[Cube] OFF Topic but worth it/MIME?

[George Pepper]

There is nothing in Safari Prefs that SPECIFFICALLY asks me what Safari is supposed to do with .wmv's. I have plugins enabled. Look, like I said it doesn't happen very often, so we're probably wasting too much bandwidth on it.

As my grandmother would say, "Don't make no nevermind to me nohow." ;^)

Pep
 
On Thursday, February 10, 2005, at 06:09AM, <atoa at krak.net> wrote:

>Presumably, because you haven't associated .wmv with either one, in your 
>Safari preferences.
>
>On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, George Pepper wrote:
>
>> I have both VLC and WMP. So why do I get the MIME message?
>>
>> Pep
>>
>> On Thursday, February 10, 2005, at 04:27AM, <atoa at krak.net> wrote:
>>
>>> It is a .wmv. You can grab it directly at
>>> http://media2.big-boys.com/gatesconan.wmv .
>>>
>>> VLC plays it, though without sound. Windows Media Player, even the Mac
>>> version, plays it fine.
>>>
>>> MIME is NOT a Windows format. It stands for Multipurpose Internet Mail
>>> Extensions. Read all about it: http://www.mhonarc.org/~ehood/MIME/
>>>
>>> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, George Pepper wrote:
>>>
>>>> OK.  For years I've gotten an error message something along the lines of "This page has contents of the MIME type. You do not have the plugin to support this." It shows a Lego block with question marks on it. It doesn't happen often enough for me to be irritated by it and I assumed MIME was a Wintel format or something so I never bothered to look into it. I'm guessing you are viewing this page on a Mac, so WTF is MIME and how do I obtain the plugin?
>>>>
>>>> And yes, the story is funny, and it's sure not the first time Bill has been embarrassed by his own software in public. Why does anyone with a brain use a Wind-blows machine?
>>>>
>>>> Pep
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, February 09, 2005, at 09:38PM, Ted <tlanden at mac.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Bill Gates' demonstration of Media Center ... instant classic!!!!
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.big-boys.com/articles/gatesconan.html
>>>>>
>>>>>  ... he does not react ... It is like he has seen it occur over and
>>>>> over and over and over again.
>>>>>
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