Re: [backstage] Freeview HD Content Management

2010-01-23 Thread Steffan Davies
Mo McRoberts m...@nevali.net wrote at 19:35 on 2010-01-22: On 22-Jan-2010, at 18:55, Steffan Davies wrote: Oh, definitely. I wasn't saying that would be a good implementation, just that it might permit appliance makers to comply without having to reinvent the wheel entirely (which

Re: [backstage] Freeview HD Content Management

2010-01-22 Thread Steffan Davies
Ian Stirling backstage...@mauve.plus.com wrote at 17:42 on 2010-01-22: a) ignore the licensing terms of the open source DVB stacks; b) reverse-engineer the decoding tables; c) obtain the tables from the BBC but breach the non-disclosure terms; or d) release a box which doesn't support FVHD

Re: [backstage] Freeview HD Content Management

2010-01-22 Thread Steffan Davies
Mo McRoberts m...@nevali.net wrote at 18:15 on 2010-01-22: There’s also a secondary concern here, in that the terms under which the blob is distributed do not just pertain to what you do to the blob itself, but what you let the user do to both your device (i.e., no modifications) and to the

Re: [backstage] [Fwd: [ubuntu-uk] bbc listen again anomaly]

2009-05-28 Thread Steffan Davies
Andy stude.l...@googlemail.com wrote at 17:43 on 2009-05-28: 2009/5/28 Andy stude.l...@googlemail.com: FF claims it know about Real Player as a plugin, however I don't have 'hxplay' or 'realplay' in the system path. Is the BBC player looking for the specific binaries instead of a plugin?

Re: [backstage] Make the primary operating system used in state schools free and open source

2009-02-11 Thread Steffan Davies
Matt Barber m...@progressive.org.uk wrote at 13:10 on 2009-02-11: What about all the jobs that people have when they develop software that is paid for and licensed? If the switch to free software were to suddenly happen, would these people find themselves out of work? This isn't a stab at

Re: [backstage] If you had a ton of content to freely distribute

2009-01-20 Thread Steffan Davies
Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com wrote at 16:50 on 2009-01-20: 2009/1/20 Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk: The reason why we would like to Tar the files together is because of things like subtitles, artwork, cuts of music, other metadata pieces, etc. We're not just talking a collection

Re: [backstage] erik huggers on open standards

2008-08-13 Thread Steffan Davies
Tim Dobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote at 17:28 on 2008-08-13: Simon Thompson wrote: Tim Dobson wrote: that's the A-View, the AW-300 and the AW-150 subnotebooks All of which use Aday super486 CPUs. So these will be x86 compatible Eek. My lack of knowledge relating to CPU architecture and

Re: [backstage] Google launches second life killer?

2008-07-10 Thread Steffan Davies
Peter Bowyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote at 16:47 on 2008-07-10: 2008/7/10 Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://www.lively.com/html/landing.html I got to say this came out of the blue for me... It's Windows-only. Not that I think that's inherently bad (I'm sure someone will come along

Re: [backstage] My Very Basic Prototype - News Algorithmic Sorter

2008-06-24 Thread Steffan Davies
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote at 08:22 on 2008-06-24: BBC News Algorithmic Sorter an attempt to try and work out what the British public are finding important. The main BBC News website offers a glimpse of what’s popular, but as with all things that’s limited to the audience of

Re: [backstage] proxy support in BBC iplayer download client

2008-06-06 Thread Steffan Davies
Graham Donaldson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote at 10:47 on 2008-06-06: Matt Barber wrote: Can't you send all traffic through port 80/443 anyway, using the proxy transparently to filter traffic. You could then allow the Kontiki traffic in the proxy ruleset? The proxies don't operate in

Re: [backstage] proxy support in BBC iplayer download client

2008-06-06 Thread Steffan Davies
Graham Donaldson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote at 11:37 on 2008-06-06: That's not my impression last time I looked at transparent proxying. The guides for setting up transparent proxies I have seen involve using SQUID in a reverse proxy mode, and then using say iptables to redirect the traffic

Re: [backstage] proxy support in BBC iplayer download client

2008-06-06 Thread Steffan Davies
Graham Donaldson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote at 15:44 on 2008-06-06: Steffan Davies wrote: Graham Donaldson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote at 11:37 on 2008-06-06: I've just tested it out - for recent versions all you need to do is add the transparent keyword to squid's config. Other than that it's