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A comment on the problem "“The service is not currently available in your area.”" in Channel4.com:

Also, am slightly confused. Are you a Channel 4 employee? You do not appear to be registered as one, nor do you have any previous activity here. – Liyang HU, on July 21, 2009 13:44

A comment on the problem "“The service is not currently available in your area.”" in Channel4.com:

Reported as a proxy server/anonymiser by *whom*? And why?

I have a static IP address from Be*. I have had this address since late 2007. I'd rather not have to go through the hassle of asking for it to be changed and then having to update my DNS records. There's no guarantee that, even if I do request a change of IP address, I'll get another one that *isn't* falsely blocked for one reason or another.

So, um, how would I go about getting my address removed from the blacklist? :-/

Appreciate the help,
/Liyang – Liyang HU, on July 21, 2009 13:41

Liyang HU started following the question "How about offering the kanji game in reverse?" in divita.

Liyang HU started following the idea "Groups - for users, hashtags, searches" in atebits.

Liyang HU started following the idea "Color of hashtags" in atebits.

Liyang HU started following the problem "Hashtags with "-" don't resolve correctly" in atebits.

A comment on the idea "Groups" in atebits:

Allowing each user to be placed in multiple groups (i.e. apply multiple tags) would be nice too. Though if the developer consider this counter-intuitive I'm willing to concede this point. – Liyang HU, on April 22, 2009 12:35

Liyang HU marked one of Dane's replies in atebits as useful. Dane replied to the idea "Groups". Liyang HU and 2 other people think it's one of the best replies.

Liyang HU started following the question "Support Page Up/Down and Home/End" in atebits.

Liyang HU marked one of kindlejunkie's replies in atebits as useful. kindlejunkie replied to the idea "Adding Groups or Stacks to Tweetie for Mac". Liyang HU and 3 other people think it's one of the best replies.

Liyang HU started following the idea "Tweetie Groups?" in atebits.

Liyang HU started following the idea "Adding Groups or Stacks to Tweetie for Mac" in atebits.

Liyang HU started following the idea "Groups" in atebits.

Liyang HU marked one of Andy Pipes' replies in Channel4.com as useful. Andy Pipes replied to the problem "Can't access the "Watch For Free" programmes on NEW Channel Four website!".

Liyang HU started following the idea "Send me a email whenever one of my favorite shows is available to watch on 4oD Catch Up." in Channel4.com.

iknowthat's reply to "4OD on Linux??" was just promoted to the most useful! Liyang HU and 2 other people think it's one of the best replies.

this is because it uses the Windows Media Player and Microsoft digital right management. They have to use this to protect the programmes from being pirated which would break the rules imposed by the people who own the copyright such as the movie studios and people like emdemol who actually make the programs. Unlike the BBC, channel 4 doesnt actually make its own programs so it cant just do what it likes with them.

Liyang HU replied on April 08, 2009 21:19 to the problem "Can't access the "Watch For Free" programmes on NEW Channel Four website!" in Channel4.com:

Andy: apologies on behalf of the other users above. Might it make sense to have a ‘report a problem’ button on the website which logs the User-Agent string?

Anyway, I have the same problem. 4oD seems to think I'm not in the UK; I beg to differ...

I'm on OS X, and have tried both Firefox and Safari. My ISP is Be*, my IP address is 87.194.136.165 (tattershall.liyang.hu).

The RIPE records for my IP range shows it's in the UK; every IP geolocation lookup service I've tried also says I'm in the UK. (Including MaxMind's, which I gather is the most commonly-used one.)

How does 4oD determine where I supposedly am anyway?

liyang replied on March 03, 2009 02:44 to the idea "Add OFX feeds to online banking" in The Co-operative Bank:

Someone wrote a GreaseMonkey script to scrape the data off the relevant pages to produce OFX output: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/6976

Sadly it doesn't work anymore, but I'll be looking at fixing that.

liyang started following the idea "Add OFX feeds to online banking" in The Co-operative Bank.