[backstage] iPad iplayer app issue

Hullo! Sorry if this is not the right place for this, I have mailed mobileapps@, but thought other clever people here might have some suggestions/experience to share. Over the last few weeks I've been having right trouble with the iPad iplayer app on a 1st gen iPad. I'm on 30Mb/s Virgin

Re: [backstage] Move to Mailman

On 4 March 2010 11:09, Nick Reynolds-FMT nick.reyno...@bbc.co.uk wrote: Surely all these things could be possible on the BBC if we set it up right... Why bodge a webboard to do things that a mailing list does already and does well. Every time I've seen a community move from a mailing list to a

Re: [backstage] Move to Mailman

On 4 March 2010 11:41, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: Every time I've seen a community move from a mailing list to a webboard two things happen:- I can't count. Cheers, Al. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk

Re: [backstage] Is this BBC Homeplug product legal?

2009/12/15 Simon Thompson simon.thomp...@rd.bbc.co.uk: Also, it's very easy to demodulate the Ethernet traffic radiated from your house wiring from one of these systems - it's not very secure! Mitigated by the use of 128bit AES encryption (in the ones I have anyway). Cheers, Al. - Sent via

Re: [backstage] Is this BBC Homeplug product legal?

2009/12/14 Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv: As someone who has been responsible for installation of enough cat5 to Why would you want to use a HomePlug? Because it's easier than flood wiring the whole house.  People used to have landline phones upstairs, and everyone was happy

Re: [backstage] very simple re-imaging of a ubuntu build from a USB stick for schools

2009/8/7 Phil Lewis backst...@linuxcentre.net: Any ideas/solutions welcome... This is quite well documented.. https://help.ubuntu.com/9.04/installation-guide/i386/appendix-preseed.html Cheers, Al. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit

Re: [backstage] very simple re-imaging of a ubuntu build from a USB stick for schools

Hi Phil, 2009/8/7 Phil Lewis backst...@linuxcentre.net Thnaks - I'll look into this further, but I think this and Alan's suggestion both require installation scripting of any customisations. Neither solutions allow you to image an actual hard disk image and restore it with ease. Ah, in

Re: [backstage] Ogg Theora/Vorbis and HTML5

2009/6/18 Steve Carpenter steven.carpen...@warwick.ac.uk: They released the specs earlier this week. :) http://www.adobe.com/devnet/rtmp/ Is this going to make the Adobe hounds less DMCA trigger happy against tools such as rtmpdump ? Cheers, Al. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion

[backstage] gruniad website, was a typical Google search on a desktop computer produces about 7g (0.25oz) of carbon dioxide

2009/1/13 Anthony McKale anthony.mck...@bbc.co.uk: Wee question on a related topic, does the guardian website max out anyone else's cpu ? Apparently it's probably the javascript ticker thing. I've been asked by a friend who works for Gruniad to throw this link your way.

Re: [backstage] Is DRM on its last throes at last?

2009/1/12 Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk: Actually I do wonder if the itunes store going non-DRM will finally be enough to convince copyright owners that releasing content under a licence but with no DRM is a good thing for everyone involved? I mean what other popular DRM is there now?

Re: [backstage] Your ideas are now finally welcomed

2008/12/22 Mr I Forrester mail...@cubicgarden.com: Ok so a little while back we kind of launched or announced that we were building out some of the core parts of the backstage site into ideas.welcomebackstage.com (please note the url will change one day soon). You might want to remove the

Re: iPlayer on Linux Re: [backstage] iPlayer caching

2008/12/19 David Greaves da...@dgreaves.com: I run Debian. It's a fairly popular distro, some of you may have heard of it. But iPlayer doesn't appear to work on my system :( I went to http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/ Then I went to the Labs. It says You are signed up for BBC iPlayer Labs.

Re: [backstage] BBC Backstage ideas store

2008/10/28 Mr I Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So idea torrent is brainstorm or brainstorm is the ubuntu name for the same thing. I've not setup the filters yet. The Ubuntu Brainstorm website came about a little over six months ago. It was some code sat on top of drupal cms. Not much of drupal

Re: [backstage] BBC Backstage ideas store

2008/10/28 Mr I Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So I urge you try it out and report back any error or problems you might get. The submit idea link on the left seems broken (whether you are logged in or not) http://ideas.welcomebackstage.com/ideatorrent/user?destination=submit/ In addition if

Re: [backstage] iPhone iPlayer

Given the BBC knows the file sizes of each programme someone downloads, surely it would be trivial for the iplayer people to have a running counter of how much data a visitor has transferred. Then the user could make an informed decision on whether to watch more telly or wait until next month,

Re: [backstage] Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 16:40:58 +0100

On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 04:41:00PM +0100, Ian Forrester wrote: If we ran a competition which required the final prototype to be in Adobe Air, how would people feel about that? There's a run time and SDK for Win, OSx and now gnu/Linux. 32-bit only on Linux unfortunately, so not

Re: [backstage] BBC E-mail: It's not the Gates, it's the bars

On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 12:24:24PM +0100, Gareth Davis wrote: Anyone else find it strange that Richard Stallman feels it is apparently unjust for Microsoft and others to publish software that users are not free to share and modify, but it is ok to publish an article which readers are not free

Re: [backstage] iPlayer DRM is over?

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 05:46:57PM +, Ian Partridge wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Iain Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FTA: In fact, more than most: the vast majority. Something like just one twentieth of one percent have accessed a BBC iPlayer programme via a hack.