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[edit] Stellar work

Welcome and thank you for your stellar work on the talk page of the Fritzl case where you summarized and "indexed" Austrian news broadcasts over several weeks. I hope you are going to contribute to editing the Wiki article about the case.--Kathlutz (talk) 05:22, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] YouTube Flash issue

This has been moved from Talk:YouTube, since it was not strictly article related. Hopefully this answers the question. --♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 20:34, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] YouTube or Adobe changed Flash version requirement?

Has YouTube or Adobe changed which Flash version is required in the last day? Yesterday youtube was working for me on Firefox and Opera (on Vista), but today youtube is reporting I should download a new Flash version, and the adobe download page lists "Adobe Flash Player version 9.0.124.0". Javascript code navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash"].description returns "Shockwave Flash 9.0 r45", so I assume I have an older version.

Also youtube is now redirecting to uk.youtube.com for some reason (I am not in or near the UK, www.youtube.com used to be fine). uk.youtube.com looks broken to me (no page style and warnings about out of date Flash) I do not remember changing Flash for months. Does anyone know what this could be about? -84user (talk) 06:20, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Hmmm, youtube is now working and I have not done anything except wait. I did look at www.adobe.com but their download page was broken for me. I guess this is one of those glitches. My Flash version remains at "Shockwave Flash 9.0 r45", so I guess youtube is happy with that! -84user (talk) 06:29, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
Shockwave Player is not the same as Adobe Flash Player, and is often used for online games, eg Penguin Rush at [1]. To check which version of Flash Player is installed on a computer, right click on a Flash animation or video, and select "About Adobe Flash Player". The latest version is 9.0.124.0. YouTube pages have a national flag in the top right hand corner showing which version you are connected to, and it can be changed by clicking on it. --♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 07:08, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, that's interesting to know. I see "Shockwave Flash" and not "Player". When I right click a flash video and select "About...", http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/about/ opens in a new tab and reports "Adobe Flash Player ... Version 9,0,45,0 Installed". I could not do this earlier because all YouTube displayed was "Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe's Flash Player. Get the latest Flash player." (exactly as when one disables Javascript, which I hadn't). When I clicked on the "Get" link I got a broken adobe page (now it works, but I'm declining the install for now). It looks like there are many confusingly similar names.
Firefox "about:plugins" lists "NPSWF32.dll ... Shockwave Flash 9.0 r45" with "application/x-shockwave-flash" and description "Adobe Flash movie", which all matches what I see with my javascript code. I looked at miniclip.com but Firefox claims missing plugins and wanted to install "Macromedia Shockwave Player 10.0", which I rejected. Finally as you say, there is a national flag and I must have changed it to UK myself and forgot about it! That explains that mystery. -84user (talk) 08:01, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
The message "Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe's Flash Player" is a known issue and has a page on YouTube's help site: [2]. However, some YouTube users have received this message when other video sharing sites are working, and only YouTube seemed to have the problem: [3]. When there is a problem with getting YouTube videos to play, try another video sharing website, eg Metacafe or Vimeo. If these are working ok, then the problem could be due to technical issues at the YouTube website itself, eg [4]. Have a break for an hour or so, and then try again. Sometimes YouTube videos are slow to load or do not load at all, and this may be because the server computers at YouTube are down or having difficulty keeping up with the demand at certain times of day (see Latency (engineering) and Lag). --♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 17:17, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Please end this thread. This discussion page is meant to talk about improving the article, not a general troubleshooting guide for using YouTube. Thank you. --ZimZalaBim talk 17:21, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

OK. Wikipedia is not a help forum or howto manual, but I have tried to answer the question so that future users do not post the same question. --♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 17:35, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Lady Drummond Hay

Thanks for the Time magazine link. Grace H-D-H was my great aunt and on page two it talks about her parents meeting her in the US, they were my great grand-parents. MrMarmite (talk) 09:22, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

There is a dutch documentary about her being made (should be made by now). I let them have copied of a lot of her letters that I have. Also, have you read Botting's book on the matter? MrMarmite (talk) 11:20, 2 June 2008 (UTC)