Geeks In Space Hiatus

Geeks in space is on an indefinite hiatus while we sort out the (ahem) issues surrounding continuing production while we are located in 3 cities and 2 time zones. Since Hemos's wedding and move to boston, and Nate's move to california to continue work on Everything 2, that leaves CowboyNeal and I all by ourselves. When we figure out a good way to continue the show, we will. If you have solutions, let us know. Perhaps now is the time to start streaming and switch to a live broadcast with an IRC simulcast. But we're still thinkin'

Comments

what to do?

[banky]

Get a phone bank, have people call in. Then, for the first 20 minutes of the show, people can call in and say "First Call!" and hang up. This is fabulously interesting and exciting if you're in the 'First Post' crowd, and a guaranteed ratings grabber.

But seriously, although I'm sure that the delicate interplay of personalities was brought about by having everyone there, physically, can't you all just call in and record that way?

Well, Duh!

[rlkoppenhaver]

You need to do the same thing that the TV studios have been doing for years when a popular program runs it's course...

Spinoff Shows! Perhaps one about Nate's new job as a talk-radio psychologist, or one in which Hemos joins the army and annoys the heck out of Sargeant Carter.

Taco and CoyboyNeal can of course, begin production on GIS: TNG

It *must* be something hi-tech, and cool

[_xeno_]

But seriously, although I'm sure that the delicate interplay of personalities was brought about by having everyone there, physically, can't you all just call in and record that way?

First of all, having them call in and record is going to sound terrible - phones just don't sound that nice! However, it should still be possible for them to somehow contact each other to record an episode. Since this is, of course, Geeks in Space (Linux Geeks, to be specific), an Internet solution somehow involving Linux is, of course, preferred.

So that's why I'd suggest that they look for GPLed software that allows high quality audio to be streamed over the web so they can colaborate together for the show. It's gotta be something hi-tech, something as old as phones just isn't gonna cut it for GiS. If there isn't anything currently available to allow realtime audio streaming over the web, licenced under the GPL, and designed for Linux, then someone needs to get to work! :)

Either that, or they should invest in some video conferencing equipment - damn the cost, they sure look cool. (Plus it's fun to play with the cameras remotely... zoom-in, zoom-out - start it roaming randomly...)

What ever they do, it needs to be hi-tech, and it needs to be geeky. After all, it wouldn't be Geeks in Space if they were using something old-fassioned like the telephone. Those things should be obsolete soon! Streaming audio over the Internet, all the way!

While they do that, they could fix the color schemes for the Geeks in Space section so that visited and non-visited links are maybe different colors - damn, this black-on-white scheme looks ugly.

Re:It *must* be something hi-tech, and cool

[Grahf666]

Icecast is open source. From the looking at the website (www.icecast.org), it works on Linux, and is GPL'ed. What more do you need?

Re:It *must* be something hi-tech, and cool

[Jon Shaft]

First of all, having them call in and record is going to sound terrible - phones just don't sound that nice! However, it should still be possible for them to somehow contact each other to record an episode. Since this is, of course, Geeks in Space

Actaully it's not that bad. Try listening to the older 2600's Off the Hook Episodes. Bernie S is practically a co-host and he's usually on the phone the whole time. While it's rather fitting, cause it's a hacking/phreaking/political show, but it's still actually not that bad.

Howver, I think it'd still be great to hear Cowboy and Taco doing the show and maybe adding a call in section or what not. It'd probably be a pain in the ass with all the trolls who'd want to call in, but picture actually hearing some of the more intelligent Slashdot readers talking about the subjects... It'd definately be interesting. I'd love to hear how taco would reply to many of the topics... of course a lot of asshoels would probably ruin the idea tho.

Oh welpers.

Kevin and Bean

[ViceClown]

If you've ever heard the Kevin & Bean show in LA, they sound like they are in the same studio when in fact one is on a remote island near Seattle. Seriously it sounds that good! The technology is there for everyone to work together. I don't know if this is a prohibitively expensive solution or not but it's certainly something to look into. You guys have great chemistry, though, and it would be a shame if you called it quits!!! Can't Dibona through something together for you guys?? I hope it all works out :-)

Conspericy theries

[Felinoid]

Well I guess I better unload all my conspericy theries...

Slashdot is out to take over the earth using Debian Gnu/Linux. There is a back door hidden in the Trasmedia chips and AMD chips and VA hardware that will alow CmdrTaco to transmit subliminal messages....
Geeks In Space is a test run of this idea.. Thow GiS dosn't accually use the back door sence you volentarly download the MP3 and lissen to them instead of having it flashed on your screen.
This is why Linux gets such poor graphics preformence. No Linux itself has no graphic defect but the hardware is triggered by Linux.
It won't work with Windows becouse any interfearence causes the system to crash.. this is why the BSoD... the screen is blue becouse that is where the subliminal message WOULD have been if the operating system hadn't crashed...
There is work in progress to make this work on BSD and Solarus as well...
Sun however refused to join in this conspericy as they are allready attempting to take over the world.

The Windows defect is due to the fact that Bill Gates recognised the branwashing and is attempting to stop it becouse it interfears with his own efforts to take over the world.

IBM is working with Linux knowing the efforts of Bill Gates will be discovered and in part allready has been uncovered. The Slashdot/VA/Transmeta/Linus/Debian consepricy has yet to be uncovered...

The Krull is a ruse... They are still busy inslaving The Torvela... They attack the Slashdot/VA/etc conspericy as target practace only...

Ok enough with that one....
Next

CmdrTaco is a Torvelian... He is part of the Krull resitence force.. A rebelion out to free the Cosmose from the tirany of the Krull...

