Slashdot Mirror
Premiere Episode of Slashdot Radio:Geeks in Space
We've been working on this for awhile and we're excited
to announce that the premiere broadcast of
Slashdot Radio: Geeks in Space
is officially online. We plan to do this weekly at first
and pick up steam depending on demand. Essentially, hemos,
nate & I sit in a bedroom at the Geek Compound and babble
about whatever we think is interesting on Slashdot. Its
available in Real Audio or as an MP3. Thanks to The Sync for setting us up with this. The link below
has a few comments about what we're planning on doing.
- We can't currently do real time. We're getting a faster connection run to the Geek Compound (Rock on Andover ;) and then we might consider it.
- We can do call-ins, and will probably do it soon
- Too long? Too short? We don't have any real limits here, so my guess is that in the future we'll talk until we run out of things to say. I'd rather do daily 5 minute broadcasts than a weekly half hour tho- I think the rapid nature of Slashdot lends itself more towards short bits anyway.
- We didn't simply want to read Slashdot, so we go off a bit on tangents. We think it's fun, we hope you do too.
- So anyway, you can email us with questions, comments, and suggestions, we're open to constructive criticisms. And we promise next week will suck less.
I DO have some problems that could be HTML related. For instance:
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"Please remember that how you say something is often more important than what you say." - Rob Malda
Yep. And here's a picture from an upcoming episode of Slashdot_TV.
So are the hemos-erotic.
Come play Heroes of Might and Magic Mini online.
If possible, could you get them to put the Real Video files themselves (the .RAM, not the .RM) files on an HTTP/FTP server? I have access to a T1 link at work, but they don't like us running Real Audio/Real Video. Besides, I prefer to download stuff FTP, then listen to it, so that I don't get blarked if I have a bandwidth crunch.
www.eFax.com are spammers
his site he can do what he wants with it, and if that means every CmdrTaco post is 2, then every CmdrTaco post is 2. If you want to do that, then start your own site...
Ok, but anyway, can't you feel the love?
Opinionated Law Student Strikes Again!
Not just fists! Proverbial fists!
Btw, what's the metric equivilant of that? Metaphorical ankles?
If 90% of everything isn't crap, your standards are too high.
Remember - pants are optional!! muahaha
Read Heinlein's 1953 Revolt in 2100, now more than ever.
hold alt - double click "my computer" -> click performance -> click graphics -> move the slider from full to none -> click ok -> click close -> click yes to restart.
I do tech support. This fixes all scrolling problems with all software. Scrolling causes lots of new rectangles to be drawn. We all know that windows accelerators speed up rectangular blits. When the drivers suck - they choke on these blits.
Of course, ymmv ;-)
Read Heinlein's 1953 Revolt in 2100, now more than ever.
VB-- I'm soso.. can write database front ends and simple programs.
:)
C-- just learning now(C++ structured programming), I'm not very good yet.
SQL-- I know what it is. have written a query before.
Powerbuilder-- Huh?
I like to think i'm a pretty cool human being... geeky but I like beer
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I've had some problems with slashdot not loading under the Win95 Netscape 4.08 (128bit) stanalone. It either goes away after the offending article gets removed from the / or somebody fixes it manually.
I don't know if this is a problem with Slash or the input it's given. In any event, if you've got Slash to work more effectively, ring Rob up and offer to give him a hand. Remember: he can't even spell bayta.
Hmmm, longer and daily I think, and those after effects are pretty shocking. The people that said three people are a bit hard to undertsand all the time are right, but it does add to the flow of the conversation.
If you had special editions, with interviews with people who would be relevant or similar, would really add much to the whole concept.
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Life is not the avoidance of death.
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While they havn't done a show in a fair amount of time, one of the best real audio show's about gaming is the pyropimps.
i would actualy go through their archive rather than listen to the latest show, although that is pretty cool too.
Welcome to hell. I'm your friendly local guide.
There just isn't enough bandwidth for video. I used to watch the Jenni show on The Sync, but I can rarely get video lately -- just choppy audio, and I have a 1/4 T1 in a major metro area. If this stuff starts to really take off, someone has to get serious about multicasting/mbone.
