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Craig wrote: > The link works but I couldn't get the video to start. But then, I'm using > Linux and so many videos are using protocols that are only compatible > with MS products. > Cool opening photo though. :) Craig, It even works with my fairly old iMac - must be three years old, soon! I used to use Linux only (the spare was a MS, I confess), but nowadays I use Linux very seldom (I have Ubuntu in my HP Nano-Mini (or is it Mini-Nano?)), and the Dell Inspiron with XP is almost only used for NC operations. When I had Risc-OS computers I had a lot of problems with the Internet, then with Linux I had some with video files, like Craig, and while I with XP had occasional total collapses, it handled video OK (far better than the ME I had before that) We used to have a home-made cable TV box - my wife's son is a programmer, so he built it, and installed the various pieces of hardware and software needed; all from the world of Linux. To begin with it worked like a dream, but after he emigrated to Thailand it started to misbehave, so eventually we gave up and gave it to another programmer friend of his. The iMac with OS X (Lion) has been almost totally trouble-free (iPhoto sometimes crashes, but pops up again seconds later, as healthy as before - weird). The odd thing with my iMac is printing, as to this day it sometimes sends the print jobs into limbo - no trace of them anywhere in the system - but says it has finsihed them in an orderly manner. B #b,%&/( ;-(! Just as it was in the old days of PCs, Macs, and Linux, and Risc-OS, but then you'd find them clogged in a printer queue, somewhere. Not so with my iMac. Happily, it often works on the third try! And similar problems do my local hospital have ("We have to go to the printer in the reception and get the printout, as there is something weird with this one"), and also at 'my' camera shop, but they both use Windows, so I am not that surprised :-)! A thought, Craig, do you use Firefox?! Some versions of it have had problems with viewing many videos in a row - maybe there is a newer version for Linux, too?! <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Tord S Eriksson, MA in Journalism; ex Editor-in-Chief; Avid Photographer; Pentax Fan, Articulated Bus Driver; Hon. Member of East Horsley Aerospace; Hon. Member of PAN, the World's Oldest Photo Club; On FlickR: Tord55; </font> *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
I almost never have a problem with viewing anything. And it might have just been a temporary glitch in my Internet connection (which is aDSL). Actually this LInux box is far better than the Dell laptop I'd been using and I'm only into it $200! Like all Windows computers, the Dell just got slower and slower over time; we call it "Windows Senility" and it's been a feature of that OS for as long as I can remember. The only fix is to wipe the HD and just reload the OS but the Dell isn't very Linux friendly with all those proprietary devices (on-board video - no drivers; on-board WiFi - no drivers; etc.) The Linux I'm running is Ubuntu 10.10 and I'm avoiding any upgrades because I'm pretty sure I won't like Ubuntu 11 so I just do updates and at some point I'll move to another distribution of Linux. No printing problems here... just sends it out and the printer (a color laser) does its work. I'll try that link again and see how it does. Craig On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 3:41 AM, Tord S. Eriksson <tord_at_mindless.com> wrote: > > Craig, > > It even works with my fairly old iMac - must be three years old, soon! *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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