Blocking iPlayer
in [UK Linux]
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From: Chris Davies on 12 Nov 2009 06:45 Darren Salt <news(a)youmustbejoking.demon.cu.invalid> wrote: > Yes. But you _did_ mention deprecation, and it's _that_ which would be silly. Ah, yes. I see your point. However, checking through what I claimed, I've taken another look around and *as far as I can tell* I appear to have misread one of the deprecation notices and it's NOT --uid-owner that's deprecated, so the OP should be alright to consider using it. Cheers, Chris
From: Mike Civil on 12 Nov 2009 16:29 In article <87zl6rri5i.fsf(a)spindle.srvr.nix>, Nix <$}xinix{$@esperi.org.uk> wrote: >It mystifies me why beating people up is believed to be a good way to >adjust their behaviour: nobody would consider it acceptable on a >twenty-year-old, who can defend himself, so why would you consider it >acceptable here? If they're old enough to have language, use it! (Being >old enough to use a web browser and navigate youtube implies old enough >to have language in my book.) I think your humour bypass op may be considered a total success:)
From: alexd on 12 Nov 2009 17:03 Meanwhile, at the uk.comp.os.linux Job Justification Hearings, Simon J. Rowe chose the tried and tested strategy of: > My darling children are very good at burning my 20Gb bandwidth limit in a > week. I've dealt with youtube by redirecting youtube.com in my DNS cache but > iPlayer is proving more difficult. > > Anyone got a suggestion how I can limit access? Given that everyone else has chucked their penn'orth in, might I suggest changing ISP to one that gives you more than a rather stingy 20GB a month? -- <http://ale.cx/> (AIM:troffasky) (UnSoEsNpEaTm(a)ale.cx) 21:59:36 up 25 days, 23:35, 4 users, load average: 0.02, 0.11, 0.14 "Stupid is a condition. Ignorance is a choice" -- Wiley Miller
From: Chris on 13 Nov 2009 05:04 alexd wrote: > Meanwhile, at the uk.comp.os.linux Job Justification Hearings, > Simon J. Rowe chose the tried and tested strategy of: > >> My darling children are very good at burning my 20Gb bandwidth >> limit in a week. I've dealt with youtube by redirecting >> youtube.com in my DNS cache but iPlayer is proving more difficult. >> >> Anyone got a suggestion how I can limit access? > > Given that everyone else has chucked their penn'orth in, might I > suggest changing ISP to one that gives you more than a rather > stingy 20GB a month? Is 20GB/month stingy, really? It may also be that the OP doesn't want to pay for more bandwidth... -- The email address is a spam trap. I rarely use it.
From: Dave Liquorice on 13 Nov 2009 06:42
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:04:12 +0000, Chris wrote: > Is 20GB/month stingy, really? It is when you start to use iPlayer for more than just catching up with an odd programme here or there. A single half hour programme takes 700 odd MB. Last month my lad "discovered" YouTube, download consumption has shot up from 6 or 7GB/month previously to around 15GB/month. And that's crappy YouTube stuff not iPlayer. -- Cheers Dave. |