Yeah, Knoppix 3.4 version 2.6 kernal's fancy 'live cd
installer' fails also!!
Oh, well
--- Victor Odhner <
vodhner@cox.net> 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:
>
>
<
http://www.az511.com/RoadwayConditions/closuresrestrictions.php>
> 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:
>
>
<
http://www.az511.com/RoadwayConditions/events/maricopaEventsRep.html>
>
> ... 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.
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