Monthly Archives: July 2007

BBC iPlayer Woes and Call To Action

Being a UK Citizen, TV License payer and Ubuntu user, I am incandescent with rage that the BBC is increasingly cosying up to a certain proprietary software vendor from Redmond. The BBC iPlayer is a new tool to facilitate the download and playback of BBC content (TV/Radio programmes) onto a computer legally.

I would love …

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Another great screencast and some changes

Once again Andrew Gee has come up trumps and cranked out another screencast for the Ubuntu Screencast Team. The latest one is a nice short video showing how to share files and access shared files using SAMBA on Ubuntu. We’ve tried a few new things in this screencast and would appreciate comments on them. …

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