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anybody used this?
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i’ll get you for this, Glynn, i swear 😉
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anybody know if this will actually work on Linux these days? or not? several of us want to know, and i’d love to have an option for while i’m traveling (no, i’m not getting a Slingbox)
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interesting piece on developing with XULRunner; on a related note, i wasn’t quite aware just how much XULRunner is in the new Lotus products
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interesting Geronimo-lite project; doubt the lack of “full” J2EE will be much of a deterrent
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thanks to the Ubuntu folks for the heads up on this; interesting to see Zope make the jump
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even more darkly amusing in light of the EMI news
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this was a surprise, but i look forward to seeing where Peter goes next – should be interesting
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how to manually tell Firefox what applications to use to handle protocols such as ‘secondlife’ or ‘xmpp’
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Habari forked already? wow; another argument in favor of the “benevolent dictator” governance model
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Hula fork; hadn’t seen this before
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interesting interview with Novell’s Friedman; been missing his take for a while
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bunch of folks – including some of the #redmonk guys – are upset about the dropped goal of Apache compatibility
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someone better blog this, as i can’t make it
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“What they don’t do as well is make that easy to use… to make things easy to install, easy to configure, etc…that is where the industry is focused now…making open source solutions easier to deploy, easier to use, easier to upgrade and maintain.”
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surprised that David would be this unexcited about the extension of offline capabilities to the framework he authored among other options; i actually think overconnectivity is a reason to *want* offline access
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Geof F. Morris says:
April 3, 2007 at 5:24 am
Steve, you know that the Habari>ForkPress was posted on Sunday, right? 😉
Steve Curry says:
April 3, 2007 at 10:08 am
Stephen,
I subscribed to MLB.TV 3-4 years ago when I lived in San Diego & wanted to keep in touch with my beloved Giants.
While I was very impressed with the quality and convenience — I will warn you that (unless they’ve changed the policy) not every game is televised through it. On any given night, it seemed that only 85% of the games were available. So you were SOL 1-2 times out of every 10 and usually on Saturday due to the Fox game of the week. I am not sure how the broadcast blackout rules were applied.
The interesting thing is that slingbox wouldn’t help your situation because (I’m assuming) you’re a red Sox fan living with Colorado cable. What someone in your situation would need to find is a slingbox owner in Boston metro who is willing to share their slingbox server access info with you. If it hasn’t happened already, I suspect that “slingbox swapping clubs” will start popping up to connect ex-pats in Boston & Colorado & Seattle & Atlanta so they can follow their local teams/weather/news.
Note: I do not condone this action. I do not think that individuals should work around the rules just because technology gives them the ability to. OTOH, I believe that it is in content owners best interest to recognize what is possible technically — and instead of resorting to litigation or DRM — provide their assets in the most convenient, affordable and compelling method to consumers. See CD/Napster/EMusic/iTunes discussions …
John Dowdell says:
April 3, 2007 at 4:15 pm
For MLB.com, the System Requirements page says that they use Flash video for free content (which should work fine on Linux), and Windows Media for copy-protected content:
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/help/faq_system_requirements.jsp
Windows Media is at version 10 on Windows, was stopped after version 9 on Mac, and seems to have no options on Linux:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/10/readme.aspx#System
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/9series/sysreq.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/mac/default.aspx
Maybe their mobile video service would be more ecumenical…?
http://mlb.mlb.com/mobile/video.jsp
jd/adobe
Luis Villa says:
April 4, 2007 at 5:12 pm
I just stumbled on this, Stephen, but haven’t been able to test it yet: http://www.geekandproud.net/archives/2007/03/23/1045/mlbtv-on-linux/
Looks like the key is using this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/446
to pry the content out of the page and into a media player of choice.