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Linux Radio

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An anonymous reader writes "This might very well be the nerdiest site we'll ever encounter... Linux Radio is an online radio station broadcasting the Linux kernel! Each time someone visit the site, a random source file is selected and read loudly by a virtual speaker materialized through the open source speech synthesizer eSpeak. Will it prove useful to anyone is probably a difficult question to answer, but the excitement provided is worth experiencing at least once. However, this concept proves once more the advantages of open source over proprietary software making such achievements impossible : whoever in his right mind would want to listen to binary files loudly?"

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  1. Holy cow !!! by unity100 · · Score: 4, Funny

    For some fscking reason, this thing actually sounds appealing and coherent to me. Not to mention relaxing and understandable.

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    1. Re:Holy cow !!! by fuego451 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Glad I'm not alone. I even added a little brown noise to give the illusion it is coming from light years away.

    2. Re:Holy cow !!! by plover · · Score: 2, Funny

      Agreed. When you get into some of the blocks of repeated stuff, such as #includes, it builds up a bit of rhythm, then breaks arrhythmically into code, which sounds like it evolves its own rhythm. It's not unlike a techno or electro percussion line. Throw some lines of synth along the top of this, and you'd have an album.

      And I just followed the advice on the page: "if you can't get enough, you can always open Linux Radio in two or more different browser tabs". Ooo! It makes me feel all cybery inside! :-)

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    3. Re:Holy cow !!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Wait til Linus starts selling advertising space in the kernel:
        What follows is a disgusting hack... now for a limited time, get a Taco and a Pepsi for only $1.99, only at Taco Bell.

    4. Re:Holy cow !!! by ZosX · · Score: 3, Funny

      I honestly don't quite see how farting could possibly give the illusion of distance.

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    5. Re:Holy cow !!! by mrsurb · · Score: 2, Funny

      I think we've just solved the mystery that Dr Rush on the Destiny has been working on.

  2. Can we get a sultry female voice instead? by haruchai · · Score: 4, Funny

      I mean, c'mon, does Stephen Hawking really have time to read all this? And, this has to be the most tedious method of mirroring the kernel sources that I've ever "heard"

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    1. Re:Can we get a sultry female voice instead? by plover · · Score: 2, Funny

      They need the voice from MoanMyIP.com.

      http://www.moanmyip.com/

      OMFG, I thought you were kidding! Then I thought it was a hack of some sort, but Blitzableiter didn't complain about the flash. It really does moan your IP!

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    2. Re:Can we get a sultry female voice instead? by Lennie · · Score: 2, Funny

      Does she do IPv6 too ? ;-)

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  3. Hell... by damn_registrars · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's still better than at least 90% of what counts as "music" today.

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  4. Re:i don't understand by maeka · · Score: 3, Funny

    whoever in his right mind would want to listen to binary files loudly?

    I like my Autechre just fine, TYVM.

  5. I understand by Johann+Public · · Score: 3, Funny

    wanting to prove that it's possible to install and run Linux on (nearly) any computer imaginable, but something tells me you're going to need a little more work in the patching, drivers, and other modifications department to get it running on H. sapiens wetware computers...just saying

  6. nothing but includes for the first three minutes. by wagadog · · Score: 5, Funny

    lol it's like the begats in the bible.

  7. Um well,... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ... just heard:

    slash slash asterik asterisk THIS NEEDS TO BE FIXED asterisk asterisk

  8. Re:Wow there are a lot of asterisks! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    it seems to promote the use of drugs, all i can pick out is "hash include".

  9. You know you might be an autist when . . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    . . . you find Linux source code read by a text to speech synthesizer appealing and relaxing.

  10. Is the OP insane or on drugs? by KingFrog · · Score: 2, Funny

    I quote: "However, this concept proves once more the advantages of open source over proprietary software..." WTF??? You could have a machine read ANY pointless information into a 'net radio. It's not like this is useful in any way. If Open Source needs to have its source code read over internet radio to demonstrate an advantage over proprietary software, it needs to crawl into a nice quiet corner, lay down, and die. You want real advantages? Get reliability, scalability, security. Those are Open Source (potential) advantages. Reading source code on the net radio station? What a waste of time.

  11. Re:Wow there are a lot of asterisks! by Bender0x7D1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    You missed the obvious...

    Oh my God... It's full of stars.

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  12. Re:Useful? Not too difficult a question actually by Hognoxious · · Score: 4, Funny

    Access it? I'm pretty sure they wrote most of it.

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  13. Listening to binary files... by Arancaytar · · Score: 3, Funny

    whoever in his right mind would listen to binary files

    You mean like an MP3?

  14. Re:nothing but includes for the first three minute by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    But that's my favorite section of the Bible! Not much action, but what a cast of characters! :-D