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Aug 24, 2008

Watch Live Premiership and Champions League Matches via Sopcast, on Ubuntu Hardy/Debian 32 & 64 Bit

Posted by Hodge in Technology, Ubuntu • No comments

What happened to Football? Once a working man’s sport, most children dreamed of playing for their team – for the pure pleasure, and pride of playing for the team. Now? It’s all about the money – so much, that in order to watch your favourite Premiership or Champions League team live, you have to pay [...]


Aug 10, 2008

Live Olympics Coverage via Sopcast, on Ubuntu Hardy/Debian 32 & 64 Bit

Posted by Hodge in Rants, Ubuntu • 5 comments

Note 1: I got somewhat sidetracked and into a rather lengthy rant while writing this. If you want, you can skip it and get straight to installing Sopcast, otherwise, read on.
Note 2: The method (eventually) described below is legal, since the Chinese TV stations are themselves streaming the coverage online.
I despise TV, but every four [...]