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Speech Synthesizing the Linux Kernel for Arts Sake
ungulation writes "A joint project of SFMOMA, The Goethe-Institut, ZKM Karlsruhe, and the Walker Art Center, a group called CrossFade broadcast the entire linux kernel 2.4.18. From the CrossFade website: "In Free Radio Linux, the entire source code of the Linux kernel will be webcast over the Internet. A speech synthesizer will convert into talk radio the 4,141,432 lines of code, which will take about 600 days to read." According to the Free Radio Linux website the stream is only available in ogg-vorbis format."
In related news, a tree has fallen in forest. Did anybody hear that as well ?
In Soviet America the banks rob you!
The only problem is that they will keep interrupting the stream each time a new kernel is released.
I'm anispeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation.
According to the Free Radio Linux website the stream is only available in ogg-vorbis format.
Microsoft understands and now finally the open source community does too! It's not about having a better codec (ogg vs. wma), but making the hot content that people want avaliable. Well, I think it's obvious to everyone that with ogg's virtual monopoly on voice synth spoken linux kernel broadcasts, wma's days are numbered.
Uninnovate - Only the finest in engineering.
the entire source code of the Linux kernel will be webcast over the Internet.
Isn't this the same crowd that thinks sig lines are too long, flames newbies for cross-posting, etc. because "bandwidth is a precious resource?"
...does a creepy disembodied voice chant "Microsoft developers are weenies"?
--Fesh
Kill -9 'em all, let root@localhost sort 'em out.
turns radio on
...Then Iluvatar arose, and the Ainur perceived that he smiled; and he lifted up his left hand, and a new theme began amid the storm...
slash kernel slash sched dot c slash asterisk line break asterisk (...) 1998-12-28 Implemented better SMP scheduling by Ingo Molnar
Dang! It's the vanilla kernel where are user mode Linux and Alan's cool toys ?
switches station
Silmarillion. Spoken. Again.
switches station again
eight dot three four six minus a dash greather than c zero wb zero yn dot eat...
Yay, they've got Reiser in this one, but they're still reciteing the console driver, it'll be 3 days before we get to the filesystem
switches stations frantically
hash include less-than linux slash config dot h NO NO GET OUT OF HERE WHAT ARE YOU DOING ?
Hello, I am Richard M. Stallman and you are being deceived, for it takes much more than a kernel to get a computer going. Here are 3 billion lines of GNU code that this radio hasn't read aloud yet. [DOOR SLAMS] Tee hee, and how do you think you get those tiny little icons on the screen ? Here's the XFree86 source to be read.
turns off radio, goes to slashdot, picks cowboyneal option on poll
Just released: Polygram Records is proud to announce the release of the COMPLETE reading of the Linux kernel on CD or cassette! This 14,000 volume release has been digitally mastered for optimum listening enjoyment in wonderful stereo! Recorded at the world-famous Sun Studio, Linux joins timeless legends like Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley. Order Now!
Linux 2.4.18 on CD:
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Linux 2.4.18 on Cassette:
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Abuse my rationalization of rhetoric as either metaphor or monotomy.
Microsoft paid the 100 most popular Hollywood actors to read aloud the contents of Windows XP installation CD image. "That will clearly demonstrate the superiority of closed source software" says the new Microsoft CEO, Mickey Mouse.
Just how many people will be listening to this all day long, waiting to hear " /* fsck me gently with a chainsaw */ " (arch/sparc/kernel/ptrace.c) on public radio for the first time? ^_^
Also, how long will it then take before "concerned parents" get the project off the air? >_
- Just because you can't, doesn't mean you shouldn't
This is awesome! Now, does anyone have a speech-to-text program that accepts ogg streams as input?
have you looked at some of those comments? it's hilarious:
./Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl:650: If you don't see why, please stay the fuck away from my code.
./arch/mips/kernel/irixelf.c:759:#if 0 /* XXX No fucking way dude... */
./arch/mips/kernel/irixioctl.c:2: * irixioctl.c: A fucking mess...
./arch/parisc/kernel/signal.c:229: printk("fuckup in sys_rt_sigreturn, sending SIGSEGV\n");
./arch/parisc/kernel/signal.c:372: /* ARGH! Fucking brain damage. You don't want to know. */
./include/asm-mips/mmu_context.h:18:/* Fuck. The f-word is here so you can grep for it :-) */
We should broadcast this audio stream into space.
;>
What better way to show any potential aliens that there is intelligent life on earth.
Just don't broadcast the Windows source into space; aliens might launch a full assault immediately.
....move along....nothing to see here....