Janaru Wrote:
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> World IPv6 Day: 8th June 2011

Why am I sniggering and thinking "no chance" when I read this

"Under the hood, we still have a lot of work to do at the BBC to make BBC Online fully IPv6 capable.

To make the site available over IPv6 to the extent that we have, we've added a separate (much smaller) network that is both IPv6 and IPv4 enabled, and connected it to the site through a pair of load balancers that we normally use for testing purposes. The host name ipv6.bbc.co.uk only has an IPv6 address registered on it, and this is the IPv6 address of the load balancers.

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We'll be upgrading the site to be fully IPv6 enabled as part of our normal technology refresh programme, and we expect that will be complete sometime next year."

Conion asks,

"Why am I sniggering and thinking "no chance" when I read this"

H'mm..........................................let me have a guess.


Is it because you are a hypercritical, know-it-all, cynic with a superiority complex?

I might be wrong but that's how you come across in most of your posts.

No offence intended............of course.

Cynical and know-it-all?- of course. Experience, wisdom and education.

What's your excuse for evil-minded bitching?

What's your excuse for evil-minded bitching?

Now these words could cause offence, couldn't they?

If I needed an excuse, it could be that I wanted to join your "club", or would you prefer to be the sole member?

BBC Radio Blog Post

John Myers' review of the BBC's popular music stations

Here's the first paragraph of the post to get the idea of what it's regarding, if you're interested.....

Today we are making public a report which looks at potential synergies and savings within Radio 1, Radio 2, 6 Music and 1Xtra.

Last year, I asked John Myers - CEO of the Radio Academy and one of the most respected figures in the radio industry - to review how our popular music stations are run and how they work together. The key challenge was to identify possible ways of sensibly reducing costs while protecting the quality of our programmes.

I think most of that blog post could have been written as "...blah blah blah..." without any loss of content - they've got a report and they're looking at it.

Here's two from the BBC Research and Development Blog....

Digital Media Mass Storage Testing

Helping you remember programmes

Janaru Wrote:
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> Here's two from the BBC Research and Development
> Blog....
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> Digital Media Mass Storage Testing
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> Helping you remember programmes

re: Remembering programmes, I'm with the guy who uses the backs of envelopes, only I use the Post it notes program in Windows 7.

That's part of the reason why I started posting upcoming program information, to help me remember!

Although everything I put up isn't necessarily something I'd listen to myself. Sometimes I find things I either know, or think, other folks might like. Then there are the off-the-wall programs that might be interesting. Sometimes I post something different just have some variety.

I use the Opera browser which has a "Notes" feature in it. Most days I go to the R4, R4x, R2 and R6 schedule pages (through Opera's Speed Dial, which is awesome, btw) and check out the listings for that particular day of the upcoming week. If I find anything interesting, I open the program webpage and read the description.

If I decide I want to post it, I highlight the text and hit "Copy to Note" from the right click list and it saves it right in the notes. When I'm done checking out all of the schedules, then I go to the forum and drag the item from the notes into the post field and edit. Easy peasy. The Opera browser really does most of the work.

(For all of you who've always had the burning desire to know, but were afraid to ask.....that's how Janaru does it! )



That being said, I actually set up my queue every day by going to the Beebotrons What Was On page. And go to the stations mentioned above (those usually have drama's or documentaries I want to listen to) and put the links in my playlist.

So....really....Opera and Beebotron do most of the work!

The trouble is I cannot resist to look at the future features on the BBC Press Office page, that's one of the reasons I can't depend on Beebotron alone. So looking into the future forces me to use post it notes all over my Windows surface. I have the same system for shows to record on PBS

Yeah, the Copy to Note feature would work for you then, Mars. It's invaluable to me. That, the Speed Dial and mouse gestures alone make me love my Opera browser. Not to mention a whole slew of others.

Thanks Jan, will give it a try.

I really hadn't meant it as a "sales pitch", but now that we've been talking about it, it might actually be helpful with your dial-up. It has a Turbo feature that detects a slow connection and helps speed it up.

Anyhoo, nuff a that.

