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You remember the old days when it was the websites that were deciding what you should use? “Best viewed in IE 5.5 in 1024×768″, or even worse the ones that were refusing if you didn’t had the browser of their choice? Yeah I know, a few websites still have these restrictions, but usually it is legacy stuff that they are working on to remove. With the rise of alternatives browsers (mainly Firefox) and alternatives OS (mainly Mac OS, yes, not Linux yet!), nowadays are the days of the interoperability. IT people are supposed to catch the trend and offer relevant solutions. That’s what we see … but not always. Bad luck for me.

Incompetent IT staff from a brand new ISP I now use, DartyBox (founded in 2006 IIRC) decided that their IP TV offer should be broadcasted on… IE in XP/Vista with WMP only! Not only does it limit your “choice” of OS, but it also limits you choice of browser! And I really wonder what they were thinking by offering their TV service on a browser… Absurd. On the opposite, a very good solution from their ISP competitor Free offer their TV service on VLC. Cross platform, no TV-on-browser oddities, perfect!

One funny thing while I was trying to get this working on VLC (unsuccessfully) :

** (.:16387): CRITICAL **: gtk_pizza_set_size: assertion `pizza != NULL' failed

I really wonder how taste a GTK pizza