Ken
Slashdot in a written format is intelligent, and well thought-out. There is a large group of people participating, which leads to some very intelligent thoughts being expressed. But a call-in talk show may have a severe quality control problem. Ever watch that call in tech help show on ZDTV? The questions are often half-answered by someone who isn't really qualified to even understand the question. (And how many times have you said, "He wasn't asking about THAT. He was asking..." ?
Of course, Rob isn't an idiot. But I would think that a call-in would have to be more, forgive me, Donahue style focused than Joe Random calling and asking why he's having trouble with beta drivers connecting to a proprietary storage area network on a version of Debian Linux that is four revs back.
Does this mean people will prank-call in to say "MEEPT!" and hang up? (:
Banshee under NT was locking solid for me whilst viewing Slashdot and various other TABLE heavy sites. Worked fine under 98.
I upgraded the card to a TNT2 and that works fine. Someone mentioned that it may be because the Banshee drivers accelerate all windows GDI functions - but then so does the TNT2.
Never be afraid to ask. Wisdom must be gathered before it can be given.
Well, I think the main problem is that it's not so easy to distinguish the voices from each other. This would suggest you alter the voices (wich I think is still more comfortable for you then changing your gender, as suggested somewhere else ;)) or you switch to video.
Well, it doesnt bother me too much though... I liked it anyways...
I had a similar problem with Netscape 4.5 on Win95... if I scrolled down too far, it would lock the whole darn system. So far, my only *shrug* fix is to throw on IE 5.0...
ech...
Karnal
don't get a web cam. last thing I wanna see is you 3 runnin around in your underwear no offense, just my personal opinion :)
Will this essentially be like MST2K, or will we be seeing the front of your heads?
I'm thinkin this is gonna be a lotta fun... my only question is, Can you guys doin the talkin get moderated down for being offtopic?
Oh yeah... call the pope some night.
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my god you guys are nerds :)
Radio show? Fine. Just don't make it, as Jon Katz says, "as likely to see a Pokemon critter or digital camera" as a news story here these days. A site that focuses on news is good. A site that tries to be all things geeks is a site that does all things poorly.
Yes, get a web cam!!
Have a Happy.
Get rid of the tacky guitar riffs and other cheesy sound effects (it's beginning to sound like Off The Hook).
Interesting to listen to the geek-lords talk about their opinions on latest stuff. Would be even cooler to get the realvideo version option of it. Recording needed more treble. Seemed very short.. but was ok :-)
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Careful guys, don't give out your phone number for the show. Get another line or else you are going to end up with 13 year olds crank calling at 3am.
"If you are falling, dive." -Joseph Campbell
However, a couple of nitpics and suggestions.
1) Keep the 3 of you on the show, but post sticky-notes all over the place that remind you that only 2 can talk at a time. It works.
2) Ditch the guitar rifs and sound effects. Geek funny is a good thing, but try your best not to turn it into a morning zoo.
3) If you're going to take phonecalls, avoid playing tech support. It just aint entertainment.
Nice show..
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that was really, really boring. get the free callers. get guests. get rms and esr to have it out. or something. because that was really lame.
Quality issuses aside (streaming simply sucks when more than just a few people want to see the same content at the same time) afaik Real Networks charges huge licence fees for their proprietary servers.
While the semi-free MP3 format is the agreed-on standard, why not use GSM as an alternative format. The quality for speech compression is superb (with 11025Hz (2273 b/s) there is virtually no difference from an FM transmission), the format is free and supported by sox. (My own GSM-tools can be found here.)
Funny shit... :)
I checked it out, it was ok for a first try . ,it's gross .
Just dont let your new found fame go to your head you could end up like the media whore Emmannuel
over at 2600.
P.S Ditch the puke green background for geeks in space
I disagree! The post production SFX are a nice touch.
I agree that taking phone comments is an excellent idea. Wish I would have thought of that in my college radio days. It certainly would have worked if we actually had listeners.
How about a crossover to "real" radio? I'm sick of listening to those Motley Fool guys.
-- This
But how will he eat? And breathe? And other science facts?
