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August 28, 2006

Why Code Must be Tested

I received an email this morning from U.S. Airways, updating me on my mileage status. Here's a clipping from it:

Account Balance Update

Dear LAMONT R PETERSON,

Tier Level: {% if ( = " " ) %}Dividend Miles{% endif %} {% if ( = "S" ) %}Silver Preferred{% endif %} {% if ( = "G" ) %}Gold Preferred{% endif %} {% if ( = "P" ) %}Platinum Preferred{% endif %} {% if ( = "C" ) %}Chairman's Preferred{% endif %}
Dividend Miles #: 1234567890

Welcome to the new Dividend Miles:

You now have access to over 842 worldwide destinations at your fingertips and mileage-earning opportunities with over 100 partners such as hotels, rental car and financial service companies, just to name a few.

. . . snip . . .

Apparently, the marketing department gets more proofreading resources than the programmers.

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August 4, 2006

Yum GPG Keys

I forgot to mention the use of GPG keys with yum in my recent post about using the mplug repository to install Adobe Flash Player.

In the .repo file for the mplug Yum repository, there are two lines about GPG; gpgcheck=1 turns on the feature that GPG signatures must be present and valid for packages downloaded from that repo or yum will not install them. gpgkey=http://macromedia.mplug.org/FEDORA-GPG-KEY provides the location where the GPG key file can be found. Simply download the key and run rpm --import FEDORA-GPG-KEY (as root, of course) to install the key into RPM.

There is older documentation on the Internet that will tell you to run gpg --import keyfile either prior to or in stead of rpm --import keyfile. That's for way older versions of RPM and no longer applies; it is only necessary (and desireable) to install the key into RPM.

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Macromedia Flash 9 for Linux

In a recent post of mine, I talked about using the mplug yum repository to install the Adobe Flash Player web browser plugin (Adobe bought Macromedia in 2005).

I also talked a little about the future of Flash Player on Linux. The main thing is that Flash 8 will probably never come to Linux, but 8.5 would. Today, I came across this post by Emmy Huang which talks about Flash Player 9 for Linux. There should be a Linux beta late this year for public testing with the final release sometime in early 2007, according to Huang.

Also, there is a new Penguin.SWF blog at Adobe, run my "Mike M." Go there for all the latest on Flash for Linux.

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