In my experience, it takes just as long to rip a cd at 56bits/22Khz as it does to rip one at 128bits/44khz. And a P2-266 with 128megs of RAM can encode a live stream at 128bits/44khz, just fine.
Fine tuning for speed isn't really that big of a deal. Finding a fast machine with a fast connection to the internet to act as your MP3 server is.
And I'm not sure there is a server that can serve out the same source stream as both high and low speed streams, so you may need two servers.
Live365 will give you 100 128bit/44khz channels (I don't think you' want that, unless everyone on campus has a network connection, you can pare it down to whatever you feel is right) more if teh case arises. All you have to do is apply for it and supply a single, full bandwidth stream (ie 128b/44khz) to their servers via shoutcast.
A little testy, AC? MacOS is weak. It's based on technology that hasn't changed in 15 years, and was never meant to be a powerhouse OS in the first place.
OS X might rock, if Apple could release it. 'Til then, I re-iterate: It would be nice to buy a G4 with a decent OS.
I stream 128bit/44khz off of a P2-266. It's very capable of handling that sort of transformation. I can stream live off of my Line-recording, so I can play cd's without ripping them or do some live DJing (I suck, but people listen anyways). The shoutcast server can be run from a machine that has a faster connection than the machine that you DJ from.
You use a Shoutcast Source plug-in to send the source to the server. The server can be a Linux, or some other high-capacity server.
I use Live365 for my server, because they'll give ANYONE a 100 listener channel, all you have to do is apply for it. The only thing they can't do is relay the song name/artist info that you would normally send out to the listeners. Samll price to pay for that kind of bandwidth.
All I have to do is find the bandwidth to send out a single 128-bit/44khz stream, NP over DSL.
I certainly hope that our world will progress to the point that cyber-enabled warfare is a possibility. It may end war as we know it.
But then the spacemen will come and destroy our euthanasia machines to re-aquaint us with the horrors of war that we had long forgotten, having played the war simulation game for generations.
They're right. 21 updates is too inconvenient. This is an issue that should be addressed with more than simple anti-MS rhetoric.
What's keeping Linux down at this point, is lack of user-friendliness. I don't advocate making it a useless, pablum, MacOS-like OS, but a little more concentration on the end user is going to go a long way at this point.
People ARE sick of MS, but they are not going to give up ALL of the creature comforts that they have aquired. This "Unified Patch Distribution" idea seems a simple enough idea that it could be facilitated, quite easily, in fact. Some RPMs, an install script, &c.
IMHO it just cheapens the whole Christian religion in general.
I concur. I hope and pray that there is a particularly warm spot in hell for televangelists, and their ilk.
It actually bugs the hell out of me(pardon the pun)when I see a little Jesus fish on a business sign/card, as though their christian identity is now just another marketing ploy.
These asswipes make it harder for the rest of us to explain that not every christian is a slope-browed, knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing, fundamentalist, and that being a christian is more than aping some bible-thumping, self-righteous, money-grubbing preacher. Some of us even swear (I never read in the bible anything about not swearing)
I think NASA ought to adopt the Three-F system for all future missions. I'm sure this would alleviate the confusion that the metric system causes, and you wouldn't have all those nasty fractions that the english system is prone to create.
If ever there was a a project that had "Do It Yourself written on it, this is the one. all you'd need is some visqueen, scotch tape and a bike pump. Just do it! You could win the a prestigous Darwin award, err... for good Science! Remember to have a video cameraman on hand for it's maiden roll, cause you could win $10K on one of those TV shows where everybody gets hit in the nuts.
So far in my life, OpenLinux 2.3 is the BEST install EVER. It worked flawlessly straight out of the CD Burner. It's awesome! None of the otehre Linux distro's I've ever worked with (and I've worked with most of them) installed as easily or quickly as OpenLinux 2.3
It beats installing any MS product hands down. But then again installing Linux has always beat the crap out of MS due to the lack of rebooting. Installed Win98SE on a P3-500 with a 48x cd-rom last night, took 45 minutes. Installed OpenLinux 2.3 on a slower machine (p2-266, 40x cd) during the same period of time, took all of 17 minutes, and I go to play tetris (a small but highly effective gimmick).
