You know that you can point your MS Access client to any supported back-end right? Just create an ODBC connection on your Windows machine to your PostgreSQL server and you can use Access with pretty much all the features that work for the Microsoft JetEngine (PostgreSQL has ODBC drivers here; http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/odbc/versions/)
Earlier this year we converted a huge Access application from MSSQL to PostgreSQL and the technical conversion, using ODBC to PostgreSQL instead of connecting to MSSQL, was a piece of cake.
You can block ads... isn't really honest though is it?
I can render a web-page however I want. I can use a text-only browser if I want. HTML merely provides a recommendation for how the information is presented. Just because I visited your page doesn't mean I want to load a hundred different files from a dozen domains of dubious trustworthiness.
If you want to display ads, I'm fine with that, serve them as static images from your own domain... but don't expect me to trust some random domain. There's good reason not to cross the domain boundary.
Consider this, it's fully within control of the webserver to allow or deny access to anyone they don't want. If an administrator is really upset about adblocking they can just deny them.
Londonner, which I suppose is close enough. I was being tongue-in-cheek, but eye-contact is something of a taboo on the Tube. I think it stems partly from the frequent aggressive solicitations for cash from vagrants, down-and-outs, beggers and the like. Or maybe vestiges of British reservedness. Perhaps just an unhealthy fear of brief acknowledgement turning into a 40 minutes stare-down.
Anyway, if you're ever in London, on the Tube, at around 6ish, and try bucking this trend - just remember we're usually quite nice people (ie when we know we're able to leg-it if you turn out to be a nutter).
"Hello and welcome to Youtube! To be able to watch our videos in higher quality, please download and install CCCP."
CCCP seems to be hosted in the US, so they are probably illegal unless they pay the fee to MPEG-LA.
In any case, a lot of users have h.264 codec installed. At least those who watch HD movies on their PCs.
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That's a selfish attitude. Everyone should be able to browse the Web with a free software stack without having to jump through arcane hoops to download and install software (whose use is legally questionable).
Notice the quote marks. This was written by the author of the blog linked in the summary (and I agree with him).
"If I do not want others to quote me, I do not speak." -- Phil Wayne