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Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Mon Nov 16 06:05:28 UTC 2009


On Sunday 15 November 2009, Marcel Rieux wrote:
>On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
>> Marcel Rieux wrote:
>>> It doesn't save a file in /tmp. As a bonus, since it's not political,
>>> it's not off topic. Perfect for Linux geeks!
>>
>> That one was easy....
>>
>> wget
>> http://pdl.warnerbros.com/trailers/alphanum/00a/about_schmidt_4x3ff_tlr_4
>>80x.flv
>
>I've been had with this one. Since I found no file in /tmp, I assumed
>there would be no URL in the code of the page.
>
>This one, I believe, would be a better challenge:
>
>http://video.pbs.org/video/1082087546/
>
And I don't see a link in /tmp to this one's buffer.  It's playing very well 
right now.  And lsof|grep firefox isn't spitting out anything that looks like 
the buffer location either.

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