Re: [SLUG] Re: BBC iPlayer beta

2008-06-30 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/6/30 James Polley [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You have a corp proxy in your DMZ, which allows connections from teh interwebs, and blindly allows people to leech through your corporate connection? Of course not! Don't insult me, please. The proxy is there mostly to cache rpm downloads for our

Re: [SLUG] Re: BBC iPlayer beta

2008-06-30 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/6/30 Peter Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 09:15 +1000, James Purser wrote: No, the BBC actively blocks non UK ip addresses for a lot of stuff. Can the Onion Router Project (http://www.onion-router.net/) be used to avoid this limitation? Can you control which country the

[SLUG] Re: BBC iPlayer beta

2008-06-30 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Ah.. well, such is life... so, is this subject to new Oz internet regulations or something else ? No, the BBC actively blocks non UK ip addresses for a lot of stuff. Hmmm... great eh ? :) Sounds like a legal thing. Which is what the BBC claim anyway. However, a lot of us have noticed

[SLUG] Introductory Linux Classes

2008-06-30 Thread Geoffrey Robertson
Hi Sluggers, There are spare places in the Granville TAFE Introductory Linux classes for next semester. Enrollments are this Wednesday and Thursday at Granville TAFE. We also run a course in web content management systems - particularly Joomla. For details see http://eleceng.org or

[SLUG] xf86drm.h in Hardy

2008-06-30 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, Background; Objective: Get a Matrox G400 working in dual screen mode in Hardy Heron. Status: Works in FC5 with the binary mga_drv.so and mga_hal_drv.so as supplied by Matrox. Matrox no longer support this card so existing binary drivers won't load into the latest OS/Xorg versions.