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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.

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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

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	homepage 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dpkg'

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	require 'net/http'
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	require 'usb'

	class StreamClient
	def initialize user, pass

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	# Install (from Matt's gist) these useful Git aliases & configurations with the following command:
	# $ bash <(curl -s https://raw.github.com/gist/419201/gitconfig.bash)


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