I just put a creative SB card in my system, connected it to my Tape input on the reciever and play excellent quality MP3's etc using mplayer or xmms. It works great. No one in my house can tell the differece between that and CD's if I ripp the songs at a good bit rate.
If I want to play Internet radio I just point xmms to shoutcast and play music thru my stereo for hours. I also set up a script to pull streams from shoutcast via "streamripper". Streamripper can then output the music to a port number I specify and save the songs to disk as well. Then using xmms (for example) I listen on that port and presto-chango it's playing on my stereo.
I have a JVC reciever (forget the model) with a 100 watt amp for each channel. Its about two years old.
Believe me it's nothing fancy and I need to write some simple python stuff so my wife can use it. But it does sound good.
I worked at Sun in a Sales office over two years ago and they started just after I left. And as stated in another reply above this it's not being done in the Engineering groups (for example) last I heard. Only the areas where the office is fairly transient.
Very OLD OLD news - there is better stuff out there than this
I was down for 1 day,really about 30 hours. I've never been able to have a static IP but in the year I've had the service it's only changed once and I don't think they want to change it very often because their DNS got really messed up when they did it about 9mos ago. Of course AT&T may do it more frequently and have a better Dynamic DNS setup. My firewall is running OpenBSD and of course has been setup to use DHCP on the external NIC. The only thing I haven't messed with is getting my mail account setup. Has anyone done that yet? Did you call the support line or are the instructions for it on the URL the shotgunned to everyone? Thanks and good luck.
Their DNS was not completely updated when my service came back up but it's fine now.
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I just put a creative SB card in my system, connected it to my Tape input on the reciever and play excellent quality MP3's etc using mplayer or xmms. It works great. No one in my house can tell the differece between that and CD's if I ripp the songs at a good bit rate.
If I want to play Internet radio I just point xmms to shoutcast and play music thru my stereo for hours. I also set up a script to pull streams from shoutcast via "streamripper". Streamripper can then output the music to a port number I specify and save the songs to disk as well. Then using xmms (for example) I listen on that port and presto-chango it's playing on my stereo.
I have a JVC reciever (forget the model) with a 100 watt amp for each channel. Its about two years old.
Believe me it's nothing fancy and I need to write some simple python stuff so my wife can use it. But it does sound good.
I worked at Sun in a Sales office over two years ago and they started just after I left. And as stated in another reply above this it's not being done in the Engineering groups (for example) last I heard. Only the areas where the office is fairly transient.
Very OLD OLD news - there is better stuff out there than this
I was down for 1 day,really about 30 hours. I've never been able to have a static IP but in the year I've had the service it's only changed once and I don't think they want to change it very often because their DNS got really messed up when they did it about 9mos ago. Of course AT&T may do it more frequently and have a better Dynamic DNS setup. My firewall is running OpenBSD and of course has been setup to use DHCP on the external NIC. The only thing I haven't messed with is getting my mail account setup. Has anyone done that yet? Did you call the support line or are the instructions for it on the URL the shotgunned to everyone? Thanks and good luck.
Their DNS was not completely updated when my service came back up but it's fine now.