Re: QT + SMIL = BAD COMBO

2007-12-01 Thread Andre Garzia
Chipp, I also went lost on that road before. I found that RealPlayer support for SMIL is better than apple, so people wanting to really use SMIL can move to RP or use a Flash Media Player, many support some SMIL. As for QT, it appears that there's a lot of half baked features. It's flash support

Re: Testing if there is an Internet Connection

2007-12-01 Thread Andre Garzia
Aloha Folks, I use the following approach. I open a socket to my server, if it opens, I request an HTTP HEAD from it and inspect the result. all I need is to have a clear path to my server. Many general purpose solutions that rely on DNS or Broadcast packets may fail if the user has a home netwo

QT + SMIL = BAD COMBO

2007-12-01 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Andre Garzia wrote: "bad bad apple." Yes, they are bad; but better than Microsoft. It is an awful pity that the computing world is dominated by only 2 platforms. However, Jahshaka is well worth a look { for video-editing } http://www.jahshaka.org/ and it has good price label! Have a look bef

OT: rant about trees and pubic hair... (was Re: Welcome to Scotland)

2007-12-01 Thread Andre Garzia
on that one, I think pubic hair is wining... for example, yesterday, while driving to the mall, I was handled a pamphlet with a discount coupon for "removing my pubic hair", the pamphlet had a table of body parts and prices and I noticed that the only missing body part in that table was the sole of

Re: OT: rant about trees and pubic hair... (was Re: Welcome to Scotland)

2007-12-01 Thread Rob Cozens
Andre, et al, So our forest and trees are going down, people here don't seem to value nature and are ready to bring down everything to build more houses, buildings, all in the name of progress. I am among a fortunate minority of Americans who live in closer day-to-day contact with nature than

RE: QT + SMIL = BAD COMBO

2007-12-01 Thread Lynn Fredricks
> I also went lost on that road before. I found that RealPlayer > support for SMIL is better than apple, so people wanting to > really use SMIL can move to RP or use a Flash Media Player, > many support some SMIL. I had the chance to meet with the Quicktime product manager at a recent Apple Eve

Re: Testing if there is an Internet Connection

2007-12-01 Thread Mark Wieder
Eric- Friday, November 30, 2007, 10:07:00 AM, you wrote: > This has been discussed many times on this list: check the archives > and you'll find many posts with many solutions depending on possible > firewalls and many other things. But my favorite is answer "Are you connected to the internet?"

Re: Testing if there is an Internet Connection

2007-12-01 Thread Andre Garzia
Mark, you made my day! :-D Now I want Rev to have the following options: do as appleScript do as vbScript do as I told you :-D On 12/1/07, Mark Wieder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric- > > Friday, November 30, 2007, 10:07:00 AM, you wrote: > > > This has been discussed many times on this list

Re: QT + SMIL = BAD COMBO

2007-12-01 Thread Chipp Walters
It's also very sad that Apple QT can't export plain ole .mpg files. For some reason they won't license the code for the most used and prevalent video codec on the planet. Another case of Apple making all the rules. Bummer. -Chipp ___ use-revolution mail

Re: Testing if there is an Internet Connection

2007-12-01 Thread Sarah Reichelt
> Now I want Rev to have the following options: > > do as appleScript > do as vbScript > do as I told you No, sorry Andre. That 3rd option should be "do what I meant", not "do what I told you" :-) Sarah ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lis