A recent announcement over at Adobe Labs delivered the deeply disappointing news that the team working on native 64-bit versions of the bloated, creaking memory-hog Flash Player had given up after literally several tries.
A few recent local changes included a restructuring of inbound mail delivery to include UCE (more frequently called spam) filtering using a combination of the venerable procmail and the increasingly impressive bogofilter.
It should have been simple, but then the problems started…
Ever run snmpwalk on an SNMP-enabled device and been disappointed by the available information? There may well be a very simple reason for that.
The Net-SNMP implementation of the SNMP stack has some default settings that may be far from optimal in many cases. Specifically, the snmpwalk and snmpbulkwalk applications poll only a specific subset of the full MIB tree.
After what seems like an age, Adobe has stopped pretending that the undeniable future of computing is 32-bit and built a native 64-bit Flash plugin for Linux. Although still an alpha release, it is at least the current version (10). If you’re using 64-bit Linux, and feel you’re missing out on a whole world of quality rich media, scoot along and grab it here.
For the hardcore masochists amongst you, there’s also a version for Solaris-x86 on the same page.
After the changes of last week things were still not quite right. The WET would still periodically fail, usually only for a few seconds, but sometimes for much longer. I began to suspect that this was an external problem; something in the house was interfering with the signal.
After a few days of monitoring the link, I could find no correlation between the intermittent failures and changes in the local environment. Back to the proverbial drawing board.