Interesting indeed. No real problems for me on win95, 98, NT4ws, NT4server, W2KB3, RH 5.1, RH 6, Caldera 2.2, SuSE 6.1 or debian 2.0. Varying versions of netscape on all. Video cards range too. Voodoo3, TNT, riva128, i740, trident pci, s3 trio, s3 trio3d/2x, cyrix media/gx builtin video, crappy old isa tseng and trident vga cards.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain
Keep it up, you'll get better. And I love the Devo-esque theme music. You might want to go one more step and actually just use Devo for your theme, perhaps slightly modified...
Are we not geeks?"
We are Slashdot!
Are we not geeks?
S-L-A-ashdot!
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There is no K5 cabal.
I am not the real rusty.
Check out PRISS at streamingserver.org /. it, and no per-stream fees.
1000 streams at once make it harder to
Posted by Ronin_Kitsune:
I enjoyed it - but it did rub a current sore spot...when the hell is Real going to get G2 working on Linux - Thank god CDNOW now offers MP3's but I miss having RealAudio/Video.
The segue sound fx reminded me of Dr. Who. I'll be impressed when Sony markets K9.
Apathy is a lesser known virtue.
YOU guys called it radio, so here's the radio precis:
Bubble bubble bubble.
Somehow you guys managed to come off sounding even dumber than the horn-tooting, crass-humored, chicken-choking rubes on the local AM morning dumb and dumber that I never listen to.
Since I know you aren't that dumb, I chalk up this one to giddiness and being new millionaires and all that kinda chic. Next time I'll tell you what I really thought.
While listening to it, imagine CmdrTaco and
Hemos as a couple of Sifl & Olly sock puppets.
I wonder if Webby Tookay sees herself in radio... Maybe she'd be interested. :)
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ODiV
I found the original site painfully slow so I've mirrored the mp3 here.
Repeat to yourself, it's just a show. The idea is to relax. ;]
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I loved that show.
Can't sleep, the clowns will eat me...
Soundforge for Win95?
That's because northern Michigan is culturally Candadian.
Do all of Rob's posts automatically get moderated to 2? =)
j/k
-awc
Yea, geez, everybody who is anybody already has a 2 point auto-rating.. I almost feel embarrased now though by mine. Rob, shouldn't you have atleast a 3, I mean geez you are god after all. Note: this article is being posted as anonymous cause well, I really do have a 2 point auto and I hate to get banned for bragging. (btw the automatic moderation is created for having many post that get moderated up for the uninformed)
No, his posts start out at +9.
What next? Slashdot Trading Cards?
That would be cool. If nothing else, you could use a clip of "beautiful world" or "that's good".
Interviews are a great idea (over the phone perhaps?). And hey, how about the ocasional "Geek Review": you guys give your opionons on some new book, movie or CD that you think has good Geek apeal (or is worth avoiding:).
If you want to get a real schtic, do something like the "Geek top 10" (counting down from 9 to zero of course:) or some series like "101 things to do with AOL discs". Or, how about "Linux Tips", where you highlight some favorite utility, app or script?
Just a few ideas
Here in Ontario Canada, I'm actually do a ;-p ) and then an hour of a particular
:-) Anyhoo, like someone else said though, try to get a woman on the show sometimes, it will really make a big difference (Just think, three men, alone, together chatting it up about stuff they like... we all know where that goes! Or not... *blink*)
.mp3/.ra on MY radio show as the 30 minute opener? I'll plug Slashdot all you want (I do all the time anyway).. Would be cool to have more voices on air...
:)
one and a half hour radio show with my girlfriend
on all things relating to geekdom every
friday... Technically, we talk about the news
for the first 30 minutes (generally reading stuff
from Slashdot and other news sites, but mostly
here
topic (last week was history of gaming, this
week, tomorrow, will be about, er, shite, we
didn't plan anything yet!!) Anyway, you get
the point...
I wanted to write out some suggestions and stuff, since I've been doing radio for years now, I decided that'd be no fun - considering Slashdot's nature (geeky and anarchic), most of my suggestions would make things more boring...
