Re: [backstage] Patronising

2005-11-23 Thread luke
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Agreed! We do have computers north of the M25 you know... :-) David Almost a third of the UK's IT industry and research activity in Informatics is concentrated in the area around Edinburgh (OK, thats from the universitity's 'why study

[backstage] Sony Phone Home?

2005-11-23 Thread Gordon Joly
This via Rocketboom.com http://www.doxpara.com/ http://www.doxpara.com/planetsony2_europe.jpg Welcome To Planet Sony Submitted by Dan Kaminsky on Tue, 2005-11-15 09:28. Sony. Sony has a rootkit. The rootkit phones home. Phoning home requires a DNS query. DNS queries are cached.

[backstage] Firefox extension competition

2005-11-23 Thread Kim Plowright
Just stumbled across this compo - write firefox extension, win tricked up Alienware PC. http://developer.mozilla.org/contests/extendfirefox/ Thought some of the folk here might want to give it a bash. Kim Plowright New Product Development SCP, BBC iDE MC1 D6 08, Media Centre, BBC Media

RE: [backstage] Patronising

2005-11-23 Thread Ian Forrester
I have to agree. It's a lot of work and tons of running around. But its honestly worth it in the end! I'm currently helping out by hosting a few events in London at geekdinner.co.uk (sorry had to get the link in). I'm sure with a few tries you will start to get about 20+ people going along

Re: [backstage] Patronising

2005-11-23 Thread Oliver Jackson
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 07:29:03PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Almost a third of the UK's IT industry and research activity in Informatics is concentrated in the area around Edinburgh (OK, thats from the universitity's 'why study informatics at Edinburgh' blurb, but still) More of

Re: [backstage] iMP issue

2005-11-23 Thread Amias Channer
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:06:34 + Richard Lockwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Don't even *think* about telling me what I should and shouldn't support this is not about you its about what is a good codec to use for the BBC's IMP system , a system that is supposed to be platform agnostic .