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Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."

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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.


sumi - Dec 16, 2008 10:59:52 am PST #8382 of 25501
Art Crawl!!!

Jon, if you get the cable station G4 - Heroes repeats on that station about a bajillion times per week.


Jon B. - Dec 16, 2008 12:12:23 pm PST #8383 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I've already seen the ep, but thanks.


Sue - Dec 16, 2008 1:58:32 pm PST #8384 of 25501
hip deep in pie

Connie it's: Tools - Internet Options - Connections (tab)

Change the option to "Never Dial a Connection"


Liese S. - Dec 16, 2008 3:46:09 pm PST #8385 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

The only other thing I'd say is that he should make sure that it's not happening while there aren't any applications open that would require a connection. That pop-up was one of the ways I was cued into the fact that I had a virus once back in the day. The virus was trying to call home.

I always connected first before I opened an application that would legitimately need connection, so it never popped up and tried to dial unless there was something else that wanted a connection, ie, the virus.