RE: [backstage] [Fwd: [ORG-discuss] The Guardian drops Office has gone OpenOffice]

The only thing the Telegraph guys told me as a downside was that printing can be a pain when you are in the cloud... Like with the credit crunch, as we look back with scorn on our stupidity at putting so much money into foreign banks who have other priorities when the crunch comes, maybe the sa

Re: [backstage] BeeBuntu was [Fwd: [ORG-discuss] The Guardian drops Office has gone OpenOffice]

> From the GeexBox installation instructions on making a DVB card work: > > wget http://www.linuxtv.org/download/dvb/linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.0.tar.bz2 > tar jxvf linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.0.tar.bz2 > cd linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.0/util/scan > make > ./scan -x 0 dvb-s/Astra-19.2E > channels.conf Thanks for tha

RE: [backstage] BeeBuntu was [Fwd: [ORG-discuss] The Guardian drops Office has gone OpenOffice]

Oh by the way guys it would be really good to write this all up as a idea on... ideas.welcomebackstage.com, then we can gage what other people think of the idea. Cheers, Ian Forrester This e-mail is: [x] private; [] ask first; [] bloggable Senior Producer, BBC Backstage Room 1044, BBC Manch

[backstage] Social Innovation Camp Scotland 2009

Social Innovation Camp June 2009 call for ideas has opened! We’re looking for the best ideas for web-based tools that can change stuff that matters . Over one weekend at the Saltire Centre, Glasgow we’re bringing together some of the b

Re: [backstage] BeeBuntu was [Fwd: [ORG-discuss] The Guardian drops Office has gone OpenOffice]

Quoting Kevin Anderson : Ant, I have tried just about all of DTV players and HTPC packages for Linux - Kaffeine, MeTV, Myth (so much pain for not so much payoff), Freevo, GeexBox, VDR and the list goes on. I actually end up using VLC most of the time because it's so lightweight. The first chall

RE: [backstage] BeeBuntu was [Fwd: [ORG-discuss] The Guardian drops Office has gone OpenOffice]

Wonders what ever happened to http://wiki.ubuntuhomeserver.org/ too Ian Forrester This e-mail is: [x] private; [] ask first; [] bloggable Senior Producer, BBC Backstage Room 1044, BBC Manchester BH, Oxford Road, M60 1SJ email: ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk work: +

Re: [backstage] BeeBuntu was [Fwd: [ORG-discuss] The Guardian drops Office has gone OpenOffice]

The one nice thing about DTV recording is that you get a nice, DRM free mpg at full resolution, which you don't really get with IP pre-recorded. There is a nice comskip app that automates cutting out ad breaks, but again, that only runs on Windows. Makes no sense really. Ubuntu has created a Myth

RE: [backstage] Another week, another launch - OpenLab

I can insure you that the site isn't run by me or backstage. Instead it has a small team behind it, bigger that Backstage :) Cheers, Ian Forrester This e-mail is: [x] private; [] ask first; [] bloggable Senior Producer, BBC Backstage Room 1044, BBC Manchester BH, Oxford Road, M60 1SJ email: ia

RE: [backstage] BeeBuntu was [Fwd: [ORG-discuss] The Guardian drops Office has gone OpenOffice]

"There is a lot of focus on media centre apps like Boxee, XMBC and Elisa, but there is a gaping hole when it comes to a good DTV app. What do I mean by good?" See for the longest time I did away with the idea of a DTV app, I get everything over IP pre-recorded. But I know that doesn't work fo

Re: [backstage] BeeBuntu was [Fwd: [ORG-discuss] The Guardian drops Office has gone OpenOffice]

Ant, I have tried just about all of DTV players and HTPC packages for Linux - Kaffeine, MeTV, Myth (so much pain for not so much payoff), Freevo, GeexBox, VDR and the list goes on. I actually end up using VLC most of the time because it's so lightweight. The first challenge would be to find (or de

Re: [backstage] [Fwd: [ORG-discuss] The Guardian drops Office has gone OpenOffice]

For me one of the interesting things is the upside that at a stroke you circumvent all of the IT security headache for remote workers - they can access their documents from anywhere there is a web connection and you let Google handle the security. On the downside, you let Google handle the security