Announcement: The Always Open Zazen Cafe

[roky]

Re: Pre-Announcement: The Always Open Zazen Cafe

great to here that other folks are enthusiastic about the hall -- having sat in other centers, i have to admit it feels like the "real" thing, i.e., i feel that i'm sitting with others -- not sure why that means anything, but it does keep me going -- well, as the band i was in said, "we are all one animal"

having said that, you will see me absent from the schedule this week, with the arrival of my 12 yr old for a week stay -- in this 20x25 square foot cabin, there is no private space, other than the bathroom, so my computer sitting spot is now her bedroom -- this means i will sit in the boat in my backyard, minus computer

gassho, bob

[roky]

Re: Pre-Announcement: The Always Open Zazen Cafe

did anyone else have difficulty with the sound on yesterday's live saturday zazen? -- or was it just my funky computer? -- couldn't hear jundo til i cranked it way up, then when folks said hello at the end, just about blew out the speakers -- glad i wasn't wearing headphones

gassho, bob

[Undo]

Re: Pre-Announcement: The Always Open Zazen Cafe

I should be back in the hall for regular sittings.
My time-table has been too hit and miss and I could not make the time slots I took, so stopped booking them.
I have sat before and others have dropped in and I have also stumbled on one or two sittings. I does appear that sometimes there are quite a few slots booked but other times empty. Maybe there has just been a little dry season.

[roky]

Re: Pre-Announcement: The Always Open Zazen Cafe

seems to still be some technical problems with the cafe, no? -- screen keeps disappearing, so having to lean over and click about 10 times during each half hour sit -- will be unfortunate if this is still going on during today's live sit w/jundo

bob

[Jundo]

Re: Pre-Announcement: The Always Open Zazen Cafe

If so, just use the Ustream connection which, though "one way", is stable. It will be here in about 1 hour (midnight Japan time) ...

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sit-a-long-with-jundo

[Shugen]

Re: Pre-Announcement: The Always Open Zazen Cafe

Has anyone been having any trouble in the cafe? :?

I have been using an avatar and I keep getting kicked out of the cafe and into mebeam's homepage. It happens about every 5 minutes.

Bob,
Is that the same thing that happens with you?

Ron

[roky]

Re: Pre-Announcement: The Always Open Zazen Cafe

ron - yes, that is exactly what's happening, and it's happening on both of my computers -- i sit with the mouse nearby, so that everytime it does it, i can click back, and then it comes back on -- still think its my computer -- would help to compare notes on this - i have win98 on one, and win2k on the other, both with about 128mb ram, one has 366mhz processor, the other 892, and i'm on a fast cable connection -- i've been assuming its my antiquated computers, what are you using?

if it starts to bug me, i turn the computer off, and just sit "alone" - which is why i posted before re: my zen hall schedule -- i remain very committed to using the hall, but this is an unfortunate technical problem

and i don't think it does it when others are in the hall, like on saturdays with the live jundo sit -- but then i can't hear jundo

bob

[roky]

Re: Pre-Announcement: The Always Open Zazen Cafe

today i timed it -- i think its an exact amount, not random, about 5 minutes, theres a "click" on my laptop, as if i had clicked the mouse, and i'm off mebeam - ??

[Shugen]

Re: Pre-Announcement: The Always Open Zazen Cafe

I'm not a computer guy but I'm running windows xp, a pentium 1.5GHz processor and 128mb of ram. (Whatever that means) I have a DSL connection. My computer is about 6 years old.

Ron

[Jundo]

Re: Pre-Announcement: The Always Open Zazen Cafe

Let me just ask: Is it shutting off when there is only 1 person on, but usually not shutting off when multiple people are on at the same time? Then maybe it is something about the software thinking that 1 person is not a "conference", and shutting down. Just a guess. It seems fairly stable on Saturdays when we have multiple people.

Gassho, Jundo

[roky]

Re: Pre-Announcement: The Always Open Zazen Cafe

i don't recall being kicked off on saturdays, just audio issues and the "flashing" of my image(which hasn't been happening lately) -- sometimes i sit with charles, so i'd like to check it then -- probably not today, cause its my wife's birthday

tried posting a question to the mebeam forum, message got removed????! -- i'll try again

gassho, bob

[Shugen]

Re: Pre-Announcement: The Always Open Zazen Cafe

Thanks Jundo and Bob. I'm usually alone in the hall so I'll try dropping in when someone else is there.

Ron

[CharlesC]

Re: Pre-Announcement: The Always Open Zazen Cafe

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[roky]

Re: Pre-Announcement: The Always Open Zazen Cafe

charles - well, that was a great idea - i'm about tho try it myself

finally got on to the mebeam forum -- their only hypotheses so far is either my antiquated computer, (can't be, cause ron's is also doing it), or the fact that there is no movement(actually, i'm not that still)

of course, bet it will work fine today in the big sit

bob

[Charles]

Re: Pre-Announcement: The Always Open Zazen Cafe

...their only hypotheses so far is either my antiquated computer, (can't be, cause ron's is also doing it)...

I wouldn't rule that out so fast. Ron's 6-year-old computer is pretty antiquated by modern standards. In particular, his 128 MB of RAM is probably barely enough to run the Windows XP software, much less do whatever it is this software needs to do. Yours might be having similar problems. Maybe the mebeam software starts eating RAM, uses up the tiny amount you've got available in about five minutes, then dumps you, freeing up the RAM. Then you log back in, and the process starts again; wash, rinse, repeat.

Not trying to knock your computer, Ron. Or yours, Bob. All I'm sayin' is, the folks on the mebeam forum might be right, at least in part.

--Charles