{"id":252,"date":"2006-06-22T20:15:18","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T19:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=252"},"modified":"2006-07-27T19:22:23","modified_gmt":"2006-07-27T18:22:23","slug":"not-very-flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Not Very Flash"},"content":{"rendered":"

After mentioning quite a lot about the Pet Shop Boys recently, I was rather disappointed to find out that their new web site (which I won’t link to, for reasons which will become clear) has been “redesigned” by some non-standards-aware design company and requires Flash 8 to work<\/em>. Not “requires Flash 8 for some<\/em> parts of it”, but “requires Flash 8 for all of it<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

Which means that anyone using Linux can’t see anything on the site at all, because Flash 8 isn’t available for Linux; it will also fail to work in many handheld devices, mobile phones and so on, too Making the entire site dependent on a technology which is (a) proprietary and (b) not available for all platforms is short-sighted. Not impressed. I’ve emailed the design company in question to say as much…<\/p>\n

And in other news, at work in the last few days I’ve been salvaging our database server which went tits up on Tuesday: I’ve been busily migrating all the database services to other machines, temporarily, prior to getting a new database server. I’ve got a quote open with our supplier for a twin dual-core Opteron system, Which Might Be Rather Nice. Migrating databases from MySQL 3.23 and PostgreSQL 7.2 (from Debian ‘Woody’) to MySQL 5 and PostgreSQL 8.1 (from Debian Sarge’s backports) is a big upgrade and takes some care. Hopefully not too much will break… My first impression of PostgreSQL 8.1, by the way, is that it is much friendlier and has a far superior query optimizer, meaning that queries which used to take a few seconds now return almost instantly.<\/p>\n

So, it’s England v Ecuador on Sunday in the World Cup Last 16, and a win will result in a Quarter Final game against Portugal or Holland the following Saturday … go us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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