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After a super long break, We return with a smaller than usual crew, but with special guest Geoff "Mandrake" Harrison. We talk about KDE/Debian issues, price changing, GPG vs. PGP and more. We don't know when our next episode will be, so savor this one, and find it at TheSync.
Can anyone explain the cow statues? One's a landscape, another is psychodelic, another is currency...
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One confused tourist in New York City
And I was wondering, what kind of mp3 encoder does a good job on low bitrates? The one used by Geeks in Space sounds o.k. and the size is not bad. The best one I could find was something called Electric Cosmo Suite (for Windows only). It has a mode called Dual Mono that seems to cut the size of a file in half compared to other encoders. Most encoders seem to create files (low bitrate and in mono) that seem way too big, dispite futzing around with options and saving the starting WAV file in 44100 or 22050 khz, the latter some encoders choke on.
I expect whatever is being used is a Linux based encoder, but what Windows encoders do a good job making small-but-mostly-listenable-mono files?
remember, you can buy indulgences if you go to his site. http://thepope.org
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Some Random UI Hacker
I don't think Moses was an animal. Also, the singular is Moses. Not "mose." And it was a racist myth that he had horns (although why you call them antlers, I can't say).
Just havin' a little fun with your spelling.
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:) Watch it subtitled tho', (wtf is wrong with the voice actors second season? heh.) You get it complete with swearing and violence and such. And it just *sounds* better... It's more emotional, possibly. Funimation did a good job in getting the show out there and well-known, but they censored it somewhat.
;)
I knew what happens, even though they've only *recently* (last week) started playing 2nd season here in New Zealand. grrr...
*cough* You can get most of the episodes from http://sharehouse.xoom.com in realplayer format if you search. Freeloginrequired. (Bear in mind that the site has just been sold to NBC and thusly is a bit unstable atm. Should still work though.) They're big files. You can find the Trunks saga, androids/cell, Majin Buu, yada yada. And Dragonball GT episodes, which deal with what happens further on in the characters lives. Goku is an old man and has a granddaughter (Pan, daughter of Gohan and Videl). So no, he doesn't die. Has Goten (Gohan's brother) been born yet where you're up to? Bra (Trunks' sister)? Heeheehee
This stuff is ten years old.... hmmm... Vegeta is sexy. }:)
One last thing... Bulma Porn! Didn't Taco ask for some, a long while back? http://w3.swi.hu/roshi/htmls/bulma.html But it's a sloooowwwwwwwwww site. =/ Oh well. Probably slower, now.
Why do they still call it a 'radio' show, when it's no longer using radio waves as a means of communication? Shouldn't it be an 'audio program', or something? ^_-
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This was a great episode of GIS but a transcript would fail to capture the fun I had listening. Hurry back guys, I enjoyed the show.
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What's wrong with the downloadable mp3 format? Well, actually I was going to reply in a different thread about this very thing so here goes;
.mp3. Remember we are supposed to be supporting open formats. By offering GIS in only a closed, proprietary and evil format, and one that involves patent and license issues we are not putting our money where are mouth is.
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OGG VORBIS.
Please for the love of God push this down the throat of whoever you have to at the sync to offer this free alternative to the
Just a suggestion. Anyway, for the AC above, get X11-amp or some equivalent, and the ogg vorbis plugin, and continue to reccomend it to the gang here
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"We're talking about a planet of helpdesks."
-Jaron Lanier
I actually finally listened to it for the first time today and thought it was pretty cool. It's fun for me to listen to Geek (TM) conversation about topics I find interesting, because there are NO technical people where I work and, alas, I married a non-geek girl who just rolls her eyes when I get excited about getting ipmasqing to work on an old 486. This is really weird, but none of my friends are geeks either! Anyways, I suppose it's a way to live vicariously through those guys! Sad, but true! :) It's fun and interesting.
Zed's dead baby. Zed's dead.
actually, if you had ever LISTENED to geeks in space, it's just some people babbling about the news that has gone on in the past week and then babbling about generally nothing. You should do some research next time. :)
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Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net)
Senior Software Engineer - VA Linux Labs (http://www.valinux.com)
Geoff "Mandrake" Harrison
Some Random UI Hacker
So what was it? Aren't you going to enlighten us?? :o)
Got Rhinos?
First there was Chicago and they had cows(because of the bull) and they had all of them decorate.
Then there was Toronto in Canada who did moses. And they all got vandalized. Apprently there was a black market for stolen cement mose antlers.
who knew
Theres one problem with reflecting your reality, sometimes your reality starts to reflect you.
Hey guys, I think you guys do a great job at Slashdot and pick great topics to post on the front page. I learn alot by reading each posts and learning from people's comments. However, I have never listened to GIS for any considerable amount of time. I don't think the radio format compliments any of the Slashdot crew. I wish you would do more of the "Ask X 10 Questions" and let the Slashdot community have a chance to ask some questions of Geoff. I've always thought that some of the most interesting ideas have been brought out by questions from the Slashdot community.
Probably would help drive up traffic and banner impressions. That would keep Andover off yer backs.
Rangers Lead the Way!
hey man, you're welcome to pitch in to get me a house if you want to. I'm going to post some pictures that we took of the house in a couple of days, as well as scan in a magazine article about the house in question. This place is REALLY cool.
I don't know whether or not I can move here though yet.
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Senior Software Engineer - VA Linux Labs (http://www.valinux.com)
Geoff "Mandrake" Harrison
Some Random UI Hacker
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Well, I don't care much for Geeks in Space, but according to this, The Sync, which hosts Geeks, as well as, some of the most compelling independent film and net shows on the web is broke. They weren't able to find anybody who was willing to merge with them so they have to shut down. Kinda depressing.