Month: February 2010

Day in brief

Fighting Adobe AIR on Fedora 12

Until now I was completely and totally ignoring Adobe AIR.  As far as I was concerned, it existed in a separate universe.  But recently, quite a few Adobe AIR applications started to come up on my radar that I wanted to try.  Yesterday, for example, I saw the Flickrroom, which sounds exactly like something that I need.  So, I searched yum repositories, and then Google, and then I found this blog post, which provides clear instructions on how to install Adobe AIR on Fedora Linux.  Followed everything to a step, and failed.  Then Googled for more, tried, and failed.  And no matter what I do, it seems to fail miserably.

Adobe AIR in Gnome menu

As far as I can judge, Adobe AIR is installed on my system.  I see two items in the main menu and they even work when I run them.  But when I try to install any Adobe AIR application, I get a well known error message.

$ Adobe\ AIR\ Application\ Installer /home/leonid/Desktop/Flickroom.air
Application crashed with an unhandled SIGSEGVCrashlog has been dumped in /tmp/airCrashLogs/0219_1359_vG6AfW

This seems to indicate that I missing some dependency on my system, but I can’t which one. I’ve installed and updated everything that I could find a reference to.  I’ve also looked through the crash dump for any hints, but nothing jumped at me.

Any ideas?

Inglourious Basterds, art, Haiti

UnrealityMag runs a post with a whole bunch of posters for “Inglourious Basterds” movie.  These posters were drawn by various artists and are now collected into an exhibition.  But not only that!  Quentin Tarantino himself, signs the posters, which are being sold and all the money donated to help with the recent Haiti disaster.  Is that cool or what?  Check the link for more posters.

Lots of snow

If you are in the mood for some cold weather, ice and snow, check out these pictures.  It’s amazing what mother nature can do sometimes.

My dad told me a story of a similar snow fall that he experienced once when he was a kid.  They had to dig their way out of the house and into the main street.  He said that they walked over the garden fence without even noticing it.  This sounds awesome, but I bet you blisters from the shovel will cut into the fun part of it.