Made a silly mistake....

mamazaac

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

Windows XP has IE6, which can be upgraded to IE8 very easily. The customised version of Xandros Linux provided by ASUS has Firefox 2, but a combination of factors make updating this quite tricky.

Either way, you'd probably be better off with something else.

Didn't realise there was an alternative to either of these - what would you suggest instead please?

gaming_guy

mamazaac wrote: »

The site he mentioned was https://www.miniclip.com. I can't check it here as don't have firefox installed, but he said he tried using firefox on his grandad's pc and it wouldn't work.

you need to have flash installed for that to work.

Firefox (with flash installed & enabled) works fine with that site.

mamazaac

Fifer wrote: »

If you don't want second hand, can he or you stretch to £106.97 for a refurbished netbook with a 3 month warranty (extendable to a year)? I use a similar Eee PC netbook to this and it's fine (this one's better than mine as it has an 80GB hard disk). It runs linux and is very, very easy to use. They were originally designed for children and come with lots of great educational software as well as an office suite and internet browser. It's wireless too.

Darn, now out of stock. There is an Eee PC 701 ending on ebay tomorrow near me which I could collect and, therefore, see working - currently at £65 with one bid. Don't know whether to go for that or hold out in the hope that another one of the above becomes available at laptops direct (have asked if it's likely so hopefully will know more later). Obviously the 904HD is better with a 80GB HD and more RAM, but if 4GB HD and 512MB RAM will be enough for my son, is he spending the extra money unnecessarily? Furthermore they do have a 904HD at Laptops direct (http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Grade_A2_-_EEEPC_904HD_Black_Netbook_A2-EEEPC904HD-BK003X/version.asp) with XP for £134.97 so, if this is heaps better than the 701, should I lend him the extra to get this instead?

Didn't realise it was going to be such hard work sorting this out:(

What do you experts think I should do?

mamazaac

gaming_guy wrote: »

you need to have flash installed for that to work.

Firefox (with flash installed & enabled) works fine with that site.

Thank you, he will be pleased to know that. Can you install flash with linux?

gaming_guy

mamazaac wrote: »

Thank you, he will be pleased to know that. Can you install flash with linux?

yes (i've only really used flash in ubuntu/debian so cannot confirm compatibility with other Linux Distros).

In ubuntu, its as simple as typing

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

at a terminal prompt. This works fine on 32bit versions of Ubuntu, however 64bit versions of ubuntu require a little bit more work but it's still fairly easy to do (you just download a slightly different version from adobe and manually copy it to the correct folder).

-TangleFoot-

mamazaac wrote: »

Didn't realise there was an alternative to either of these - what would you suggest instead please?

Linux distributions:

• Ubuntu
• Fedora
• Mint

Linux distributions for netbooks:

• Ubuntu Netbook Remix (see above)
• Eeebuntu
• Jolicloud
• Moblin

Web browsers:

• Mozilla Firefox*
• Google Chrome
• Apple Safari (MacOS/Windows only)
• Opera

Note: a refurbished Aspire A110 can be had for as little as £115.

*This is the default browser in several Linux distributions.

jbreckmckye

Hang on, hang on, hold your horses - I thought Miniclip used Shockwave rather than Flash? You can get Shockwave Flash to work on Linux if you use WINE, but it's an extra step... that said, there are lots of game sites out there that rely on Flash as opposed to Shockwave.

gaming_guy

jbreckmckye wrote: »

Hang on, hang on, hold your horses - I thought Miniclip used Shockwave rather than Flash? You can get Shockwave Flash to work on Linux if you use WINE, but it's an extra step... that said, there are lots of game sites out there that rely on Flash as opposed to Shockwave.

i think it uses flash more.

and thats a horrible way of running shockwave as it might cause other issues

I'm using an amd64 version of ubuntu karmic (running a beta (or alpha?)) version of flash and all the games i tested on miniclip worked fine

Donnie

Zoostorm Freedom: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ZOOSTORM-FREEDOM-8-9IN-MINI-LAPTOP-REFURBISHED_W0QQitemZ330359485866QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Computing_Laptops_EH?hash=item4ceaf5b5aa £139 12 months warranty.

Intel Atom N270 processor.
1.6GHz processor speed.
512MB cache.
1GB DDR2 RAM.

160GB hard drive.

8.9in widescreen size.
Resolution 1024 x 600 pixels.

1 Ethernet port.
Wireless/Wi-Fi enabled - n.

2 USB ports.
Media card reader.

Integrated 0.3MP webcam.

Windows XP Home operating system installed.
3.5 hours battery life.

-TangleFoot-

jbreckmckye wrote: »

I thought Miniclip used Shockwave rather than Flash?

There was some confusion over the branding a few years ago...