How do I get the comments back?

(Company was formerly known as Innotek.)

The unfortunate part is that this doesn't have to be a mystery. Back in the day, when I deposited a check, World Savings would give me a small slip of paper that said (approximately):

Available Now: $50
In 10 Days: $X + $50
In 20 Days: $Y + $X +$50
(and so on)

http://www.zazzle.com/c_cup_of_t_mug-168503670567870702

1. Click on big play button in the middle of the video
2. Wait for the spinning Silverlight thingy to reach 100%.
3. If impatient, then mash the little play button until something starts playing. This seems to trigger the non-Smooth Streaming playback.
4. Else, wait an unknown # of seconds/minutes until the Smooth Streaming playback starts.

Is there any way to go straight to Smooth Streaming instead of showing the intermediate video player that takes the viewer away from Smooth Streaming?

For the longest time, I thought C9 had abandoned Smooth Streaming because every time I tried to watch a video, I'd end up mashing the play button in frustration and then waiting for interminable "buffering..."

I'm happy that I found out how to get Smooth Streaming back but unhappy that there's the unknown wait in step #4.

Context:
-Slow-ish DSL home connection
-Location: Southern California

Good catch.

>BITS should work

I'll give it another try tonight.

I know that Microsoft has solved this problem for Windows Updates by creating BITS and have tried to download Channel 9 videos via BITS. Unfortunately, the moment the connection dies, the entire download has to start over.

Is there any chance that Channel 9 could fully support BITS? MSDN has a helpful article on the topic.

I care about sound quality so I use a seperate portable audio player with a pair of either Sennheiser or Koss headphones.

2 hours ago, Bas wrote

For the longest time, I used Ctrl+Insert/Shift+Insert exclusiely because I was so used to that in QuickBasic 4.5. It probably took me about ten years to gradually switch to Ctrl+C Ctrl+V exclusively.

Wow, that takes me back. I started on QB on a Win98 computer. I was already used to CTRL+C/X/V and every time I used QB I had to remember to use the mouse instead of CTRL+C/X/V.

On a more positive note, I first learned about F5 and F9 there.

The ATI drivers for my ThinkPad T400 crashed.

I'm using a ThinkPad T400 with ATI switchable graphics. For the curious, my setup is something like this:

• ThinkPad
• ThinkPad dock
• All peripherals connected to the dock except for the webcam, which is hooked up to the left external screen
• 2 Dell LCD screens (left one via DVI and right one via VGA)
• Disabled ThinkPad screen
• MS ergo keyboard
• MS mouse
• Macally webcam
• Iomega large USB drive

I've already posted the issue to Connect:

• https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/details/598363/green-artifacts-appear-in-video
• https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/details/598672/extremely-slow-tab-switching

Besides slow tab switching and green artifacts, I'm also getting:

-Constant tab hangs
-IE9 doesn't always catch crashed tabs (so I have to kill the process tree w/ Process Explorer)
-When I switch to another tab, the stuff in the previous tab continues to be displayed
-I have to force the window to be re-drawn when I go to a new website (generally by dragging IE9 off the edge of the screen and dragging it back)
-Textboxes (such as the C9 one) are extremely slow to respond to keystrokes so spelling mistakes become a frequent occurrence.
-Things that use the browser control (such as Semagic) are also a horror to use
-The vertical scrollbar does not accurately extend to the bottom of websites.
-Resizing the IE9 window occasionally causes the contents of the website to get stretched, which looks absolutely wretched with ClearType because all the subaliasing pixels get wildly contorted.

I looked for new video drivers and found this helpful little tidbit at Lenovo's site (http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-72858.html):

Windows 7: 13 Oct 2009 (8.641.1.1-090824a-089811C)
Windows Vista: 28 Apr 2009 (8.563.2.1-090401a-079160C)
Windows XP: 10 Aug 2010 (8.752-100629a-102476C)

Your eyes aren't fooling you, by the way. Windows XP has newer video drivers than Windows 7.

I would be delighted if the IE9 team could get in touch with the person who has the power to poke Lenovo firmly in the side about the issue.

If anyone wants more details/experiments/etc, fire away. I'll be uninstalling IE9 in the morning (Pacific Time).

Incidentally, if you're wondering about the IE8 crashes, the condensed version is that resetting the browser & clearing the cache, et al does not fix the problem. I haven't tried reformatting the computer yet.

Edit: New C9 bug, ahoy. Whenever I edit a post, the carriage returns double. If the powers-that-be could shrink my post back down to size, that would be wonderful.

Edit: Yes, if I recall correctly, the problem was AnkhSVN.

I've gone from knowing BASIC and a bit of VB .NET to feeling comfortable with a wide range of languages and having a much bigger toolset courtesy of UC Irvine.