I remember in 1992 when an engineer friend sniffed that Windows (v3)
wasn't a proper operating system, just a DOS application, and DOS was
a pig, and OS/2 was a serious OS.
Bill Gates laughed all the way to the bank.
Sean
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Brian Butterworth
that made Gates rich, not the second.
2010/1/29 Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com
I remember in 1992 when an engineer friend sniffed that Windows (v3)
wasn't a proper operating system, just a DOS application, and DOS was
a pig, and OS/2 was a serious OS.
Bill Gates laughed all the way to the bank
Thanks for this Tim
One thing this story illustrates is that new users react to the
desktop or graphical user interface, not the underlying GNU/Linux
distribution. This concept of alternate desktops is foreign to Windows
and Mac users, since those OSes come with only one desktop.
Gnome and KDE,
All we have to do now
Is take these lies and make them true somehow
All we have to see
Is that I don't belong to you
And you don't belong to me
Freedom
You've gotta give for what you take
Freedom
You've gotta give for what you take
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Nick Reynolds-FMT
/projects/gplv3/europe-gplv3-conference.en.html) and
taped all the sessions, and I can assure you that the basis of the
license is in copyright law. Watch the Eben Moglen vid if you have the
time.
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:27 PM, David Tomlinson
d.tomlin...@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
Sean DALY wrote
Well, Henry III tried to throw out the Magna Carta too, and look where
it got him.
That darned French influence I suppose - Eleanor of Provence and her
cronies at court, no doubt with the first reading of HADOPI.
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:16 PM, David Tomlinson
d.tomlin...@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
Some legal systems, particularly in French-speaking countries, beyond
commercial use do indeed restrict broadcast and print and Internet
journalism use of recognizable images of persons without prior
permission, with fairly well-defined exceptions particularly for the
press. In the case of minors,
So if I understand you, let's abolish copyright, and that way
Microsoft, Adobe et.al. can just chuck their bloated old code and
incorporate formerly free software into their binaries? And charge an
arm and a leg for it as well.
No thanks. I prefer the GPL, which derives its power from copyright
I agree technical schemes and disproportionate legal threats are
inefficient ways to combat illicit copying, and work should be done to
make copying licit.
However, the rights holders are not bad guys in the scenario, they
represent (for better or worse) people making a living through
creation.
more worried
about newspapers.
Sean.
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Mo McRoberts m...@nevali.net wrote:
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:04, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote:
How can they be compensated fairly for their work? A watermarking
scheme which counts downloads or views, and apportions
David, I'm curious, what's your basis for asserting that FLOSS is
incompatible with DRM? Sun's Open Media Commons project is designed to
allow media playback restriction. OpenIPMP
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/openipmp/) is not an active project
AFAIK, but it is Mozilla MPL.
Of course, one
though.
Sean
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Scot McSweeney-Roberts
bbc_backst...@mcsweeney-roberts.co.uk wrote:
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 15:00, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote:
David, I'm curious, what's your basis for asserting that FLOSS is
incompatible with DRM? Sun's Open Media Commons
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
Ogg Theora is an excellent choice because it is not patent-encumbered
and has good metadata support (even if search engines and local
indexers like Spotlight neglect that metadata for now).
However, the Ogg container could just as well contain Dirac and in my
view the BBC is missing a major
I clearly remember having seen an ad (ThinkGeek perhaps?) for a tripod
mount with three large (2 or 3 inch) suction cups, designed for
speedboats (!), claimed to be ideal for curved slick surfaces and to
grip even better in wetter conditions.
If I manage to find it I'll post a link :-)
Sean
On
Google is my friend :-)
http://www.stickypod.com/
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote:
I clearly remember having seen an ad (ThinkGeek perhaps?) for a tripod
mount with three large (2 or 3 inch) suction cups, designed for
speedboats (!), claimed to be ideal
http://vimeo.com/4359127
Very alert commentary by the Guardian's editor-in-chief.
On inverting the journalistic model:
Commentators are not the future... the expertise lies outside the
newspaper; on so many subjects, they actually know more than we do
serious journalism is not sustainable in
A key characteristic of a newspaper is that you can fold it up.
Foldable or rollable screens may yet arrive in the next few years, I
vaguely recall Samsung and Sony showing proof-of-concept and
prototypes the last year.
The Touch Book by Always Innovating is creating buzz, you leave the
keyboard
was a contender). I have a Zoltan Zowii
USB Ethernet adaptor
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/2233561457/), works great
it's supposed to be Wii-compatible too.
