Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC news site

2008-02-06 Thread Tom Bamford
Seif Attar wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > | BBC, Sky, ITN all suck big time. Try watching Al Jazeera, there's always > | something fairly important or interesting on there, and no > | "entertainment news" (a contradictory term in itself). > I like the jazeera news

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC news site

2008-02-06 Thread Seif Attar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 | BBC, Sky, ITN all suck big time. Try watching Al Jazeera, there's always | something fairly important or interesting on there, and no | "entertainment news" (a contradictory term in itself). I like the jazeera news (I get it from the Sky News packa

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC news site

2008-02-06 Thread Kirrus
- "Tom Bamford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rob Beard wrote: > > Josh Blacker wrote: > >> Rob Beard wrote: > >>> Andy Watts wrote: > >>> > Many thanks guys > > l also found the answer at > http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/nonfree > > lt's up and running now,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC news site

2008-02-06 Thread Tom Bamford
Tom Bamford wrote: > Rob Beard wrote: >> Josh Blacker wrote: >>> Rob Beard wrote: Andy Watts wrote: > Many thanks guys > > l also found the answer at > http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/nonfree > > lt's up and running now, just wish the news wasn't so depressing

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC news site

2008-02-06 Thread Tom Bamford
Rob Beard wrote: > Josh Blacker wrote: >> Rob Beard wrote: >>> Andy Watts wrote: >>> Many thanks guys l also found the answer at http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/nonfree lt's up and running now, just wish the news wasn't so depressing :) >>> What abo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC news site

2008-02-05 Thread Rob Beard
Josh Blacker wrote: > Rob Beard wrote: >> Andy Watts wrote: >> >>> Many thanks guys >>> >>> l also found the answer at >>> http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/nonfree >>> >>> lt's up and running now, just wish the news wasn't so depressing :) >>> >>> >> What about the news about the National

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC news site

2008-02-05 Thread Josh Blacker
Rob Beard wrote: > Andy Watts wrote: > >> Many thanks guys >> >> l also found the answer at >> http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/nonfree >> >> lt's up and running now, just wish the news wasn't so depressing :) >> >> > > What about the news about the National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC news site

2008-02-05 Thread Rob Beard
Andy Watts wrote: > Many thanks guys > > l also found the answer at > http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/nonfree > > lt's up and running now, just wish the news wasn't so depressing :) > What about the news about the National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth teaching fish to think? Rob -- ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC news site

2008-02-05 Thread Kirrus
- "Kris Douglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Agreed, name one good news story the bbc has covered in the past few > months, years? > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7221758.stm - Overhaul of net addresses begins A (fairly) simple look at ipv4/v6 changeover. http://news.bbc.co.uk/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC news site

2008-02-05 Thread Kris Douglas
On 05/02/2008, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Andy Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Many thanks guys > > > > l also found the answer at > > http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/nonfree > > > > lt's up and running now, just wish the news wasn't so depressing :) > > Glad t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC news site

2008-02-05 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
Quoting Andy Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Many thanks guys > > l also found the answer at > http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/nonfree > > lt's up and running now, just wish the news wasn't so depressing :) Glad to hear it's working, just remember - all news is bad news, everything else is advert

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC news site

2008-02-05 Thread Andy Watts
Many thanks guys l also found the answer at http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/nonfree lt's up and running now, just wish the news wasn't so depressing :) On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 11:51:33 + Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 11:38:33AM +, Andy Watts wrote: > > Wha

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC news site

2008-02-05 Thread Alan Pope
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 11:38:33AM +, Andy Watts wrote: > What player would be best when trying to view the video clips under > Firefox ? l guess there are alternatives to Realplayer .. > This is a bit of a FAQ:- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/2007-July/005825.html Cheers, Al.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC news site

2008-02-05 Thread Pete Stean
Hi Andy - I get decent performance by installing the appropriate codecs (ubuntu-restricted-extras) and then mplayer and it's firefox plugin (mozilla-mplayer *I think*). I can then watch BBC News 24 clips, stream BBC radio without the need to install RealPlayer :) There are several other methods

[ubuntu-uk] BBC news site

2008-02-05 Thread Andy Watts
Hi Guys Just started using Ubuntu and could do with some advice please. What player would be best when trying to view the video clips under Firefox ? l guess there are alternatives to Realplayer .. Many thanks, Andy - Salisbury -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/lis