Packager for Symbian / Redistributable player ?

Hi,
I am doing mixed development on Nokia/Symbain S60 3rd ed. it seems like the "Adoble Packager" has been discontinued.
However, my understanding was that, only this "Packager" was allowing to run FL3.1 apps, as the distributable 3.1 player cannot
be invoked directly. Reason i definitely want the 3.1 is because my app does require both "network" (for XMLSockets) and "local file" access,which has finally been made possible by 3.1.
So my question is: now Packager is not there any longer, what is the solution to use 3.1 Player (and overcome the security ?).
Thanks,
Jacques,

Hi,
The latest devices from Nokia come with FL3.1. So you don't need to specifically look for FL-DP.
You can also do a firmware update to get FL3.1, like I did for my Nokia 5800XM.
You can use SWF2Go, its a commercial product and support all versions of FL. It allows you to install your SWF in /private folder of the stub application (or any other location), which is marked trusted on S60 devices. Visit www.swf2go.com for more.
Please note there are still some bugs in implementation, both by Nokia and Adobe. The path /Others/Trusted is still hardcoded, due to this some functions don't work until you install the SWF in that specific folder.
Hope it helps,
// chall3ng3r //

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7. Never install any commercial "anti-virus" (AV) or "Internet security" products for the Mac, as they are all worse than useless. If you need to be able to detect Windows malware in your files, use one of the free security apps in the Mac App Store—nothing else.
Why shouldn't you use commercial AV products?
☞ To recognize malware, the software depends on a database of known threats, which is always at least a day out of date. This technique is a proven failure, as a major AV software vendor has admitted. Most attacks are "zero-day"—that is, previously unknown. Recognition-based AV does not defend against such attacks, and the enterprise IT industry is coming to the realization that traditional AV software is worthless.
☞ Its design is predicated on the nonexistent threat that malware may be injected at any time, anywhere in the file system. Malware is downloaded from the network; it doesn't materialize from nowhere. In order to meet that nonexistent threat, commercial AV software modifies or duplicates low-level functions of the operating system, which is a waste of resources and a common cause of instability, bugs, and poor performance.
☞ By modifying the operating system, the software may also create weaknesses that could be exploited by malware attackers.
☞ Most importantly, a false sense of security is dangerous.
8. An AV product from the App Store, such as "ClamXav," has the same drawback as the commercial suites of being always out of date, but it does not inject low-level code into the operating system. That doesn't mean it's entirely harmless. It may report email messages that have "phishing" links in the body, or Windows malware in attachments, as infected files, and offer to delete or move them. Doing so will corrupt the Mail database. The messages should be deleted from within the Mail application.
An AV app is not needed, and cannot be relied upon, for protection against OS X malware. It's useful, if at all, only for detecting Windows malware, and even for that use it's not really effective, because new Windows malware is emerging much faster than OS X malware.
Windows malware can't harm you directly (unless, of course, you use Windows.) Just don't pass it on to anyone else. A malicious attachment in email is usually easy to recognize by the name alone. An actual example:
London Terror Moovie.avi [124 spaces] Checked By Norton Antivirus.exe
You don't need software to tell you that's a Windows trojan. Software may be able to tell you which trojan it is, but who cares? In practice, there's no reason to use recognition software unless an organizational policy requires it. Windows malware is so widespread that you should assume it's in every email attachment until proven otherwise. Nevertheless, ClamXav or a similar product from the App Store may serve a purpose if it satisfies an ill-informed network administrator who says you must run some kind of AV application. It's free and it won't handicap the system.
The ClamXav developer won't try to "upsell" you to a paid version of the product. Other developers may do that. Don't be upsold. For one thing, you should not pay to protect Windows users from the consequences of their choice of computing platform. For another, a paid upgrade from a free app will probably have all the disadvantages mentioned in section 7.
9. It seems to be a common belief that the built-in Application Firewall acts as a barrier to infection, or prevents malware from functioning. It does neither. It blocks inbound connections to certain network services you're running, such as file sharing. It's disabled by default and you should leave it that way if you're behind a router on a private home or office network. Activate it only when you're on an untrusted network, for instance a public Wi-Fi hotspot, where you don't want to provide services. Disable any services you don't use in the Sharing preference pane. All are disabled by default.
10. As a Mac user, you don't have to live in fear that your computer may be infected every time you install software, read email, or visit a web page. But neither can you assume that you will always be safe from exploitation, no matter what you do. Navigating the Internet is like walking the streets of a big city. It can be as safe or as dangerous as you choose to make it. The greatest harm done by security software is precisely its selling point: it makes people feel safe. They may then feel safe enough to take risks from which the software doesn't protect them. Nothing can lessen the need for safe computing practices.

