[olug] pbskids.org and pbskidsplay.org

Kevin sharpestmarble at gmail.com
Mon Jun 25 21:18:38 UTC 2012


www.pbskidsplay.org on Fedora 16 gives things as they appear they should be.

"Get your free 10-day guest pass in a single step:", also has a video and a
cartoon monkey(Curious George?)

[kevin at ibf ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -e flash -e gnash
gnash-0.8.10-2.fc16.i686
gnash-plugin-0.8.10-2.fc16.i686
flash-plugin-11.2.202.233-release.i386
[kevin at ibf ~]$


On Jun 25, 2012 3:50 PM, "Rob Townley" <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:

> I tried User Agent Switcher and tried out Internet Explorer 6,7,8 but the
> when signing into pbsKidsPlay.org, it loads to about 95% but does nothing,
> not even the error dialog mentioned. Just has the background image.
>
> Are you sure you trialled pbsKidsPlay.org (a pay for site) using Ubuntu 12?
>
> Using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - the Lucid Lynx - released in April 2010 and
> supported until April 2013.
>
> Ubuntu
> 2.6.32-41-generic #90-Ubuntu SMP Tue May 22 11:29:51 UTC 2012 x86_64
> GNU/Linux
>
>
> $ aptitude show adobe-flashplugin
>    Package: adobe-flashplugin
>    State: installed
>    Automatically installed: no
>    Version: 11.2.202.236-0lucid1
>    Priority: optional
>    Section: web
>    Maintainer: DL-Flash Player Ubuntu <FlashPlayerUbuntu at adobe.com>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Sean Sinclair <seanfsinclair at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > It seems to work fine on Ubuntu 12.04. What distribution of Linux did it
> > not work on?
> >
> > On 06/24/2012 02:33 PM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> >
> >> On 06/24/2012 12:43 PM, Rob Townley wrote:
> >>
> >>> We have played pbskids.org games and videos for many years on Linux
> >>> systems
> >>> ... afterall it is mainly Flash based.
> >>> Today, i thought i would trial pbsKidsPlay.org but was surprised when
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>  *Error: Unsupported OS
> >>>
> >>>        PBS KIDS PLAY! does not support your computer's operating
> system.
> >>>                                 OK*
> >>>
> >>
> >> Odd, seems ok for me, for example,
> >>
> >> http://pbskids.org/**curiousgeorge/games/splat_**
> >> symphony/splat_symphony.html<
> http://pbskids.org/curiousgeorge/games/splat_symphony/splat_symphony.html>
> >>
> >> loads up fine without complaint using both firefox and google-chrome
> >>
> >> Do you have any specific examples of stuff that doesn't work?
> >>
> >> -- rex
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