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We're now streaming audio live from the LinuxWorld show floor. You can get it at
mp3-2.thesync.com:8000 (and thanks to TheSync for making this happen). Hopefully we'll have video coming out soon. You can now see our
fancy dandy live webcam.
I think you might have just /.'d yourself, when you brought up the webcam site and then turned the laptop towards the cam... it was just too much to handle. I think for a moment I could percieve infinity. Have Fun
skout perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(
When I clicked on the live web cam there wasn't anything interesting. After a few reloads though, someone had strategically placed some attractive women in from of the camera. I wasn't listening to the audio, so I'm not sure who they are. Anyone know? Here are some of the pictures. Pic 1, Pic 2, Pic 3
Yes! You are correct sir!
This
Er, I'll have pics from a photo shoot up soonish. Those slackers with digicams aren't uploading their stuff, huh? bwhahah.
There are 3 daemonettes here this time. I'm still the only one wearing latex. and I USE the OS. so NYAH.
Ceren E.
"Strange Attraction
FreeBSD Test Labs"
So what? Does that mean he's automatically banned from posting anything interesting?
Obviously, they're selling BSD in some fashion. As we all know, /. isn't just for Linux, it's for techies, and when you want a secure web server, BSD is something to think about.
...
If you wanted free adverts, it might be a good idea to wear your product t-shirt or hat, with the logo and web address and talk to a customer facing the web cam. Then your site can be slashdotted at no advertising cost
Will in Seattle
My, next time you're heading to Seattle, feel free to look me up in the Center of the Universe, Fremont.
... everyone from NYC keeps moving to Seattle, so you'll fit right in.
;-)
just do a directory search on my name, I'm the one with the hyphen
Will in Seattle
I didn't see anything new. Now it's just a dude with a Vaio laptop. He looks pissed. I think he's bored because all the software is stuff that has been done before.
Dangit!!! icecast is broken again??? I get a "404 Steam not found" error when trying to play the live audio.
When you wipe your chin and graduate school with your art history degree, you can play with the big boys in the day time.
yay! emmet put back on the headset while being interviewed. listen and be amazed. ;^)
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Hey, I saw you on the webcam ;)
Question: Is there any way to use additional (mirroring) servers for the mp3 stream? I can't connect. It either gets stuck while "reading response" or kicks me with server full.
I really REALLY REALLY want to connect...
I strongly believe that trying to be clever is detrimental to your health. -- Linus Torvalds
OK; what did that piece of paper held in front of the webcam say?
Something strange is going on. The guy in the top-center of this picture is in reverse video!
-russ
Don't piss off The Angry Economist
It's depressing when I come across a post like this. The same thing happend when the story about the chinese manned space program was posted. Why cant you geeks, with the ++ IQ get over bigotry? A truly sad state. Katz wanna jab at writing something about this?
To qualify this guy's remark, that was a direct quote from Hemos.
- Dan
...and I am glad to see you guys listened to me and got the Free BSD girls over to the camera... One was conspicuously missing, but...
This
Pablo Nevares, "the freshmaker".
Pablo Nevares, "the freshmaker".
Ok, I'm one of the lucky ones. I'm here at the Expo. I didn't even realize I was being recorded, when I debated Rob about having a "reject bin" for filtered rejected posts!
Yes those women in the pics are from the BSD booth, coming over to see/advertise-on slashdot. It's funny to see the ways companies/orginizations try to get people to come and see them. I went there and picked up my "Free BSD" CD/floppies, and it comes with a paper that reads that it is an evaluation copy. How can a Free BSD give evaluation copies that expire in 60 days??! If I remember correctly, they did the same thing to me last year, and that was why I never installed it. Maybe I read it wrong. If anyone knows, please respond. I like to be open, and want to install *BSD to work with my Linux boxes. But they left me confused!
Steven Rostedt
Steven Rostedt
-- Nevermind
And yes, when the microphone was passed around, there were quite a few "First Post" comments.
Doh!
Yes, BSD's big lure was women in tight outfits who you could get your picture taken with. You shoulda seen the girl in the red LATEX outfit. Yowzers...
Although it is supposedly a logical fallacy known as "ad hominem" to criticize someones statements based on their character or who is making the statement, speaking as a trial lawyer I have learned that generally when someone holds one really stupid idea to be true (white power) then I am much less willing to admit that they have a clue about anything else of importance.
As John Cleese, also a law school graduate pointed out in a classic Monty Python sketch on a record I haven't heard since the mid-1970's, "this may not be logical, but it *is* true..."
It's hardly fair to mark this down as a troll. Someone obviously is very intolerant where Daveo is concerned.
I find that it helps to think of him as an Igor - yer generic Mad Doctor's faithful Lab Assistant, complete with hunchback, limp and dodgy scars.
