Adobe Flash player direct download link

Update 2011-11-02: The links below are currently returning an old version of Flash (10.3.183.10), rather than the current version 11. For download links for Adobe Flash Player version 11, see my later post Adobe Flash Player 11 direct download links.

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I kept Googling for these, and sifting through the search results to find the "good" answers.

To save me having to do that again, I thought it might be a good idea to find the good answers, and then write them down here.

Adobe Flash player direct download for Firefox

http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player.exe [URL now de-linked and shown for posterity only. See Adobe Flash Player 11 direct download links]

Adobe Flash player direct download for Internet Explorer

http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_ax.exe [URL now de-linked and shown for posterity only. See Adobe Flash Player 11 direct download links]

'puppet resource user' fails with 'Could not find file /root/resource.pp'

Trying to follow the documentation for 'Puppet', we try a simple

puppet resource user

only to find that we are presented with the error message 'Could not find file /root/resource.pp'.

Googling over the error message returns nothing useful.

The answer is that in Puppet v2.6.0 things were changed to use a single binary rather than several binaries, but you are using a version of Puppet prior to v2.6.0 (for example you are using the one out of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Puppet v0.25.4).

(In case you're wondering why the Ubuntu 10.04 version appears to be so hideously ancient, the answer is that it isn't; Puppet switched version numbering paradigms and went straight from v0.25.5 to v2.6.0.)

puppet resource is the new way to invoke ralsh. So the way to do what we originally set out to do it to use

ralsh user

which will give you a dump of user data in Puppet RAL format.

If you have a look at the relevant bit of the changelog you can see the relationship between the new forms and the old forms.

Stop HS2

In order to secure a debate on HS2 in the House of Commons, 100,000 signatures are needed on the e-petition below. Previous signatures whether electronic or on paper, are not counted - please log-in and sign now.

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/353

Perldoc down

perldoc.perl.org was down recently. This prompted me to dust off an old idea I'd had to create a Perl documentation site closer to home.

So I have set up perldoc.co.uk. This is UK-based and UK-administered, and just works, without going down for a week at a time because of mysterious router problems.

If you're wondering why this post is so similar to the previous one, the answer is that a popular web searching system, whose name begins with a G, did not seem to want to index that page over the phrase "perldoc down", which is where I would like to get listed. Hence this page, which is titled "Perldoc down", so there should now be no excuse for them not to index it.

UK hosted Perl documentation site

Recently had a problem accessing perldoc.perl.org and decided it was time to dust off my idea for creating a Perl documentation site a little closer to home.

So I have now set up perldoc.co.uk, which is similar to perldoc.perl.org, but hosted on a UK-based server. So for UK and other European users, this should result in lower round trip times.

It's currently a work in progress, with various things not quite right. For example it currently shows the documentation only for the distro Perl (currently Perl 5.10.1 from Ubuntu 10.04 LTS).

IPv6 heads will be pleased to hear that the site is enabled for IPv6.

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How do Energizer Lithium AA cells work?

How do Energizer Lithium AA cells work?

Non-rechargeable lithium cells are 3 volts right?

But if they're AA cells, then people will expect a notional 1.5 volts at the terminals right?

So ... what gives? Do they have an internal DC-to-DC converter or what?

The answer is that there are many battery formulations which use lithium, and cells made using them can all be described as "lithium cells".

As far as I can tell, Energizer Lithium AA cells are Lithium Iron Disulfide cells. According to Wikipedia this formulation results in a cell voltage of about 1.4 to 1.6 volts, which should make them broadly compatible with scenarios expecting 1.5 volt cells.

Search strings:

• How do Energizer Lithium AA batteries work?
• How do Energizer Ultimate Lithium AA batteries work?

Lexmark X543 beeping five times

Lexmark X543 decided it didn't want to start up. The power was coming on and the display was lighting up, but nothing was being displayed, and it was giving me a five beep cycle.

The Lexmark website said that this five beep indication would be given if the main board could not see the control panel.

So I wondered if it was as simple as a loose connector on the cable connecting the main board and the control panel.

So took off the back panel which covers the main board and had a look. Had a poke around to see if there were any loose connectors. Nothing really in evidence.

Switched it back on. Still not working. Gave each cable a poke and a wiggle. When I poked the membrane cable in the top centre, the display changed and started to show the sequence of dots for the printer startup. The printer then came up and was able to print. Cool.

Later on I tried printing but the printer had frozen again. Switched off the printer and switched it on. Not working. Held the cable slightly up. The printer then started up and I was able to print a page.

Decided it must be this membrane cable causing a problem and wondered if it was just the connection to the main board which might be the problem. Wondered if it could be unplugged from the main board so, with the machine switched off again, gave it a progressive tug.

The membrane cable came out of the recepticle on the main board. Then wondered if it would go back in again, so carefully lined it up and carefully eased it back into the recepticle.

Switched printer on, and it booted up without assistance. A few minutes later it proceeded to print the entire backlog of unprinted jobs on the Windows 7 machines on the network. Ah well, at least it's printing again.

If it carries on working, I may decide to risk putting the back cover on again.

If this posting helped get your Lexmark X543 printer working again, please consider donating 5 U.S. dollars or 5 Euro.

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