Anyway, hearing your voices IRL will definitely be cool... Er, now that I think of it, can I ask for permission to use the
Anyway, have fun on the air waves... There's -always- gonna be something to talk about... Just don't kill each other, and you'll be fine... GL
Isn't there a way to do realtime broadcast of mp3s? This would probably cost a lot less than RealAudio, even if it does take a little more bandwidth to get a good sounding stream. It could be done with a 10Kbit stream, mono...
SaDan
(the one about using speakfreely for callins)
killer idea.
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DNA just wants to be free...
1. Too many people talking at once. It easily gets confusing.
2. Cut down on the sound effects. Little bits to seperate segments is just fine, but gratuitous sound effects suck.
Ideas:
1. Interviews with interesting people. Basically, if you'd like to talk to them, we're probably interetested in hearing them. Phone interviews aren't too hard to set up either, especially if they're really short. Geez, lots of people I'd love to hear interviews with post here.
2. Deeper research on things covered on Slashdot. This is just something I'd like to see more of in general, in "print" and audio. For example, track down someone who lives nearby with an Aibo and borrow it. Play with it some and tell us what you think of it.
Search 2010 Gen Con events
I am glad you don't take yourself too seriously doing this new audio gig. It would be too much.
Anyhow, it is an interesting idea to an under served audience but the content leaves a lot to be desired. See the content of the audio show is much like slashdot itself. Which for the main site is merely a collection of stories with terse commentary on them. This is great for a website designed to quickly wisked you off to a new site with the real dirt. But on a uninterruptable sound feed it adds up to the audienced being trapped in a one sided conversation ready to hit ^C.
If you continue this type of programming I am sad to say it will not last long. I suggest either adding listener callin in some form. But at least be able to provide insight in a semi intelligant or grossly humorous fashion that isn't available on the website already. Otherwise I am going to flip back to regular radio.
Maybe an in depth segment on Tulip Day =P
It was good stuff considering this was the first. But the starting music was a bit jarring....everything else was ok..Keep it going....
And I'm worse than Mike Meyers.
this must be modesty. i don't think it's *possible* to be worse than mike meyers.
rob, does this mean you'll go on to one day have a mini-me?
-- First post (by a female living in a state that begins with M and does not end in a vowel with a birthday that falls
Only a wierd al fan would understand your appearant poor sense of homour but Wierd LA's song was varitican guy from American pie and not vice versa.
MEEPT!? Hanging up?
/. should try to get the original "MEEPT!" on tape for playback, say, every few minutes or so to simulate the printed /. experience.
I truly hope so. Like myself, this/these MEEPT'er(s) get rarely too insightful but that's kinda OK. MEEPTer(s) is/are part of us, for better and for worse.
In fact,
(Hey MEEPTer, where's MEEPT.org/com/net? I wanna buy a MEEPT! tee-shirt!)
Should invading one's peaceful neighbours be opposed, or rewarded with trade deals?
You know, if this is going to be a daily thing, you are going to need mirrors, or else you are just loading down one server and frustrating everyone in the process, especially those getting
People would have to really like it to put up with this.
And you have to get Hemos a Garth wig. :-)
GSM is the main method of compression in the speekfreely telephony sw (www.speakfreely.org)
Would be really cool to call in via the Net!
Maybe you could even use SF's multicast feature to broadcast.
2 other guys an me run a Internet radiostation using realaudio for the past 8-9 months. So i could tell from the broadcast a few adjustments need to be made.
(keep in mind this is for the realaudio)
For audio:
If you want to keep it low bandwith mono go with the 16k encodeing, the 8.5k sounds like your talking into a tin can. I could only understand 50% of what you where saying.
Make sure you check your sound levels first before you start recording. I was watching the recording levels on my end and you where peaking alot (meaning it was all the way up in the solid red) at that point the sound got even more trashed.
If your encoding to mp3 first then to ra, run it through a tape player or a cd if ya can to keep the sound "whole" instead of converting the file.
