The actual traffic appears to be pinging the google site - anyone any ideas why this might be happening

-Carol Haynes (April 21, 2007, 01:30 PM)

can you shut down everything and record a few minutes of traffic using wireshark and post the logfile somewhere?
maybe that way it would be more effective for the rest of the folk on here to take a look at it
(if you feel like disclosing your internal network traffic that is)

i've been using it for a year or so now
even cross platform across 2 linux workstations and a windows laptop
works like a charm
couldn't do without it

Oh I honestly can't say that Linux is "better" than say, Vista, especially when you appeal to specific platform applications. AutoHotkey is one. There are a dozen apps that can reproduce GUI scripts and hotkeys in Linux (Ubuntu has one built-in), but not hotstrings, for precisely the reason mentioned Gothi[c] mentioned — Windows API calls. Mac users dream of AutoHotkey, too.

-zridling (April 17, 2007, 09:35 PM)

that's like arguing that if i had written autohotkey for AmigaOS, AmigaOS would be automatically the superior OS.
If you start to appeal to "specific platform applications" you can always argue that A<B ;-)
If that app really is that crucial to you, then, for whoever sake, stay with OS-whatever, but please don't argue that the OS (that, if i really want to argue about the term "OS", has nothing to do with some user-space tool) is better because of that.
</rant>


this works (of course) in both directions.
i just think your argumentation technique is flawed.