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[Sebastian Kostuch <>]

Hi Jordan,
the patch you have mentioned earlier is already applied and merged into 
trunk, I have done
it along with Issue154 after receiving positive feedback from Aaron's 
side :)

Regards
Sebastian

On 12.11.2014 17:18, Aaron Brown wrote:
> Hey Jordan,
>
> Sure, that’d be great
>
> Cheers,
> Aaron
>
> On Nov 12, 2014, at 10:11 AM, Jordan McCarthy 
> <>
>  wrote:
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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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