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Live from LinuxWorld until 4 p.m.
We're streaming audio live from the LinuxWorld show floor until 4 p.m. or slightly later.. You can get it at
mp3-2.thesync.com:8000 (and thanks to TheSync for making this happen). You can now also our
live boothcam and, later tonight (7 - 10 p.m.) our official PARTY!!! and Beanie Awards ceremony.
How's like 4 or 5p EST. You understand, it's just that we've all heard so much about you but so few uf us have seen...
:P
When and where is the party?
GET / HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.0 404 Stream not found
HEAD / HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.0 306 Grow up
the screen's all screwy and not fun to look at.. 1st post... Muhahahahaha...
I think you guys need to take another look at the setup. I can barely make anything out.
OpenSourceDK live!
Thank you.
Several articles are usually posted at once, but they are delayed.
Chances are, the last three or four articles were posted and made some time yesterday or even earlier, but set to post to the static page at the time they did.
Probably the timezone the show is in. Being as it runs at a set time each day. The show is in New York City. Does that narrow it down any for you? Although the show is supposed to run until 6 PM everyday. So maybe they mean Mountain time?
If this webcasting effort mentioned here is done by the Slashdot crew they aren't trying very hard. Not just the webcam that basically rolled over but the I can't even get the audio stream to work. The advertised address starts by loading a few hundred Kb's before vanishing without a trace - or a sound. All the usual mp3 casts stream just fine, including TheLinuxShow. Yeah, it'd be nice to have these broadcasts available as standard mp3 downloads, preferably with some sort of a "programme schedule" to boot. If Slashdot were really serious about their media as a profession they'd be encouraged to provide more professional service. This is a suggestion and not a complaint. Low-bitrate mp3 is fine for e.g. broadcasting keynotes, interviews and whatever comes from mouth and goes to ear (tongues excluded). They could also solicit (instant) feedback via email for listeners and e.g. for extra geeky flavor use text-to-speech synthesis to "play back" listeners' email comments and questions. But most importantly the stream should be available in a standard format.
Anyway, if anyone knows where I could look for these broadcasts in mp3 format please step forward. Same goes for Linus' keynote.
ahhhh!
/ k.d / earth trickle / Monkeys vs. Robots Films /
Large print giveth, and the small print taketh away
heheh
/ k.d / earth trickle / Monkeys vs. Robots Films /
Large print giveth, and the small print taketh away
/ k.d / earth trickle / Monkeys vs. Robots Films /
Large print giveth, and the small print taketh away
Infidel.
Your friendly slashdot author. Yesterday there was another accordian too. The HORRORS!
anyway, current status:
it's not the cameras, and it's not the cables (we've tried two of each). it seems to be the video capture card. when we recorded the beanie awards last night, the signal coming in from the cameras & cables to the video mixing board was fine, but when we ran a cable to the encoding machine, it ran great for awhile, then turned into what you saw yesterday. so, we just turned it off and let thomas and (oops; so sorry, i'm blanking on your name!) take the recording back to the sync to be encoded.
i turned in relatively early last night, so i don't know whether we snagged a replacement card from thomas or not. you'll just have to stay tuned...
p.s.: watch for the beanie awards video; it's fun. :)
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icecast continues to die from time-to-time, but we now have an account on thesync's server, so we can restart it as needed.
as for the boothcam, there's a bad coupling on the video input card. if you jiggle the cable for 20 minutes or so, you can get a clear shot for 10 seconds. of course, you also get this if you *don't* jiggle it... it's total chaos theory at this point. sorry about that. hope you caught the alan cox interview and the nerf battle this morning.
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Maybe I'm dumb, but I haven't been able to figure out how to connect to the live audio cast? Anyone now how?
Let love and faithfulness never leave you;
bind them around your neck,
write them on the tablet of your heart.
Put the camera down! I'm gonna hurl!
love the advertisment for sony over the image.
This explains why it isnt working well...
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Just made me think about it... It could be cool to have a little new slashbox showing the slashdot booth in any event that is taking place currently whatever it may be. This way we could spy on the /. staff everytime there is an event!!!
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear"
So Microsoft isn't the only one that likes that pretty blue color. I think the sync should rethink their color choice! :)
Telcos have alot of dark fibre in the States. Most people assume that's optical fibre...but it's actually moral fibre.
Heh.. I'll be popping the champagne in Tucson if I win.
On the other hand, If I lose, i'll drink it.
Bowie J. Poag
Project Manager, PROPAGANDA For Linux (http://propaganda.themes.org)
Bowie J. Poag
Someone's there playing an accordian. That might have something to do with why the picture is so bad :)
Bowie J. Poag
Project Manager, PROPAGANDA For Linux (http://propaganda.themes.org)
Bowie J. Poag
..getting worse.. The horizontal is getting vertical. Whatever that means.
:)
Hey.. is there some kind of accordion performance over there? That's all I hear on the radio. And the bass setting is way too high.
Anyway, I don't quite understand what's so exciting about being able to hear inside jokes from outside..
Orzak
..getting worse.. The horizontal is getting vertical. Whatever that means.
:)
Hey.. is there some kind of accordion performance over there? That's all I hear on the radio. And the bass setting is way too high.
Anyway, I don't quite understand what's so exciting about being able to hear inside jokes from outside..
Orzak
ashpool7.dhs.org:8000
96 max users (now)
If you're not getting anything, then the main feed is bad/down/not broadcasting.
