Re: RE: [backstage] HD iPlayer at last!

[Brian Butterworth]

I'm using Be.  When I stuck a network monitor on the line I get a burst at
8Mb/s for about a second, then nothing for two seconds, looping like this
for the whole download.

If I use the old iPlayer downloader or uTorrent I get 8Mb/s sustained for
hours at a time.

On Mar 10, 2009 2:57 PM, "Ian Forrester"  wrote:

 That doesn't sound right, surely it should download much quicker?

Who's your ISP?

Ian Forrester This e-mail is: [x] private; [] ask first; [] bloggable Senior
Producer, BBC Backs...

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> I hope it works with the BBC iPlayer Desktop app that I use all the time
now.  Shame it downloads ...

Re: [backstage] Re: Maker Faire in Newcastle

[Ant Miller]

BBC Micro C21st is not about a machine per se.  It's a conversation about
what was the Micro 25 years ago, and what could a similar effort do for us
today.  It's probably time I took this out of the realm oif occasional Bar
Camp chats and put up a web community looking at the whole thing, but it's
social, political, and technology all together.  Big ideas, well worth
exploring,

a

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:02 PM, J.P.Knight  wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Ant Miller wrote:
>
>> [...] random stuff about a BBC Micro for the 21st Century.
>>
>
> That sounds intriguing, especially to someone who spent many hours of his
> school boy life installing/fixing/hacking on the first generation version. I
> wonder if a dual core Intel CPU with a couple of gigs of RAM and more drive
> space than existed on the plant in 1984 will work through the Tube? :-)
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Re: [backstage] Re: Maker Faire in Newcastle

[J.P.Knight]

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Ant Miller wrote:

[...] random stuff about a BBC Micro for the 21st Century.


That sounds intriguing, especially to someone who spent many hours of his 
school boy life installing/fixing/hacking on the first generation version. 
I wonder if a dual core Intel CPU with a couple of gigs of RAM and 
more drive space than existed on the plant in 1984 will work through the 
Tube? :-)

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[backstage] Norwegian State TV Launches BitTorrent Tracker

[Iain Wallace]

http://torrentfreak.com/norwegian-tv-launches-bittorrent-tracker-090308/

In terms of practicality, what stops the BBC from doing this? If it's
a problem with rights holders, would the BBC create a tracker if that
wasn't an issue?

Iain
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[backstage] Publishing Principles for BBC Online

I'd be interested to know what you think of these:
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2009/03/ten_publishing_principles
_for.html

[backstage] Re: Maker Faire in Newcastle

[Ant Miller]

Hi all,

Final uopdate before we go.  The BBCWeatherBot is coming togewther nicely
(he says with *everything* crossed) and we also have a coiuple of other neat
little makes along too.  The team now includes star researchers from
Kingswood Warren and the new R&D lab that's coming together in Manchester.
We aim to arrive in Newcastle Firday evening to set up, and we'll be on site
on our stand all weekend, plus Ian will be hosting backstage workshops
around noon (we think) on both Saturday and Sunday.  We're calling them
workshops, but basically if you've seen our Barcamp schtick, that's what
you'll get- what backstage has been, what we hope it will be, plus I may
throw in some random stuff about a BBC Micro for the 21st Century.

So, hope we see lots of you there!  DO come and say hi, and hopefully, we'll
get to do this a lot more over the coming months!

Cheers

Ant

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Ant Miller  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Just a quick update on our progress- the deadline for getting in a Maker
> proposal was today! (you got 5 1/4 hours so get going!)
>
> From the Backstage / R&D area we're sending a team of between six and eight
> people, including Ian, Rain and myself, plus some of the guys from Kingswood
> Warren (if you came to Mashed you may have met a few of them).  Our plan is
> to 'do something with weather data and little robots and maybe some sort of
> RFID', and if any 'backstagers' are intertested in coming along to the event
> we'd be chuffed to bits to catch up and even use a bot of your expertise.
>
> It's lilely we may need a bit of a hand munging feeds, writing control
> routines for the robots or even just hacking the R/C toys we plan to use as
> chassis for the robots, so do come along if you can.
>
> There'll be a proper post on the Backstage blog ina day or so, I'm blogging
> at Reithian, and at some point in th enext week BBCWeatherbot.com should go
> live!
>
> See you there!
>
> a
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Ant Miller  wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Just a heads up on the forthcoming Newcastle Maker Faire:
>> http://makezine.com/makerfaire/newcastle/2009/
>>
>> If anyone is considering going along as a Maker with a view to do
>> media hackery, and would like the sort of support we were able to
>> offer at Hack Day or Mashed do let us know.
>>
>> I'm hoping to go myself, and a few of the guys in R&D are looking at
>> it too, though this might be in a personal capacity.  We're trying to
>> get the TV making types interested too, which could be fun,
>>
>> a
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Re: [backstage] F1 API

[Paul Rissen]

Looks good, yep ­ I¹d also be interested to choose a race and see all the
key Œevents¹, with links to the places on the tracks and the
drivers...(characters/events/timelines, anyone?)


On 11/03/2009 01:04, "John O'Donovan"  wrote:

> I think it's good Chris - lots of potential. Would be interesting to see key
> race events highlighted, such as a timeline for the race, maybe then allowing
> you to search for things like how many crashes at a particular corner.
>  
> Cheers,
>  
>  ::: John O'Donovan
>  ::: Chief Architect, BBC FM&T Journalism
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>  ::: http://www.bbc.co.uk
> 
> 
> 
> From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk on behalf of Chris Newell
> Sent: Tue 10/03/2009 21:50
> To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
> Subject: [backstage] F1 API
> 
> 
> 
> Formula One fans may be interested in this experimental motor racing data API:
> http://ergast.com/mrd/
> 
> This is a personal project, not a BBC one, but I'm shamelessly plugging it
> here because I'd really value your comments and suggestions.
> 
> The API provides result data from 2000 onwards, circuit geo co-ordinates and
> Wikipedia links for drivers, constructors, circuits, races and seasons.
> 
> The intention is to track the emerging results during the coming season where,
> coincidentally, TV coverage is moving back to the BBC.
> 
> Chris
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