These two from BBC Internet Blog...

BBC News product for connected TV launches

BBC Online: improving partnerships


This one from Radio 4...

Feedback: Radio 3 Live in Concert

Radio 4x....

Book at Beachtime


Radio 4 Extra: Arthur Smith's Slippers Speak

BBC Internet Blog post...

BBC Online Industry Briefing: Changing Audience Behaviours

From BBC Internet Blog:

Your Paintings: Opening up the nation's art collection

Open Post, Thursday 30 June 2011


From Radio 4 Blog:

The great thinkers of the last 63 years - all in one place (The Reith Lectures

Radio 4 Extra's Book at Beachtime: Before I Go to Sleep

Radio 4 presents... Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman


Research and Development Blog:

White Space & Broadcasting Networks

From Radio 4 Blog:

Explaining 'the Rajars'



From Internet Blog:

The Five Most Interesting Stories from Our Week

From BBC Internet Blog...

BBC Annual Report 2010/11: BBC Online headlines


From Radio 4 Blog....

Schedule changes on Radio 4

Quote from the above.

Readings will diminish but we will add some on to Radio 4Extra......

But I doubt somehow that they will be new ones.

Oh dear, oh dear.....................

I'm NOT paranoid......thats just what THEY want you to think!!!

Well, I don't know. I thought I'd heard that R4x was going to do more original readings anyway. It may be that R4 is glomming onto what R4x were going to do anyway and put a new spin on it. Which would mean there are going to be new readings, but perhaps not as many as it would seem.

We'll see....

Books at Beachtime is an attempt to expand readings, so there is an effort to do new readings on 4xtra.

I can't imagine there is a shortage of material or people wanting to do readings in these times. I am sure there are less work opportunities for actors and the readings are great ways to keep their names out there.

From Radio 4 Blog:

More on the Radio 4 schedule changes: Short stories

From BBC Internet Blog:

5 Most Interesting Stories from the Fortnight

In Production

SoloParentPals.com

The third series of Sue Teddern's SOLPPARENTPALS.COM sees the romance of single parents Rosie (Liz White) in Bolton and Tom (Kris Marshall) in Exeter stumble, recover and finally reach climactic cohabitation. Along the way there are secrets withheld, propositions made, pianos moved, salmon pink neckties worn, and much driving up and down the country. All subject to the eager observations of the SPP.com chat-room crew -Tony Macaroni, Tash the Lash, Gilly Bean and Birmingham Barb.

The Lighthouse

Things will get dark and stormy at London's Broadcasting House as recording begins on The Lighthouse - a spooky two-hander set on a desolate rock off the Pembrokeshire coast. The play's based on the true story of two lighthouse keepers, who in 1801 became stranded at their post. Because of what happened to them, lighthouses would never again have only a crew of two...

From the Radio 4 Newsletter...

Ancient Worlds - Listen to a selection of programmes about ancient civilizations

From the BBC Radio Blog...

The Specialist Classical Chart Podcast is back - this time for good!

From the Radio 4 Blog...

The Controller of Radio 4 and 4 Extra talks to the Radio Academy

Is Economics the new Rock 'n' Roll?

From the Radio 4 and 4 Extra blog....

Record listening figures for Radio 4: RAJARs Q2 2011

From BBC Internet Blog.....

BBC Trust permanently allows longer clips on Classical Chart Podcast

In Production

Our Country's Good and The Recruiting Officer

'Our Country's Good' by Timberlake Wertenbaker tells of a group of convicts and marines sent to Australia to form part of the first penal colony. It follows the attempts of a young lieutenant to mount a production of George Farquhar's 'The Recruiting Officer'. As the convicts begin to work together the production brings changes to all their behaviours.

Farquhar's restoration comedy deals with the exploits of a Captain and his comrades in Shrewsbury as they attempt to seduce soldiers into the army and recruit women to marriage.

A company of actors including Lisa Dillon, Kate Fleetwood, Paul Higgins and Nick Le Prevost are in studio over the next two weeks to produce versions of these plays that will be going out on Radio 4 and Radio 3 over one weekend this December.