FYI Google Chat uses Jabber. Now you know two. I loaded up the Google suite on my Blackberry and now have a "unified buddy list" on my phone for free. Keeps my minutes usage and SMS charges down -- especially once I added the free AIM SMS gateway addresses to that unified buddy list. Just find an open AIM gateway in the Jabber world, and register it with your Google Talk roster using Psi.
I'm a bit surprised to not see any mention of Democracy Player so far, especially when integrated with tvrss.net. After a false start with MythTV some time ago and a long time user of a hacked Series 1 TiVO and Comcast HD DVR, I'm now on long term business travel and Democracy Player and tvrss take care of some of my needs. So here's what's missing.. a method for matching up consumers with MythTV users who volunteer to automagically record and submit content into the TVRSS system. I want to watch the 5:00 news from Philadelphia while on the West Coast. It can be captured, torrentized, posted to TVRSS, and downloaded in Democracy all before I leave the office for the evening. Can someone please develop a module whereby requests for content, sometimes from a specific market, will be fulfilled by people volunteering disk space and bandwidth? Leave the commericals in, I don't care. I just want to know what's happening at home. I don't have to remind you of the benefits of pairing up BitTorrent with RSS, especially when "the little guy" is involved. What about software for TiVO that will let me browse other markets and subscribe to the evening news anywhere in the country using the same mechanism? Just make it easy to use. Imagine browsing TVRSS.net from your TiVO and subscribing to content? I love it!
Also, with all the holier than thou stuff going on around here about not watching tv anymore, you're missing out on some pretty cool, legal content being published by universities and other organizations all over the globe - video podcasts from Princeton University and the NIH come to mind immediately. KQED QUEST is another incredible source of interesting, legal content. I also enjoy the BBC Breakfast Takeaway. By actively dismissing and rejecting all video content not in a Netflix envelope, you just may be hurting yourself more than you realize.
In Second Life, if you zoom your camera up to a wall, you will normally just zoom in to see closer detail of the wall. But once up against the wall, swing the camera around to the side, and you can "back your way in" through the wall. Release and click again, and the camera is now "mounted" inside the house. Its so much fun to watch people inside their homes, especially when your avatar is prevented from entering the property. Some even pay for a little orb that still tells them that no one is detected within 30m. Its fun because the clicks still work, too, like right clicking on someone and IM'ing them.. to tell them that you liked their last outfit more than this one, or the couch looked better in the other corner.. really freaks them out. That is definitely a "bug" (or feature) I couldn't live without... not in SL at least.
Let's not forget Xcelis who plays in this space, too, with the PC-VOIP. Drop in a SIM card linked to an add-on line on your cellular plan. Hook up a phone wire to your VOIP TA, and the gateway will now route calls bidirectionally between your cellphone and the VOIP always using mobile-to-mobile and (hopefully) unlimited VOIP minutes. Supports speed dial, registered users, remote configuration using DTMF, and configurable inbound forwarding.
$350 + $10/mo on Cingular, for indicative pricing. Three years payback ROI if you can drop enough minutes to save $20/mo on your plan.
I've been using Democracy to download and watch video podcasts, and the BBC's EULA has always been really weird. The closest thing we get to the news is a weekly update from Newsnight, and even then the EULA says we're authorized to subscribe for 7 days.
On another note, Democracy says that you can view Google/YouTube and Yahoo! videos, but while the searches work great, clicking the download link results in "Not Found" 100% of the time. Has anyone else experienced this and found a fix? I'd really like to have daily news updates from the Beeb in Democracy, no matter how it gets there.
Personally, I was a big fan of 8:02pm on February 20th, 2002 (20:02 20/02/2002)
I, too, enjoy linking times with dates for interesting patterns, and was surprised your comment was this far down. I enjoyed 01:02:03 on 04/05/06 for instance.
And for the 24-hour clock comment way up the stack, it doesn't bug me as much anymore, as I've been playing around a lot with AO-51 amateur radio satellite lately, and have to back up 4 hours (often across midnight) in my pass calculations. After a month or so, you'd quickly adjust to not only the 24 hour format, but UTC as well.
IBM, like most large organizations, has a standard desktop image running Windows. Actually, about 30 of them if you count the site-specific customizations. This has been called c4eb, or Client for eBusiness for several years. I first saw the Linux version in late 2001. Now, in what seems like a fork, a new standard Linux desktop, OpenClient 1.0 or something like that, has gone GA. I've run several iterations under VMware workstation to track its progress and functionality. I've used this Eclipse-based version of Notes. It is bears no resemblance to the full client you are used to. Problem is, my guest still swaps even after I give it 512MB, particularly after I loaded Notes. It is huge. But as the new Linux desktop continues to mature, I'm sure I can expect to come across more than one or two people a year running it as their primary desktop, as has been the case so far.
I'm almost surprised they even decided to proceed to the point that they did today
I was about 35 miles to the northwest, flipping back and forth between CNN and NASA TV being fed from my laptop. I was under darker clouds, and was afraid that the clouds were going to block my normally spectacular view. Then they scrubbed it, and I packed up and went over to the track for the race. True Florida vacation, this one.
No matter how many laptops you buy, you won't be able to share your life, your lessons, your beliefs, or your ideas with a laptop.
You obviously don't run an ALICE bot:) Its the closest thing to producing a digital "mini me", created after your own image. Learning from your lessons. Following your beliefs. Remembering your ideas forever.
