Peter Brawley
peter.brawley at earthlink.net
Mon Sep 19 19:43:29 CDT 2011
On 9/19/2011 5:46 PM, Mark Breen wrote: > Hi Jim, > > Not sure what you mean by >> MS Access comes to mind. Long live Open Source standards. > do you mean that Access is slowing dying ? How do we speed that up? PB ----- > > have I missed an elephant in the room? > > thanks > Mark > > > > > > On 19 September 2011 21:22, Jim Lawrence<accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: > >> It appears that both Silverlight (what a waste of money if it was expected >> to be a Flash replacement) and Flash, are on their way out. Adobe has even >> created a new product called Edge, which will create Flash like browser >> results but uses HTML5 and CSS3. (Free for download: >> http://tinyurl.com/6adgd4t as they are looking for early adopters in the >> developer's community.) >> >> You are going to run into these issues for a while as one product is being >> phased out and being replaced by another. >> >> Android still supports Flash as Google is the proud owner of YouTube but a >> replacement technology is in the works as so many Flash experts are also >> migrating and want to have a solid alternative. >> >> There are now, many free Flash website designs, as companies are shedding >> their stables of Flash inventory and are now using them as bait, to attract >> potential clients to their sites. It will probably take 2 to 5 years before >> Flash is finally gone. >> >> There is a general trend in the developer's community to not embrace a >> closed standard, as if history is any indication, a person's career can be >> jeopardized when a company decides to no longer support one of their >> products and huge costs are incurred buying into a new closed technology, >> starting with huge time waste, as well as poorer products, until sufficient >> skill-sets have been obtained. >> >> MS Access comes to mind. Long live Open Source standards. >> >> Jim >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com >> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow >> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 8:56 AM >> To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' >> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Linux and Firefox >> >> I get some pretty strange messages on my android tablet. One app, IIRC >> Flash, would not download to my iPad because Apple does not support it. >> Nice >> slap in the face Adobe. First inferring that _I_ bought an iPad and second >> suggesting that Apple has anything to say about Android. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com >> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence >> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 8:44 AM >> To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' >> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Linux and Firefox >> >> Hi Mark: >> >> That happens more frequently than you would guess. Many of my sites will >> not >> run on IE as the clients are unwilling to pay the extra dollars for the >> extra coding necessary. It has not been until recently, that IE (IE9), has >> supported HTML5 or CSS3. Some web programmer did the reverse and built the >> site only for IE. >> >> You could try the Linux Chrome browser, Chromium and see if you have better >> luck. >> >> Jim >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com >> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Mark Breen >> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 1:28 AM >> To: Discussion concerning MS SQL Server; Discussion of Hardware and >> Software >> issues >> Subject: [dba-Tech] Linux and Firefox >> >> Hello All, >> >> Hope you do not mind me changing the subject on this discussion. >> >> Francisco mentions below that he uses Firefox on Linux. Over the weekend, >> I >> tried to book online for Dublin Airport car park using Linux and FF. >> However, the site informed me that they do not currently support this >> phone >> browser and to try a regular PC. >> >> Well I guess I can understand what caused that wrong message, but I was >> disappointed that I had to go upstairs to my windows machine. >> >> To gently tease the kids, I also took a printscreen of their old Windows >> desktop and set it as the desktop on the linux installation. Their heads >> were messed up because they could see the Windows icons, but still they >> were >> on linux :) >> >> Mark >> >> >> On 19 September 2011 00:09, Francisco Tapia<fhtapia at gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Another thing you can attempt is to setup a Linux virtual machine >>> that would prevent hackers from reaching your personal data directly. >>> I really won't surf the net on Internet explorer (any version). I only >>> use Firefox with noscript and on a Linux machine helps to obfuscate as >>> much direct contact as possible... >>> >>> Sent from my mobile >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> dba-Tech mailing list >> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dba-Tech mailing list >> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dba-Tech mailing list >> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dba-Tech mailing list >> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >