satisfaction

i derive great satisfaction from figuring out technical issues which have me stumped for a while. ever since i upgraded my firefox to 2.0.0.6 i have been having problems with flash animations. i tried to fix it at first and none of the solutions worked permanently. so i gave up for a while since i was too busy. then today i decided to try to fix it again. after 20 minutes of searching and trying new fixes, i found a fix that works! yay!

so it you have a mac g4 and want to run firefox 2.0.0.6 and max osx (10.4.10) and you are having problems with your flash animations (e.g. can't see video embedded in webpages like youtube and myspace) and you see a quicktime symbol with a question mark instead, then do the following. the problem is that the quicktime plugin is conflicting with the flash plugin. go into system preferences, quicktime - advanced. Uncheck "Enable Flash". then click the "mime settings..." button. once in that window, expand miscellaneous and uncheck "Flash Media". click OK and you're done!

ahhhh i love it when i can fix things.

once thing that has had me stumped for a while now. how do i configure different wep keys on a mac to connect to a wep enabled wireless network if the wep key is something other than 1? yes i've tried just inputting the generated code, didn't work. yes i've tried $ sign before the key, didn't work either.