The FP Room: Meeting with Ken and Laura Brody

[Brian K. White]

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From: "GCC Consulting" <gcc at optonline.net>
To: <bill at celestial.com>; "Filepro 2 List" 
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Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 6:41 PM
Subject: RE: The FP Room: Meeting with Ken and Laura Brody


>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
>> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf
>> Of Bill Campbell
>> Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 5:45 PM
>> To: Fplist (E-mail)
>> Subject: Re: The FP Room: Meeting with Ken and Laura Brody
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 07, 2005, John Esak wrote:
>> ...
>> >So, mark your calendars, get logged in, try out the room
>> beforehand so
>> >you can see how neat it all is. Just click on:
>> >
>> >   www.tinyurl.com/yuag7
>> >
>> >any time to get into the room. A small client will be downloaded to
>> >your machine and you will then be able to talk, see and hear
>> all that
>> >goes on. Be sure to have a microphone connected to your
>> system or you
>> >will be relegated to just typing your thoughts while
>> everyone else spouts off verbally.
>>
>> Yeah right!  Given that this only appears to work with the
>> Microsoft virus, Windows, and not FireFox on OS X or Linux,
>> it's pretty useless to me.
>>
>> Bill
>
> Do what I have been doing, IE for the chat room only and firefox or 
> Mozilla for
> everything else.
>
> The only proviso is not to set other browsers to be your default. 
> Although one
> could set IE as default for the chat room session and then reset what ever 
> other
> browser is your preference after.

It doesn't really require IE. I use it without any browser. It's just that 
the fully automated on-the-fly download & install requires IE or maybe just 
activeX. If you want you can install the client manually and then use a 
special form of URL right from the run prompt or command line or saved in a 
shortcut that never involves IE. The special url launches the ivocalize 
client directly. What it does require is Windows.


Here are the manual directions:

Install this: http://www.talkingcommunities.com/client3/iVocalizeClient3.exe

access the fp room using this wrong-looking-but-trust-me url:

ivocalize3://server=209.173.24.17:9000&room=The_FP_Room&user=BrianWhite&pass=&&/

Replace "BrianWhite" with whatever you want to call yourself
don't use the url in IE's address bar, use it for a com promp or the 
start->run dialog, or make a shortcut on your desk and paste in the url in 
place of the target where you would normally put the path to an executable 
file + arguments.
(well, you can do it in the IE address bar, It'll work there too)

> I would be ashamed to pass up this opportunity over the browser issue.

Me too.
Besides I thought they answered odd cases like this a long time ago with 
virtualpc?

Brian K. White  --  brian at aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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