Hurricane Thread

Post by **Snakey** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 12:43 pm 0

I watched it. Don't really have much to say. I think you summed it up pretty well with:

Jesus christ this is FUCKED UP.

Respect to those reporters though for telling it how it is. Never thought I'd see that on Fox.

leekfiend · Post by **leekfiend** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 12:44 pm 0

disciple wrote:
leekfiend wrote:
kalmar wrote:Jesus christ this is FUCKED UP.

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Hannit ... -in-NO.wmv
Of all the many things that make me hate Internet Explorer, its persistent ignorance of MIMEtypes of downloaded content is one of the biggest, because it causes shit like this to happen.

If it wasn't such a bag of sloppily coded wank, whoever that file belongs to would doubtless have noticed by now and fixed the MIMEtype on it. As it is, that server wants to hand me it as a textfile, which is a sum total of fuck all use unless I try and use tools to fix it with once I've finished downloading it.
The mime header on that says video/x-ms-asf is it a misconfigured webserver then?

Does it? *kicks web browser, swears*

My mistake.

edit: Doesn't matter what application I define that MIMEtype as, I still just get a web page full of binary, as opposed to an application starting.

I suppose if they don't want to provide the media in an open format, it can't be that important anyway if they don't want people to watch it.

Guru-Meditation · Post by **Guru-Meditation** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 5:49 pm 0

leekfiend wrote:
disciple wrote:
leekfiend wrote:
kalmar wrote:Jesus christ this is FUCKED UP.

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Hannit ... -in-NO.wmv
Of all the many things that make me hate Internet Explorer, its persistent ignorance of MIMEtypes of downloaded content is one of the biggest, because it causes shit like this to happen.

If it wasn't such a bag of sloppily coded wank, whoever that file belongs to would doubtless have noticed by now and fixed the MIMEtype on it. As it is, that server wants to hand me it as a textfile, which is a sum total of fuck all use unless I try and use tools to fix it with once I've finished downloading it.
The mime header on that says video/x-ms-asf is it a misconfigured webserver then?
Does it? *kicks web browser, swears*

My mistake.

edit: Doesn't matter what application I define that MIMEtype as, I still just get a web page full of binary, as opposed to an application starting.

I suppose if they don't want to provide the media in an open format, it can't be that important anyway if they don't want people to watch it.

Right click - Save as.

I swear some people ....

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 6:20 pm 0

leekfiend wrote:Does it? *kicks web browser, swears*

My mistake.

edit: Doesn't matter what application I define that MIMEtype as, I still just get a web page full of binary, as opposed to an application starting.

I suppose if they don't want to provide the media in an open format, it can't be that important anyway if they don't want people to watch it.

Now now, it's working fine on *every* platform I've got here

Cheers

Bubba

leekfiend · Post by **leekfiend** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 8:40 pm 0

Guru-Meditation wrote:Right click - Save as.

I swear some people ....

Would you like a series of screenshots of me Control-clicking and Saving As, only for Mozilla to go "Text File"?

A load of mangled-by-being-treated-as-ASCII binary content in a saved file on my harddisk is only a slight fraction more use than a load of mangled-by-being-treated-as-ASCII binary content in the viewport of the web browser.

I swear some people ....

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 8:53 pm 0

I did a right-click saveas in Firefox and it worked fine. Wish I hadn't know. The video was so small it might as well have been an audio clip.

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 8:57 pm 0

HGFB wrote:I did a right-click saveas in Firefox and it worked fine. Wish I hadn't know. The video was so small it might as well have been an audio clip.

Zoom in to make it bigger.

Rambozo · Post by **Rambozo** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 10:30 pm 0

It takes awhile, but eventually every Yakyak thread degenerates into either a technical discussion or a porn thread.

Guru-Meditation · Post by **Guru-Meditation** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 10:49 pm 0

leekfiend wrote:
Guru-Meditation wrote:Right click - Save as.

I swear some people ....
Would you like a series of screenshots of me Control-clicking and Saving As, only for Mozilla to go "Text File"?

A load of mangled-by-being-treated-as-ASCII binary content in a saved file on my harddisk is only a slight fraction more use than a load of mangled-by-being-treated-as-ASCII binary content in the viewport of the web browser.

I swear some people ....

Did your Firefox say it was a text file though? If it does wtf have you done to your browser ...

Zoot · Post by **Zoot** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 10:54 pm 0

Rambozo wrote:It takes awhile, but eventually every Yakyak thread degenerates into either a technical discussion or a porn thread.

No.

No, you are not correct. This thread has progressed through sadness, vitriol, attempts at redemption, and light-heartedness.

All the while, fellow human beings are in pain. It is our way of dealing with it, I am sure, but this thread is strange, to say the least.

PurpleChair · Post by **PurpleChair** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 10:55 pm 0

I think my laptop's Firefox keeps claiming that .wmv files are text documents, but once they're saved to the disk they open normally.

Or maybe that was just a dream, eh?

Perkunas · Post by **Perkunas** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 10:57 pm 0

PurpleChair wrote:I think my laptop's Firefox keeps claiming that .wmv files are text documents, but once they're saved to the disk they open normally.

Or maybe that was just a dream, eh?

Why, can't your Notepad play .wmv files then?

fro · Post by **fro** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 11:21 pm 0

Perkunas wrote:
PurpleChair wrote:I think my laptop's Firefox keeps claiming that .wmv files are text documents, but once they're saved to the disk they open normally.

Or maybe that was just a dream, eh?
Why, can't your Notepad play .wmv files then?

He should be using emacs

p-saurus · Post by **p-saurus** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 11:26 pm 0

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Police shot eight people carrying guns on a New Orleans bridge Sunday, killing five or six, a deputy chief said. A spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers said the victims were contractors on their way to repair a canal.

The contractors were walking across a bridge on their way to launch barges into Lake Pontchartrain to fix the 17th Street Canal, said John Hall, a spokesman for the Corps.

Earlier Sunday, New Orleans Deputy Police Chief W.J. Riley said police shot at eight people, killing five or six.

The shootings took place on the Danziger Bridge, which spans a canal connecting Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River.

No other details were immediately available.

Rambozo · Post by **Rambozo** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 11:41 pm 0