Mike,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 7:35 AM, Michael Havens <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
this is strange! the first url was supposed to be: <a href="http://lifehacker.com/5501010/enhance-your-xbmc-experience-with-remote-controls-for-any-device" target="_blank">http://lifehacker.com/5501010/enhance-your-xbmc-experience-with-remote-controls-for-any-device</a><div>


and the second was an image that is in the first: <a href="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18ixzpye9x9e7jpg/ku-medium.jpg" target="_blank">http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18ixzpye9x9e7jpg/ku-medium.jpg</a><br clear="all">
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as such my post reads:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif">I am trying to make it so that I can control my xbmc box from my laptop. I followed the directions here: </span><a href="http://lifehacker.com/5501010/enhance-your-xbmc-experience-with-remote-controls-for-any-device" target="_blank">http://lifehacker.com/5501010/enhance-your-xbmc-experience-with-remote-controls-for-any-device</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif"> but when I type in the xbmc server&#39;s IP, </span><a href="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18ixzpye9x9e7jpg/ku-medium.jpg" target="_blank">http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18ixzpye9x9e7jpg/ku-medium.jpg</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif"> does not appear but rather the &#39;website may be down&#39; error appears. What am I doing wrong? (both the laptop and xbmc server run an ubuntu derivative) (a firewall is not running)</span></div>


<div><br></div><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div><div><div class="h5">
<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I would go back over your HTTP settings and then run an nmap from another local system or your android to verify that port 80 is actually open.</div><div><br></div><div>
If the error says there is nothing answering there is nothing answering!   </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Lisa Kachold <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:lisakachold@obnosis.com" target="_blank">lisakachold@obnosis.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">


I don&#39;t see the website might be down:<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Michael Havens <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>



<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="margin:0px;padding:5px 10px 4em;overflow:visible;min-height:1px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">



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<span style="font-weight:normal"><font size="1">aren&#39;t you proud of me..... I did the ot thing! lol</font></span></h2><div style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;margin:0px 300px 0px 0px;padding:0px">

<div style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word">I am trying to make it so that I can control my xbmc box from my laptop. I followed the directions here: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://tinyurl.com/lwsdkjr" style="color:rgb(3,92,159);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/lwsdkjr</a> but when I type in the xbmc server&#39;s IP, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://tinyurl.com/kl56lwn" style="color:rgb(3,92,159);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/kl56lwn</a> does not appear but rather the &#39;website may be down&#39; error appears. What am I doing wrong? (both the laptop and xbmc server run an ubuntu derivative) (a firewall is not running)</blockquote>



</div></div></div></blockquote></div><div>This is the redirect I get when I click on your second <a href="http://tinyurl.com" target="_blank">tinyurl.com</a> link:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18ixzpye9x9e7jpg/ku-medium.jpg" target="_blank">http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18ixzpye9x9e7jpg/ku-medium.jpg</a> </div>



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