I am very glad you had success at last! When you start the sage notebook server you have 'kind of an internet server" running on your local machine, which produces html code and listens to your inputs on port 8000. Hence you connect to this server with "localhost:8000". When you don't start the VM sage server, there is of course no such server and you get no response.
This should be independent of internet connection, this means that you can surf AND use sage the same time in different browser tabs. It should be also independent of the choice of internet browser. Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera should all work, as well as other, less known browser types. Just open the browser and type in localhost: 8000 in adress bar. Cheers emil -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org