Sean
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote:
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Sean DALY sdaly
right, an hour's autonomy per 10
minutes of cranking. But it has only been deployed in Peru I think.
Sean
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Steve Jolly st...@jollys.org wrote:
Sean DALY wrote:
I have two XO-1s from the previous G1G1s and a third I picked up on
eBay. It's rather magical the way
I would venture to add it's even worse for print journalists, who
generally speaking in the past had a stressful day to make deadline
then time off was time off.
Nowadays, print journalists covering a beat are often expected to file
online from wherever they are if there is breaking news in their
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/
I was fascinated by this piece.
Example: Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.
I waited for him to cite the example of the BBC as a model that could
survive the Internet revolution... but he
gratifying (they are associated with high quality media) and frustrating
(PBS/NPR content can often be seen as too worthy or righteous, and
equating the two doesn't convey the sheer scale and scope of the BBC)
Brendan.
Sean DALY wrote:
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers
I listened to a discussion on the World Service radio The World Today
programme yesterday morning, and I was disturbed at the sloppy
reporting: although botnet machines are exclusively running Windows
because of the poor Microsoft security model, this was not mentioned.
In fact, OSX was cited as
Thanks for that Nick
I should mention that the Click presenter interviewed on The World
Today did say that following the test in which spam was sent to the
BBC's addresses, the owners of the compromised Windows PCs would be
informed. Presumably by a mail not marked as spam ;-)
Journalists will
I, too, stand corrected. Thanks Gordon.
It's interesting that some of the most evil stuff I have dealt with,
and this example too, comes from an unusual vector.
I managed to avoid the Sony BMG rootkit since I don't listen to music
on my old PC (that Amerie disc is still on my shelf waiting to
I have to disagree. Although describing all systems as potentially
vulnerable is factually correct, it's not informative in the context
of massive botnets. It's the difference between discussing a rare
contagious disease and a flu epidemic. Although the precautions to
take in both cases will be
back in the day, before a recording session we would degauss the reels
with a magic wand degausser, on the understanding that doing so to a
master tape would mean a fate worse than death.
I still have a little one somewhere which I would use on quarter-inch
reels, I wonder if that would work on a
Having experienced the music business in the 1980s as a musician,
audio engineer, record producer, occasional DJ concert promoter,
record pressing plant sales marketing rep, and staff worker for a
PolyGram label, allow me to paraphrase O. Henry:
...As I said before, I dreamed that I was
For the past two years, the Ile-de-France region which includes Paris
has distributed 200,000 USB keys with free open source software to
students of 450 secondary schools each September.
The gcompris project (= j'ai compris = I understood) for young
students is available for all platforms in over
They could wrap Dirac in an Ogg container, that would be cheaper.
The Ogg Vorbis pilot was done years ago, when there was no non-IE
browser with more than 3% market share.
Adobe quietly added support for Speex in Flash 10. I have no doubt
both Adobe and Mozilla would support Dirac if asked to by
Yes, likely in 2010
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Ian Deeley ian.dee...@gmail.com wrote:
Aside from the fact Windows 7 supports H.264 and AAC
Sent from my iPhone
On 13 Jan 2009, at 22:31, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote:
Digital Restrictions Management is a dead end. Consumers
Digital Restrictions Management is a dead end. Consumers don't want
it. Hollywood's head-in-sandism on this is beyond pitiful.
DECE is chaired by the very exec who imposed the Sony BMG hidden
Windows rootkit on the Amerie record on my shelf, and which
fortunately for me was not interoperable with
It is said (
http://blogs.msdn.com/ukgovernment/archive/2008/12/17/windows-for-submarinestm.aspx
also
http://www.surreycomet.co.uk/news/topstories/3982380.Submarine_job_wrapped_up_in_time_for_Christmas/
) that
The [Microsoft Windows] system, which has been installed on all seven
Trafalgar class
Could you please explain foot-candles?
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Brian Butterworth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A little nerdy Friday amusement...
I saw an article about Mystery of dolphins' speed solved on BBC News.
There was a small error - the measure of force was quoted in kilograms.
Aleem, are you aware of the difficulties the BBC has encountered in
the iPlayer project after choosing Microsoft DRM to satisfy content
rights owners?
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Aleem B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BBC is a public service so the issues don't really translate to
Aleem - The answer is yes, the question is so confounding that a quick
response won't suffice. Take a look at the backstage list archive, you
will drink deeply from that fountain.
