icarusancalion

Helllloooooo, tech savvy friends.

I have a coworker, Anna, who needs to record a telephone interview.

Is there a way to do this in Skype? Or.... I know celtic_tigress has recorded quite a few phone interviews.

I have no idea, and the Skype site tells me more about call forwarding than recording anything.


ETA: Options so far... use a speaker phone and Audacity. There are also apparently specialized Skype recorders. Other suggestions?

ETA part II: The Skype recorder was exactly what she needed. Thank you to jackoweskla for the solution.

Augh!

I was able to download the SGA episode last night. Now I'm trying to download the Merlin episode from a private server. Nothing's happening.

I went to a Megaupload link to download from there. Got the countdown. Then, when I went to click the button to download, I got the message to save the file... and then nothing happened.

Alarmed, I went to Mediafire to see if I could upload files. I pressed the "big green button" to upload files. Nothing happened. It didn't move me to the next menu.

Then I went to YouSendIt, logged in, and tried to upload a file there. It wouldn't let me even browse to the file to upload.

Remember the virus attack on Thursday that hit people downloading SPN's latest episode from mininova.org? That we weren't able to even access the mininova.org site afterward (and we still can't)?

It's bigger than that. This is a major virus attack aimed to prevent people from sharing files.

1) Stay clear of mininova.org. That's where it started.

2) Spydoctor and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware both say my computer's clean. Obviously that's not true.

3) If anyone has any ideas how to deal with this problem, any at all no matter how far-fetched, please let me know.

4) Any ideas how I can get the Merlin ep? My friends? I was able to download the SGA episode last night, but it was labeled a .doc file. Maybe that gets around this. Is there a way I can watch online? Email it (can one email a 350 meg file)?

This isn't fair. These are free TV shows I'm downloading.


ETA: Thank you all. Amothea's suggestion worked. I am able to download via other torrent sites (still can't contact mininova though they're not popular with me right now). From Nel_ani, after futzing with SUPERantispyware which found 17 tracking cookies that Spydoctor didn't, though those shouldn't effect my ability to download, starting a Megaupload download via IE (using a download manager, Orbit) instead of Firefox, then shutting down Firefox and restarting it, I was finally able to get these downloads to work.

Yousendit is now working. I haven't tested Mediafire yet. Megaupload seems to work. Private servers definitely work.

It looks like this might have been a problem with Firefox. It seems to have been resolved. I think. I hope.

Turns out the computer monitor is toast. Since we can use the TV as a monitor for the time being, I'm going to hold off ten days until the Halloween sales.

Reworking the computer-lifestyle changes. I like the quiet time in the morning, and the space before I get on the computer in the afternoon works out well for me, as does getting my news from NPR instead of websites. Limiting my LJ f-list time to when I check in at school is working fine. Closing windows once I'm done with them helps a lot.

The trouble is the monitor situation. WG has wanted to watch movies and Star Trek videos in the evening. So I'm not really getting any computer time until 10pm, when I'm a little tired. Once on the computer, I kick around a bit... sketchily answer emails... and then I'm really tired. Finally I stay up till 3am writing Out Of Bounds because, damn it, I'm going to write if it kills me.

Icarus + 3:30am bed time + 9:30am class = one very grouchy Icarus.

Solutions:

1 - Replace the bloody monitor. We can go back to playing movies while I'm on the computer.
2 - Actually get on the computer at 7pm. I do this every time. Whenever I put restrictions on myself, I instantly go more extreme.
3 - Based on my computer use (10pm - 3am), I need five hours a day, at least three of those dedicated to writing. I can do email and editing at school, and the remaining three at home, or I can do all five here.

I hope to have the next part of Out Of Bounds up this weekend. Hell or high water.

WG ran across an article on clickjacking.

A Look at the ‘Clickjacking’ Web Attack and Why You Should Worry

Security researchers warn of new 'clickjacking' browser bugs

The hackers are aware of it and concerned. The big browser companies are working on a patch.

I'm running Firefox's NoScript in the meantime. I've turned off my Firefox plug-ins except AdBlock and ones for my anti-virus software. NoScript's been annoying where I've wanted to copy and paste text from a webpage but I'd rather not be clicking on invisible content.

Talking to amothea, I learned I have a toy that everyone needs, but not everyone has.

Sick of purple on dark blue text? Found a site or LJ layout that thinks pale grey writing on lilac is a great idea? Linked to a story and found big annoying graphic in someone's layout? Sick and tired of Area52's grey, grey, grey?

Zap colors! (And a lot of other annoyances). Just click, and you have a clean white background with black text. Ah.

It's scary (and quite telling) how often I use this.

iPod users...

Have any of you ever had your iPod freeze up? Just sit there on a menu and not move. It's been over 12 hours and the thing won't shut down.

I've tried plugging it into the computer and recharging it. All night.
I've tried toggling the switch on the bottom off and on.
I've tried holding down the menu button for many, many, many seconds.
I've tried plugging it into a different USB port.

It just sits there, stuck. And while my computer recognize something is plugged into that port, iTunes doesn't recognize there's an iPod.

Help. *is very sad* This is wildernessguru's birthday present.


ETA: Thank fucking god! It just worked!

I had to have the button on top On, the iPod unplugged, and hold the Menu and Center button at the same time.

Thank you lirren, titti, and jackoweskla.