The content what I could hear was really good tho i'm sure as many have stated before hand 2 at most should be talking at the same time, when you ad a third person talking at the same time trying to get a point across its hard to understand that person, but stuff like laughing is ok cause we get that point either way:)
As for the videos... There about as good as ra gets you will have to play with the video settings to get a better grip tho the one with cmdr taco was better, With RA ya have to lose the sliding effects cause ra's nature to take shortcuts when rendering makes it real jerky. The question prompts durring the interview where ok they worked rather well.
other than that it was a good first try (i have heard alot worse)
If you guys (shashdot)would like more advice dont hesitate to ask you have my info
Cormac
Just another Techno-geek lost in cyberspace.
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
/. sets the Expires too soon or the Last Modified too recently for us cookie monsters?
...what are you saying? I know (some of) this CGI stuff you are talking about, but I don't have a sense for who you are blaming. Are you saying that
In any case, it needs to be fixed.
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"Please remember that how you say something is often more important than what you say." - Rob Malda
Rob: Linux is cool.
Jeff: Yeah! Yeah! Linux rocks! It rules!
Rob: Open Source is cool. Microsoft sucks.
Jeff: It sucks! It sucks!
Rob: Shut up, Bunghole!
Keep doing this its awesome..
Yeah, but which one gets the operation?
they are in the metric system
I liked the show, and I kind of like the idea of doing a daily five-minute thing, but I'm not exactly sure if it's the best use of time.
I think it would be neat if the Slashdot show was kind of patterned after the NPR show Car Talk. Here's how it could work: The show starts, formalities are dispensed, Taco/Hemos say what they want to say about the past week, etc. Then they start reading through a list of some of the more interesting stories from the past week. In advance, they'll have looked at who posted some interesting (moderated up) replies to the story and contacted that person via email about talking on the show at whatever time the show was recorded. The person could then be called and put on hold until it was their turn to talk. Then that person could read their original post over the phone, and discuss the issue over the phone with the guys. It wouldn't have to be posters either - It could be, for instance, the guy who invented the smallest webserver, or recalled the gif library or Bruce Perens, or Larry Wall, or whoever. You could have two people on the phone at once, debating a topic on the air, whatever.
You could go through anywhere from 3-10 stories, and the show would be, I think, quality. Most importantly, it make the show reader-centric, which is what has made Slashdot so cool in the first place.
That way, you can still have callers, but the show doesn't have to be live, and you can edit out all the silliness that is associated with phones or whatnot, and MEEPT, and stupid callers, and everything else. And, if everyone's busy on a Friday, you could do it on Thursday, and still play it on Saturday. AND, if you were ever at a convention or something, you could do recorded broadcasts from there.
So, in conclusion: Longer! On Satuday! Pre-Taped! Poster-centric!
Powers that be - I humbly submit this for your consideration.
Yep, I get that too with my Banshee, but only in IE. as long as I stay running Netscape (oh darn...) It works fine.
I think the idea of Internet radio programs using MP3 is great, because you can download them and then listen to them offline at your leisure (or in segments). Why doesn't Psuedo OnLine do something like this as well?
How about when you post the stories make a little voice recording or something while you do it ... and at the end of a couple of days / week put the good ones together .. slap it in mp3 format .. and then release it to the hounds.
I'd like to see more of this for sure. Don't worry about offending people, keep throwing out your own opinions on stuff that's happening. Rob's bit about robots taking over the earth was good "duh?" Even if you just keep doing what you were doing in the last part of the clip..
Top X Reasons To Listen to Slashdot Radio
-1) No one gets moderated down.
1) Rob is cute.
2) They're esoteric and hard to understand, but they're a heck of a lot nicer than Dr. Laura.
3) It's geekish and anarchic, but c'mon, it's Slashdot.
4) It's either Real or MP3--you can listen to it without AM/FM interference from having your case open.
5) Hemos has a cool giggle.
6) They talk about head-mounted displays, dancing in tubs of jello, pixels the size of fists, and English liters.
7) I LIKE fractals.
Can't sleep, the clowns will eat me...
Three people talking at once is too disconcerting to listen to. It would be better if just two of :)
you did the show. It would be even better if one of you were a chick
... until Hodgeson decided that 2000 was just too close. The original poster does demonstrate his ignorance, however. Gawd, I miss that show.
"If one is really a superior person, the fact is likely to leak out without too much assistance" -- John Andrew Holmes
Dammit!
