[Scottish] Re: BBC/DRM

2007-02-22 Thread Robert Johnston
Erm, not everything on the BBC is produced in-house, they commission programming from outside production houses too. I think it's a bit of a stretch to suggest we own the BBC and its content - we may fund it, but that doesn't mean we're assigned ownership. I think I was pretty careful to

Re: [Scottish] Re: BBC/DRM

2007-02-22 Thread William Anderson
Robert Johnston wrote: [bbc snippage] Regarding ownership -- yes, we do own the BBC, just as we own the NHS. Who else would own it? This is s off-topic for this list, but ... the BBC owns itself; it's a private company[1] operating under Royal Charter[2]. While it may intend to operate

[Scottish] Talk tonight

2007-02-22 Thread Dan Shearer
Virtualisation: The Latter Days of Steam or, why Xen only solves only one, short-term problem and, virtualisation principles in the different kinds of free software solutions. What We'll Do - Where virtualisation is going, what market forces are driving it, and what free

Re: [Scottish] Talk tonight

2007-02-22 Thread William Anderson
Dan Shearer wrote: Virtualisation: The Latter Days of Steam or, why Xen only solves only one, short-term problem and, virtualisation principles in the different kinds of free software solutions. I'd love to be there but can't make it tonight; sounds like it'll be a great talk! -- _

[Scottish] New software tip for web programmers

2007-02-22 Thread Colin McKinnon
Hi all, A long time ago someone suggested we have a 'my favourite tool' spot at the talks or on email...whatever. If you develop websites and haven't already heard of it, check out firebug (a Firefox extension) - I've ditched my Firefox Web Developer and Tamper Data extensions for it. You can