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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Started conversation Jul 14, 2014
I'm posting now 'cos I have a couple of things I want to watch on TV later... 
The District Gnurses came in force again this morning - once more, one for each foot. 
Once they had been and gone, I set out to re-download all the Vue 3D content that I had paid for, but corrupted. 
It wasn't easy - I burnt them all onto DVD at the start so I wouldn't lose them, then discovered that once they had been on a DVD and copied off they were write-protected and that made the installer break. 
But I managed to extract all the files - eventually - and arranged them where I would expect to find them. 
In theory I can use them all, apart from three that extracted from their ZIP files into RAR files, but the RARs appear to be empty...? 
I managed to run the dishwasher. I need to run the washing machine, but it's too late to do it tonight. Perhaps in the morning, if I remember. 
I'm planning to watch "QI" at 10pm, followed by "Utopia" at 11pm on C4+1. 
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woofti aka groovy gravy Posted Jul 14, 2014
Excellent. I never got into QI. My most recent British television watching time was in the years 2008-2010, and for most of that time I watched Revelation TV on Sky. I can get it here - streaming - there's a PC running Mint (IIRC) behind the telly and its main purpose is to stream Revelation TV.
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woofti aka groovy gravy Posted Jul 14, 2014
No, it runs Zorin. Unfortunately I am stuck with Google Chrome... I couldn't install Firefox even though I tried.
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woofti aka groovy gravy Posted Jul 14, 2014
Am watching Revelation TV live from London streaming over the Internet straight to my lounge in Cape Town. Have emailed in to the show. They might read it out in a minute. Amazing to be connected half way around the world instantaneously like this.
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Jul 15, 2014
"No, it runs Zorin. Unfortunately I am stuck with Google Chrome... I couldn't install Firefox even though I tried."
Did you answer a question on the wrong thread? 
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woofti aka groovy gravy Posted Jul 15, 2014
No sorry Peet, I was continuing the thought from the previous post, where I said my television machine ran Mint. It doesn't; it's running Zorin.
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