Re: [backstage] Move to Mailman

2010-03-04 Thread Steff
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... Anything is _possible_. But by the time you've done all that and allowed all the customisation users will want you've taken on a vast and

Re: [backstage] XMBC iPlayer issues?

2010-02-24 Thread Steff
On 24 February 2010 10:34, Glyn Wintle glynwin...@yahoo.com wrote: The streaming servers have enabled SWF Verification, which makes absolutely no sense The Register have also covered this http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/24/iplayer_xbmc_adobe_swf_verification/ Technically easy to beat,

Re: [backstage] iPad

2010-01-27 Thread Steff
2010/1/27 Mo McRoberts m...@nevali.net: So, what does everyone think? (and how much effect will it have on the video situation over the next 18 months or so, do we reckon?) It's just a big iPhone AFAICT*. Popularising the idea that not everything runs Flash might be educate some web

Re: [backstage] For our younger travellers

2009-09-29 Thread Steff Davies
Tim Dobson wrote: It's good that when we get bored of BBC backstage, we can go back to listening to Hannah Montana: the Movie soundtrack. In fact, I wonder if this is a secret BBC project to push HML (http://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net/ ) onto young travellers' desktops... I'm slightly

Re: [backstage] Does anyone know Stephen Fry?

2008-02-05 Thread Steff Davies
Ian Forrester wrote: Ok I'm going to lay it on the line :) He's a geek and we would love to have him on for a future podcast. Hell I don't think he's aware of backstage and he should be. :) So I'm hoping the wealth of the backstage network will put us in touch. Then again, I could just email

Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer bursts through user target

2008-01-18 Thread Steff Davies
Steve Jolly wrote: Graeme Mulvaney wrote: It would be good if you could provide 'bookmarks' into some of the current affairs/magazine style programming - e.g. you could jump to a particular report in 'the culture show' or skip to the sudden death round of 'the weakest link', etc. Segmented

Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer bursts through user target

2008-01-18 Thread Steff Davies
Matthew Somerville wrote: Steff Davies wrote: Has there been a specific reason given for the lack of transport controls as implemented on most other Flash video players I've seen? You can drag the slider underneath the video back and forth as much as you like (the white bar, it gets bigger

Re: [backstage] The next big thing in ipTV

2007-12-07 Thread Steff
Matthew Cashmore wrote: I'm at a conference in LA at the moment about Next Gen technologies and we've just been shown this as the 'Next Big Thing in TV' - I'd be really interested in everyone's thoughts http://pages.tvunetworks.com/index.html I'd love to have some, but since it appears to

Re: [backstage] Re: iPlayer on Vista now?

2007-11-20 Thread Steff
vijay chopra wrote: First I've never heard (or seen written) GNU/OpenSolaris before today, I posted a link to just such a thing a few days ago - http://www.nexenta.org/os which is a very usable OS consisting essentially of the userland of Debian/Ubuntu atop the excellent OpenSolaris

Re: [backstage] iPlayer on Vista now?

2007-11-20 Thread Steff Davies
Stuart Ward wrote: Gary Kirk said the following on 20/11/07 15:14: This [1] seems to suggest I can use iPlayer on Vista, but when I sign in and try to download a programme it still says I need XP, and I only get 2 ticks. Latest? Has anyone managed to install iPlayer on using wine I tried

Re: [backstage] Use of Tinyurl in Emails

2007-11-08 Thread Steff Davies
Andrew Bowden wrote: Sure my employer would love me channeling all my emails through Gmail just so you don't have to sort your quoting out properly ;) Not that Outlook does much better. Outlook-Quotefix* is your friend, if the BBC desktop IT bods will let you install it (they were very

Re: [backstage] Use of Tinyurl in Emails

2007-11-08 Thread Steff Davies
Andrew Bowden wrote: Brian, I have been on online communities for well over 11 years. And I know fully well that netiquette is not a rule or a set of rules. It is generally about being polite and considerate of others. Being polite and considerate anywhere and any time is always a good

Re: [backstage] Use of Tinyurl in Emails

2007-11-08 Thread Steff Davies
Steff Davies wrote: [something intemperate] Sorry - that was intended to be a private mail. I am hoist by own petard of email-pedantry ;-) S - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html

Re: [backstage] Use of Tinyurl in Emails

2007-11-07 Thread Steff
Brian Butterworth wrote: Oh, and your quoting of entire emails takes up a LOT of space and make's it harder to read. Or you can use Gmail and it sorts it all for you. Not on the evidence of that post, it doesn't. I've just had to redo your quoting manually to make this make sense. S -

Re: [backstage] Ashley Highfield speaks again [off topic]

2007-11-07 Thread Steff Davies
Noah Slater wrote: What's a windows platform? Last time I checked, it was an OS. My question was really, how do you run an OS on top of another OS. Or rather, why would you want to. For the heck of it, perhaps? (This post brought to you by Nexenta* running under VMWare Server on Ubuntu