Re: [backstage] Warning: Super geeky - Petabytes on a budget

2009-09-03 Thread Brian Butterworth
Very nice. You could store 29 days of everything transitted on Freeview (23 after switchover). Moore's law says you're going to get it in a 36TB in a single drive in five years though... 2009/9/2 Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk

[backstage] BBC EPG logos 96x42 for Windows Media Center?

2009-09-03 Thread Brian Butterworth
Hi, I have been conversing with mychannello...@live.com at http://mychannellogos.com/ http://mychannellogos.com/default.aspx a rather neat little application that adds icons to the programme listings in Windows Media Center on Vista (later version) and Windows 7. I've been trying to persuade him

RE: [backstage] BBC EPG logos 96x42 for Windows Media Center?

2009-09-03 Thread Andrew Bowden
Hi, I have been conversing with mychannello...@live.com at http://mychannellogos.com/ http://mychannellogos.com/default.aspx a rather neat little application that adds icons to the programme listings in Windows Media Center on Vista (later version)

Re: [backstage] Warning: Super geeky - Petabytes on a budget

2009-09-03 Thread Alex Mace
Hmm, not sure it doesn't doesn't Moore's law actually say that the density of transistors will double every 18 months? Alex On 3 Sep 2009, at 09:08, Brian Butterworth wrote: Very nice. You could store 29 days of everything transitted on Freeview (23 after switchover). Moore's law says

Re: [backstage] Warning: Super geeky - Petabytes on a budget

2009-09-03 Thread Tim Dobson
Ian Forrester wrote: http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build- cheap-cloud-storage/ Found via Frank Wales, Haha. So Frank reads /. too! :) - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit

[backstage] Disconected from internet

2009-09-03 Thread Glyn Wintle
Open Rights Group, Which?, talktalk, BT, Consumer Focus and Orange responding to the governments plans to disconnect users from the internet because some one has _accused_ them of infringing copyright. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/letters/article6819093.ece Sir, We agree that the

Re: [backstage] Warning: Super geeky - Petabytes on a budget

2009-09-03 Thread Frank Wales
On 09/03/2009 11:28 AM, Tim Dobson wrote: Ian Forrester wrote: http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build- cheap-cloud-storage/ Found via Frank Wales, Haha. So Frank reads /. too! :) Actually, I got it (and RTed it) in my twitter feed. So there *pththtb* :-P.

Re: [backstage] Disconected from internet

2009-09-03 Thread Matt Hammond
OUTLAW radio has some comments on whether a European law ruling may overshadow this proposal: http://www.out-law.com/page-10331 Matt On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:29:05 +0100, Glyn Wintle glynwin...@yahoo.com wrote: Open Rights Group, Which?, talktalk, BT, Consumer Focus and Orange

Re: [backstage] Warning: Super geeky - Petabytes on a budget

2009-09-03 Thread Rhys Jones
Sorry, the Kryder's Law link should be: http://www.mattscomputertrends.com/Kryder%27s.html 2009/9/3 Rhys Jones r...@highfiddletea.co.uk: Quite - I'm not aware that Moore said anything about the density of magnetic storage! Kryder's law is mentioned here:

Re: [backstage] Warning: Super geeky - Petabytes on a budget

2009-09-03 Thread Rhys Jones
Quite - I'm not aware that Moore said anything about the density of magnetic storage! Kryder's law is mentioned here: http://www.mattscomputertrends.com/harddrives.html Also, this is old but may be relevant (the projections don't seem to be more than an order of magnitude off the mark, if that):

Re: [backstage] Disconected from internet

2009-09-03 Thread Nico Morrison
Who reads The Times these days since Murdoch murdered it? They should be doing what everybody else does and bribing MPs, sorry of course I meant, 'using non-executive directorships to add value', nay 'add BEST value', to government policy indecisions. And we'll only be saved by an EU ruling -

[backstage] Invalid XML in iPlayer feeds

2009-09-03 Thread Paul Battley
The iPlayer feeds seem to be broken today. They currently have a blank line before the XML declaration, making them invalid. E.g. (Firefox will also complain if you load it up) http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/popular/tv/list Has anyone else noticed? I can't be the only person who is using a real,

Re: [backstage] Invalid XML in iPlayer feeds

2009-09-03 Thread Alex Mace
iPlayer itself seemed to be down eariler today... Alex On 3 Sep 2009, at 14:52, Paul Battley wrote: The iPlayer feeds seem to be broken today. They currently have a blank line before the XML declaration, making them invalid. E.g. (Firefox will also complain if you load it up)

Re: [backstage] BBC EPG logos 96x42 for Windows Media Center?

2009-09-03 Thread Brian Butterworth
Andrew, Is there any chance that I can get the correct versions sent to me please as I'm not on the BBC network in any useful sense and I suspect that attempting to hack in may be frowned upon, however relevant to Backstage. 2009/9/3 Andrew Bowden andrew.bow...@bbc.co.uk Hi, I have been

Re: [backstage] Warning: Super geeky - Petabytes on a budget

2009-09-03 Thread Brian Butterworth
The first hard drive we had a school was a Winchester for the BBC Micro network, it was a full hight 5.25 drive, and it had a capacity of 10 megabytes. By the time I installed servers when I was a BT Broadcast, server drive were half hight and in the 3 size, with capacities in single gigabytes. I

Re: [backstage] Warning: Super geeky - Petabytes on a budget

2009-09-03 Thread Alex Mace
I know you were just making a general point, I'm just being pedantic :-p Moore's Law itself is strictly the defined in the original paper about it, although most people do generalise it for application to other things... Moore's Law, in it's original form, still holds and is predicted to

Re: [backstage] Invalid XML in iPlayer feeds

2009-09-03 Thread Sean DALY
I have generated calmness by inserting systematic XML validation in my workflows using xmlstarlet, e.g.: snip $ xml val list.htm list.htm:2: parser error : XML declaration allowed only at the start of the document ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? ^ list.htm - invalid $ /snip I ran the