What is the default bufferTime for the OSMF player?

Hi,
I want to know what is the default buffer time for the OSMF player. And can we set it using NetMocker package using netStream.bufferTime? And when we set it once does it remain that afterwards?
Regards,
Amit

NetMocker is used for unit testing OSMF features that depend on NetStream, it's not something that would be of much use in a production application.
OSMFPlayer (and OSMF) uses the default values for the buffer for progressive and RTMP streaming video. For HTTP streaming video, OSMFPlayer (but not OSMF) uses an adapative algorithm to set the buffer (see HTTPStreamingNetLoaderWithBufferControl). You can set the buffer time via MediaPlayer.bufferTime, and it should retain its value.

Security Updates Available for Adobe Flash Player

Release date: February 7, 2013
Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Flash Player 11.5.502.146 and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh, Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.261 and earlier versions for Linux, Adobe Flash Player 11.1.115.36 and earlier versions for Android 4.x, and Adobe Flash Player 11.1.111.31 and earlier versions for Android 3.x and 2.x. These updates address vulnerabilities that could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.
Additional details:
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb13-04.html
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Pse wrote:
WonderWoofy wrote:Unless you are a developer, you cannot post to [arch-dev-public]. You can post to [arch-general], but even then, you will probably just be told to open a bug report (which i see you have).
Ah, whoops. I didn't open the bug report, it was another user. But the report got closed because it was an update (and no bug reports for updates were allowed, that's why I tried to post to arch-dev-public). In any case, I see in arch-dev-public that a dev took notice of this and now you can open bug reports for outdated packages if you're requesting a CVE fix.
or in the extreme case you can try e-mail the dev, but generally mark out of date is enough

Adobe Creative Cloud Packager for macintosh fails

Adobe Creative Cloud Packager for macintosh fails.
The error log says "[ERROR] AdobePackageBuilder - AdobePackageBuilder : SendPacket returned error : -1".
I tried 4-5 times.
Everything is downloaded (took about 14 Gb).
I now have only 12Gb free space on my disk. Can that be the reason (will the packager need to make a copy of the downloaded stuff?).
When I am done, how do I reclaim the space eaten by the packager?
Seems like it is caching it at ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CCP, but will I manually have to delete that cache?
I cannot find a menu entrance for doing so.
Would be nice if the packager could use a mounted network disk as destination, but it seems not to discover these.
/Peter Andersen

Wanted to join in and say this has been happening to me too. I wiped every adobe file I could find, and used the cleaner too. Started over from scratch in a brand new user account.
It's been about 7 days and I cannot get CCP to actually build a package. I've gotten a variety of messages but everything single time something fails. The new thing is that it says it fails on individual applications. So I disable them, and the error jumps to a new app. I can see that the .dmg's are fine and intact in ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CCP/
Given the amount of time this has cost me I really wish I had purchased CS6 Master Collection for every workstation. From my perspective, Creative Cloud has been nothing more then a giant waste of time and effort. It's genuinely bad product from an IT management perspective. Why push off the job of building and installer onto the customer? I should just be able to download the full Master Collection dmg, and then turn on and off the apps I want. Instead I am stuck with a workstation down, and everyone using CC trials to work.

Packager for Symbian / Redistributable player ?

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