[R] use R Group SFBA April meeting reminder; video of Feb k

[Gad Abraham]

Ron @ Lecturemaker wrote:
> Hi Ted and others,
> 
> I appreciate your time in sharing R user group experience with my video
> player scheme.  Over time, I hope to iron out all issues your views
> encounter.
> 
> For now I think I have a good solution for flash 10 upgrade issue.  See
> screenshot "flash10warning.png" for example of flash version error handler
> from my Ubantu box - large error message with alternate playback link to the
> swf file itself.
> 
> My mac plays the video just fine, and the upgrade detect worked just fine
> too. The problem that Gad describes may be more complicated. I suspect he is
> encountering a security mechanism resulting from my chosen method of flash
> version detection.  It is a very popular technique called SWFObject
> developed by google.  To narrow down Gad's problem, I'll request of Gad to
> try the following link's test suite and see if he finds some tests that
> fail...  http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/wiki/test_suite If one or more
> of these tests fail, then I can work backward to identify the problem /
> solution matrix.  The error message he encountered is consistent with my
> catch all error (with 15 1-second retry's before finally aborting) for
> security related issues and/or transient Internet connectivity errors.  

It was actually Rolf that got the error message - all I got was the 
title "The R and Science..." and nothing under it. Now I get 
"LectureMaker.com recommends Flash...". I'm using Flash 9.0.151.0 on 
Firefox 3.0.8, OS X 10.5.6.


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Gad Abraham
MEng Student, Dept. CSSE and NICTA
The University of Melbourne
Parkville 3010, Victoria, Australia
email: gabraham at csse.unimelb.edu.au
web: http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~gabraham