tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post5593492534042875008..comments2024-03-05T10:47:39.661-06:00Comments on Thoughts on Technology: Minting the GirlfriendAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17954467314386661328noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-58083651472519968892011-03-23T16:46:13.431-05:002011-03-23T16:46:13.431-05:00I carry a live usb of bodhi every were so i NEVER!...I carry a live usb of bodhi every were so i NEVER!!!! have to vista :)Micahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06671932470878894275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-70634222018656627162011-01-02T14:55:38.719-06:002011-01-02T14:55:38.719-06:00you can use playonlinux to install office 07 for f...you can use playonlinux to install office 07 for freeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-89674754550188871602010-08-26T20:54:26.725-05:002010-08-26T20:54:26.725-05:00I've been married for 5 years and I still have...I've been married for 5 years and I still have yet to convert my wife from Windows XP to Linux (yes, she's still using XP LOL)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-27880635107071661462010-08-15T01:10:44.828-05:002010-08-15T01:10:44.828-05:00This is fantastic news Shannon! Thanks for the upd...This is fantastic news Shannon! Thanks for the update - http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.com/2010/08/cwtv-adds-support-for-streaming-to.htmlAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17954467314386661328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-26381964378487316312010-08-14T17:17:00.153-05:002010-08-14T17:17:00.153-05:00@Jeff,
I went to CWTV.com today and One Tree Hill,...@Jeff,<br />I went to CWTV.com today and One Tree Hill, and other shows, are working! So I guess after providing them some feedback, they listened. I had written a quick blog about it before (http://www.humans-enabled.com/2010/04/abc-and-fox-full-episodes-now-linux.html ). Guess I'll need to update my entry.<br /><br />Check it out for yourself:<br />http://www.cwtv.com/cw-video/one-tree-hill<br /><br />Cheers!Shannon VanWagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00902572387191538052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-60511169798597290302010-04-15T09:00:16.572-05:002010-04-15T09:00:16.572-05:00Very good to know! I bounce to their website every...Very good to know! I bounce to their website every once in awhile as well just to increase their traffic from *nix based systems. I also sent them a detailed message to their customer service :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17954467314386661328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-34887779006947268372010-04-15T08:54:06.223-05:002010-04-15T08:54:06.223-05:00@Jeff,
there's been another major breakthroug...@Jeff,<br /><br />there's been another major breakthrough... but not for cwtv just yet, unfortunately. <br /><br />For a long time(perhaps a year or more), I've been sending my "constructive comments"(via the feedback button) to abc and fox about their Full Episodes not working with Linux. The first breakthrough was that they started porting their shows to hulu.com. <br /><br />But now, ABC and Fox full episodes work perfectly on Linux at their native sites. It was really funny how I came to find out.. I was having one of those "Why the hell doesn't abc/fox let me watch without movenetworks on Linux" conversations with a colleague of mine (mac user), and then I went to the site to show him, and instead of the familiar message of "you need win/mac", the episode magically started playing. So it blew up my conversation point at the time, but then I was like "Yes!", then I started doing a happy dance right there at my workstation. My colleague is standing there saying WTF? Then I went and checked Fox and same thing.<br /><br />So there's proof, just keep the Feedback turned up.. eventually you get what you want.<br /><br />I'll become a regular visitor of cwtv.com now.. lol Oh and also, I tried sending an email to the cwtv CEO(Dawn Ostroff) via the link I posted before and it bounced... dern.<br /><br />Cheers!Shannon VanWagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00902572387191538052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-69173173536764481642010-03-25T09:31:59.013-05:002010-03-25T09:31:59.013-05:00Erp. Looks like I spoke too soon, Hulu only has se...Erp. Looks like I spoke too soon, Hulu only has season 1 of "One Tree Hill" so annoying.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17954467314386661328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-83118357563137868692010-03-25T09:22:10.431-05:002010-03-25T09:22:10.431-05:00@Shannon Thanks for the info! I think the main one...@Shannon Thanks for the info! I think the main one she was interested in was "One Tree Hill" which is indeed on hulu now... :)<br /><br />But seriously, if hulu can stream media via flash there is zero reason all the other companies can't do like wise.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17954467314386661328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-64029319255805272502010-03-25T08:54:19.035-05:002010-03-25T08:54:19.035-05:00@Jeff,
