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LPD For Fun and MP3 Playing
poop writes "Most true Unix geeks will recognize just how nice LPD is as a distributed queueing mechanism for managing all jobs sent to the printer. But, what most people don't realize is that LPD can be used for other things too. In fact, it can be viewed as a general queueing mechanism with a few added bells and whistles for printers. So let's examine a more interesting use of LPD, an engine for distributed spooling of MP3s." Bruha points out this mirror.
The real beauty of this would be if he had written a "print" driver that would allow a remote PC running windows to queue up a song thus utilizing lpd to be a "music" server rather then just an mp3 player hack.
Anyone have any links to some libraries or projects that might use lpd as a transport for generic queueing? Seems like a nice, language-agnostic, non-complex mechanism for cross-system job scheduling, etc. No real security model (though one could adapt something to it), but cool and readily available nonetheless.
Given what one can do with ghostscript queues, this is not exactly rocket science, but it goes to show the flexibility of *nix once again.
Mind the gap...
...will it do something like this?