Tom, I am finding this verification code SMS to a mobile phone a real problem also now that I am living part of the year in South Korea. I now have two phone numbers, one for Australia and the other for South Korea. Most sites will only let you specify one phone for verification when you create an account and so this presents a problem. I know of no way to forward a SMS to another phone automatically (btw: I forward all my calls in either country to Skype when I am not in that country and then get Skype to call the other country's mobile number. That way I am always contactable and it works well).
As for Adobephobia, I have not installed Flash for several years now and basically find no reason to do so. For those sites that require flash, as you found with China Southern, like you, I use the Google Chrome browser that has an inbuilt Flash engine. The only Adobe program I really miss is GoLive, it was a really great site editor and I have found no equivalent and so am stuck with BBEDIT and global edits (which always are a problem). bobj On 14/07/2015 12:20 pm, Tom Worthington wrote: > On 13/07/15 08:48, I wrote: > >> I have Flash installed, but turned off ... Occasionally I need to >> look at something using Flash ... Normally I am disappointed with the >> result: hard to read text and nonsense video. > Tried to check-in today on-line with China Southern Airlines < > http://www.csair.com/au/en/ >. I was presented with a verification code > displayed with Flash. All I could see were faint random lines, no text > and kept getting "Validation code is incorrect". when I switched from > the Firefox web browser and to Google Chromium a verification code appeared. > > This got me a few steps in the process but I still could not check-in as > the CSA system then sends a code to my mobile phone, but assumes I have > a Chinese phone, so the code never arrives. > > Perhaps if I was using a smart phone in China, with lots of broadband, > this would be quick and easy, but in Australia on a slow connection to a > laptop it does not work. > > -- -------------------------------- Dr Bob Jansen Turtle Lane Studios Pty Ltd 122 Cameron St, Rockdale NSW 2216, Australia Ph (Korea): +82 10-4494-0328 Ph (Australia) +61 414 297 448 Resume: http://au.linkedin.com/in/bobjan Skype: bobjtls KakaoTalk: bobjtls http://www.turtlelane.com.au In line with the Australian anti-spam legislation, if you wish to receive no further email from me, please send me an email with the subject "No Spam" _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
