Browsing: / Home / iPlayer

iPlayer

Rough?

November 11, 2009 4 Responses Shortlink

Was it because Canonical and friends kept Ubuntu in such a decent state from 8.04 through to 9.04 that things went a little quiet in the blogosphere on the subject of the well-known Linux distribution? If so, 9.10 might be proving more [...]

Ubuntu upgrades: do a clean installation or use Update Manager?

April 9, 2009 2 Responses Shortlink

Part of some recent “fooling” brought on by the investigation of what turned out to be a duff DVD writer was a fresh installation of Ubuntu 8.10 on my main home PC. It might have brought on a certain amount [...]

Whither Fedora?

January 10, 2009 2 Responses Shortlink

There is a reason why things have got a little quieter on this blog: my main inspiration for many posts that make their way on here, Ubuntu, is just working away without much complaint. I have to say that BBC [...]

Firefox 3, RealPlayer, Ubuntu and BBC’s iPlayer

June 17, 2008 4 Responses Shortlink

With the record attempt due today for Firefox 3 downloads, I thought that it would be a good time for me to update my advice for getting BBC’s iPlayer going in Firefox running on Ubuntu. First, you need RealPlayer 11 [...]

An option for when BBC’s iPlayer will not allow you to “Listen Again”

June 14, 2008 Leave a response Shortlink

Following my move to Firefox 3, the BBC’s iPlayer became problematical again. I eventually sorted it after a fashion but I am noting an option for the frustrated before talking more about that. Finding the links to the ram files [...]