Hubby runs Firefox 3.0.3 on Vista, and whenever he opens his computer, he gets a box that wants to connect to Broadband. He has turned off his wireless connection, and this box also pops up on a regular basis while he's working on the Net on a wired connection. He wants to get rid of this box. What options should he be looking at?
Um, well, we listened to aggressively cheerful music sung by people chosen for their ability to dance. Then we ate cookie dough, and talked about boys.
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Connie Neil - Dec 15, 2008 6:21:12 pm PST #8372 of 25501
brillig
Wolfram - Dec 15, 2008 7:36:09 pm PST #8373 of 25501
Visilurking
Le nubian, I can find someone who does. But let me know what software you're using to do it first, and maybe I can find an equivalent on the PC to make it a quicktime movie. Otherwise, I'll coerce a local mac friend to do it.
Thanks for helping!
Jon B. - Dec 16, 2008 3:09:40 am PST #8374 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Yesterday, I started assembling my new computer, and so far, so good! I've got Windows XP installed and am currently formatting the other 1TB HD (formatting these huge-ass HDs is wicked slow!).
It's almost been going TOO well... The only glitch thus far has been a bad floppy drive cable. Surely, something else will go wrong any time now....
In other news, the entire channel lineup of my RCN cable tv changed yesterday, but the TiVo didn't pick up on it in time. I flipped on the TV at 8:30 expecting to watch SCC, and got MTV Jamz instead (Chuck was similarly screwed). By the time I reran guided setup to get the correct channels, it was after 9pm, so no Heroes for me either. I'm doing a lot of ahemming this AM.
tommyrot - Dec 16, 2008 6:22:08 am PST #8375 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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meara - Dec 16, 2008 7:35:39 am PST #8376 of 25501
You can get Heroes on Hulu, Jon, dont' forget, no need for ahemming (er, unless you want to *keep* it...if you just want to watch it, I mean)
Jon B. - Dec 16, 2008 8:03:25 am PST #8377 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I ahem onto my mac mini which is connected directly to my TV. Does Hulu do full screen?
Wolfram - Dec 16, 2008 8:21:06 am PST #8378 of 25501
Visilurking
Yes, and if you have a good broadband connection the quality is very good, although I'm not sure how well it would translate to a TV screen.
Jon B. - Dec 16, 2008 9:04:24 am PST #8379 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Cool. I'll give it a try... next time.
Sue - Dec 16, 2008 10:27:26 am PST #8380 of 25501
hip deep in pie
Hubby runs Firefox 3.0.3 on Vista, and whenever he opens his computer, he gets a box that wants to connect to Broadband. He has turned off his wireless connection, and this box also pops up on a regular basis while he's working on the Net on a wired connection. He wants to get rid of this box. What options should he be looking at?
If it's the same problem I had, it's actually IE that's sending out the dialogue boxes, and he has to go into IE and tell it to stop trying to connect. I can give you the proper tabs to look in when I get home, but it's somewhere under network connections, I think.
Connie Neil - Dec 16, 2008 10:35:12 am PST #8381 of 25501
brillig
Thanks, Sue.