Re: OT - Hi mum, I'm on the telly!
I don't understand - there is no registration process when entering the site. How can the web page be selective about who it lets watch the material ?? No Cotty, it won't let us! I have all the latest video players installed and it just doesn't happen. Now if I used my .com email address it might... John Coyle Brisbane, Australia - Original Message - From: Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 6:50 AM Subject: RE: OT - Hi mum, I'm on the telly! On 16/3/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: Sadly, for us international users, BBC video can only be got by subscription. Love to see ya, Cotty, but not if I have to pay for it! vbg Guess I'll have to wait for GFM! Nuts, what are you on about Knarf? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3513812.stm I used RealPlayer to view the video - - that's free. Can't you log onto the page ?? Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|www.macads.co.uk/snaps _
Re: OT - Hi mum, I'm on the telly!
Cotty wrote: What is ad/spyware? Spyware spies on you and reports on what you do with your computer (what CDs you play; what websites you visit, etc). Adware uses that information to try and make you look at targetted adverts. S Aha. Using cookies no doubt. Thanks. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|www.macads.co.uk/snaps _
Re: OT - Hi mum, I'm on the telly!
Cotty, may I have your autograph? Thanks, Joe Slight problem, I was going to eBay it - well you know how it is. Needs must Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|www.macads.co.uk/snaps _
Re: OT - Hi mum, I'm on the telly!
On 16/3/04, FRANK disgorged: I don't know what ad/spyware is, but I've got Realplayer in the 'puter that I use. What a freaking PIA! Everytime I put on a music CD to listen to whilst I type away, Realplayer pops up, whether I want to use it or not (I usually just delete it immediately). It then, obviously, sends information to some unseen source of evil, and a pretty picture of the CD that I'm playing pops up, along with reviews of the disc, along with other discs by that artist, along with a pleasant invitation to download stuff, along with adverts that I don't want to see. While all of this is going on, whatever else I'm doing runs real slow, until I let the Realplayer window open completely, then delete, all of which takes several minutes. And, I have to go through this every time I put on another CD. Strange. I have Realone Player for Macintosh vers 9.0 and none of this happens. If I click on a video link, it downloads a small file of just a few kilobytes and I double-click on that to start the video streaming. If I play a CD, it doesn't open at all. Perhaps you have to go into Real prefs and uncheck the 'open when inderting a CD' box? Is that what adware/spyware is? I really don't like the fact that someone somewhere knows what music I listen to. Lord knows what they're doing with that information. And what's wrong with listening to Brittney Spears anyway? (oops, went too far with that info g). BTW, Cotty, I did manage to look at a video on the Coroner's Inquest on the Beeb, but maybe it was the wrong one? I didn't see you in it I don't think. Top right on this page - at 33 seconds in, during the pan of the court... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3513812.stm I'm in the background somewhere - to be honest I couldn't see myself on my measly dial up connection (the quality is crap) but I knew I was there :-) Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|www.macads.co.uk/snaps _
Re: OT - Hi mum, I'm on the telly!
They can work out which country you're in by your IP address, with a high level of accuracy. S Cotty wrote: I don't understand - there is no registration process when entering the site. How can the web page be selective about who it lets watch the material ?? No Cotty, it won't let us! I have all the latest video players installed and it just doesn't happen. Now if I used my .com email address it might... John Coyle Brisbane, Australia - Original Message - From: Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 6:50 AM Subject: RE: OT - Hi mum, I'm on the telly! On 16/3/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: Sadly, for us international users, BBC video can only be got by subscription. Love to see ya, Cotty, but not if I have to pay for it! vbg Guess I'll have to wait for GFM! Nuts, what are you on about Knarf? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3513812.stm I used RealPlayer to view the video - - that's free. Can't you log onto the page ?? Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|www.macads.co.uk/snaps _
Re: OT - Hi mum, I'm on the telly!
Cotty wrote: Spyware spies on you and reports on what you do with your computer (what CDs you play; what websites you visit, etc). Adware uses that information to try and make you look at targetted adverts. Aha. Using cookies no doubt. Thanks. Not usually - cookies can let individual websites track you to a limited extent, but for full-on Big Brother, the spyware installs itself on your local machine and hooks its claws directly into your web browser. :-) Of course, there's the issue that most spyware is Windows-only... ;-) S
OT - Hi mum, I'm on the telly!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3513812.stm Click on the link top right 'watch and listen' : VIDEO Inside the coroner's court there's a pan around from right to left centering on the coroner - I can be glimpsed in the back of the shot stood filming the coroner at 33 seconds into the report... Zz. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|www.macads.co.uk/snaps _
RE: OT - Hi mum, I'm on the telly!
On 16/3/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: Sadly, for us international users, BBC video can only be got by subscription. Love to see ya, Cotty, but not if I have to pay for it! vbg Guess I'll have to wait for GFM! Nuts, what are you on about Knarf? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3513812.stm I used RealPlayer to view the video - - that's free. Can't you log onto the page ?? Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|www.macads.co.uk/snaps _
Re: OT - Hi mum, I'm on the telly!
Cotty, RealPlayer is not something I would like to install on my computer. It is loaded with ad/spyware and tends to interefere with other programs. I'm really surprised that BBC don't offer alternative media players. :-( Jostein - Original Message - From: Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 9:50 PM Subject: RE: OT - Hi mum, I'm on the telly! On 16/3/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: Sadly, for us international users, BBC video can only be got by subscription. Love to see ya, Cotty, but not if I have to pay for it! vbg Guess I'll have to wait for GFM! Nuts, what are you on about Knarf? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3513812.stm I used RealPlayer to view the video - - that's free. Can't you log onto the page ?? Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|www.macads.co.uk/snaps _
Re: OT - Hi mum, I'm on the telly!
That's odd... I just went to the page, clicked on the link, and RealPlayer popped up to play it. My firewall verified that I wanted to allow RP to access the net, but there weren't any problems. chris On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, John Coyle wrote: No Cotty, it won't let us! I have all the latest video players installed and it just doesn't happen. Now if I used my .com email address it might... John Coyle Brisbane, Australia - Original Message - From: Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 6:50 AM Subject: RE: OT - Hi mum, I'm on the telly! On 16/3/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: Sadly, for us international users, BBC video can only be got by subscription. Love to see ya, Cotty, but not if I have to pay for it! vbg Guess I'll have to wait for GFM! Nuts, what are you on about Knarf? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3513812.stm I used RealPlayer to view the video - - that's free. Can't you log onto the page ?? Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|www.macads.co.uk/snaps _
Re: OT - Hi mum, I'm on the telly!
Cotty wrote: What is ad/spyware? Spyware spies on you and reports on what you do with your computer (what CDs you play; what websites you visit, etc). Adware uses that information to try and make you look at targetted adverts. S
