Posted on 07/24/2006 4:19:28 PM PDT by pcottraux
And now, for tonight’s Dinklemeyer, I bring you an all new story.
At this point, the Dinklemeyers became pretty much stories done in a serial form, instead of just singular cartoon strips. This one begins the “Class fieldtrip” story.
I drew this story not long after a field trip (the story is loosely based on that very trip). When you’re in Elementary and Middle school, field trips are the most fun, exciting things imaginable. Unfortunately, once you enter High School, they suddenly become few and far-between, and the ones that you go on are excruciatingly lame. No more going to Washington, D.C. to meet a Senator for you: from now on, it’s landfills and secluded swamps.
The first panel shows that the main character, Freddy, is thoroughly uninterested in whatever’s going on. You got to love the dialogue here (if you can read it). The second panel shows what strangely happens during fieldtrips; the class students (even the seniors) suddenly become insanely hyperactive, and the teachers all transform into screaming sadists (probably sudden insanity from trying to keep the kids in order).
I think my favorite, however, is the third panel. Believe me, school buses are the most unpleasant things in the world. Too small, cramped, and with no breathing room whatsoever. The claustrophobia is overwhelming; I always loved to make Freddy’s classmates bizarre and colorful-looking.
Well, it's up to you if you want to take it off. I've heard it...and that's the important thing.
(My convulsive laughter has started to die down to repetive intense snickering, but at this point anything might set me off again).
OK, do you use Windows?
IOW, is there a little green or gray button labeled "Start" in the lower left hand corner of the screen?
Yes, I do use Windows. That much I knew.
BTW, all joking aside, you were greatly missed this past week.
Then you don't use *nix...
Adobe has been much better at keeping Windows and Mac users up to date with the Flash Player...
But now they're slipping up?
They keep Windows and Macintosh versions updated pretty regularly..
It's the *nix versions, and Linux in particular, that they don't keep up. As a result, I can't view most flash-enabled pages on the Web with my native Flash player...
Us Linux users are on version 7, and rumor has it that the next Linux version of Flash Player won't be out until early next year.
There already is an open-source push to create an alternative called Gnash (portmanteau of GNU and Flash)..
Luckily, there is WINE, which enables us to run some Windows exes in Linux--that's how I'm using the new flash player. Although I had to install IE to use it, and it's a pain in the butt to configure it to run with my proxy...
(I can FRmail ya the name of it)
*Scrambling to take notes*
Great job, pcottraux
You've got mail...
Got it.
Thank You, AU.
I'll give my right arm for some cold right about now.
They leave people out in the hot, too.
Er, that was a figurative statement on how Adobe doesn't update the *nix versions of its software often, thus leaving us *nix users out in the cold...
I know.
I've been in 100+ degree weather for three days now. When I saw the world "cold" it swept me away to a happy, cooler place in my mind.
What's a *nix?
*nix refers to not only Unix--but operating systems (OS's) such as Linux, the various versions of BSD, Mac OS X, A/UX, HP-UX, etc. While similar to Unix in structure, or a direct descendant of the original Unices (AT&T System V and UC-Berkeley's BSD 4.4), they technically are not Unix systems.
In short, *nix is a correct way of recognizing the fact that these OS's are based on or derived from Unix, but aren't technically considered to be Unix.
Strictly speaking, when an OS meets the Single Unix Specification, it may then be referred to as Unix.
So you're saying that on the *nix systems, you can't use the latest flash?
Nope.
On my Linux system, I can only run Flash 7.
They are on Flash 9 for Windows and Mac, with Public beta for Intel Mac.
It's a pain in the butt because more sites are using programs that require Flash 8 or better.
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