what particular show was it that your girl...@Jeff,<br /><br />what particular show was it that your girlfriend was trying to watch? I'm able to watch smallville, e.g.<br />http://www.thewb.com/shows/smallville/aqua/fd729c343e<br /><br />Found it on this page:<br />http://www.hulu.com/search?query=Smallville&st=0<br /><br />But not melrose place<br />http://www.cwtv.com/cw-video/melrose-place/melrose-place-stoner-canyon/?play=682-7439Shannon VanWagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00902572387191538052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-11431824871517446942010-03-25T08:38:11.096-05:002010-03-25T08:38:11.096-05:00Here's a breakthrough... After years of "...Here's a breakthrough... After years of "feedback" for abc/fox - they have switched off the movenetworksplayer and have converted to flash. Now you can watch abc and fox full episodes on their respective sites. This is a perfect argument to provide to cwtv for doing the same.Shannon VanWagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00902572387191538052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-62713806882384216432010-03-04T01:31:38.911-06:002010-03-04T01:31:38.911-06:00Heh. I just did the same thing for my girlfriend (...Heh. I just did the same thing for my girlfriend (for the second time). Started with Kubuntu Karmic, but Ubuntu's KDE4 packages suck the fat one and it was unstable at times. Sucks, since KDE's apps are badass. Installed vanilla Karmic, which she seems to like a lot better. Dropped in the extra codecs from MediBuntu, installed Office 07 with the vanilla wine, and let her at it.<br /><br />So far, everything works well, although I had to to more tweaking for her specific stuff than with K. She uses a Juniper/SSL based VPN for school, which I got set up, and a shared drive at school - this makes me want to punch a baby, as it uses ONLY NTLMv2 auth, which for some reason isn't on by efault in Samba/GnomeVFS. <br /><br />Begin rant: GNOME devs really need to add a toggle somewhere in the control center to easily enable NTLMv2 authentication from the client in the GNOME VFS/SMB. One click in the KDE CC and it worked, but GNOME had to be a punk about it. Got it fixed with some minor hax and a lot of Google-Fu, but still. Sheesh.<br /><br />Regardless, I'm one step closer to not having to listen to "RAWR! MY COMPUTER IS SLOOOOWWWWWW" every three hours.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02844724752542496833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-66425486723764067172010-03-03T22:49:05.916-06:002010-03-03T22:49:05.916-06:00The ignorant comment about Linux Mint's connec...The ignorant comment about Linux Mint's connections to "terrorist organizations" is, of course, not true. Indeed, "Google it for yourself." And get an education while you're at it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-74465831328849390212010-03-03T21:51:32.085-06:002010-03-03T21:51:32.085-06:00You might want to reconsider the choice of Linux M...You might want to reconsider the choice of Linux Mint in the future. It's not much more than Ubuntu remixed with extra codecs. Plus the fact that the creator uses a default search page for firefox that goes to a google account and any money made from that plus donations to them go to Hamas, a terrorist organization.<br /><br />Google it for yourself.<br /><br />You could have done just as well picking Ubuntu Studio plus Ubuntu-Tweak for extras.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-65768703743892385452010-03-03T19:00:18.253-06:002010-03-03T19:00:18.253-06:00@Wolfen69 I used Crossover, Office07 takes a bit o...@Wolfen69 I used Crossover, Office07 takes a bit of tinkering to get working under Vanilla Wine and I have a Crossover license so I just used that :)<br /><br />@Paul If you are going to install all that extra stuff anyways why not just save yourself the download/install time and use Mint? To each their own though, choice is the wonderful thing about FOSS :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17954467314386661328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-70216541188230780992010-03-03T15:55:15.473-06:002010-03-03T15:55:15.473-06:00Jeff,
I thought about moving to Mint and relented...Jeff,<br /><br />I thought about moving to Mint and relented. Mint really has no right to distribute proprietary packages to end users. To resolve this problem, I created BleedingEdge. http://sourceforge.net/projects/bleedingedge/ It allows the user to easily install all of the lovely crap that Ubuntu can't ship due to licensing issues.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br /><br />Paul FedeleAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-27005677234140266602010-03-03T12:48:09.868-06:002010-03-03T12:48:09.868-06:00Hey Jeff, did you use Crossover, or Wine? Btw, con...Hey Jeff, did you use Crossover, or Wine? Btw, congrats on getting your girlfriend to use linux. Although personally, I would have used Ubuntu instead.wolfen69http://www.ubuntu.