Does anyone out there remember the ISIS/Osiris BBS server software? From what I've read, it was packed with tons of features. I wanted to get a copy, but could never get in contact with whatever company wrote it. I'd still like to mess around with it. Can anyone help?
Also, I loved RoboBOARD/FXTerm! The Scorpion's Den was my favorite board!
gnutella was released under the gpl, but the source won't be available 'till version 1. currently, it seems frozen at.491 and i personally don't think any updates will be around soon. whether or not it is legal to do this with the gpl, i don't know. Maybe it was okay with corel's "in-house" alphas, but a publicly distributed binary proclaimed to be under the gpl? i dunno.
...it takes just as long to rip a cd at 56bits/22Khz as it does to rip one at 128bits/44khz.
It's not about ripping speed, which is based largely on the speed of a CD/DVD-ROM drive, but about encoding speed. This is especially noticeable on slower machines.
My Pentium 233MMX using bladeenc takes about, oh, fifteen minutes to encode a five minute song at 160kbps. It can be done in a fraction of that time at lower bitrates.
Yeah, I'll agree, a PII-266 with gobs of RAM can do a good job of encoding. So can a 386. What we're looking for is a machine which can do it in real time. Broadcast radio isn't going to take ten every hour just to let the buffer on the server fill up.
Fine tuning for speed isn't really that big of a deal.
Er, um... riiiight. If we lived like that, Microsoft would be making billions. Oh, wait...
It depends on how fast you want to stream. e.g. 24kbit/s or 128kbit/s (where 24k is better so that people with slow 33.6 modem connections still have a chance to hear you).
In my (humble) experiences lower bitrate is good, except in music. I'm not sure what will be played on the campus radio, but I'm guessing it won't be speech (virtually the only thing which can be decently encoded at 24kbps). Slashdot radio? Yeah, even they can get away with it, but have you noticed how lossey the sound quality is?
Those of us who visit Shoutcast regularly over 33.6k modems know that after finding a low bitrate site, the quality is less than a 50s A.M. radio. *sigh*
My recommendation is, if enough processor power is left, to encode at both 24 and 128 kbps. But, if as you mentioned, lame uses 20% of a K6-450's time just at 24kbps, it may be better to have a dedicated radio server on a powerhouse machine. As usual, the only thing holding you back is the dinero for the project.
I'm having the same problems. The only thing keeping me back from running Linux 24/7 is a good resuming ftp client and Blizzard's Diablo.
Anyway, I was attempting to upgrade my distro (RH5.2) and was looking for a gtk+ upgrade. I noticed gFTP on the gtk site at the time. I suppose it's kinda like BulletProof FTP (which I use in Windows), but I don't know. I couldn't compile it because my libraries are so dated.
No links, no pics, no motor home, not a single luxury. No wait. That's Gilligan's Island.
Anyway, I assumed they used SuSE Linux, seeing how this article is on a German site, and the tests done by a German company. Hmmm... SuSE comes with a 2.2.10 kernel, though. 'Course, it's not that hard to find kernel sources and make a new one.
But, as usual, I'll probably be wrong. Foolish assumptions. Ugh.
I have an NEC 6x4 (Type CDR-4300A, but shows up in BIOS booting as NEC-252 or something) CD Changer. I willingly admit my plans to use it on my server.
I was going to use, I should say, because the fscking thing doesn't work! Needless to say, I'm pretty steamed.
The problem is whenever I insert a disc (it's like a car's CD player) facing label up or down, it spins for a few seconds, then kicks the disc out!
Linux (RH52 Orig. kernel 2.0.32) recognizes it the same way as the BIOS (NEC 252). Windoze 95 OSR 2.1 sees four drives, giving the impression of working (*gasp!*), but the drive still kicks discs out!
I've tried to find tech support at nec.com, but the site is always down.
Anyone out there who can help?
----- We concentrate on the stuff that matters: It's the code, stupid.
Yessir. The only reason I knew about it was from a friend, so I stayed.
One really odd thing though: Was it just me or did anyone else notice "Javva the Hutt," not "Jabba?" I dunno. I was in the last row and barely caught it before it went off-screen, so it may be just a spawned process of my imagination. Anyone else see it?
Could anyone who taped it convert it to RealVideo, MPEG, or QuickTime? I'd love to see the pilot episodes of (IMHO) good shows on the web (remember South Park?).
