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Post by ladyshaniique08 on Dec 1, 2008 18:57:48 GMT
I ♥ the newly revamped Top Gear sites! James' one is so :-P!
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Post by lew on Dec 2, 2008 9:09:17 GMT
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Post by lindenchase on Dec 2, 2008 9:38:17 GMT
Can I just ask, does the Office game still work for the rest of you? When I want to play, there is an awful lot of noise and it sort of crashes at level four. Is it me or the site? Anyone?  |
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Post by Doofey on Dec 2, 2008 10:54:50 GMT
Can I just ask, does the Office game still work for the rest of you? When I want to play, there is an awful lot of noise and it sort of crashes at level four. Is it me or the site? Anyone? Haven't played it in ages sorry. |
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Post by lindenchase on Dec 2, 2008 11:42:40 GMT
Doofey, would you mind checking it out? Thanks.  |
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Post by maureen on Dec 2, 2008 12:03:43 GMT
And some very nice smiles on his face too.  Thanks for that, Lew. |
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Post by lindenchase on Dec 5, 2008 7:14:47 GMT
Bad news. Seriously. It looks like they have blocked the videos for people living outside the UK. Only some of the older ones are still working.  On FinalGear they have posted ways to work your way around it by downloading a British proxy server. I'm not sure it will work, it will probably slow down the connection to such an extent that you can't play the videos anymore.  |
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Post by Doofey on Dec 5, 2008 7:16:07 GMT
Well that sucks big time! What a load of party poopers they are if they have blocked them.  |
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Post by maureen on Dec 5, 2008 9:46:05 GMT
For those of you who caught the Simon Mayo show with Richard, it was very intelligent and good. Richard said the same thing about driving I've always known to be true. Lots of respect for you, Richard. |
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Post by dutchdiva on Dec 5, 2008 10:35:28 GMT
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Post by maureen on Dec 5, 2008 10:55:12 GMT
There are alot of angry people posting to the Transmissions on the site for them to be able to watch the clips again. Hopefully TG listens to the posts and sets it right for everyone to enjoy, as it was meant to be. I noticed something amiss a few days ago when I tried to watch one I linked to one of the threads and it gave me a rubbish comment "Either you don't have the latest addition of Adobe or your Java script is turned off." I think that's when it all went wrong.  |
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Post by Doofey on Dec 5, 2008 10:56:40 GMT
I had that message a few days ago but seems to be working again now. *fingers crossed*
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Post by ladyshaniique08 on Dec 5, 2008 13:27:45 GMT
mmm, is the site not working properly? or not?
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Post by lindenchase on Dec 5, 2008 13:42:50 GMT
There are alot of angry people posting to the Transmissions on the site for them to be able to watch the clips again. Hopefully TG listens to the posts and sets it right for everyone to enjoy, as it was meant to be. I'm afraid it probably has to do with copyright and licence fee issues. In that case, the people at TG will have to comply with BBC regulations. |
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Post by wildcathammondette on Dec 5, 2008 13:46:43 GMT
so bloody unfair;
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Post by maureen on Dec 5, 2008 21:47:54 GMT
I had a bad feeling that was why they did it. |
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Post by lindenchase on Dec 13, 2008 11:40:36 GMT
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
A brilliant mind over at FinalGear has found a way for those of us outside the UK to watch the videos. You have to copy and paste this line and either create a bookmark or keep it at hand in another way.
javascript:(function(){eval($('#mainContent%20.feature%20script').html().replace('config\.playerId','//').replace('config\.adServerURL','//'));})();;
When you click on the video you would like to see and it says "not available etc", simply click on this line and the video will play. I have no idea whatsoever how and why, but it works!
;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Wyvern on Dec 13, 2008 16:37:28 GMT
I'm not brilliant at JavaScript, but I think it works by changing the request your computer sends to the website from what you'd normally get to something that mimics the request someone in the UK would send. What I mean is that when I go to the TG website, all I have to do is click on the link and the video plays. This is because when their server looks at where I'm clicking from, my credentials match the list of places that can access the video content. However, when someone, say, in America, clicks on the link, the server looks at their credentials, sees they aren't on the list and a bit like a bouncer in a nightclub basically says "if your name's not down, you're not coming in." So you get the 'not available message'. When you click on the line of code above, what it does is a bit like the psychic paper in Doctor Who - when you show it to the 'bouncer', he sees that you have an invitation after all, and lets you in. The code replaces your credentials with what you need to get in. Anyway, that wasn't what I was going to say. I was going to say, is it just me or is the site getting quieter? I can understand the 'Transmission' section slowing down a bit as we're getting to the end of a series and all the filming is in the can now. The chaos in the American motor industry is keeping 'The Foreman' going, but what about 'The CupHolder'? Tom Ford seems to have vanished and I miss him (maybe he's busy with the next series of Fifth Gear) and Dan Read's only posted one clip all week in Tom's absence. Maybe everyone's having a bit of time off before Christmas... |
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Post by lindenchase on Dec 13, 2008 17:49:21 GMT
I'm not sure, I tried if i could get the BBC iplayer to work, but it didn't, so it's not like a UK proxy. The site is a bit quieter, but that's probably because they have now stopped filming. They'll be back. In the meantime, I'm hoping for more outtakes. |
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Post by Wyvern on Dec 13, 2008 18:57:31 GMT
No, it's not like a proxy, that's not what I meant. A proxy connection works by routing your connection through another server, which is why you can sometimes access sites that have region restrictions by connecting via a proxy server in that region, whereas this looks like it is literally just forcing a change in the content of a variable. This is why it won't work on other websites; they will have different coding and different variables.
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Post by lindenchase on Dec 13, 2008 19:07:56 GMT
Guess I'll still have to add British proxy to my Christmas list then. ;D
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Post by nobody on Jan 7, 2009 23:18:36 GMT
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Post by jacqui on Jan 26, 2009 16:48:29 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2009 16:53:39 GMT
Meeja tart  the who's who at the Radio Times party was astonishing! He deserves to reap the rewards of that very dishy cover. ;d |
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Post by maytastic on Jan 26, 2009 17:56:05 GMT
I love the reference to Brian Cant at the end of the piece. Brings back happy kids TV memories.  |
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Post by jacqui on Jan 26, 2009 19:20:34 GMT
I love the reference to Brian Cant at the end of the piece. Brings back happy kids TV memories. Play away ? ;D |
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Post by gemmiejewel on Jan 26, 2009 19:48:40 GMT
Meeja tart the who's who at the Radio Times party was astonishing! He deserves to reap the rewards of that very dishy cover. ;d Needs an award all of its own that cover! |
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Post by ulstermayniac on Jan 27, 2009 8:09:05 GMT
That photo in my second public bucket (see sig for link) in James Various Images folder, there is a photo of him in there from teh RT party. He is wearing a blue flowery shirt.
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Post by tui on Feb 2, 2009 17:54:57 GMT
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Post by KiwiMonkey on Feb 2, 2009 19:49:02 GMT
Ooo Thank you Tui  edit - it says he hates snow and extreme cold. I bet he's loving today's weather then |
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