Re: Dual boot and get_iplayer

2018-10-31 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Please see below ... On 31/10/2018 12:59, RS wrote: On 31/10/2018 10:02, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: When I posted this yesterday evening, I didn't think to check that the download link was actually working, which for reasons too complicated and OT to be worth going into here, it wasn't.

Re: OT VM or Dual boot and get_iplayer

2018-10-31 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 05:34:26AM +, Geoff Smith wrote: > I am at a loss to understand why anyone uses dual-booting, it's an > archaic method. I gave it up a decade ago to enjoy the advantages of > using VMs. It's still useful when you want to run software that really cares about timing

Re: Dual boot and get_iplayer

2018-10-31 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 11:45:02AM +, Charles Johnson wrote: > On 29/10/2018 20:39, RS wrote: > >That is not the end of the problem.  Ralph also pointed out that if > >Perl thought it was running under Windows > I know very little Perl, but i'm surprised it should care about line >

Re: Dual boot and get_iplayer

2018-10-31 Thread RS
On 30/10/2018 17:44, Charles Johnson wrote: On 30/10/2018 16:46, RS wrote: For the options file it uses the line terminator as a separator.  For some options the presence of a CR does not matter.  For others it causes the option to be garbled. I don't have an options file and have never

Re: Dual boot and get_iplayer

2018-10-31 Thread RS
On 31/10/2018 10:02, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: Apologies for broken link ... When I posted this yesterday evening, I didn't think to check that the download link was actually working, which for reasons too complicated and OT to be worth going into here, it wasn't.  I've changed the

Re: OT VM or Dual boot and get_iplayer

2018-10-31 Thread Peter Corlett
On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 09:40:34AM +, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: [...] > I can only speak for myself. Most of my hardware has insufficient grunt to be > able to VM satisfactorily. Back in 1999, I was using VMWare 1.0 to run Windows 95 on a Linux box so we could test the websites we'd

Re: Dual boot and get_iplayer

2018-10-31 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Apologies for broken link ... On 30/10/2018 17:13, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: Please see below ... But generally, I would not adopt your approach to solving this problem.  I have five dual-boot PCs (though currently I can only use the 3 that are laptops because my monitor caught fire) and

Re: OT VM or Dual boot and get_iplayer

2018-10-31 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Please see below ... On 31/10/2018 05:34, Geoff Smith wrote: I am at a loss to understand why anyone uses dual-booting, it's an archaic method. I can only speak for myself.  Most of my hardware has insufficient grunt to be able to VM satisfactorily.