On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 2:29 AM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote:
I have an assortment of sites bookmarked that make effective use of
Flash, but Flash is an option, and they can be used without it.
(The sites are art, design, and fashion sites...
Please give some example what they do with
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 4:12 AM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote:
Hi Dennis,
2).
http://youtube-eng.blogspot.nl/2015/01/youtube-now-defaults-to-html5_27.html
Very nice :-)
I infer that you need a relatively current browser.
Yes, and those video codec libraries are not small at all.
Hi Dennis,
I have an assortment of sites bookmarked that make effective use of
Flash, but Flash is an option, and they can be used without it.
(The sites are art, design, and fashion sites...
Please give some example what they do with flash. Do they use it
for example for their image
Hi Dennis,
2).
http://youtube-eng.blogspot.nl/2015/01/youtube-now-defaults-to-html5_27.html
Very nice :-)
I infer that you need a relatively current browser.
Yes, and those video codec libraries are not small at all.
So even if you would add just enough HTML5 to a DOS browser
to display
Hi again,
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 4:32 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
Flash isn't going away on the desktop, and is still maintained. I
just had Firefox Nightly complain I was running an older and possibly
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Dave Kerber
dker...@warrenrogersassociates.com wrote:
No, dialup does not require copper. I know from personal experience that
it works fine on a FiOS or DSL line. If you have a dialtone when you pick
up your landline phone, a dialup modem will work.
True,
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 8:24 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 4:32 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote:
But I'm not holding my breath while Flash goes away. A technology that
pervasive and deeply embedded doesn't simply go away overnight. It
needs to be
Hi,
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 6:01 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Ralf Quint freedos...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/16/2014 2:50 PM, Louis Santillan wrote:
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 2:32 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hardware is
FreeDOS.
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] HTML5/Javascript/Flash (was: Re: Quickview
ver 2.60)
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Dale E Sterner sunbeam...@juno.com
wrote:
Copper is long gone and my dial up still works.Fiber is just a
carrier.
Dial up uses analog signals transmitted over copper
-Original Message-
From: dmccunney [mailto:dennis.mccun...@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2014 12:35 PM
To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS.
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] HTML5/Javascript/Flash (was: Re: Quickview
ver 2.60)
...
Dial up still works the same
Broadband makes such stealing so easy. It would take several truck loads
of floppies to steal that much data. Broadband goes everywhere in a
company.
Its quiet and super fast. It can empty files out faster than a speeding
bullet.
Access to it should be manually controled at a switch board by
Broadband will always be used but should be used by only people who can
be trusted. Using it everywhere is dangerous. Its so fast and quiet. The
theft
is complete before an alarm can be raised. Its like giving a burglar the
ability
to quietly clean your house out in 5 second.
DS
On Sun, 21 Dec
If I were running Sony the peons would have dial up and broadband would
be limited
to a few special people would tightly control its use. Dial up still
works the same without
copper - real slow
DS
On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 14:34:01 -0500 dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com
writes:
On Fri, Dec 19,
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Dale E Sterner sunbeam...@juno.com wrote:
If I were running Sony the peons would have dial up and broadband would
be limited to a few special people would tightly control its use.
What has Sony to do with anything? They aren't a telco or an ISP, and
do not
Copper is long gone and my dial up still works.Fiber is just a carrier.
Peon is anyone who takes orders from a boss. Just about everybody.
Dial up is so slow it would take years to clean out Sony instead of
minutes or hours.
Sony was most likely an inside job. Some peon probably did it - revenge
The conversation is getting silly.
Sony got hacked. Like many large corporations, they are very concerned
about threats from outside. But once an intruder is inside, every door in
the building was basically found to be unlocked. Good security is layered
security - getting in the front door
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Bob Schwier schwepes2...@yahoo.com wrote:
I'll miss copper because it continued to serve in a black out. Without power
there is no fiber optic.
That's what battery powered cell phones are for.
