Yeah, Knoppix 3.4 version 2.6 kernal's fancy 'live cd installer' fails also!! Oh, well --- Victor Odhner wrote: > The good news: It's now at az511.com > > More good news: It's a php site. > > More good news: It's really pretty well done, > ... as long as you have flash. > > The bad news: You must have flash to view it. > My primary browser is foxfire on Win98, and it > can't use flash yet. But the site works great > with > Mozilla. I haven't tried it from Linux. > I can even take firefox to this URL: > > > and the closures/restrictions map appears for a > moment, > THEN I'm referred to "getflash.html". > > More bad news: The map-based highway conditions > display > still has some event icons hiding other event > icons. > They should zoom in until they've got room to > place the icons next to one another instead of > stacking them up. > > In other words, they are just trying too hard to be > spiffy. But information is there if you know how to > dig for it. I just go to the "all events" link, > which brings up a text document describing all > upcoming issues. Oh wait -- yes, this is one page > that does not require flash! Here's the URL: > > > > ... THAT works fine with Firefox and no flash. > > And finally, ... well, this is monday morning > quarterbacking, no way to fix it now, but it would > have been nice if they'd kept the old URL valid > for a while. > > Oh, more GOOD news: The name of the site reflects > that you can dial 511 on your cell phone and > use voice querying to learn about highway > conditions. > My wife tried it once. First it asked what > category > she wanted, she replied "highway conditions" I > think. > To the next question she said "Fifty-one", and > she > got a nice summary of current isses on SR51. > So if your pronunciation meets with the system's > expectations (I don't know how flexible it is), > you can do a query without using the keypad to > navigate through the menus. > > Vic > > Don Calfa wrote: > > What happened to azfms.com? > > > > IMO, that was one of the better variants of the > > Phoenix Traffic watch sites. > > > > Last time I checked, they even updated the map > > for the 51 and one of the only sites with the > > complete 101. > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail > settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss ===== Cyclists should expect and demand safe accommodation on our public roads, just as does every other user. Nothing more is expected. Nothing less is acceptable! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss