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by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Dec 4th, 2008 at 03:33:35 PM EST
I'm not sure anyone paid attention to my post in yesterday's thread, I was a bit late.

Here it was:


I have an idea of a new feature for ET, or rather a new accessory: we have the plug-in, but could we also have the widget ?

I'm thinking google widget, here some bit of code that would keep tabs on ET (or any SCOOP engine ?) from the google dashboard home page. And may be someone would actually like doing more good work for ET... unless I'm the only selfish google widget user around.

Personally, I could use two features in a widget, may be in two tabs:

    * watch "recent comments" page a bit like the rss reader widget, with bodies popping up when clicking on listed titles
    * check "replies (trees) to my comments", in a tree view (meaning, (new) reply titles are clustered by least-common-ancestor-owner's-comment)

First thing before looking into the details, would be to count how many ET users are also google widget users and would be interested.

Pierre

by Pierre on Thu Dec 4th, 2008 at 04:05:06 PM EST
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I didn't ignore the comment on the other thread, I just don't really know what you're referring to. Sorry, I'm a bit of an un-techie.

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by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Dec 4th, 2008 at 05:28:29 PM EST
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Have you got a gmail account ?

Pierre
by Pierre on Thu Dec 4th, 2008 at 05:35:20 PM EST
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Yes, but I've never used it.

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by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Dec 5th, 2008 at 06:37:47 AM EST
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e-mail it to me at pierre dot guerrier @robase gmail
I'll share a few widgets with you, if you accept these, it should set up your google widget page automatically (provided you remember your gmail account password...)

Pierre
by Pierre on Fri Dec 5th, 2008 at 08:16:00 AM EST
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The wife and I are off to Antwerp this afternoon for the weekend (this being my birthday present to her).

See you all on Monday!

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Fri Dec 5th, 2008 at 03:47:44 AM EST
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Have fun

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by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Dec 5th, 2008 at 06:36:45 AM EST
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IDF preparing options for Iran strike | Iran news | Jerusalem Post

While its preference is to coordinate with the US, defense officials have said Israel is preparing a wide range of options for such an operation.

"It is always better to coordinate," one top Defense Ministry official explained last week. "But we are also preparing options that do not include coordination."

Israeli officials have said it would be difficult, but not impossible, to launch a strike against Iran without receiving codes from the US Air Force, which controls Iraqi airspace. Israel also asked for the codes in 1991 during the First Gulf War, but the US refused.

<...>

On Monday, Teheran dismissed the possibility of an Israeli strike, saying it didn't take Israel seriously.

"We think that regional and international developments and the complicated situation faced by Israel itself will not allow it to launch military strikes against other countries," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi told reporters in Teheran, according to the Press TV Web site. "Israel makes threats to promote its psychological and media warfare," he said.



Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.
by marco (cowannar at gmail punkt com) on Fri Dec 5th, 2008 at 07:51:04 AM EST
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To be honest, you'd expect military authorities to plan "what if..?" scenarios. There are certain situations where you'd think the authorities were abdicating their repsonsibilities if they ddin't do such planning.

So the questions that result are;-

"Is Israel likely to be planning some raid on Iran? "
Ans : Almost certainly

"Is Israel likely to carry out such a raid on Iran ?"
Ans : Within any form of predictive geo-political likelihood, almost certainly not.

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by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Dec 5th, 2008 at 08:07:24 AM EST
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how do I record a webcast ??

There's one at 14:00 and I'd like to be able to reference back for notes.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Dec 5th, 2008 at 08:08:42 AM EST
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It's not easy to answer. There are many webcast technologies. Many are designed to prevent recording.
VideoLAN Client (www.videolan.org) is capable of circumventing many schemes and capturing many formats, but it's real geeky stuff. Probably too late for you.

Pierre
by Pierre on Fri Dec 5th, 2008 at 08:17:47 AM EST
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Hmm, can't see anything there about recording streams. It's seems to be about generating streaming, which I don't need.

but thanks you for the suggestion

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by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Dec 5th, 2008 at 08:23:05 AM EST
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See for instance:

http://exertia.wordpress.com/2006/05/03/capture-streaming-video-for-free-using-videolan/

but it's really dodgy: usually, you need to try a few different switches and toggles to get your capture in a format that replays nicely, so it better be tried in advance on another webcast from the same publisher...

Pierre

by Pierre on Fri Dec 5th, 2008 at 09:18:45 AM EST
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