Shorten is the best WAV compression around if you want lossless. We use it at etree.org for trading of music (bands that allow taping, legally) exclusively. There's even source available so you can use it on linux.
The best way to do this so that it would work on any network would be to scramble outgoing text from the client and have the other user descramble. So, if you logged in without something to decode, all you would see would be "eWGimmgbdime9e7 8jhe 8jetg ge78e 8wjet 7ht" or something. Meanwhile, each client is decoding on the fly to a private key that all you need to do is set as a variable in an IRC script which encrypts and decrypts. With the key, each text string is encoded and decoded. Makes sense kinda.
Just hearing $160 for bare bones shakes my spine. We have a bunch of what seems to be similar computers at work, and none of them are without problems. We run NT which barely works on them and have physical, OS independant problems. For example: The onboard NIC sabotaged itself and rendered the TCP/IP stack useless. We put in a genuine Intel PCI NIC, and the motherboard fried that! We know it fried it because we tried again and another got fried. This is just one system but they all have similar problems. Apparently they have a none standard ethernet wiring configuration which shorted out our previously working network. They occasionally forget their IP addresses and TCP/IP ceases to work. Sometimes you have to login locally and then ping the domain controller and log back out and then back in to the network just to recognize the network. In any event, I'm sure you get the idea.
Not good to talk about something you aren't informed on. You said "Pyite statement is as stupid as saying that zipping data means you lose data!" That is not analogous at all to my statement. Zipping is a lossless compression algorithm so by definition you don't lose data. MP3 is a lossy algorithm so this time, by definition, you do lose data. And don't tell me its sound that I don't hear because I do hear it.
Don't buy any of these silly little devices. Let's examine why. A) They're expensive B) They hold barely anything C) Who can stand the horrible quality of mp3 anyway? Examine this from a logical standpoint. By conventional audio storage on CD, 32MB will get you a little over 3 minutes of audio. Why? Because this is the amount needed to capture 16 bit sound at 44.1KHz samples a second! 9/10 of the music data is being cut out when you go to mp3. They sound all washed out because of this. Stay with CD. And if you dont like skipping of CDs, get a 40 second skip protector CD player. And if you still intend on shaking it for 40 seconds, get a casette player. That's right. The somewhat ancient technology has much better quality than mp3s. Stop being so trendy and go with what's best.
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Definitely go with the Linksys... I've heard nothing but good on this. Especially on ZDTV, they can't get enough of it.
The best way to do this so that it would work on any network would be to scramble outgoing text from the client and have the other user descramble. So, if you logged in without something to decode, all you would see would be "eWGimmgbdime9e7 8jhe 8jetg ge78e 8wjet 7ht" or something. Meanwhile, each client is decoding on the fly to a private key that all you need to do is set as a variable in an IRC script which encrypts and decrypts. With the key, each text string is encoded and decoded. Makes sense kinda.
Just hearing $160 for bare bones shakes my spine. We have a bunch of what seems to be similar computers at work, and none of them are without problems. We run NT which barely works on them and have physical, OS independant problems. For example: The onboard NIC sabotaged itself and rendered the TCP/IP stack useless. We put in a genuine Intel PCI NIC, and the motherboard fried that! We know it fried it because we tried again and another got fried. This is just one system but they all have similar problems. Apparently they have a none standard ethernet wiring configuration which shorted out our previously working network. They occasionally forget their IP addresses and TCP/IP ceases to work. Sometimes you have to login locally and then ping the domain controller and log back out and then back in to the network just to recognize the network. In any event, I'm sure you get the idea.
Not good to talk about something you aren't informed on. You said "Pyite statement is as stupid as saying that zipping data means you lose data!" That is not analogous at all to my statement. Zipping is a lossless compression algorithm so by definition you don't lose data. MP3 is a lossy algorithm so this time, by definition, you do lose data. And don't tell me its sound that I don't hear because I do hear it.
Don't buy any of these silly little devices. Let's examine why. A) They're expensive B) They hold barely anything C) Who can stand the horrible quality of mp3 anyway? Examine this from a logical standpoint. By conventional audio storage on CD, 32MB will get you a little over 3 minutes of audio. Why? Because this is the amount needed to capture 16 bit sound at 44.1KHz samples a second! 9/10 of the music data is being cut out when you go to mp3. They sound all washed out because of this. Stay with CD. And if you dont like skipping of CDs, get a 40 second skip protector CD player. And if you still intend on shaking it for 40 seconds, get a casette player. That's right. The somewhat ancient technology has much better quality than mp3s. Stop being so trendy and go with what's best.