MD: "Igor, fetch me a brain!"
Igor: "Yeth marther, Igor go fetch a brain for marther."
Igor: *lurch*
Of course, daveo will now followup and reveal himself to be a hunchbacked medical student with a lithp, sorry, lisp and I'll look like a completely callous bar steward.
dave(!o) (with apologies to terry Pratchett)
A comment on linux. As anyone who peruses the linux notices, it originiates not in a free software 'movement', as if it were the black panthers or mothers against drunk driving, but in academia. The gnu project took place with so much assistance from the massachusetts institute of technology it might as well be produced by them. As such, far from being an agendaless system 'free' of the chaingang of cost-benift analysis, it is basically an attack by academia on the consumer computer industry. Viewed histroically this can be seen as the ludicrous attempt by knowledge-based socal insitutions who see their power eroding as information technology spreads throughout society to hold onto what they see as 'their' invention-the holy grail of academic science-the digital computer. So if you think linux simply eliminates big brother online, get your social and caste credentials out of the closet folks. Meet Academia, Inc, linux's real corporate entitiy. Linux is really their toy, and the spread and dissimination of this uninovative re-engineer of an mainframe system barely designed with contemporary ic design in mind is their attempt to eliminate those pesky 'new media types' for good. It's like if the united states told every country on the planet who have a nuclear reactor to turn them in to us at the end of the week. Goodbye, and have fun !
I can't wait to meet all you guys, that's going to be great!
Ok, So I'm not talking about bigfoot here, but there is definantly a missing link problem. Souldn't the mentioned address for streaming vidio be a link to the site it mentions?
Little Brother, watching the watchers
[spm@szyzyg spm]$ nc mp3-2.thesync.com 8000 | cat -v | more
;-)
/. radio interest you?
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ICY 200 OK^M
icy-notice1:
This stream requires no crappy nullsoft client^M
icy-notice2:icecast server version 1.3.0
^M
icy-name:Geeks in Space^M
icy-genre:Talk^M
icy-url:http://www.thesync.com/geeks/^M
icy-pub:0^M
icy-br:32^M
^M
So... if you ever want someone to get you up to date with the streamer and the server - you have my account.
How would proper
(XMMS/Liveice plugin update - http://star.arm.ac.uk/~spm/software/liveice-xmms.
Looks like its /.'ted already.. whats up with that.
*sigh* Now if only the computers at school had sound cards... Are they broadcasting 24 hours a day? I hope so, I'm missing it now, but I can't wait to be listening at 3am tommorrow night "We're now in our......35th hour...of..broadcasting live from Linuxwo....*snore*...where are we again?"
Does this mean I get to hear people shouting 'First Post!' and talking about Natalie Portman naked and petrified with a bowl of hot grits?
:)
BilldaCat
Must... put... more... servers... that's kinda what's nice about icecast/shoutcast, you can have one streaming location that streams to several servers that can handle a lot of bandwidth.
-- adraken
Right, now, all those with cable modems who are currently hearing it, start streaming it from your computer too. Post your ip here. *grin*. All others, bugger off so I can get on.
Seriously though, mp3-2.thesync.com resolves to only one IP address. Surely slashdot of all people would have figured we are gonna need more than one server. Never-the-less, TheSync set it up, so slashdot probably didn't have much control over it. Its a great idea, I just wish I could listen to it too! :)
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I use to have a funny sig, but slash cut it off, and I forgot what the punchline was.
Right now it either says "server full" or gets stuck while "reading response" (5 min. and counting).
I strongly believe that trying to be clever is detrimental to your health. -- Linus Torvalds
and Twickler estimates that 51 percent of all Linux-related traffic over the Web currently courses through Andover.Net
How in the name of L. Ron Hubbard did he come up with 51%? Whaaa? What constitutes "Linux-related traffic" anyway? Pretty vague. Is not any surfing I do from a Linux box Linux-related web traffic?
#!/bin/bash
while true
do
mpg123 http://mp3-2.thesync.com:8000
done;
On second thought, you might be right. The humor comes from the fact that the stereotypical cyberpunk is a white guy wearing black, whereas this person is a black guy wearing white. Clearly there is no humor if you ignore his race. And yet, I don't think I'm bringing any prejudice to this joke. I'm not imputing any characteristic to the person in question. Everything I say about him is obvious from his appearance, and is not demeaning. I mean, for all I know, that guy could be some famous and sublime geek who is purposefully creating his own parody of the cyberpunk regalia. And if that's the case, I'd look pretty dumb for pointing out the obvious, eh?