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Does anyone out there remember the ISIS/Osiris BBS server software? From what I've read, it was packed with tons of features. I wanted to get a copy, but could never get in contact with whatever company wrote it. I'd still like to mess around with it. Can anyone help?
Also, I loved RoboBOARD/FXTerm! The Scorpion's Den was my favorite board!
gnutella was released under the gpl, but the source won't be available 'till version 1. .491 and i personally don't think any updates will be around soon.
currently, it seems frozen at
whether or not it is legal to do this with the gpl, i don't know. Maybe it was okay with corel's "in-house" alphas, but a publicly distributed binary proclaimed to be under the gpl? i dunno.
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It's not about ripping speed, which is based largely on the speed of a CD/DVD-ROM drive, but about encoding speed. This is especially noticeable on slower machines.
My Pentium 233MMX using bladeenc takes about, oh, fifteen minutes to encode a five minute song at 160kbps. It can be done in a fraction of that time at lower bitrates.
Yeah, I'll agree, a PII-266 with gobs of RAM can do a good job of encoding. So can a 386. What we're looking for is a machine which can do it in real time. Broadcast radio isn't going to take ten every hour just to let the buffer on the server fill up.
Er, um... riiiight.
If we lived like that, Microsoft would be making billions. Oh, wait...
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In my (humble) experiences lower bitrate is good, except in music. I'm not sure what will be played on the campus radio, but I'm guessing it won't be speech (virtually the only thing which can be decently encoded at 24kbps). Slashdot radio? Yeah, even they can get away with it, but have you noticed how lossey the sound quality is?
Those of us who visit Shoutcast regularly over 33.6k modems know that after finding a low bitrate site, the quality is less than a 50s A.M. radio. *sigh*
My recommendation is, if enough processor power is left, to encode at both 24 and 128 kbps. But, if as you mentioned, lame uses 20% of a K6-450's time just at 24kbps, it may be better to have a dedicated radio server on a powerhouse machine. As usual, the only thing holding you back is the dinero for the project.
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I'm having the same problems. The only thing keeping me back from running Linux 24/7 is a good resuming ftp client and Blizzard's Diablo.
Anyway, I was attempting to upgrade my distro (RH5.2) and was looking for a gtk+ upgrade. I noticed gFTP on the gtk site at the time. I suppose it's kinda like BulletProof FTP (which I use in Windows), but I don't know. I couldn't compile it because my libraries are so dated.
Hope it helps to break your bad habit.
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Wow.
If you let your eyes go out of focus while scrolling down, you see pretty patterns and curves. Wild, man.
I'm really tired right now, so...
Riiiiiight....
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Yes, I agree.
No links, no pics, no motor home, not a single luxury. No wait. That's Gilligan's Island.
Anyway, I assumed they used SuSE Linux, seeing how this article is on a German site, and the tests done by a German company. Hmmm... SuSE comes with a 2.2.10 kernel, though. 'Course, it's not that hard to find kernel sources and make a new one.
But, as usual, I'll probably be wrong. Foolish assumptions. Ugh.
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Yeah, but,
I don't think anything wouldn't scale well on a box like that.
mmmm..... Quad Xeon III
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I have an NEC 6x4 (Type CDR-4300A, but shows up in BIOS booting as NEC-252 or something) CD Changer. I willingly admit my plans to use it on my server.
I was going to use, I should say, because the fscking thing doesn't work! Needless to say, I'm pretty steamed.
The problem is whenever I insert a disc (it's like a car's CD player) facing label up or down, it spins for a few seconds, then kicks the disc out!
Linux (RH52 Orig. kernel 2.0.32) recognizes it the same way as the BIOS (NEC 252). Windoze 95 OSR 2.1 sees four drives, giving the impression of working (*gasp!*), but the drive still kicks discs out!
I've tried to find tech support at nec.com, but the site is always down.
Anyone out there who can help?
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We concentrate on the stuff that matters: It's the code, stupid.
Yessir. The only reason I knew about it was from a friend, so I stayed.
One really odd thing though: Was it just me or did anyone else notice "Javva the Hutt," not "Jabba?"
I dunno. I was in the last row and barely caught it before it went off-screen, so it may be just a spawned process of my imagination. Anyone else see it?
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Could anyone who taped it convert it to RealVideo, MPEG, or QuickTime? I'd love to see the pilot episodes of (IMHO) good shows on the web (remember South Park?).