RMS, ESR, even Linus are all a part of the rebelion and of vareous races...
Linus is from a race that evolved from flightless artic birds...

The Torvelian keep monkey like creatures as pets and often train them to do complex tasks like review Slashdot submitions...

ID is created by the trainning devision of the rebelion...The first person shooters are trainning us to be able to handle high powered wepons and shoot strange creates...

John Carmak is a Volak.. The Volak are a race of intelectual warlords... They often win battles with small things like sprikling aliminum dust around a secter of space before a battle... this dust messes with krull wepons and ship systems... and shorts out krull shields... The Krull have learned of this trick and have addepted accordingly.. so have the Volak.... Now they use Sand....

PS. Yes the Volak want the Krull to know... every time they discover this the Krull waist resorces refitting ships... while the Volak are allready prepaired....

IBM was founded by the Krull... in the late 1980s however the Krull needed to sell IBM to afford to refit ships (The Volak again) the rebelion bought IBM in the late 1990s and now use it to premote Linux etc...

VA, Andover etc were founded by the rebelion...

Bill Gates is human and mearly a pon of the Krull however Bill Gates outsmarted the Krull and have sence addapted the Krull plan for his own gains. He is therefor a threat to both the Krull empire and the rebelion... But no one knows exactly how to deal with him as he has Krull defence technology built into his home... no wepons so he modifyed the class 47 shilds... The normal class 47 allowed Krull wepons to shot out but lacking any such wepons the MS Shield has no shuch openning preventing any wepons fire eather way... This shield is impenitrable... unless Bill Gates house BSoDs....

Ok enough of that...

Next conspericy...

Someone is putting something in our water. There are no Krull.. no evil overlords or anything...
To make matters worse.. what they put in our water isn't making us delusional but PREVENTING us from going delusional... Humans as a race are natrally insain and need Tetracell white to keep us sain...

Some aliens are dumpping this into our water so we'll stay sain...

Now for the catch...
Caffine counter acts...... and beer increases the madness.. the side effect of the drug is it also reduces our intelect... You can see the dumbing down effect in some people....

The subspecies Geek are becomming more and more immunine to the drug every day...
It seems the dumbing down is more pronounced than the insaity...

Bill Gates hasn't had any tetracell in his life...
Nither has Linus... CmdrTaco... and I am compleatly immune to it....

Also air is the narcotic causing the madness...

A few more quicky conspericys

We are all batterys.......
The real number of the beast is 3137

CmdrTaco, Myself, Bill Gates, etc etc. Bush, Al Gore and Dominos pizza are all part of a conspericy to prevent you from realising you are your own worst enemy and no one is accually out to get you exlcuding yourself so you don't have to accept the fact that in the end you alone are responsable for all your pains and all your successes.... We can't let you know that....

A few ideas to keeping GiS online

[Felinoid]

I myself have two sound cards so I can run SpeakFreely most of the time... and not have it interfear with my Quake time.. or my Mp3s or anyting else I use my main sound card for..

BTW use PCI soundcards... mixing PCI and ISA is a pain and ISA cards don't like each other...

Or use some of Robs old servers....

Then connect them so they stream into the PC recording the MP3 and a secound box for live streaming...

Music can be mixed ahead of time and streammed in live....

Live streaming or not allow call-ins vea speak freely...

One more....

With this you can have more of the slashdot editors on regularly....
Give Emmit a radio modem (Thats what I use and I'm doing SpeakFreely in the background...) and a lap top and let him do interviews etc....

If Slashdot ever dose get a regular reporter type person he could do his reports vea live streaming audio and then write up a text report for Slashdot posting.....

Matrix Cam... no not a webcam into a vertal reality.... but a webcam on Tacos cat...
Becouse "The cat is so cute"

Or just turn it into the Krull invasion report and have the "away" mebers of the cast doing reports "in the field".... as Hemos works his way to the Krull homeworld to blow up the Krull moon....

What we really need

[Nerds]

Since Hemos's wedding and move to boston, and Nate's move to california to continue work on Everything 2, that leaves CowboyNeal and I all by ourselves.

Who cares? We all know that the rest of you guys are dragging Pater down anyway. I want a show where he goes from town to town and appraises the 1337-ness of people's computers. "Most people would give this computer a high 1337 l3v3l because of the Matrix theme and the fact that all 17 windows are terminal emulators, however you'll notice that this luser is running KDE. 1@m3r."
I suppose Rob could tag along if he had to, maybe afterward he could do his own live-action anime-style reenactment of the exchange, "Vi! Eyiiiiiiiiiii!"

Re:emu10k

[Bill Currie]

Have you checked out ALSA? They also have an emu10k driver, though I don't know how well it works (I have an sb128).

Bill - aka taniwha
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No need to record remotely

[Webmonger]

Just have each of you record himself having a conference call with the others. Then get the recordings to Nate, and make him mix them together.

Computer recording's better than analog tape for the purpose, because there aren't so many synch problems.

There. That's my idea.

hey, it's the internet

[Bill Currie]

As was mentioned elsewhere, there's icecast. There's also Speak Freely. Or there's always the possibility of knocking something up yourselves.

I suspect that with the availability of mp3 mixers, icecast, etc, a nice solution for the communications problem should be achievable. Timing, on the other hand, is another matter, but then that's what clocks are for :)

Bill - aka taniwha
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You guys have broadband....

[wowbagger]

You all have broadband, right? Why not just pick a time, and use one of the streaming audio protocols to chat, and capture the stream. It wouldn't be any worse than the other GIS's ;^].