I tend to exagerate, I admit, with both my descriptions and my jibes. There are two companies that are coming out with Imac form factor PCs. E-machines and a Korean company who's name eludes me. Both are being sued by Apple.
PS Technically, a Troglodyte, by definition, lives in a cave.
PPS The Carrot Top sig is bait... You been fished in!
It's fairly obvious the AVERAGE consumer isn't particularly interested in Linux, so you can go to the specialty shops, where you get good deals on quality equipment.
PC_Builder:Well sir, here is your shiny new computer... Buyer:It's grey. PC_Builder:Yes it is, but its got... Buyer:Can I get it in blue? My carpet is blue. PC_Builder:Umm, no. But it does come with your choice or more ram/less ram, more hard drive/less hard drive and any flavor of Windows you would like.
Buyer: oh, then I guess I'll go to over a hundred other PC manufacturers and get a blue machine from one of them, assuming Apple hasn't sued them for selling blue machines, yet.
I have never run into an independent re-seller that forced anyone to buy an OS with their machine, and I have dealt with dozens. I think your story is more hype than reality. Do you research.
Laptops are a different story though. Buying desktops with no OS are cake. Hell, CompUSA will put one together for you, if you want to pay their prices.
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Maybe I'm missing something here: MP3 IS MPEG 1 Layer 3 audio.
In my experience, it takes just as long to rip a cd at 56bits/22Khz as it does to rip one at 128bits/44khz. And a P2-266 with 128megs of RAM can encode a live stream at 128bits/44khz, just fine.
Fine tuning for speed isn't really that big of a deal. Finding a fast machine with a fast connection to the internet to act as your MP3 server is.
And I'm not sure there is a server that can serve out the same source stream as both high and low speed streams, so you may need two servers.
Perhaps vmware for one of the servers?
Live365 will give you 100 128bit/44khz channels (I don't think you' want that, unless everyone on campus has a network connection, you can pare it down to whatever you feel is right) more if teh case arises. All you have to do is apply for it and supply a single, full bandwidth stream (ie 128b/44khz) to their servers via shoutcast.
Next year, maybe. Don't you think you're speculating a tad bit, there, AC? Cite your source if you want to make such grandiose claims.
A little testy, AC? MacOS is weak. It's based on technology that hasn't changed in 15 years, and was never meant to be a powerhouse OS in the first place.
OS X might rock, if Apple could release it. 'Til then, I re-iterate: It would be nice to buy a G4 with a decent OS.
This machine was built for the big block manipulations required for MP3 encoding, it's going to be hella fast at ripping.
Too bad you can't buy it with a decent OS.
I stream 128bit/44khz off of a P2-266. It's very capable of handling that sort of transformation. I can stream live off of my Line-recording, so I can play cd's without ripping them or do some live DJing (I suck, but people listen anyways). The shoutcast server can be run from a machine that has a faster connection than the machine that you DJ from.
You use a Shoutcast Source plug-in to send the source to the server. The server can be a Linux, or some other high-capacity server.
I use Live365 for my server, because they'll give ANYONE a 100 listener channel, all you have to do is apply for it. The only thing they can't do is relay the song name/artist info that you would normally send out to the listeners. Samll price to pay for that kind of bandwidth.
All I have to do is find the bandwidth to send out a single 128-bit/44khz stream, NP over DSL.
Wow, with Internet access in every room, who needs SpectraVision(tm)!
A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and www.piece-of-ass.com...
I certainly hope that our world will progress to the point that cyber-enabled warfare is a possibility. It may end war as we know it.
But then the spacemen will come and destroy our euthanasia machines to re-aquaint us with the horrors of war that we had long forgotten, having played the war simulation game for generations.
They're right. 21 updates is too inconvenient. This is an issue that should be addressed with more than simple anti-MS rhetoric.
What's keeping Linux down at this point, is lack of user-friendliness. I don't advocate making it a useless, pablum, MacOS-like OS, but a little more concentration on the end user is going to go a long way at this point.
