--- malcolm <malcolm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I work in a school and we are thinking about Linux > I put some test machines out - Fedora, Suse and > Ubuntu > The view of the students was Fedora was the best > ..great so far > Then we did the KDE v Gnome thing - Gnome won ... > even better > Then I asked the question - so what do you think of > Linux ? > 'It sucks ! ' was the almost universal response ( > students aged 11 to 18 ) > Why I asked .. It never falls over, XP dies all the > time ... true they said > OO is just like Office to use and doesn't munge up > documents .. also > true they said > It will save the school £20000 per year, so why does > it suck > > Because we can't watch Yahoo music videos and that > was it - Ok I did > point out that > they weren't suppose to be watching them at all > really but that doesn't > cut much ice with > teenagers. So the problem is this - I am never going > to get this off the > ground if I don't have > the support of the kids. Windows Media is my Linux > killer - Codeweavers > are OK but > only support WMP 6.4 - I've never got gxine to work > properly and the > Linux version of Real Player > won't do the 'universal player' trick that the > Windows one does. > > Even the most angst ridden teenager admitted that > 99% of Linux was > better than the Windows > equivalent but not one of them wanted to use it > simply because of the > lack of Windows Media plugins > > Help .... please ! > > M > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Install MPlayer, grab all the codecs & install them and also install MPlayer plugin and voila you can watch Yahoo Movie Previews. But you mention Yahoo Music Videos, that is another animal. I have the same problem too! I have tried to find a solution but usually firefox bails out. I told the students that the network firewal blocks the videos, but they caught me because they do play in windows. Hope someone can help you! I have even tried to fool Yahoo Music Video webpage by using "User Agent Switcher" in Interent Explorer mode, but firefox just bails off. Best Regards, Antonio __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com
