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From: John Hasler on 28 Apr 2010 11:44 Doug Freyburger writes: > Since the advent of cross-posting troll abusers I think this view is > obsolete. Cross-posting is abused enough that a lot of people filter > on it - I filter all messages to 4+ groups everywhere and to 2+ groups > on the noisy groups I subscribe to. Excessive cross-posting has always been objectionable. Trolls have always done it. -- John Hasler jhasler(a)newsguy.com Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA
From: trigonometry1972 on 28 Apr 2010 18:07 On Apr 28, 8:44 am, John Hasler <jhas...(a)newsguy.com> wrote: > Doug Freyburger writes: > > Since the advent of cross-posting troll abusers I think this view is > > obsolete. Cross-posting is abused enough that a lot of people filter > > on it - I filter all messages to 4+ groups everywhere and to 2+ groups > > on the noisy groups I subscribe to. > > Excessive cross-posting has always been objectionable. Trolls have > always done it. > -- > John Hasler > jhas...(a)newsguy.com > Dancing Horse Hill > Elmwood, WI USA Nothing excessive in what I did concerning this posting. This is all misplaced meta-analysis with no bearing on the OP. I've match your requirements as this is the OP is posted to one group. Apparently this group has involuted?................Trig
From: trigonometry1972 on 29 Apr 2010 16:01
On Apr 27, 1:25 am, "trigonometry1...(a)gmail.com |" <trigonometry1...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > This is a quick and dirty posting. > Fancast is apparently vastly more stable the Hulu > when playing video streams. Hulu stumbles > the at the advert "blocks". I can play thru > by restarting and sliding to a point around > were it stumbled (not fun as I have to guess > a bit were it crashed) but this is only works > part of the time and is a huge pain. > > I'll add the Fox site works somewhat while > at least some of the other network sites > only seem to think Windows and Apple. > But then again what can one expect from > the empty suits at the old big three networks. > > I am using a AMD64 system with a 64 bit > version of Ubuntu 9.04. I am relaxant to > to upgrade as upgrade when I ran the 32 bit > version of Ubuntu caused problem to the > point of inactivating the Hulu video stream > and most others. Finally after one "upgrade" > the computer could no longer see the internet > connection. I was on some version 10 number > version of 32 bit Ubuntu. So I saved everything > on to the freestanding hard disk and then > experimented. Mint failed to see the internet > connection and the freestanding HD. > Mandriva Linux 2010 did OK except the video > was apparently crippled and so was search > quite clearly. > But it had it hand out for money and I suspect > that would enabled it to work on both points > just mentioned. > I also tried Debian 9.0 which also had it > faults. There seemed to be fewer programs > in its software warehouse than Ubuntu. > So I came full circle to an aging 64 bit Ubuntu > 8.10 which I then upgrade as much as I > thought I dared. Then once I reach 9.04 > I limited the upgrading to just the bare > essentials. > > I am still a newbie but that is my story > for your entertainment..................Trig However, fancast fails when it hands off the job of providing the stream to ABC. The ABC stream doesn't work on Linux hence I can't watch Flashforward on ABC. I recall watching it on Hulu so Hulu still its merits. |