Comments on: Network Computing – Where Did It Go Wrong?

By: Grort

Grort — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:10:00 +0000

I use OpenShot, then upload. Makes more sense.

By: Kelsi Guidry

Kelsi Guidry — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:34:00 +0000

I think one of the best things to do in this situation is make the first video you upload private so no one sees it. Edit it, then just delete the original

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:03:00 +0000

After some tests, it is not significantly faster, for the fact that the async attribute is ignored and is invalid HTML 4 and XHTML 1, except if your website is HTML 5 of course, which is far to be the case of most websites on the web. Changing from http to https does improve speed however.

Of course that any JS requires a script tag. I was meaning that if you do not have a previous script tag, the script will fail. However I was myself wrong with this statement: there is at least one script tag. The others flaws are still valid.

By: Jake Ludington

Jake Ludington — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 06:44:00 +0000

Every JS fails without a script tag on the the page. asynchronous JS won’t speed up a page for IE6 or IE7, but page rendering is awful in those browsers regardless.

If you read the background on why it is faster, you would have a more clear understanding of how the page is sped up.

By: Jake Ludington

Jake Ludington — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 06:42:00 +0000

It is in fact significantly faster.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 06:35:00 +0000

Plus the fact that it does not seem to be significantly faster.

By: kmapjr

kmapjr — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 08:08:00 +0000

is there any way to edit the video before it uploads and go’s live? Mine upload go live than give me the option to edit! is there something where i can edit the vid before it goes live?

By: Matt Hartley

Matt Hartley — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 22:44:00 +0000

It’s “kinda” hidden, but it’s not that difficult to locate. Account page>Top of page>Video Editor. http://www.youtube.com/editor?feature=mhsn

By: AG Wright

AG Wright — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:41:30 +0000

In an office environment where there is a local server I can see your point but when Annie and Luke Client lose connectivity because the teenager just hit a pole down the street or the router just died a messy death due to a power surge and Annie can’t play her afternoon Solitaire there are going to be some serious issues.
In the past three months I’ve been off line with DSL for about three of those weeks. Much of what I needed to do was still possible because I could download files at work and transfer them with a thumb drive but if I used a thin client I would have had nothing but a screen and a keyboard. No games, no CD/DVD burning…
I still like having stuff on my local hard drive.

By: MrDragon

MrDragon — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:00:22 +0000

AC, I think you are mixing two different user bases. I think Matt was talking about the average home user. Someone who wants to access email, the web, play with their pictures, create a flier for their upcoming garage sale, etc. The users you describe are the corporate user type or high end user that probably does at least some work from home.

I wouldn’t dream of trying to host all my SMB customers on my own farm for the very reasons you mention. However, I am really considering trying to host the multitude of family members and friends I support on my Citrix farm. I can only imagine how fewer calls, emails and texts I would get if I could just send these users a bootable CD that launches a browser that connects them to a Windows environment with everything they need. I know, dream on.

Actually, I think it could work if I spend the time creating the tutorials up front for the apps I choose to provide. The advantages look appealing enough for me to give it some serious thought at least. Just think, one version of one OS to support, one version of Office, one version of pdf reader/writer, one anti virus to support, etc. Most other services can be found on the Net and wouldn’t need to be hosted in the farm, i.e. IM, editing, organizing, sharing of photos, videos, music and other documents, etc. I wouldn’t have to rely on the users to update their OS, anti virus, apps, etc. and they would not have to worry about maintaining any of the aforementioned.

Perception is everything!