If you hear nothing playing, they're not broadcasting
If you hear Juno Reactor playing, that means The Sync is down
That was a problem with The Sync. When they fixed it, my braindamaged Win32 Shoutcast (v1.5.0) server doesn't pick up and still reports the same problem. I wasn't paying attention after 2pm today, so I didn't get a chance to reboot the server. Sorry guys :(
Are you referring to /. -> VA sale?
Are you referring to /. -> Andover -> VA sale?
Thanks in advance for your patience.
Listening to the stream right now (4:41 Newfoundland Time, GMT -3:30).
Whoever put on King of the World by Steely Dan is my favourite person in the world!
Last time I checked it was dead air. I went away for a while, then came back to this amazing tune.
Too bad it's a little broken up...
That camera must be encrypted. Anyone have PGP key for video?
UK format ;-)
I keep seeing the word "Stamina" and "Battery Life" almost like the camera is on "Demo Mode."
--Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
It would be grate for the people that have a wierd schedual or just cant get on if someone was recording this, I know it would be big but it would be nice and certenly would be a part of /. history!
Peace, Freedom and Linux for all
...I just looked at the webcam, and the date said 03/02/2000.
Live from the future? Or a weird date format?
"Nobody owns the fucking words man." - James Dean
Please please please get her in front of the camera, someone get some photos...BSD Latex daemoness, if you're reading right now, and you wanna make a lot of money, throw up a few add banners (the people /. goes with ain't that bad, most people have doubleclick blocked) and link to some photos here. You'll be able to retire early, providing your web server can handle the slashdot effect...
mcrandello@my-deja.com
rschaar{at}pegasus.cc.ucf.edu if it's important.
Doesn't look like a booth to me... just looks like a bunch of people sitting on the floor having fun? And why isn't it way more busy? It's only a guess, but if you've been using Linux your bound to have heard of Slashdot... :)
Cheers!
CvD.
The Official Steve Ballmer Webpage
I mean with your bein' mergin' 'n all... (I hope it won't hurt anywhere, physically, I mean) But unfortly, your video streaming sucks.
Religion is what happens when nature strikes and groupthink goes wrong.
- connecting...
- connected, waiting for reply...
- prebuffering..8kb/32kb
and it just sits there at the "prebuffering" stage. I get "504 server full" from the sync, just like yesterday."It's better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
Don't try to change the channel. We control the Horizontal, and the Vertical It seems that you are only controlling the Horizontal. What happened to the Vertical???!!!
You can't handle the truth.
-- My comment is above.
You can change the refresh rate. Just copy and paste the source into a ascii file and change it at the top (under META refresh content="30")from 30 to 10 (or whatever), then save it as an html and open it locally. Works great at 10 seconds for me.
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"It's not the same on film is it? I mean, you know it's real, but it's like looking through the lens gives you some sort of protection from what's on the other side."
"I was the one who brought them here. I was the one that said "Let's go to Linux World." I was the one who said that we were not lost. It was my fault, because it was my booth. I am so scared... I don't know what's out there. We are going to die out here - I am so scared!"
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I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
I see you :) I hope you guys are having a good time. And I will tune in for the party.
yet no BSD girls. (yes that is all I can think of; yes I realize all of my posts have been about the BSD girls; I am fully aware that this is pathetic, possibly psychopathic behaviour; no I will not stop writing these comments; "Yes I am still holding onto the can."--Homer Simpson)
This
Yesterday was great. How is it today? I think I hear a user calling me to midtown...
This
Finally some MS bashing...
This
Who's playing the accordian?!?!?
-- adraken
Could anyone post the lyrics for that song Emmet performed? :)
"Oppression and harassment is a small price to pay to live in the land of the free." -- Montgomery Burns.
how quickly new articles get posted every time there is a "slashdot is now owned by" or "we have taken some semi-controlling action" article....do you guys save a few to post and then put em up shortly after these announcements on purpose?
I mean if its just to try to have people overlook the articles because you don't want them to read them, but feel obliged to post them, than i completely understand.......
Picture is a little jacked up, someone fix the horizontal.
heh
Looks like multi-line collages of two different pictures.
Fix please.
Will in Seattle
We'll probably play "Should I Sleep or Should I Code" later today, and I'm hoping to get CmdrTaco to sing "Won't Get Fooled Again" while I play.
I've tried TheSync's audio feed several times, and it seems /.'ed to the extreme.
Anyone else having better luck?
www.eFax.com are spammers
I haven't seen anything quite as visually unsettling than the skewed webcam since I accidentally ate the entire plate of 'brownies' someone left in the fridge back in college.
.sig: Now legally binding!
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by NSA_Guy on 10:22 3rd February, 2000 MDT
(User Info)
Picture is a little jacked up, someone fix the horizontal.
Hello this is NSA chief of covert operations Bill McHansen
Damn you figured out our little scheme to assassinate^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H um I mean talk to the members of slashdot. However we will eventually achieve our objective. Good day.
Slashdot social engineering at it's finest
Anyone have any dramamine.
Never knock on Death's door:
More race stuff in one place,
than any one place on the net.
Don't try to change the channel. We control the Horizontal, and the Vertical. It looks like you are only controlling the Horizontal. There is no Vertical!!!
You can't handle the truth.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Here are some pictures I took yesterday at Linuxworld, hanging around the Slashdot booth. Slightly better quality than the livecam... and they have captions to boot.
http://www.smackfu.com/linuxworld