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Aleem B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Aleem, are you aware of the difficulties the
Indeed I had been under the impression there was progress when Ashley
Highfield told me last November that long-term, DRM should be open
source or better yet, work should be done with rights holders to do
away with DRM.
In my conversations with people from PACT I got the distinct
impression that
Well, licensing refers to law, which governs the legal system, which
is still mostly effective in protecting privacy, determining
ownership, setting wrongs right, etc.
I'm not at all sure I would want a unique identifier, even biometric,
on any of my documents in this age of Google (which as far
May I recommend ffmpeg2theora?
for example:
./ffmpeg2theora rawfootage.dv -x 352 -y 288 -v 2 -S 0 -K 128 -c 1 -H
32000 –artist 'Dave Crossland' –title 'Free as in Profit' -date
'September 16, 2008' –location 'Manchester Digital Development Agency
(MDDA)' –organization 'Manchester Free Software
Adobe AIR for Linux beta
http://blogs.adobe.com/ashutosh/2008/09/adobe_air_for_linux_beta_is_ou_1.html
no DRM support :-)
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Frances Berriman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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I use Google News often and this happens all the time.
PR Newswire is particularly vulnerable, as they don't add the year to
their datelines. Here's one in the top ten search results for two big
companies:
http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=126607
No year! Note that the copyright
http://www.google.com/chrome
The URL is live, but the download link seems to refer back to the homepage...
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Christopher Woods
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chrome is using Webkit, so assuming you already count Safari
as one of your three (*) existing major browsers,
They have also placed the link on their main homepage...
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Sean DALY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.google.com/chrome
The URL is live, but the download link seems to refer back to the homepage...
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Christopher Woods
[EMAIL
http://blog.chromium.org/2008/09/welcome-to-chromium_02.html
In this first blog post Ben Goodger mentions that the code is released
under a BSD-style licence.
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Graeme Mulvaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's pretty spiffy - very fast compared to IE7 on Vista.
I
, I've just read your mail in
Gmail, in Chrome!First
impressions are that the new JavaScript engine V8 is very
quick indeed.
Chris
2008/9/2 Sean DALY [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.google.com/chrome
The URL is live, but the download link seems to refer
back to the
homepage
Google starting from scratch with its own browser, Chrome
Posted by Rafe Needleman
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10029914-2.html
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not seen anyone post about this yet: (Google Browser)
I'm not sure I understand why one should have more freedom to twist
Mr. Stallman's words than the protection under copyright to reuse and
change traditional BBC articles.
Mr. Stallman can be demanding (I have interviewed him twice, a
daunting experience) but I think his message is very important.
I have a first-generation one, and when it works, it tells us the
local weather at breakfast time and blinks meaningfully (e.g.
consecutive blue dots=rain AND wind).
I say when it works, because their server reliability is awful, even
for the clock which is often off the hour or is not announced
And an arrogant three legged donkey with one eye playing the piano
while wearing shades?
A hoity toity honky tonky plinky plonky winky wonky.
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Not even, I saw a South African perfume advert featuring the Hoity
Toity girl ;-)
http://www.biz-community.com/Article.aspx?c=11l=196ai=5210
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A skeleton walks into a bar.
He says, I'll have a pint... and a mop
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The only problem with sending an entirely plain text email
is when you get into the world of stats.
Well, that's a marketer's problem, and as an end user I don't care, I
want information in a way I can use it. For the past eight years, the
FNAC in France has cheerfully sent me a fat rich HTML
http://www.index.hr/vijesti/clanak/hrtova-nova-web-stranica-besramni-plagijat-bbccouk/386887.aspx
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/05/15/croation-state-broadcaster
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So Verisign is spinning off Kontiki?
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The classic Beanbags BT ad which my kids had me play every night for a week
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Tim, what disturbs people about a former MS executive in that position
is that Microsoft's interests are not at all aligned with the
interests of a public broadcaster. Microsoft wants video format
lockin, which is why to this day Windows Media Player has no support
for MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 and AAC
It's possible there are Microsoft employees who could switch hats and
support open standards - John Sullivan of Microsoft Research who
headed the AVC standardisation effort wouldn't have any credibility
problems. As it happens, Mr. Hugger's former job included blocking
open standards; it's merely
Michael, that's easy: I would judge you on your actions. For my part,
many (that would be MANY) moons ago I was a journalist for a Windows
magazine and later, purchased over a quarter of a million dollars in
Microsoft licences; in both ways I helped build their monopolies. I
can't even say I
Yes Nick, that reminded me of Toyota aiming for zero emissions,
wonder if they'll hit it this year (joke).