/.-ed the /. radio! AHHHHHHH!
:-)
You guys
Whatever will happen to snackboy now?
The House Between - Original Sci-Fi Series
You will need a realmedia server set up somewhere.
The licensing is the kicker. Even a 100 stream
license isn't cheap. After you have a RA server to
point a stream at, you just need a reliable
connection to stream your content across to the
server. You can do decent quality voice only
broadcasts with a single channel ISDN connection.
It's the bandwidth and licensing on the server
that are super important. I will say though, that
were I work we do not offer this as a product.
We do have a deal with one special client that
does live video and sound across a cable modem,
but it's flaky. The server took about 15 minutes
to set up on digital unix on our end. The cool
thing is that you can get a test server with
30 days worth of 60 streams for free.
Hope This Helps
I wonder where all the hunters are today. --Daffy Duck
you know what to do
"If one is really a superior person, the fact is likely to leak out without too much assistance" -- John Andrew Holmes
Like Howard Stern, has Slashdot become totally fascinated with itself? Can we expect to hear rob begging the geek of the day guest to show his transparent pilot case off to the web camera, whilst Hemos giggles insanely in the background?
...
(makes mental picture)
Argh!
I think they should just run a linux phone in problem line..
Rob: "Hi this is Rob and you're On the Air"
Caller: "Hi Rob, first, I would just like to say, I really dig your show.."
Rob: "Cool thanks, icq9 your friends to recommend us, now whats your problem?"
Caller: "Well, Rob, See, this is kinda embarassing..."
Rob: "Go ahead, you are amongst friends here"
Caller: "Ok... the problem is, i cant hack my own sendmail files, but I cant admit it to my friends.. I wanna know, like, is this normal?"
Rob: "Wow what a loser... hey buddy, dont bother us with this stuff, go call up cnet instead.."
*click*
Rob: "You know.. everymorning, as I get up and turn on the ANDOVER NET TV channel, I think to myself, gee isnt ANDOVER NETWORK a cool thing to have piped to your 3dscope, and for only 9.95 world credits a month... I personally couldnt get through the slashdot day without ANDOVER NET, and i am not just being paid to say that, i really mean it.... and now over to hemos for todays regular tip spot on microsoft ASP-2003 programming"
Also: the sooner you can take live callers, the better. I hosted a few talk shows on my college radio station. It was a lot more interesting when outside listeners called in to debate issues; without callers, my friends and I just ended up verbally harrassing each other on the air - while a lot of fun for us, this got boring to listen to very quickly.
Guys, you have a good idea, lets just see where you take it. I don't have any specific suggestions :)
at the moment, still listening to the premier
Keep up the good work!
The obligatory begging for gear...
pls talk more about wearables. it turns me on.
only saw it few days ago.
if I remember correctly maybe 0:00 or 1:00 Sunday nights on the Comedy channel.
I am abonafide Linux guy... Don't let the following dissuade ye in anyway... Geek to the core...
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But it just so happens I recently made it through an audition for a play (WOOHOO!) and then found out I couldn't make the dates (Bummer)... But now I find I miss the fun of theater...
And other theatrical stuff for creative minds...
So if you need some voice talent for your new audio creation, free O' charge, preferrably for humourous stuff...
Send an email... Light a bonfire... Use the deep psychic gift that resides deep inside of us all and sizzle a few neurons for the cause of...
Do you smell smoke?
(first time poster... just in case the email address isn't in the post... moorley@rmci.net)
"Don't fear death... fear not living..." -me
Hey, did anyone ever tell you guys that you sound eerily like the audio half of MST3K?
Makes me want to play "Attack of the Killer Dorito Inspectors" as video along with your voice.
SlashSigTheorem: Humorous, Political, Critical, Constructive- If you have a
I had a problem with RV player 5 on the 2x kernel and was able to find a patch through instructions on dejanews.com Try typing in your error message there and you'll probably find your solution. Also try downloading the RealplayerG2 if you don't have that already.
What's wrong with a V-chip there? A little electric shock can be quite . . . pleasant.
