Comments on: CBC Television turns to Skype for video interviews

By: Alex in Toronto, ON, CANADA

Alex in Toronto, ON, CANADA — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:18:01 +0000

It works now Tod. I’m not getting the error message which sometimes indicated that I was attacking your website too.

By: JL Durn

JL Durn — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 21:26:46 +0000

I use Firefox to view this site, with no problems.

By: James C.

James C. — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 05:07:44 +0000

Just take the mouse ball out, or put a black piece of tape over the Optical mouses’ Eye. The CBC should have enough black electrical tape to spare that it should be a free fix.

If the mouse still tracks without a mouseball, tape the rollers on the inside as well.

By: Alex in Toronto

Alex in Toronto — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 01:51:27 +0000

Instead of being worried about the mouse you could instead use a touchpad and forget about the mouse moving. You can also use a dedicated usb phone to avert the problem.

Your website doesn’t work with Firefox. I thought this site was inoperable but today I decided to use IE to see if it worked and have decided to leave the following common message that I have received numerous times.

Error 403

We’re sorry, but we could not fulfill your request for / on this server.

An invalid request was received from your browser. This may be caused by a malfunctioning proxy server or browser privacy software.

Your technical support key is: 4a63-e124-45b3-5e30

You can use this key to fix this problem yourself.

If you are unable to fix the problem yourself, please contact tod at todmaffin.com and be sure to provide the technical support key shown above.

Tod replies: Weird, thanks. Is it still happening?

By: Aigle

Aigle — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:14:26 +0000

Turning mouse over would be a great idea (and FREE), but somebody would forget, or a well meaning soul would “fix it” (nobody reads signs anymore, must be too analog).

Issue should be fixed now, also for free. Mini-keyboard with trackpad (circa Control Rooms ver.2002). Never throw anything out….You never know when you’ll get outsourced and the Ceeb can do a sub-rosa selloff of all your carefully scrounged K3w3l stuff.

By: Joe Clark

Joe Clark — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:48:53 +0000

Turn mouse over when not in use.

What about the fact that the CBC’s T1 or whatever line is not the direct line to the interview subject? The signal is eventually going to end up going through a DSL or cable modem, possibly wirelessly.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:46:45 +0000

Anything’s better than those horrible interviews with some overseas reporter while subjected to an elementary school map of the middle east over the talking head’s shoulder.