Installing Adobe Flash Player on X-64 Fedora core 12/13, CentOS 5.5 or Red-Hat Linux 5.5/6.0

If you are frustrated at the lack of support for Macromedia Flash Player plugin on 64-bit Fedora (read - if you want to watch YOUTUBE videos), follow the following three steps:

1. wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
2. tar -xvzf libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
3. mv libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/

Maupassant

From The Question of Latin, which takes him to Paris, through The Unknown, to the ageless Boule de Suif, Maupassant lives his own stories. In a smoking room, after an uneventful dinner, the author discovers his art. A fitting start to the tale of Maupassant, the artisan.

As a first step, I intend to combine thirty different stories written by Maupassant which involve a man-woman relationship of any kind. The dramatis personna of this work are all men of different vocation viz. a baron, a doctor, a lawyer, a priest, a colonel, a philosopher, a poet and, of course, our dear Maupassant. Laced with love, horror, grief, lust, intrigue and vengeance, this tale encompasses all that is there to human nature. Therefore, let it begin ...

1. The First Snowfall
2. A Meeting
3. Mother and Son
4. Farewell
5. Madame Parisse
6. In the Spring
7. All Over
8. Two Friends
9. A Family Affair
10. His Avenger

11. The Unknown
12. Timbuctoo
13. Forgiveness
14. Julie Romaine
15. The Corsican Bandit
16. The Wrong House
17. Our Letters
18. Found on a Drowned Man
19. Mademoiselle Pearl
20. A Tress of Hair

21. Father Milon
22. The Trip of the Horla
23. Friend Patience
24. The Gamekeeper
25. Fascination
26. The Terror
27. A Wedding Gift
28. That Costly Ride
29. The Question of Latin
30. Boule de Suif

A Complex Network of Intermarriages

... And now a taste of medieval European history. Consider the famous network of intermarriages, shown above, studied by Padgett and Ansell. It has been suggested that the Medici's dominance of the Florentine political set up, in the 15^th century, can be attributed in part to their skilful manipulation of this network of intermarriages. What if Don Castellani comissioned Sir Lock Horns and Dr. Whatsup, three centuries later, to foil a bid by Professor Medici to take over the mantle once again? More fiction than fact, indeed. But what an intriguing idea! I have even thought of a name - The Circulant Conundrum.