On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 21:09 +, Colin McCarthy wrote:
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:52 PM, norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After months of trying I have finally got my little brother,
who is in
his seventies, to join the 21st century and he has installed
Ubuntu
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I have just listened to Radio 2 successfully online with FireFox 3 on Ubuntu
8.10. (It also worked on 8.04).
I enjoy listening to Malcolm Laycocks show on a Sunday night.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00f941q
I like the old time music, but I guess to you and your brother
norman wrote:
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Before passing information on to my brother I decided to test on my
computer first running Ubuntu 8.04. Installing Flash did not help. When
I select a radio broadcast a window opens which looks very encouraging
but no sound. However, there is sound when I select an
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Firstly, thanks to all who have taken the trouble to try to help me play
live radio from the BBC website.
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras w32codecs
That's all, and it works for me.
I have checked and I believe I have everything installed that I might
need including
2008/11/4 norman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras w32codecs
That's all, and it works for me.
I have checked and I believe I have everything installed that I might
need including w32codecs. The pop up window appears and at the bottom
left says that it is
2008/11/4 norman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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I note though that my new ibex machine already has them all which i
suspect is a by product of installing the ubuntu-restricted-extras
package.
I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that I will advise my brother to
forget his fears and to upgrade
2008/11/4 norman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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I note though that my new ibex machine already has them all which i
suspect is a by product of installing the ubuntu-restricted-extras
package.
I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that I will advise my brother to
forget his fears and to upgrade
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:52 PM, norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After months of trying I have finally got my little brother, who is in
his seventies, to join the 21st century and he has installed Ubuntu 8.04
(no newfangled stuff like 8.10 for him) along with his XP. Now, big
brother is
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That's not really necessary. The exact same thing I did on 8.10 will
work on 8.04.
I have 8.10 installed on the Inspiron 1525 laptop and live BBC sound was
immediately available. The only problem was that the sound was horribly
distorted. This was remedied by ensuring that
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Matt Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Michael G Fletcher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:52 PM, norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After months of trying I have finally got my little brother, who is in
his
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:32 PM, norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have 8.10 installed on the Inspiron 1525 laptop and live BBC sound was
immediately available.
I have to say 8.10 has offered the best experience I've had with this issue
on any OS. Upon trying to play a BBC live stream I was
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I note though that my new ibex machine already has them all which i
suspect is a by product of installing the ubuntu-restricted-extras
package.
I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that I will advise my brother to
forget his fears and to upgrade to 8.10 when all his troubles should
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Michael G Fletcher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:52 PM, norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After months of trying I have finally got my little brother, who is in
his seventies, to join the 21st century and he has installed Ubuntu 8.04
(no
After months of trying I have finally got my little brother, who is in
his seventies, to join the 21st century and he has installed Ubuntu 8.04
(no newfangled stuff like 8.10 for him) along with his XP. Now, big
brother is inundated with questions most of which, fortunately, I can
answer. However,
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:52 PM, norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After months of trying I have finally got my little brother, who is in
his seventies, to join the 21st century and he has installed Ubuntu 8.04
(no newfangled stuff like 8.10 for him) along with his XP. Now, big
brother is
Colin McCarthy wrote:
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:52 PM, norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After months of trying I have finally got my little brother, who is in
his seventies, to join the 21st century and he has installed Ubuntu 8.04
(no newfangled stuff like 8.10 for him) along with his XP.
norman wrote:
After months of trying I have finally got my little brother, who is in
his seventies, to join the 21st century and he has installed Ubuntu 8.04
(no newfangled stuff like 8.10 for him) along with his XP. Now, big
brother is inundated with questions most of which, fortunately, I
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