I was around when the major blackout hit the NE. The fact that
Tax time; my dos Qpro macros will be adding up my incomes so I can pay
the man.
Improved tech makes things better; just ask Sony. Broadband use made the
hacks possible.
My dial up is so slow it takes a half hour to download a virus, plenty of
time to hit stop.
DS
On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 13:35:20
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Dale E Sterner sunbeam...@juno.com wrote:
Improved tech makes things better; just ask Sony. Broadband use made the
hacks possible.
Broadband made hacks delivery *faster*. They were already *possible*.
Viruses were a pestilence back when everything was still
I'll miss copper because it continued to serve in a black out. Without power
there is no fiber optic.
bs
On Fri, 12/19/14, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote:
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] HTML5/Javascript/Flash (was: Re: Quickview ver
2.60
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Ralf Quint freedos...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/16/2014 4:01 PM, dmccunney wrote:
DOS is not dead but people need to treat DOS as DOS, not as a second
coming of Linux...
The fundamental issue for DOS is exactly what you *do* with it, and
*why* you might use DOS
from Rugxulo:
Light-weight? First of all, Linux (and similarly Windows and Mac)
don't target older machines. To them, an old machine is i686 with 256
MB of RAM, and even that is too old for most distros. The bare
minimum (for now) seems to be a Pentium 4, and that won't be supported
forever.
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
The point I'm trying to make is that it's pointless to pretend that
all web browsers (and OSes and cpus) are created equal. Most aren't
supported well, if at all. Even the developers who know how just don't
care enough.
If
Thomas Mueller mueller6...@twc.com said:
There are some Linux distros for older computers, and NetBSD and
FreeBSD can be installed on older computers.
But building packages or the system from source is likely to be
prohibitively slow on older machines.
But these distros do not run newer
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Jose Antonio Senna
jasse...@vivointernetdiscada.com.br wrote:
I agree with D M Cunney that javascript is the most important
shortcoming of DOS browsers, but I think HTML5 less needed
than SSL v3
People are full speed ahead on HTML5 largely because the video
Hi,
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 6:59 AM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
The point I'm trying to make is that it's pointless to pretend that
all web browsers (and OSes and cpus) are created equal. Most aren't
supported
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 6:59 AM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
The point I'm trying to make is that it's pointless to pretend that
all web browsers
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 2:32 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote:
[SNIP]
There is a pervasive bias against anything that isn't Windows, OS X,
or Linux, and those (at least in modern, supported versions) don't
target legacy machines (esp. nothing older than a P4). The trend seems
to
On 12/16/2014 2:50 PM, Louis Santillan wrote:
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 2:32 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote:
Hardware is steadily smaller, faster, and cheaper. Have fun finding a
new x86 machine these days that *isn't* 64 bit. ARM is still largely
32 bit, but that's changing
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Louis Santillan lpsan...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 2:32 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote:
And why *should* they target legacy machines? Exactly how long is
something supposed to be supported?
Hardware is steadily smaller, faster,
On 12/16/2014 3:56 PM, dmccunney wrote:
I was talking about what you see if you go to purchase a
desktop/laptop/netbook/what have you. IoT kit is not stuff end users
will run to access the Internet and browse websites.
Then why would you use DOS for those kind of tasks? It's the same thing.
On 12/16/2014 4:01 PM, dmccunney wrote:
Even if all Intel based PCs are equipped with 64bit capable CPUs, they
will just as happy run 32bit or even 16bit code just fine.
Assuming OS support is there. The instruction set is the same.
Various system calls may not be. If you want to run DOS
Hi, sorry for late reply,
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 11:44 PM, Thomas Mueller mueller6...@twc.com wrote:
from Rugxulo:
Even the lighter-weight graphic web browsers for Linux/Unix support
Javascript and HTTPS,
Mozilla Firefox and Seamonkey, and maybe some others, also support HTML5,
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