I use both IE5 and Netscape 4.6 on NT at work and a combination of IE5 and IE4 at home on Win 98 and NT. I also have Netscape loaded on a linux box and ALL of them work fine. The only time I had problems with slashdot (and other websties) locking my system when scolling was because I had faulty video drivers for a shitty video card. I was trying to use an AONtronics card with Win98 and I never did get it work decently. I gave up and bought a new card w/ drivers.
Bottom line:
The five different computers at home and the one here at work all read slashdot just fine.
I'm glad people liked the show! Tens of thousands of Slashdot fans hit the site today. Here's the premiere day FAQ:
1) We went with the lowest bitrate RealAudio and MP3 we could get away with and still have a reasonable sounding show, so that Slashdot fans in Zimbawe with 14.4 kbps modems could still enjoy it, and also so we wouldn't get too badly Slashdotted...
2) Our servers didn't get Slashdotted, nor our bandwidth, but a router of our provider did! It kept running out of memory and resetting. Theoretically we had nearly 10 Mbps allocated. It started dropping routes at 4 Mbps, and even reset BGP sessions...
3) This afternoon we were able to run the MP3 server across town to a building 100 feet from the MAE-EAST, and plug it in there...much better!
Thanks for listening to the show!
-Thomas
Ok here we go... hit the Mpeg player button and... :)
Loved the "extasy" comment...
Budget for nicknames?
"This time all of our equipment works" Ahh some Microsoft compatable hardware found there way into the Slashdot compound?
Hacked to heck in post production...
When "certen people" lost there reading glasses I have to blow up the screen using ctrl alt +...
I think now I'll call that "pixles the size of fists mode"...
Me thinks Sony will need something more that "I love you" before they'll send you a screen...
Threaton to do no more reviews if they don't give
you the visor.
Ohhh more people who like to dance nakid in jello.. we need some detox group for that...
Jello dancers annonomous...
On politics... Here is how that works.. they take a part of your brain when you run and if you win they take the rest... I lost....
I understand now a days they replace it with a Windows NT but I put in for the new Linux port for Politicians...
Jeff gets -1? Is that really nessisary [kissing up]
I'm having mpg3 tech problems but my box is hacked to heck and I usually have lots of problems
I don't actually exist.
I liked it, perhaps if the upped the sample rate a little it would be easy to listen to, you might consider doing higher bandwidth versions. What's nice about it is that it's just acouple of people talking, really pretty funy stuff. obviously theres no reason to listen to it for informational value, so entertainment is all there is. It might be nicer to only have one person talking at once, but its not really that impornant
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Not bad for a first show. Really didn't like the cheesy sound effects though. Almost reminded me of Mystery Science Theatre 3000... and we all know what happened to them.
FYI, I liked browsing to the web sites as you guys mentioned things. For example, I went to the sony site to investigate the head mounted display. Maybe you could have a web page to complement your show that had links to all the sites you guys spoke about?
Finally, I think the thing that makes shows like Howard Stern a success is a strong opinion about something. Howeard, strongly believes that what he talks about is what people really want to hear. It doesn't matter if he's right or wrong, people listen to his show because he makes it interesting. I think your first show got off to a good start with that, but it's just something to keep in mind.
Does anyone have a mirror of these broadcasts? I guess it's obvious that one or two servers arent going to need an entire slashdot crowd.
Anyone else notice how Hemos sounds like Tom Green? I suddenly have this mental image of him from MTV. Freaky.
I think this is pretty cool idea. I don't have any geeky friends of my own to discuss things with, so I can just listen to you assholes and hope I agree with one of you. Oh i'm also glad you put it in .mp3 format cause whenever I try to play anything with RV I get a SEG fault. Say.. anyone know why that is? i'm running Debian 2.1 128MB ram, Diamond S3D 4mb.
connection refused isn't much of a show..
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Uhm... Is the mp3 file Slashdotted, or is it on a port I can't access through the firewall here at work ? I can only get to the web via the proxy here, and that allows only connections via standard http or ftp ports. Any chance of a mirror ?
