Re: [backstage] iFiddlingDetails

2007-07-04 Thread Richard Smedley
and Java support, the Neo1973 from FIC should be available in the UK at about the same time as Apple's effort :-) - Richard -- Richard Smedley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technical Director, www.M6-IT.org M6-IT CIC

Re: [backstage] iFiddlingDetails

2007-07-04 Thread Richard Smedley
it. Providing intuitive, interactive feedback is *good* design, great business sense and extremely good manners. :-) (As is writing code that degrades gracefully.) Cheers, - Richard -- Richard Smedley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technical Director

[backstage] OpenMoko -- was: Re: iFiddlingDetails

2007-07-04 Thread Richard Smedley
On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 22:53 +0100, Frank Wales wrote: I'll be intrigued to see what the iPhone turns into by the time it lands on these shores, and indeed whether or not the Linux phone from FIC actually gains more traction that the rest of the promising-but-discontinued Linux-based handhelds

[backstage] Kreta -- was: Re: Introducing Chipwrapper search for UK newspapers

2007-09-02 Thread Richard Smedley
On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 00:50 +0300, Martin Belam wrote: Yeah, mostly Pipes to process the RSS feeds, and the Google Custom Search Engine. There's also some very crude Perl of my own to add Newspaper: Some newspaper headline into the RSS before it gets passed to Feedburner, and to make the

Re: [backstage] iPhone Apple opens up iPhone to app developers

2007-10-18 Thread Richard Smedley
autograph (on a cheque that you will most likely frame [1]). - Richard [1] http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/abcde.html -- Richard Smedley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technical Director, www.M6-IT.org M6-IT CIC

Re: [backstage] Use of Tinyurl in Emails

2007-11-06 Thread Richard Smedley
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 08:45 +, Peter Bowyer wrote: However that's not always the case. Turnham Green is actually a hell of a lot closer to Chiswick Park tube station, than Turnham Green tube station. ... and if you get a 27 bus to Turnham Green, it stops at the real Turnham Green,

Re: [backstage] What would you do? (Was: BBC tech chief: You Freetards don't matter)

2007-11-07 Thread Richard Smedley
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 11:59 +, Brian Butterworth wrote: Various parts of its non-DRM on demand radio proposals (book readings, classical music) failed the Public Value Test due to the BBC Trust's fears over the negative market impact of non-DRM

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-27 Thread Richard Smedley
On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 08:52 +, Michael Sparks wrote: I'd assumed that people would understand the concept of analogy and meme. A generation brought up on Reithian values would, but now it's all East Enders, and other reality shows :^/ - Richard - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk

Re: [backstage] Classical music joins the DRM-free trend

2007-12-04 Thread Richard Smedley
a podcast: http://www.gramophone.co.uk/podcast.asp Me - I'll stick to live music, shellac, and vinyl :^) - Richard -- Richard Smedley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technical Director, www.M6-IT.org M6-IT CIC

RE: [backstage] HD-DVD / Blu Ray

2008-02-24 Thread Richard Smedley
On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 18:00 +, Christopher Woods wrote: I buy probably one or two CDs a year, if that, but I buy a barrowload of vinyl every year. I'm a bit odd though. ;) Maybe - I get more vinyl every month, but I haven't bought a CD for ages. SACDs are tempting, sounding far better than

RE: [backstage] HD-DVD / Blu Ray

2008-02-24 Thread Richard Smedley
On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 23:39 +, Christopher Woods wrote: Maybe - I get more vinyl every month, but I haven't bought a CD for ages. SACDs are tempting, sounding far better than CDs, but there are few new releases, so rather than buying a player this year, I think I'll invest in a

Re: [backstage] Business Reasons To Support Gnash

2008-03-05 Thread Richard Smedley
On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 15:55 +, Jason Cartwright wrote: Pretty much all display advertising on the web is done in Flash (where rather a lot of money is spent, apparently) Yes, I'd noticed other people's computers seemed to carry umpteen more ads than mine on most websites

Re: [backstage] iPlayer DRM is over?

2008-03-24 Thread Richard Smedley
On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 22:11 +, Tim Dobson wrote: Michael wrote: I thought it was utter tripe myself. Tried so hard it was unfunny. But then humour is incredibly subjective. What mainstream tv with a tech edge, do you find funny? I think HHGTTG was the last, wasn't it? - Richard

Re: [backstage] iPlayer DRM is over?

2008-03-24 Thread Richard Smedley
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 00:03 +, Fearghas McKay wrote: On 24 Mar 2008, at 23:07, Richard Smedley wrote: I think HHGTTG was the last, wasn't it? Nope that was Radio :-) :-) Well I didn't find the TV as amusing, but then maybe I am being a tad old crusty ;-) Well, if we're speaking

Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer, loved by millions, disliked by a single US citizen

2008-05-06 Thread Richard Smedley
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 19:39 +0100, Richard Lockwood wrote: If I go to Morrisons this evening to buy four bottles of Timothy Taylor Landlord (other supermarkets and beers are available), do they ask me at the checkout how much I

Re: [backstage] List admin

2008-06-16 Thread Richard Smedley
On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 09:58 +0100, Morris, Nat wrote: Is someone able to get [EMAIL PROTECTED] taken off the list to stop their autoresponder bot flooding the list? Its replying to every post and itself! I thought the reply-to-itself really made this one special ;o) I wonder how many other

RE: [backstage] Make the primary OS used in state schools FOSS

2009-02-09 Thread Richard Smedley
. So think local. How many schols are there within 40 miles of you? - Richard -- Richard Smedley, r...@m6-it.org Technical Director, www.M6-IT.org M6-IT CIC+44 (0)779 456 07 14

Re: [backstage] Make the primary OS used in state schools FOSS

2009-02-09 Thread Richard Smedley
On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 19:15 +, Dave Crossland wrote: 2009/2/9 Richard Smedley r...@m6-it.org: curriculum areas - this can easily be delivered through 500 - 600 web apps. The whole curriculum. A small investment from government (less than 1% of the UK's annual school IT spend) would get

RE: [backstage] Make the primary OS used in state schools FOSS

2009-02-10 Thread Richard Smedley
On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 23:15 +, Christopher Woods wrote: different in its model, aiming itself as it does as a social enterprise for the voluntary and educational sectors. How many schools do you serve in your locality? (just curious...) Your model obviously works exceptionally well for

RE: [backstage] Make the primary OS used in state schools FOSS

2009-02-10 Thread Richard Smedley
A postscript: Anyone interested in helping to improve the IT situation in schools (through FOSS) may be interested in membership of Schoolforge-UK. http://groups.google.com/group/sf-uk-discuss/about The website contains many case studies, and the (low traffic) mailing list a number of

Re: [backstage] Fwd: [Autonomo.us] Skype, out?

2009-08-05 Thread Richard Smedley
Alex Mace wrote: I compressed the run time on my toaster and now it won't shut up about grilled bread products. Lister Waffles, anyone? - Richard - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit

Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer - encoding from broadcast rather than master tapes

2009-09-10 Thread Richard Smedley
Gareth Davis wrote: Frankie, I can't speak for the domestic BBC, but no online World Service content is transcoded from broadcast transport streams. All our radio comes straight out of the audio router at Bush House into our encoders, with a touch of limiting applied to prevent clipping if an

Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer - encoding from broadcast rather than master tapes

2009-09-10 Thread Richard Smedley
Phil Lewis wrote: If you ever watch the iPhone iPlayer streams they are not the same edits as the flash based iPlayer, they always appear to be from broadcast - Ah - that explains it. I use get_iplayer, which grabs the iPhone offerings :) you sometimes even get completely the wrong