Re: [d@DCC] Census sense

From: Darryl Moore <darryl _-at-_ mfe.ca>
To: "General Copyright Discussions (questions, organizing, etc)" <discuss (at) list.digital-copyright.ca>
Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 12:11:37 -0400
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On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 11:31 -0400, Russell McOrmond wrote:
> Darryl Moore wrote:
> > FYI, you can force their online system to work with a Linux computer. I
> > went 1/4 of the way through the process yesterday to prove it.
> 
>    I'm wanting more details.  Do you have the Sun JVM installed on your 
> Linux computer?  Did the larger Java application download and run fine?
> 

Yes, I have Sun JVM 1.5.0_06 installed and used Firefox 1.5 running
under FC3. I used the "User Agent Switcher" extension to identify myself
as I.E. 6 running under XP.

After the browser check page I got a java window asking if I would allow
the java program to run on my machine. I said yes, switch my browser
identity back to the default, then proceeded to answer the Census
questions starting with confirming my address and phone number then
identifying the number of people in the household, then identifying who
those people were. I stopped at this point as I did not want to complete
the process, but only prove the concept.

The only thing I found was that moving from one set of questions to the
next was dreadfully slow. It took a minute or more for each page to be
rendered. I am not sure if this was a server loading issue or had
something to do with the JVM.


>    When you wrote your MP about this issue, what was the reply?
> 

Haven't done so yet as these issues only appeared on my radar yesterday,
but rest assured Belinda will get and ear full :)



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