There are plenty of college radio stations out there; just ask some of the ones who've been around. One such station is (shameless plug) ACRN in Athens, OH.
They started back in the 70's as a cable radio station. While that was great at the time, I'm amused to see so many people mentioning it now. ACRN still broadcasts over CA-FM, but I doubt many people still listen to it that way, since they also broadcast via icecast/shoutcast. Arguably, listening via shoutcast stream when you can tune in on cable is a waste of somebody's bandwidth, but it's just easier than asking people to go get the little y-connectors for their stereos. Students are lazy.
That said, you were probably thinking it would be nice to have a regular FM station that people can listen to in their cars. From what I've heard, this is quite a large investment, so you'll have to have the backing of the college and maybe soem generous donors to get that off the ground. Good luck to you.
A lot of people have mentioned how these new bandwidth rates will hurt their ISO-downloading habits. Maybe hat won't be so bad after all, though. Think of it this way: how many of us have CD-RW drives that can burn ISOs in less than 10 (and even less than 5) minutes? It's probably much more cost-effective in the long run for one person to download an ISO, then burn copies for a few friends. From there, you start an ISO distribution tree, and everybody who wants a copy could still have it within a day of when it comes out. Of course, with rpm-based Linux distros, you still have to worry about downloading errata packages, but those don't come anywhere near the size of the original 3 to 5 discs. (And who knows, maybe someday RPM will have a patching mechanism, so that people who are sticking to a distro's official package versions can just download the files that changed instead of a whole package each time.)
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There are plenty of college radio stations out there; just ask some of the ones who've been around. One such station is (shameless plug) ACRN in Athens, OH.
They started back in the 70's as a cable radio station. While that was great at the time, I'm amused to see so many people mentioning it now. ACRN still broadcasts over CA-FM, but I doubt many people still listen to it that way, since they also broadcast via icecast/shoutcast. Arguably, listening via shoutcast stream when you can tune in on cable is a waste of somebody's bandwidth, but it's just easier than asking people to go get the little y-connectors for their stereos. Students are lazy.
That said, you were probably thinking it would be nice to have a regular FM station that people can listen to in their cars. From what I've heard, this is quite a large investment, so you'll have to have the backing of the college and maybe soem generous donors to get that off the ground. Good luck to you.
A lot of people have mentioned how these new bandwidth rates will hurt their ISO-downloading habits. Maybe hat won't be so bad after all, though. Think of it this way: how many of us have CD-RW drives that can burn ISOs in less than 10 (and even less than 5) minutes? It's probably much more cost-effective in the long run for one person to download an ISO, then burn copies for a few friends. From there, you start an ISO distribution tree, and everybody who wants a copy could still have it within a day of when it comes out.
Of course, with rpm-based Linux distros, you still have to worry about downloading errata packages, but those don't come anywhere near the size of the original 3 to 5 discs. (And who knows, maybe someday RPM will have a patching mechanism, so that people who are sticking to a distro's official package versions can just download the files that changed instead of a whole package each time.)