(OT)Re: Number One Bug and the Olympics

[Knapp]

On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 3:40 AM, Jim Smith <jim at oz.net> wrote:

> Knapp wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Jim Smith <jim at oz.net
> > <mailto:jim at oz.net>> wrote:
> >
> >     Knapp wrote:
> >     > A few days ago I discover that you could only watch the Olympics in
> >     > the USA if you where there on the continental USA and you did
> >     not run
> >     > Linux of any kind do to a new attack on the freedom of computers
> >     call
> >     > Silverlight from Microsoft.
> >     >
> >     > To help free the Olympics and our computers I have made a site
> >     to talk
> >     > about these problems.
> >     >
> >     > I am a normal user of Kubuntu and am new to this Ubuntu list but
> >     > wanted to invite as many as I could to help fix this problem with
> >     > Linux and the Olympics.
> >     >
> >     > Thanks for you time!
> >     >
> >     > Visit us at:
> >     > http://groups.google.com/group/free-olympics
> >     >
> >     > Please join the list and help or just ghost it.
> >     >
> >     > Thanks again,
> >     >
> >     > --
> >     > Douglas E Knapp
> >     >
> >     > http://sf-journey-creations.wikispot.org/Front_Page
> >     Somehow the Canadian and Aussie feeds are blocked in the US. NBC
> >     sucks,
> >     we don't watch their coverage at all. At least NBC does say they only
> >     work with Windows or some Mac browsers. Some CNBC feeds work.
> >     Maybe by 2010.
> >
> >     Jim
> >
> >
> > It will only change if people fight for it. The IOC is forcing the
> > media companies to block your address based on the location of your
> > provider. You can get coverage out of country by using a proxy in the
> > country of which you want to view.
> >
> > --
> > Douglas E Knapp
> >
> > http://sf-journey-creations.wikispot.org/Front_Page
> I'm not quite sure how to do that. I tried and it still showed an error
> message "no video" when I selecteda live stream.  A subsequent attempt
> just took down Firefox.
>
> Jim
>

I am not sure what the that is that you are talking about but I found that
telling the servers that you had MS IE or some other MS product stopped
Firefox from crashing. Are they crashing us on purpose?


-- 
Douglas E Knapp

http://sf-journey-creations.wikispot.org/Front_Page
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