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Monday, September 11, 2006

Listening to BBC radio on MacOSX or Linux without real player

Easy peasy.
1. Get mplayer - www.mplayerhq.hu.
2. Go to bbc website and select the show you want to listen to.
3. Clik cancen on the pop-up box wicht tells you that you need realplayer.
4. From left frame, using Firefox/page info get the link to the .rpm file on the bbc site.
5. User wget , retreive the file from bbc site - remmeber to add www.bbc.co.uk in front of the location in order to have a proper URL.
6. Look into the file you have just downloaded - you will have an URL like this: rtsp:// .
7. Type mplayer rtsp://
8. Enjoy BBC radio.

Tuesday, September 05, 2006

How to connect from a mac to an Xdm enabled UNIX

1. Install X11 for osX .
2. Start X11.
3. Start terminal.
4. ./Xnest -v -query my.unix.address.com :1
5. Enjoy!