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How to stream the London 2012 Olympics

There have been several HOWTOs posted regarding streaming the 2012 Olympics using HTTP / SOCKS proxies via SSH and other similar methods. None of these actually work using the latest Flash on Mountain Lion (with Firefox, Chrome or Safari). Additionally, the third-party streaming sites don't provide BBC's amazing interface, which lets you quickly skip to individual competitors and events. However, setting up an OpenVPN server does work, with some tweaks. You'll get the exact same UX that people in England receive.

Get a Linode VM in the UK. The 512MB server for $20 works just fine. (If you want to use my referral link, go for it: http://bit.ly/OuzdVe)
Follow the standard OpenVPN installation documentation. (Basically, 'apt-get install openvpn' or 'yum install openvpn' and then follow these docs: http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/howto.html). For an OS X client, I prefer Viscosity: http://www.thesparklabs

Let's not localize programming languages. Please >_<

Feel free to fork and expand and/or add more languages as an example to why this would be horrible, and I'll add them here :)

	# I am a scientist who has been using R for about 2 years. Today I achieved a measure of enlightenment into
	# the zen of R, and I want to share it with you.

	# I was simulating a set of independent random walks, which are formed by a multiplicative process. Here is
	# the code I had built up over a few months of working on it and modifying it on and off as research
	# questions changed:

	TimeSteps <- 1000
	Walks <- 100
	ErrorMagnitude <- 0.03

	#!/bin/bash
	#
	# Note: This is the only file you really need. I've copied the contents
	# of the important files that are part of our git repo for easier reading
	# below :)
	#
	# I've prefixed this file with two dots to make it rise to the top of the
	# gist. you can ignore those
	#

	#From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Correlation_examples2.svg

	#Title: An example of the correlation of x and y for various distributions of (x,y) pairs
	#Tags: Mathematics; Statistics; Correlation
	#Author: Denis Boigelot
	#Packets needed : mvtnorm (rmvnorm), RSVGTipsDevice (devSVGTips)
	#How to use: output()
	#
	#This is an translated version in R of an Matematica 6 code by Imagecreator.

	json2csv.py
	real 5m28.824s
	user 5m27.584s
	sys 0m1.524s

	C (https://github.com/jehiah/json2csv)
	real 0m15.945s
	user 0m15.181s
	sys 0m1.204s

	require 'rubygems'
	require 'csv'
	require 'json'
	require 'net/http'

	def scrape(username, tag)
	url = "http://www.delicious.com/v2/json/#{username}/#{tag}?count=1000"
	resp = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(url))
	data = resp.body

	// Conway's Game of Life for HTML5 Canvas
	// By Simon Laroche

	var FPS = 5;
	var paused = true;
	var gLoop;
	var generations = 0;
	var population = 0;

	var start = document.getElementById('start');

	import sys
	import colorsys
	from colorz import colorz

	WALLPAPER = '/home/james/.wallpaper'
	COLORS = '/home/james/.colors'
	XRESOURCES = '/home/james/.Xresources'

	cols = ''
	xres = """

	# ~/.bashrc: executed by bash(1) for non-login shells.
	# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files (in the package bash-doc)
	# for examples

	# If not running interactively, don't do anything
	[ -z "$PS1" ] && return

	# don't put duplicate lines in the history. See bash(1) for more options
	# ... or force ignoredups and ignorespace
	HISTCONTROL=ignoredups:ignorespace