So I've been doing more Flex / red5 development recently and have been increasingly frustrated by the tendency of Flash 10 to often crash and burn when I try to access my webcam. To my amazement, there's an easy fix - just run firefox with

Hot damn!

Can't get VMWare to recognize your USB devices even though you added them to your virtual machine in the VMWare console?

1) sudo gedit /etc/fstab/
2) Add this at the bottom

3) Save and close gedit, then sudo shutdown -r now to reboot.
4) When you reopen VMWare you might have to manaully connect to the USB device in question...(In my case, the camera)