People ARE sick of MS, but they are not going to give up ALL of the creature comforts that they have aquired. This "Unified Patch Distribution" idea seems a simple enough idea that it could be facilitated, quite easily, in fact. Some RPMs, an install script, &c.
I've never heard of them. they haven't done anything impressive yet. They probably just have a web page somewhere.
If we can afford to lay that out for a test firing, I guess it puts that NASA Mars orbiter loss into perspective.
...Undoubtedly trying to affect the price of those tasty Aussie Beef Snacks.
Those were precision Atlaspheres(tm). Those were not toys for bounding down hills, they were specifically engineered to test man's will to win.
You could just kick the little feller for a stroll in the park...
IMHO it just cheapens the whole Christian religion in general.
I concur. I hope and pray that there is a particularly warm spot in hell for televangelists, and their ilk.
It actually bugs the hell out of me(pardon the pun)when I see a little Jesus fish on a business sign/card, as though their christian identity is now just another marketing ploy.
These asswipes make it harder for the rest of us to explain that not every christian is a slope-browed, knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing, fundamentalist, and that being a christian is more than aping some bible-thumping, self-righteous, money-grubbing preacher. Some of us even swear (I never read in the bible anything about not swearing)
Lame site, dude.
Not funny, not insightful. Nothing partucularly clever about it, really.
I think NASA ought to adopt the Three-F system for all future missions. I'm sure this would alleviate the confusion that the metric system causes, and you wouldn't have all those nasty fractions that the english system is prone to create.
If ever there was a a project that had "Do It Yourself written on it, this is the one. all you'd need is some visqueen, scotch tape and a bike pump. Just do it! You could win the a prestigous Darwin award, err... for good Science! Remember to have a video cameraman on hand for it's maiden roll, cause you could win $10K on one of those TV shows where everybody gets hit in the nuts.
So far in my life, OpenLinux 2.3 is the BEST install EVER. It worked flawlessly straight out of the CD Burner. It's awesome! None of the otehre Linux distro's I've ever worked with (and I've worked with most of them) installed as easily or quickly as OpenLinux 2.3
It beats installing any MS product hands down. But then again installing Linux has always beat the crap out of MS due to the lack of rebooting. Installed Win98SE on a P3-500 with a 48x cd-rom last night, took 45 minutes. Installed OpenLinux 2.3 on a slower machine (p2-266, 40x cd) during the same period of time, took all of 17 minutes, and I go to play tetris (a small but highly effective gimmick).
I tend to exagerate, I admit, with both my descriptions and my jibes. There are two companies that are coming out with Imac form factor PCs. E-machines and a Korean company who's name eludes me. Both are being sued by Apple.
PS Technically, a Troglodyte, by definition, lives in a cave.
PPS The Carrot Top sig is bait... You been fished in!
Triangulating a station
which is several thousands of miles away needs
pretty large legs on the triangle.
Or a super-exact ex-NASA protractor...
. Triangulating a station
which is several thousands of miles away needs
pretty large legs on the triangle.
Or a super-exact ex-NASA protractor...
It's fairly obvious the AVERAGE consumer isn't particularly interested in Linux, so you can go to the specialty shops, where you get good deals on quality equipment.
http://www.a-top.com/color/color.html
http://www.colorcase.com/
http://www.techstyle-com.com/
http://www.futurecase.com/
So, you haven't ever seen a VAIO box in CompUSA, get out of the cave once in a while, Trog.
PC_Builder:Well sir, here is your shiny new computer...
Buyer:It's grey.
PC_Builder:Yes it is, but its got...
Buyer:Can I get it in blue? My carpet is blue.
PC_Builder:Umm, no. But it does come with your choice or more ram/less ram, more hard drive/less hard drive and any flavor of Windows you would like.
Buyer: oh, then I guess I'll go to over a hundred other PC manufacturers and get a blue machine from one of them, assuming Apple hasn't sued them for selling blue machines, yet.
I have never run into an independent re-seller that forced anyone to buy an OS with their machine, and I have dealt with dozens. I think your story is more hype than reality. Do you research.
Laptops are a different story though. Buying desktops with no OS are cake. Hell, CompUSA will put one together for you, if you want to pay their prices.