Computer Musings by Professor Donald E. Knuth

Re:Computer Musings by Professor Donald E. Knuth by ColinWright on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @10:00AM (#3186647)

I was really looking forward to watching some of these during my lunch break. I followed the links, picked one I thought I'd enjoy, clicked the link ...

"Install Microsoft Silverlight"

With a heavy heart I close the tab in the browser on my Linux box.

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Thanks for the suggestions. The problem isn't so much that it's Moonlight, per se, it's more that I have to go through a bloody great clog dance to find the resources, download, install, then find the video, see if it plays, and so on.

I was looking forward to a break during lunch to see something interesting, and instead I was going to be sucked into what amounts to system administration yet again.

That's why I was so disappointed. Mostly, anyway.

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Re:Computer Musings by Professor Donald E. Knuth by feral on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @10:39AM (#3186899)

I was disappointed too, but if you view the page source, you can see the URL of the actual stream.

For example: mms://proedvid.stanford.edu/videocontent/knuth/cs209/871002/871002-cs209-500.wmv

(just grep for: mms:// )

VLC seems to be able to stream and display those for me.

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Re:Computer Musings by Professor Donald E. Knuth by stiff on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @10:41AM (#3186914)

While I still share the sentiment, it works just fine on Linux and Firefox with a recent version of Moonlight (http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/).

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Re:Computer Musings by Professor Donald E. Knuth by ColinWright on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @12:17PM (#3187493)

That certainly eased the pain - thank you. Still took 15 minutes to sort out, but now tomorrow I can watch a video.

Thanks.

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