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uberVU - social comments — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:24:10 GMT

This post was mentioned on Twitter by msdevweb: Flash vs Silverlight... http://tr.im/NwmH someone forgot to read the release notes of latest flash versions... bahhh :)

re: Flash vs Silverlight revisited

Ken Smith — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:41:21 GMT

A couple Silverlight corrections:

(1) Silverlight supports a wide variety of video formats, including H.264, the most advanced video format that Flash supports.

(2) Silverlight still doesn't support GIF files, for some astonishing reason.

(3) Silverlight supports sockets-level programming, with some significant security-related caveats (such as limited ports, and the appropriate client access policy).

(4) Silverlight 4 doesn't have any built-in ability to encode or stream video or audio. You can roll your own, but you don't want to. Trust me. I'm trying.

(5) Nobody likes ActionScript.

(6) Neither Flash nor Silverlight have a good mobile story at this point, but they both claim that will change with This Next Release.

:-)

Ken Smith

re: Flash vs Silverlight revisited

bassvix@gmail.com — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:37:48 GMT

Silverlight for Linux: www.go-mono.com/moonlight

Other outdated facts too.

re: Cisco Router Configuration Tutorial

David — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:19:52 GMT

Quote: Until you hit ctrl-Z (or type exit until you reach parent mode) your command has not been put into affect. You can enter config mode, issue several different commands, then hit ctrl-Z to activate them all.

Firstly it's "put into effect" not "affect". But that's minor - actually commands affect the configuration immediately (for example, watch the log messages appear if you shutdown an interface but don't end configuration mode).

re: Motorcycles are a lot safer than you think

bill — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:13:28 GMT

Thank God you told it the way it is.

You are right about the "agendas".

Out of all my buddies who have had motorcycle accidents, they were all under equipped and acting stupid with no question.

I am so glad you wrote this.