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[Aaron Brown <>]

Hey Jordan,

Sure, that’d be great

Cheers,
Aaron

On Nov 12, 2014, at 10:11 AM, Jordan McCarthy 
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> Hi Aaron,
>       Sounds like an excellent idea to me.  Should I implement that, and
> then send another patch to the list (since I don't have commit rights
> on the repo)?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jordan
> 
> Jordan McCarthy
> Open Technology Institute | New America Foundation
> Public Key: 0xC08D8042 | 4A61 3D39 4125 127D 65EA DDC2 BFBD A2E9 C08D 8042
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> On 11/07/2014 02:28 PM, Aaron Brown wrote:
>> Hey Jordan,
>> 
>> Would it be possible to get a warning stuck in the results page as
>> well?
>> 
>> Cheers, Aaron
>> 
>> On Nov 7, 2014, at 2:25 PM, Jordan McCarthy
>> <>
>>  wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Aaron, Yes indeed: in all three cases, a red warning message is
>> displayed describing the problem.  I forgot to mention that you can
>> see examples of the three states here:
>> 
>> a. http://files.opentechinstitute.org/~mccarthy/flash-warn.html b.
>> http://files.opentechinstitute.org/~mccarthy/flash-warn-limit.html 
>> c. http://files.opentechinstitute.org/~mccarthy/error.html
>> 
>> Regards, Jordan
>> 
>> Jordan McCarthy Open Technology Institute | New America Foundation 
>> Public Key: 0xC08D8042 | 4A61 3D39 4125 127D 65EA DDC2 BFBD A2E9
>> C08D 8042
>> 
>> On 11/07/2014 02:11 PM, Aaron Brown wrote:
>>>>> Hey Jordan,
>>>>> 
>>>>> In the (a) case, does it spit out an error telling people
>>>>> that there’s a problem, or does it just go on as though
>>>>> everything is fine?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers, Aaron
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Nov 7, 2014, at 1:36 PM, Jordan McCarthy 
>>>>> <>
>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm not sure if this should be handled separately, but the
>>>>> M-Lab team has a series of changes that we would like to add
>>>>> to the flash client to handle the fact that the Adobe flash
>>>>> runtime for Mac OS X and Linux is severely
>>>>> performance-limited.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Here's the description of what we did:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Our  patch (attached) adds a customizable feature for dealing
>>>>> with performance-limited flash runtimes.  In a nutshell, the
>>>>> patch allows anyone who hosts an NDT test to specify (via an
>>>>> HTML parameter) whether performance-limited flash runtimes
>>>>> should (a) be treated the same as non-limited ones, (b) only
>>>>> be allowed to run against a "fallback" server, or (c) not
>>>>> allowed to run the NDT test via flash at all.  Measurement
>>>>> Lab will generally use option (c), because we are primarily
>>>>> interested in identifying and measuring bottlenecks in the
>>>>> performance of networks, rather than clients. However, we
>>>>> completely understand the argument that some researchers
>>>>> might actually want the speed limitations introduced by 
>>>>> particular runtimes to be captured in experimental data, and
>>>>> our patch makes it very easy to switch between these two
>>>>> approaches, depending on experimenters' needs.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The patch has been tested extensively on all major web
>>>>> browsers on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, and appears to work
>>>>> well in all environments except for Safari (where the flash
>>>>> client doesn't work at all).
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks, Jordan
>>>>> 
>>>>> Jordan McCarthy Open Technology Institute | New America
>>>>> Foundation Public Key: 0xC08D8042 | 4A61 3D39 4125 127D 65EA
>>>>> DDC2 BFBD A2E9 C08D 8042
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 11/07/2014 11:00 AM, 
>>>>> 
>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Comment #3 on issue 162 by 
>>>>>>>> :
>>>>>>>>  New
>>>>>>>> NDT release
>>>>>>>> https://code.google.com/p/ndt/issues/detail?id=162
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> All flash client related improvements have been fixed
>>>>>>>> and changes are available on FlashClientFixes branch.
>>>>>>>> Please feel free to review them and if all will look ok
>>>>>>>> then I will merge them into trunk in nearest time.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> <ndt_flash_environment_detection.patch>
>>>>> 
>> 
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