The long-predicted big day is upon us with massive updates to Adobe's Flash player and ColdFusion application server, along with the release of version 2 of (now free) Flex and the recomended 'Cairngorm' framework.

Been waiting for this a long time, so I may be a bit excited for a while :-)

Updated the Flash player OK in a WINE Firefox, but a freshly recompiled flex app now has lots of nasty bevel borders on it.

Summary: Not as slick as the BBC's iMP

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Mmm... Smokin' Bacon flavour pringles - perfect coding food !

Lots of interesting stuff here - dedicated tech TV programs, online programs, the return of bernie-vision multi-view TV, access to telemetry feeds (I guess this assumes the [bad] standard ECU).

It's very much about how technical F1 is, and where the level of tech is going.

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Oh, this is great -  because of not-really-understanding-what-they-were-doing, Microsoft didn't know until very recently that by wiring one pin to the earth in their XBox console, you could make the very first instruction the CPU runs not come from super-secure-ROM but from you-can-put-anything-you-like-in-it Flash.
Which renders all their bonkers security useless.
And they can't change it because it's hard coded into the very fabric of the CPU because of stupid-legacy-reason.
And you can write to the Flash by putting a specially mangled saved game on a USB stick and loading it.

Giggles.

And who found all this out ? The Linux people - they are far, far, too knowledgeable.