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From: Whiskers on 6 Apr 2010 16:36 On 2010-04-06, Christopher Choi <chutsu(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:17:38 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: [...] >> Woo, perfect, thanks for that. Wish I'd thought of Googling :( > > Its like the first thing any true geek would do... There are geeks who still use Google? -- -- ^^^^^^^^^^ -- Whiskers -- ~~~~~~~~~~
From: Darren Salt on 6 Apr 2010 18:30 I demand that Tony van der Hoff may or may not have written... > Classic FM <http://www.classicfm.co.uk/> has a streaming channel, which > works fine under 'doze. > Under Ubuntu 9.10, and under Debian Lenny, using Firefox, The "Listen > Now" button produces the following pop-up: > <------------------------- > From what we can tell, you are accessing our player using a computer > that is running a version of Linux. [...] Via a "not in the UK" page here, which I found a bit odd. > If you already have a compatible player installed, click here to access > the audio / video you've requested. > ---------------------------> > I have MPlayer installed, but clicking on the "click here" link does > nothing. You were missing a browser plugin. > Has anyone managed to listen to Classic FM under Linux? How? Working fine here (xine-plugin). -- | Darren Salt | linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Doon | using Debian GNU/Linux | or ds ,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/ & http://tlasd.wordpress.com/ It is bad luck to be superstitious.
From: Martin Gregorie on 7 Apr 2010 15:55 On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:25:21 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > If Google snoops, then Yahoo positively ogles. Yuk! > Fair comment: I don't know a lot about Yahoo except an an ignorant, uncaring spam source - no different in that respect than gmail, live.space or hotmail. I'll try Ask unless anybody has a better suggestion. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |
From: John Taylor on 7 Apr 2010 16:03 On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:55:24 +0000, Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:25:21 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > >> If Google snoops, then Yahoo positively ogles. Yuk! >> > Fair comment: I don't know a lot about Yahoo except an an ignorant, > uncaring spam source - no different in that respect than gmail, > live.space or hotmail. > > I'll try Ask unless anybody has a better suggestion. What about Scroogle ? It uses google, but strips out the adverts and anonymises you. You can connect via an SSL connection, and use post requests - so no-one can oggle you.
From: Martin Gregorie on 7 Apr 2010 18:15
On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:03:22 +0000, John Taylor wrote: > On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:55:24 +0000, Martin Gregorie wrote: > >> On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:25:21 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> >>> If Google snoops, then Yahoo positively ogles. Yuk! >>> >> Fair comment: I don't know a lot about Yahoo except an an ignorant, >> uncaring spam source - no different in that respect than gmail, >> live.space or hotmail. >> >> I'll try Ask unless anybody has a better suggestion. > > What about Scroogle ? > It uses google, but strips out the adverts and anonymises you. You can > connect via an SSL connection, and use post requests - so no-one can > oggle you. Thats a possibility, but doesn't it still leave the head of the list cluttered with semi-relevant price comparison sites and all Google's paid- for hits? -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org | |