Saving Flash where Greenspan confess he's an idiot

Paul Allen Newell pnewell at cs.cmu.edu
Thu Nov 12 06:28:17 UTC 2009


Marcel Rieux wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Paul Allen Newell <pnewell at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
>   
>> With all due respects, isn't this an incorrect posting given the intent of
>> the mailing list and the intent of the message?
>>     
>
> Because I have respect for the intelligence of people on this list, I
> would certainly have brought this first class documentary to their
> attention with an OT at the beginning of the subject line if I had
> known how to save the Flash file.
>
> Unfortunately, it doesn't seem as easy to save as a muppet show on
> YouTube. At the time the download started a
>
> srwxrwxr-x. /tmp/orbit-username/linc-gibberish
>
> directory was created and I can't see any way to access it, even as
> root. So I asked with the full URL because I didn't want to be taught
> how to save muppet shows.
>
> If you don't care about how trillions of taxpayers money have been
> dilapidated because of know nothing gurus, your wisest choice would
> have been to bear no attention to my post.
>
> With all due respect...
>
>   
With even more respect, I agree that 1) there should have been an OT for 
the issue of how trillions of taxpayers money has been spent and 2) 
there is a genuine issue about how to save a Flash download which 
warrants a post regardless of content

Paul




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