[FM] It's a mixed bag ("humor")

[Michael Whitman]

OK, so we all have computers, and although many have struggled to become "ept"
at email and other cyber-basics, the more experienced often drop
incomprehensibles into the midst of a pretty good explanation of how to navigate
some more-advanced-than-I'm-used-to technology. 

Stuff like the following, preceded by very clear words and phrases, tends to 
make me wonder whether I should venture further, unaided:
"You have to keep the site window OPEN at all times to keep it streaming."

I figure I **sort of** know what to do, and was ready to give it a try, but what
followed another paragraph stopped me in my tracks: "You also have to permit TCP
connections to port 9405 through your firewall."

Thanks for trying to elucidate, but over and out - I decided to send a small
contribution to my local station, instead.

   michael 

[Alan sez: Sadly, the recent wave of internet attacks has effected many sites with high bandwidth connections. At the library where I work, we screwed down the firewall so tightly that we were inadvertantly interrupting all kinds of stuff. I mostly have those things straightened away here now, but there are probably a couple of stragglers to the 50plus rules that I had to add to our firewall. You can't beat conventional radio for easy of use, but, aside from Larry Hoyt's "Common Threads" program on WAER, there really isn't much on the radio in Syracuse that I can bear to listen to. That's what makes the learning curve on Internet radio worthwhile for me.]