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..."normal" (non-light) Slashdot still crashes Win98 solid with both IE and Netscape (using two different sets of Banshee drivers) and segfaults Netscape on Linux for me whenever I scroll. And I just reinstalled Win98, and it was a lot of praying to be able to login without having to scroll down. Rob, I've said this a thousand times... fix the HTML. Here's some help.
I use Slash too and it doesn't cause my stuff to die. It took me a whopping 2 hours to make my HTML about 90% 4.0 Transitional compliant. Come on, I can't possibly be the only one who has problems due to bad HTML, can I?
Oh well, back to working on Slash FAQ type stuff. *sigh*
I think it has potential. I agree with ditching the sound effects. Interesting talk is the key - this is why I love listening to "Car Talk" each week. The Magliozzi brothers are smart and everything, but they sound like they're just having a whole lot of fun doing their show. The first Geeks in Space segment had a similar tone
If there is a really hard core sysadmin type (or perhaps CmdrTaco is hardcore enough) available for the show, you could do the Q&A "diagnose on the phone" type of stuff that also makes Car Talk interesting. Guests would be really cool too - it would be great to call in and ask Larry Wall a question about Perl or ask an experienced admin how to efficiently solve a particular problem.
This is the most interesting thing we've learned all week!
If you decide to go with the daily 5min show, Please offer a weekly digest, so if I miss the daily show I can pick it up at the end of the week in the form of a 35min show.
I will admit, when I wasn't chuckling, I was laughing hysterically. However, jokes and hoopla does not a radio show make.
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:-), so you will have to take the above with a grain of salt.
Okay, so you don't have class, wit, or the answers, but I'm sure we can make radio show hosts out of you yet.
If I were managing your show, here's what I would have you do. (This is rhetorical... I don't know the first thing about radio... lucky me.
1: Announcing your show, then yourselves.
2: Giving the top slashdot headlines (Not necessarily word-for-word, but enough to give the listener some idea.). This will actually give those who have not seen your site a taste of the
3: Reading the high-scoring replies in those headlines (probably only in the 4-5 range)
4: Any E(Snail)-Mail you find to be radio material (With the writer's permission, of course).
5: Telephone session, to allow for some extra topics of discussion to be placed. Who knows, some good topics can generally come from callers-in.
Finally, make sure you have some form of timer, set for some increment of 30 minutes. Most people feel they get something out of a show that is at least 1/2 hour.
Your bridging sounds need to be more standard, possibly placed during the segments the same way you provide the images on your webpage... with the appropriate sound accompanying the story/segment at hand.
As before, I know nothing of radio management (My desktop isn't exactly the neatest thing, either.
Have fun.
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Chad Okere
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If you want to keep it low bandwith mono go with the 16k encodeing, the 8.5k sounds like your talking into a tin can. I could only understand 50% of what you where saying.
or just tell people to get the mp3. The whole show was only 1.8megs downloaded. propritary formats with crapy players suck
If your encoding to mp3 first then to ra, run it through a tape player or a cd if ya can to keep the sound "whole" instead of converting the file.
I doubt they would do that... what they should to is use the same RAW wave file, I'm not sure why you would want to run an aditional A/D conversion on it, wouldn't that just degrade it much more?
I was able to start listening to the mp3 a few seconds after I started downloading it, and listen the whole way though, with my 56k modem.
it's so much nicer to have a *standard* that *works* instaid of a proprietary format that keeps changing, and is incompatable with old versions of the software.
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Come on, get this on the MBONE now!
You're all running proper operating systems that can do multicast so what are you waiting for? Stop wasting your bandwidth..
Maybe Joel found out something that da feds didn't want everyone else to know. Maybe next year we'll shoot a guy in to space and make him watch cheezy movies, the worst we can find... la, la, la.
Long live MST3K! The show that toght me to be synical...
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like uhhh beavis ... urrmmmm butthead .....
.. then i started getting flshbacks of Beavis and Butthead for some reason.
:)
Unfortunately I could only listen for about 20 seconds
Why do I want to listen to you guys ramble about nothing for who knows how long?
Oh ya - I don't, so I won't
The homo-erotic undertones of this whole thing are at once fascinating and stimulating!
Never try to use a streaming viewer on a slashdotted site. :-(
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