[Chris]

Folks,

I've been contacted by the BBC and asked to remove the web-based Mini Moyles from the site. They aren't happy with our re-use of their private news feeds. This has now been done.

The service and script remain operational at the following address for the members of this private group.

http://chrismoyles.co.uk/mm/

Whilst I realise Aled has visibility of this area, I'm rather hoping he will keep to himself the fact that it hasn't vanished altogether. From the public perspective, it's gone.

Chris.

[Mcqueen_]

Wouldn't the BBC still notice the referrers from chrismoyles.co.uk/mm/ ?

[Chris]

I don't think they are looking that closely. Thinking about it, the server doesn't identify itself to the BBC using that address anyway.

[Chris]

To explain further, the window itself derives all its information from the chrismoyles.co.uk server - it's a script that runs on the server itself that gathers the information from the BBC.

Granted, clicking the links would show cm.co.uk as the referer, but again - I'm not sure they are looking that closely.

[Mcqueen_]

Ah right.

Quite surprised they have a problem with it, recently the Beeb seem to want to share alot of their information, promoting their RSS feeds being displayed on external sites, preparing to release some projects Opensource and especially Backstage where people can showcase what they've done with the .xml feeds.

If they do stop it completely the 'exclusive' stuff can easily be copied into a thread for those unable to use Mini Moyles.

[fish heads]

Also, with only the people in this area using it, it'll be severly reduced traffic anyway - so less chance of them noticing even if they do look closely

[Console]

Actually the traffic to the webMini-Moyles is irrelevant. We have a script which downloads and checks for new messages every 5 minutes or so, regardless of how many hits webMini-Moyles gets, meaning all traffic webMini-Moyles gets stays on this site. Also we have now masked our program so it shouldn't stand out at all if they were to check their logs.

[Console]

Has anyone else played the game yet? Very dodgy in my opinion, good, but very dodgy! Yawn!

[Mcqueen_]

Yeah. It said on mini-moyles to enter your email and name, was it just me who didn't see where to enter it? I had ~10900 aswell..

Not a game you're going to want to play alot.

[Console]

Perhaps you need to get over a ceartain score, I got ~135000 on my first and ~146000 on my second time. Both times I was asked to enter my name and email.

[Console]

OK, I just did it again really quickly (105s) and got a score of ~140000 (I tried my best to get a low score, really I did) and I got the screen represented in the link below:-

http://vimagination.zapto.org/Random/OtherSaviourCity.gif

Is this not what your seeing McQueen?

[Mcqueen_]

Nope. I've just done it quickly and got over 140000 and didn't see that screen.

I think the '10900' must have another 0 in it somewhere, I can't get that low again.

[Chris]

You only get to enter your name if you use Internet Explorer.
Nice.

[Mcqueen_]

What a joke.

I suppose it does make all this mini-moyles stuff more exclusive though as loads of people can't access half of it.

[Console]

You only get to enter your name if you use Internet Explorer.
Nice.

Also, now that I'm back on my linux box, I can't even play it as Macromedia don't make a shockwave plugin for linux. Genius. They really don't like anything other than Microsoft do they?

[Sheep]

You could try running IE on WINE, but i really diont see why you would want to infect your pc with IE....

[Console]

You could try running IE on WINE, but i really diont see why you would want to infect your pc with IE....

HAHAHAHA. I would rather not play it. Besides I got it running in Linux already with CrossOverOffice's plugin support, although admittidly without sound but thats no loss. On the plus side though its a hell of alot faster.

Oh and your right, in firefox I can't enter the competition. I'll have that sorted out in no time!

[Sheep]

Yeah its not worth intalling IE for, i also had the problem of not having sound in linux...wierd...
Anyway back on topic...