Yeah, sorry Nick, crew,
Nick Rout wrote:
Am I missing something about the link Rik posted earlier re this show?
Is there soemthing to download or view? I may have adblocked so much
stuff with frefox that i am missing something on the page?
The url was http://www.bbcworld.com/content/template_clickpage.asp?pageid=2783
but all i see there in terms of content is:
"The Code Breakers
<snip blockquote>
But no link to an actual show.
I only heard about it when the beeb came on just before 1am - they were
advertising the broadcast (Asia-Pacific region only) between segments.
Searching through the program listings from the menu at left on the
bbcworld.com site confirmed that the show (part 1/2) was due on @1.30,
so I was lucky to catch it. And part 2/2 will be on at the same time
next Friday, 1.30am. Check NZ timetable listings to see if there's
another rerun of 1/2 this week. It's well worth recording if someone is
so set up.
The Code Breakers is an hour-long doco provided by the UN Development
Program, seriously appraising the success of FOSS (their term) in poorer
countries' education, state, etc, starting in Africa. There is copious
M$ comment, focussed on adjusting to the competition in the dynamic BRIC
market (Brasil, Russia, India, China) especially - hence relevance to
'Other Side' thread.
Have a look at the UNDP's link from www.softwarefreedomday.org to
understand why they have contributed this research item to the BBC.
On Fri, 12 May 2006 11:05:00 +1200
Ross Drummond wrote:
I had a sly grin at Richerd Stallmans little *nix joke.
<quotation mode=parphrasing>
Free open source software has four freedooms;
Freedoom 0 .............,
Freedoom 1 .............,
Freedoom 2............., and
Freedoom 3..............
</quotation>
Cheers Ross Drummond
He is looking a bit old & puffy, but still delivers the message package
well :)
btw, http://clug.org.nz is down.
Cheers,
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