DRM on Mac means Fairplay, so the announcement really should be no
download support for GNU/Linux actually planned or possible since our
proprietary software DRM partners make mutually
Dan, I take your point. It's the worst sort of technical issue, the
kind that can only be solved by non-engineers. It's also of little
interest to most developers, a mere nuisance, except for those obliged
to code for it or silly enough to not use Windows. Sean.
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I knew a filmmaker who handed out a card with the title Grand Pooh-Bah.
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I had some background discussions with PACT while preparing my
interview with Ashley and what I learned (unsurprisingly) is that
rights holders want to be compensated; the actual method is up for
discussion. They hear that DRM doesn't work or is ineffective, but
they don't see an alternative.
And here's another:
http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=301421
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The --limit-rate parameter of curl is often used to simulate low or
variable bandwidth, e.g.:
curl --limit-rate 128 URL
On the subject of DRM, Adobe has just announced their DRM server availability:
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200803/031908FMRMS.html
Bizarrely, the
But the BS about the biggest market first is... well, true. You must
serve your biggest audience first, but that's not at the exclusion of
others.
The point is that the biggest market, PCs running Windows, is captive
to a monopolist which chooses not to support open standards such as
MPEG-4
Well, H.264/AAC is great for preventing technically challenged Windows
users from avoiding DRM, since it is used by everybody worldwide with
one exception... Microsoft Media Player. Well, WMP supports MPEG-1,
that's already something.
H.264/AAC *is* supported in the Xbox, which has a magnetic
One could speculate that the BBC definition of platform agnostic is
time-bombed DRM for every platform in the UK, the universe
elsewhere, on a platform-by-platform basis, starting with Windows,
then Apple, then...
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 13/03/2008,
after all, that's why
I'm still trying to find out more (see below) :-/
Thanks though
Dan
On 11/03/2008 15:07, Sean DALY was seen to type:
Dan - have you tried Stuart Caie's cabextract?
I have used it on OSX to extract a single file from a .CAB package.
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008
Dan - have you tried Stuart Caie's cabextract?
I have used it on OSX to extract a single file from a .CAB package.
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Dogsbody [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All,
I'm still trying for find out more (you know when you get a challenge
but just can't leave it
My mother hates unnecessary technical complications (she finds
computers and gadgets are complicated enough as it is) and DRM falls
right into that category :-)
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Andy Halsall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Till then, I would suggest you don't do anything your mother
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Sean DALY
Sent: Fri 07/03/2008 5:15 PM
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: Re: [backstage] Undermining iPlayer DRM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/03/bbc_iplayer_on_iphone_behind_t.html
My secret source :-)
I wanted to comment
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/03/bbc_iplayer_on_iphone_behind_t.html
My secret source :-)
I wanted to comment, but I got an http 502, there seems to be a problem.
Sean
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Phil Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With ideas like this being touted by
I agree that accessibility is below the radar of most developers. Less
important topics are too, such as color management (modern browsers
interpret ICC color profiles).
In my experience, what's effective is to videotape the conference and
publish the video and audio recordings with transcripts,
http://www.news.com/Coming-soon-Movies-on-flash-memory-cards/2100-11398_3-6232651.html?tag=nefd.lede
http://www.portomedia.com/
As I understand it, their idea is that you buy their proprietary
USB-based key, walk over to their kiosk, select and download a film in
under a minute, bring it home,
I had the honor and privilege of meeting Vint Cerf in Geneva last week
and although he didn't have time for an audio interview, he very
graciously agreed to answer my questions by e-mail:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080303140032154
Sean.
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http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200704/041607AMP.html
snip
For content publishers, Adobe Media Player enables better ways to
deliver, monetize, brand, track and protect video content. It provides
an array of video delivery options for high-quality online and offline
Or reuse -- think of DAT, which the music industry succeeded in
killing as a consumer format in the late 80s and was relegated to
recording studios, but which got a new lease on life as a SCSI data
backup format.
The original CD-Audio Red Book gave rise to the CD-ROM XA Yellow Book
after all
Concerning physical records, I feel the same way. I buy few items
online, not only because of the silly DRM, but because managing
storage and backups is a headache.
