WHAT THE FCUK right ? They just presented this crap the way people like it.
eBay they dont even care if the product is used or a new one, they just update this product data in their site.
Seller sell it and buyers buy it and ebay made a revenue of $9 billion last year. Note a fact they can even sell your used UNDERWEAR. Information about your used underwear is really weired in public network right? Oh by this I am thinking of selling my 2 years old LUX COZY on ebay. Oa dont tell anyone, let people search it from ebay.
Youtube videos, dude its free . So much disc space, wow awesome na? I donno where do they get money for buying new hard discs to upload almost any kinda videos. Oh I almost forgot they made $200 million in 2008, after earning this much money anyone can buy tonnes of hard discs. Try one thing : go to the loo take a video of your potty moments, name it as 'the smell of my potty' and upload it in youtube, I bet that they are not going to reject even this video.
Lots and lots more are there running online with this kinda money making craps . Like :
http://picasa.google.com/
http://www.picnik.com/
http://twitter.com/So who cares dude? what the data is about, just the DATA needs to be there and you need to present it like the way people likes it.So are you thinking of making your own useless money making website with data and presentation? GO FOR IT It's not that easy to sell craps. So think again.By the way I am thinking of making something like this.