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-5673575518998315272010-03-03T12:29:27.311-06:002010-03-03T12:29:27.311-06:00Here's the applicable portion of the canned re...Here's the applicable portion of the canned response to my feedback email to hulu.com:<br /><br />To request specific shows or movies, you may post your suggestions on Hulu's Content Request discussions board, available here: http://www.hulu.com/discussions/6. While we cannot answer every request, we do read and note all of them.Shannon VanWagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00902572387191538052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-91873142819655960322010-03-03T12:02:29.850-06:002010-03-03T12:02:29.850-06:00Well crafted letters can go to network contacts at...Well crafted letters can go to network contacts at:<br />http://www.parentstv.org/ptc/networks/main.asp<br /><br />e.g., There is an email link there for contacting the CEO of cwtv.com (Dawn Ostroff).<br /><br />I think I'll take this opportunity to email all of them.Shannon VanWagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00902572387191538052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-41084786807580701102010-03-03T10:43:15.182-06:002010-03-03T10:43:15.182-06:00@Jeff - I sent cwtv feedback.. I see what you'...@Jeff - I sent cwtv feedback.. I see what you're saying about http://www.hulu.com/search?query=the+vampire+diaries<br /><br />We were having this same issue with abc.com and fox.com shows, particularly daytime soaps - and they showed as "watch at abc" on hulu for a time, and then after a few months of complaints - now they are ported over to hulu.com. Shows like "lost", "general hospital", "all my children", "one life to live".<br /><br />I had launched a mini-revolution on digg.com trying to get these soaps off the move player.. I even wrote my congressman because the DNCC was using the movenetworks player for speeches from politicians, which should be open and accessible to anyone on the Internet.<br /><br />I had even been in contact with an engineer at movenetworks and he unofficially "assured" me that their player was being ported to GNU/Linux. The problem is that they've been saying that for over a year in a half! I also did some research and found out that movenetworks is funded by microsoft... not that I'm saying that has anything to do with the player not working on Linux or anything....<br /><br />Well, as for us, we finally got what we wanted!<br /><br />Now for cwtv.com. (insert diabolical laugh here) /cue the crapstormShannon VanWagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00902572387191538052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-59213177184391888732010-03-03T09:51:14.120-06:002010-03-03T09:51:14.120-06:00@Shannon The culprit is "cwtv.com" they ...@Shannon The culprit is "cwtv.com" they do not actually post their videos on hulu.com but link back to their own website where move player is required :(Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17954467314386661328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-75632800208784939702010-03-03T09:36:01.068-06:002010-03-03T09:36:01.068-06:00I've been through this... and we have been usi...I've been through this... and we have been using GNU/Linux since.<br /><br />Webcam - we use tokbox.com/google-chromium for video conferencing<br /><br />Movies - mplayer and vlc<br /><br />As for watching content that requires movenetworks player, we use flash-based hulu.com instead. FOX/ABC are movenetworks, but their shows are also on hulu.com, which works great with Linux - there's even a hulu player for Linux. What's the move networks using company that you're having a problem with? I'd be glad to send them my "encouraging" comments.<br /><br />One time my wife was taking an online CPR class and they had said that windows was required.. what was funny though is that once we went to the site - turns out it was using Java (open source software) and worked just fine on GNU/Linux.<br /><br />Other than that, my wife actually really likes using GNU/Linux because it's fast... she tells her friends about it all the time.Shannon VanWagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00902572387191538052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-62277734617114559192010-03-03T09:26:33.570-06:002010-03-03T09:26:33.570-06:00When I write about my wife, I refer to her as &quo...When I write about my wife, I refer to her as "my wife," not "the wife."<br /><br />"The girlfriend" sounds like she's just a stick of furniture in your life.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-33669086355697696902010-03-03T08:48:58.113-06:002010-03-03T08:48:58.113-06:00Marry Her. Now.Marry Her. Now.Jasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12402774806163881628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-7179043717924351352010-03-03T08:37:07.352-06:002010-03-03T08:37:07.352-06:00Lol, I figured that was the best way to do it with...Lol, I figured that was the best way to do it without posting her name on my blog.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17954467314386661328noreply@blogger.com