I concur with Richard's comments that consumers are just putting it
all on computers, but every consumer I know has difficulty
I came across this recently but have not tested it:
Flumotion Cortado by Fluendo, streaming applet for Ogg formats
http://www.flumotion.net/cortado/
http://stream.fluendo.com/en/textos.php?id=8
On the client side, it's a java applet which can be embedded into a page.
On the server side, Ogg
The deck makers don't mind giving you control, but the disc sellers
do. That spam bit of FBI warning (means a lot in France) is Hollywood,
terrified that they will suffer by not offering consumers what they
want (cf.: the music industry). In both cases the basic model has been
to upgrade physical
I found the Miro announcement so interesting, I decided to interview
Nicholas Reville about it:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080207173143823
Sean
On Feb 5, 2008 3:20 PM, Sean DALY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, very interesting. The Miro folk have experience cobbling together
mob: +44 (0)7711913293
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Now here's an idea: branded, platform-neutral clients
Now here's an idea: branded, platform-neutral clients...
http://www.getmiro.com/blog/?p=363
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press communication, this is one
of those quiet events which could have enormous impact.
Sean
On Jan 24, 2008 11:39 PM, Steve Jolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sean DALY wrote:
I think this is fabulous news. Congratulations to all who worked on it.
A patent-unencumbered (say that 10x fast
I believe icecast would be a better FOSS candidate for a multicast
on-demand streaming server than VLC.
But really, any discussion of streaming must needs associate the file
format container and codec and client-side application (browser
plug-in, dedicated, ...). And on a large scale, the
on it.
The issue of open standards is of course perfectly valid. RealNetworks
for example has had great streaming for years but I believe their
protocols are entirely proprietary.
Sean
On Jan 24, 2008 11:42 AM, Sean DALY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I believe icecast would be a better FOSS
I think this is fabulous news. Congratulations to all who worked on it.
A patent-unencumbered (say that 10x fast) royalty-free codec is
something the world needs.
So what if Microsoft doesn't support it, they don't support H.264 or
AAC either (XBox Zune aside) and look where that got iTunes.
As I've said previously, transcribing is a long, tedious and generally
thankless task, yet is so well worth it -- often years down the road,
when you can easily find what was said with just a remembered keyword
or phrase.
It's true that one would always like to have expressed oneself better,
but
I stand corrected. Concerning Corporation X, I should have said
without attribution and without source code.
Sean
On Jan 19, 2008 2:22 PM, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 19/01/2008, Sean DALY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, it's public domain then, which is fine
The public
any indication of where to find it.
Sean
On Jan 20, 2008 10:35 PM, Michael Sparks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 20 January 2008 17:01:43 Sean DALY wrote:
A longstanding rumor, for which I have no proof, is that parts of
Microsoft's network code was simply copied from BSD code, which
Well, it's public domain then, which is fine as long as you don't
mind Corporation X incorporating and selling your code.
Often, a simple copyright notice saying this notice must accompany
all subsequent versions of this code is better than nothing.
Sean
On Jan 19, 2008 12:46 AM, Iain
Nick - I often use xmlstarlet to wade through unfamiliar XML files, like so:
first, the structure
$ xml el -u b008s14v.xml
iplayerMedia
iplayerMedia/concept
iplayerMedia/concept/longSynopsis
iplayerMedia/concept/masterbrand
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I saw the BBC press release go up an hour ago:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/01_january/17/gulik.shtml
On Jan 17, 2008 5:15 PM, Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's only mid-Jan, but I bet the below is the best news about the BBC I will
hear this year.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/technology/ is showing 403 Forbidden.
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With or without slash, the redirect is OK for me on Firefox v2.0.0.11,
Safari v1.32, Opera v9.25 on Mac, and Firefox v2.0.0.11, IE v6 on PC
XP.
On Jan 9, 2008 2:57 PM, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 09/01/2008, Michael Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It simply because
here's what curl (v7.14 on Darwin) has to say, with and without the
trailing slash:
$ curl http://www.bbc.co.uk/technology --dump-header bbc-co-uk.technology.txt
!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN
htmlhead
title301 Moved Permanently/title
/headbody
h1Moved Permanently/h1
pThe
If the HTML is fairly standardized (I see that the datestamp is both
in the metatags and in the body), it's even easier to add or change
the presentation of datestamps, just a text operation which I'd take
over a fancy CMS any day of the week. Static pages can be great for
performance,
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