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Linus Speech Broadcast Today
NullPointer wrote in to tell us that
ZDTV is will broadcast
Linus' speech today. 4:15 to 5:15 Eastern, broadcast
live from the keynote address at the Linux Global Summit
in conjunction with Comdex.
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Wanna bet they get ./ed today?
ehm, what did he just do?
(in my world 16.15 plus 6 hrs *is* 22.15)
I skipped my 10:50 class this morining, cuz there are things that are simply more importnant. :) It was a riot. The lights kept going out and Linus said that M$ must be controlling them. World domination was a prevelant topic, along with splintering of Linux. Overall, a very fun speech and very interactive. People were just shouting out questions. Afterwards I got His autograph in my friends copy of "Open Sources," the O'Reilly book. I dont regret missing calculus this one time.
so where do I find a program to play this thing in? the rvplayer .rpm on the funet mirror of contrib.redhat.com wont play it.
Blah blah blah. His jokes just bite. If you think that was incredible then you really ought to see Steve Jobs sometimes. BTW, what was that annoying background noise? Did someone bring his baby to the keynote?
I'm using 2.2.4..I downloaded the file you mentioned, but it still fails, saying I dont have some required codec. So I give up, it wasnt all that important anyway. Many thanks for your kind offer of email support, though.
Some people don't put there kids in jail er...
day care.
The sun is out you troll, go back to your cave.
the admins who run the network here
don't care about stuff like that.
nevermind that they bought computers with soundcards,
letting people install realaudio would amount to communism.
ZD doesn't seem to have the archive of the Linus keynote - they have Gates! but no Linus! :[
From a prior poster, the quality must have sucked. Maybe they are embarassed. Will make them look bad without providing an explaination though.
So what is that this time of the year? EST or EDT?
\\'
EDT.. GMT - 4 hours.
I believe.
--
The world is neither black nor white nor good nor evil, only many shades of CowboyNeal.
ZDTV's live feed is tucked away at http://www.leoville.com
rvplayer for linux would play this thing!
yeah... where'd it go?
According to the condex web site, Bill Gates goes on at 10am and Linus goes on at 10:30. I'll probally catch the end of the Win2000 bullshit.
Yes, it was pretty good. we got there a little late, and had to weasle our way through the crowd to hear anything... I was surprised to see that I was the only one wearing any prominent linux related paraphernalia -- the RedHat red fedora. Not even the RedHat folks were wearing 'em. I was getting some strange looks from people when I was watching the Windows 2000 demo though.
Unfortunately, the keynote isn't going to be broadcast live, as Linus' speech is actually at about 10am today. The web broadcast is delayed.
:(
Unfortunately, I have class at 10:30 today, so I can't go.
What's that in Central European again? 22.15 - 23.15?
That was LINUS's baby, you... you... ;^)
you Anonymous Coward!
If you like Jobs, you ought to see Sun's CEO
give a speech some time! HE is funny!
Anyways, his jokes were funny, what you could
hear of them. The only bad part about the
broadcast was the camera-work. It was too shakey,
jumping all over the place, including many shots
of Linus' kneecaps, the floor, the ceiling...
and whenever anyone in the audience asked a
question, all you heard was thumbs fumbling with
the camera. The guy really needed a tripod and
external microphone!
- Preferences: Solaris 10 (servers), Ubuntu (desktops), Solaris 11 (personal servers) -
It's odd that the speech was given in the morning
(according to other posters), but the broadcast
was at a specific time in the afternoon. I was
able to watch most of it, but lost connection with
their server for about 10-15 minutes, twice!
It was streaming, as if it were live, so when I
was able to reconnect, I'd missed a big chunk of
it. Does anyone know if they have a mirror, or
an archive to download from?
If you select "Video Archive" from the page,
RealPlayer responds with an error: "Requested file
not found...".
Thanks,
Kevin
- Preferences: Solaris 10 (servers), Ubuntu (desktops), Solaris 11 (personal servers) -
Worked for me... Red Hat 5.1, rvplayer 5.0.0.35,
kernel 2.2.6, using the 2.2.x/rvplayer problem
workaround found on www.real.com. I watched more
than half of it, but I did lose connection with
their server a couple times... but it _did_ work.
Are you able to view other content on the ZDTV
site? If not, you may have a config problem. I've
watched more than half a dozen clips tonight alone
with no problems.
Later,
Kevin
- Preferences: Solaris 10 (servers), Ubuntu (desktops), Solaris 11 (personal servers) -
I was there, in the 3rd row. The audience was enthusiastic, there were a couple of attempts at the wave before the whole thing started. They did give him quite a standing ovation when he was introduced.
He did bring 2 darling children, one cried for a short time, but not constantly like the kid that i swear always sits behind me in airplanes.
The meeting was moved from the original hall to a larger room and the room was still packed. It seemed like that there were a lot of press there. The number of questions from the audience was amazing. It as much like a press conference in that respect.
The jokes were funny. I thought so and so did the audience. The first time the lights went out was just as he said that Linux was used even in nuclear power plants. Then he said "not
the one controling those though."
I was lucky enough to get an autograph. He was very graciously signing them while protesting he really did need to make his next appointment.
--- If you don't want to know the answer, don't ask the question.
Er, How wrong are you?
The damm thing WON'T PLAY - I have to use vmware and Win95!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.jonmasters.org/
I missed it. I want it now. Where do I get it?
Not sure what FAQ this belongs in, but:
/usr/lib/Real
% setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH
% netscape &
(now try some Real Media links)
You don't have to worry about converting from EST to GMT ant then to your local time. It is available now. http://play.rbn.com/?zd/livenow/live/live_28.rm
It's not the size of your stack that matters, it's how you push and pop
Are you using 2.1.x or 2.2?
If you are, bugs were fixed in the sound drivers. While this is good, it wound up breaking realplayer as it was programed to use some of these bugs. The program rpopen( http://www.i2k.com/~jeffd/rpopen/ ) will allow you to emulate these bugs and realplayer will work. If you have some problems using this program, just email me.
It's not the size of your stack that matters, it's how you push and pop
This baby is v5.0 content. It should work with the v5.0 player for Linux. If you follow the link right now, you get a video clip saying the clip you're looking for isn't here yet, perfectly viewable on my Linux box.
9:48pm up 426 day(s), 6:01, 16 users, load average: 220.60, 138.45, 63.50
Especially all the subtle jokes/digs he made about Microsoft. Overall, though, he was quite gracious and fun to listen to.