-russ
Don't piss off The Angry Economist
greetings from linuxworld, where daveo is live now! ;0) roblimo is hogging the mic ;0(
-DAVEO
"when asked who they would marry almost 98% said it should be one of their own sex" .. should not be sex but race :) I'm humbly sorry for this silly mistake which made my post rather unintelligent. :(
GET HER ON THE WEBCAM!!!!
This
i hope you read this soon
whoever that massive guy in the suit is backed up against the camera's view, kick him out of the way.
Dude,
Sure you are important, but can you move away from the camera so I can see? Seeing your dark jacket, black hair and the pimples on the back of your neck is not exactly the best view of the slashdot booth.
Great picture! Kicks the heck out of my IBM one. What type of webcam is it? Great color, picture, quality. Can we get a model # here? Thanks! Dirk
Got a free magazine, 2 buttons, 2 CDs, and the best of all a Slackware bumper sticker! Also some idea of the corporate support for Linux. The SGI booth was slick. Though I don't know about their all black uniforms. Donno what that's all about. Passed by /.'s booth, figured I see enough of it at home. Saw the dust bunny getting his eyes polished. Yeah saw the demon girl. She was moving through the crowd pretty fast! Overheard someone say they thought the show would have been bigger. Seemed good sized to me. My first show though so I can't compare it to anything.
So what? Does that mean he's automatically banned from posting anything interesting?
/. forums and in general. But if he can post freely, I can too...
Not at all. In fact I wrote that the article is indeed interesting. See, after reading the article I wondered why he made such a big deal out of it, so I checked his user account and saw the other comment, which really made me mad (guess that's what a troll is all about...). He sounds bitter and full of hate. So I just wanted to add some context by pointing to it.
In no way would I condone censorship in the
Sorry for the late reply, but I couldn't get to a terminal. Every time I tried, they were all taken. Especially at the Slashdot pavilion.
;^)
You are right, I did get confused with the BSD/OS because they are right next to each other. When I went to the booth, the FreeBSD guys/gals were not there, so I strolled too far an ended up with the BSD/OS people, and thought I was still with the Free BSD. My mistake, sorry.
Thanks for the invite on the picture with the daemonettes, but my wife won't care for that
BTW, I did pick up a copy of the Free BSD, and I do plan on trying it out. I think it will go well with my Slackware and RedHat machines.
Thanks,
Steven Rostedt
Steven Rostedt
-- Nevermind
C'mon, isn't one of you wired to be mobile? I'll settle for BoothCams if that's all you got, but pictures, I need pictures!
Will in Seattle
Here's an article about /. and Andover.Net that you won't see passing the the submitter's desk. Upside takes an inside look at Slashdot and Andover net. The article is called Andover.Net's Media Kludge.
The post said:
- Hopefully we'll have video coming out soon
Does this mean that porno flick that the- CmdrTaco is renamed Dirty Hammer
- Jon Katz as Catwoman (because he bitches like a woman!)
- The explaination for Cowboy Neal's name
- Really realistic fire scenes
The only bad thing I have heard about this flick is that it really should not of been a porno (with the exception of the Dirty Hammer and Cowboy Neal part) because of the absence of females.Cool. I finally happy its not in San jose as usuall. I did already miss linus's speech, :-(
:-)
Perhaps I will met him and Cox in person.
You guys are fun and all, but the Free BSD demon girl in the red rubber pants is far more entertaining... You should really consider having her over.
What soft is available for streaming mp3? I'd like to listen to the radio in my office, but there's no radio reception this deep inside. Presumably I could put a Linux box and a radio on the net near a window. What do I run?
hey take the camera and go to thr FREEBSD booth and get those rubber clad demon girls on the web already!
This
try mpg123 or xmms, both of these can stream mp3s. If these won't work for you, there's always http://freshmeat.net/.
ufdraco
no mirrors, sorry. it keeps coming and going; it's really frustrating. we had a discussion with the crowd on the lack of women in the computer industry a while ago, and now emmett is ranting on linuxone. the audio only seems to work when there's nothing much going on. grrrr... icecast encodes ok, but then has trouble connecting to the sync.
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closing up the show for the day... i'll get on the phone to thesync tonight; hopefully, we'll be broadcasting all day tomorrow.
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I'm at work now so I'm behind a firewall. I don't have a Linux box here either. Is it possible to listen to this on NT from behine a firewall? I have Winamp and I specified my http proxy under the streaming preferences. When I enter the streaming URL in the open location dialog I just get a series of dialog boxes that say "Error: not a valid MPEG file"
we got it all going, then icecast flaked for a what seemed to be a very long and very nerve-racking time. sorry about that; it's all better now. of course, if you're listening now, you're not hearing anything because we're not saying anything. :) just keep it running in the background, and crank it up when the next show starts. in the meantime, you can bring up the webcam and watch me typing this to you. :-)
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Look for me LIVE!
Thank you.