I've actually had a completely wacked out schedule, sometimes working at home 5 days a week for a year straight, other times doing the ole' 5-4-3 for half a year or more. Its rare that I actually have a commutable assignment. Luckily I haven't had to fly for the 5-4-3 jobs (yet), but I was still away from home nonetheless. Those who pointed out the importance of your wife's situation speak from experience. My wife grew up as an "IBM daughter" and therefore knew her Mom as an "IBM wife". Now she's an IBM wife and has absolutely no trouble adjusting to dramatic schedule changes.
If you haven't done something like this before, get ready for a big change. If you have kids, get ready to pull your hair out and cry into some scotch at the hotel bar. We don't have kids yet, so we only had to adjust to the changes (and having 48 hours notice to pack for a trip to Europe -- commonly referred to as, "The Upside").
Nevermind that I think every state surrounding it has already allowed those alcohol products (and more) to be sold just about everywhere.
I'm a New Jerseyan transplanted to PA. NJ still has liquor stores for selling alcohol. You still can't buy any alcohol in a supermarket or 7-11, so the practice has been the norm my entire life. In PA, they have stores that are allowed to sell beer, but the wine and higher alcohol content beverages are sold in state-run stores (called "state stores" no less).
It seems a way to circumvent all the regulatory concerns would be to produce a wired headset with the encryption hardware right on the wire. Let the end users buy two or more at once and program the shared key list via USB before deploying them. That way, any phone could be used, even cordless house phones and rentals.
using my Verizon DSL username/password, I could connect to the Verizon wifi network in New York City [..] here's to hoping this still works when I get back
Yikes. One of the first things I usually do after an install is:
vi/etc/ssh/sshd_config
PermitRootLogin no
I once did some work at a university with a guy building servers with public IP addresses. He was leaving root logins enabled. When I convinced him to shut off root logins via ssh, the very next thing he did was:
visudoers
hisid ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: ALL
/me smacks forehead and walks away
Just as important as good passwords are to ward off dictionary attacks, so are actually having "strong" non-root userids. If I ever see "flarkle" in an ssh dictionary attack, I might fall out of my chair.
I'd really like to see the PTO require working models of all "inventions" submitted for patent
I respectfully disagree. I submit patent applications as an IBM employee, and while I don't have the resources to ever bring my ideas to market, IBM can certainly bring to bear just about anything I submit that they deem worthy. But why would they ever tool a manufacturing line and build a working demo of every invention *before* having a patent covering the idea? I started to develop a residential answering machine that allows a family to setup individual profiles with independent mailboxes, greetings, and email addresses to forward messages as attachments. I did my due dilligence and found too many related patents and applications out there. Even if someone hasn't developed a working demo yet, I can respect that they claimed the idea as their own. Why can't you? And why don't you feel that "Joe Inventor" who works in his garage for 20 years trying to find the next big thing should be allowed to make money by documenting cutting edge ideas just because he can't afford to fab circuits, develop code and burn EEPROMS?
Kicking it up a notch, how about IBM implementing a new chip design? We can simulate complete chip designs entirely in software. Why should they spend a billion dollars to fab the first version of the chip just so they can ship it to Washington so a patent clerk can validate its worthiness? I feel this position was borne from the fact that a tiny fraction of the folks we meet and work with in our daily lives are actually backed by an organization that may at one point actually do something with our ideas. You certainly don't mind demanding that those of us who *can* spend millions of dollars in development actually *do* spend that kind of money. Obviously, software patents are a different story, but you didn't say "all software inventions". You want every patent application accompanied by a working model.
I've had AIM, Yahoo! IM and MSN Messenger flat rate on Nextel for years. If you can browse the web via WAP on your Nextel, then you have this, too. I'm typically more mobile than my contacts, so I prefer this over "texting". I'd rather my conversations blend in with the others they're already having on their desktop.
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Not to mention something Nextel has had for years. If I put my regularly scheduled meetings in my datebook, I can program the phone to switch to vibrate on its own, shut off the two-way radio feature, and even decide who in my phonebook is allowed to ring through, just for the length of the meeting. Its really an excellent feature, and I love it.
They just shoved it underground at my condo yesterday. My development is littered with these huge machines shoving big orange tubing into a hole in the ground. I asked the workers, and they said it should be ready in about 45 days. Can't wait to give Comcast the finger. Although I am probably going to have a tough time without the Flyers action.
I, too, have commuted via Amtrak over the last year.. not just a short leg where Amtrak picks up the load from a local commuter line, but from NJ to CT. Every single time I've been on board, they announce that photo ID is required **if you paid by credit card**, and even then, they've only checked my ID half the time. Once because I had it out ahead of time. But you are absolutely correct in that id checking appears to be more lax on trains, and the best thing to do is buy it in cash. Particularly if, in the context of this discussion, the idea is to get to Washington DC anonymously. Good ole' Amtrak and a taxi.
Do you have any more information available on the scraping of the pls files to get the MP3 information?
Hey, nice to hear from you. I believe I was initally referring to some neat code the guys over at Vibeflow.com wrote that dynamically generates.pls files on the fly. Goto vibeflow, and on the left you'll see recent MP3s that were posted. If you like DJ mix stuff, Radio2000 is actually pretty cool. Notice the URL to the MP3 of their latest episode..
Now you have a behind-the-scenes look at every episode recorded for the show (and each show is an hour or two long!) You'll see a mix of mp3's and rm's for various episodes. Go up one level higher (no "parent directory" link, so edit the URL again), and now you're at the head end of their entire list of all the shows they have ever recorded!
If you're good with lynx --dump with some creative greps, cuts, pipes (|), redirects (>), for/do loops, and wgets you can quickly build a directory of m3u's pointing to each and every episode of every show they ever recorded in mp3 format. That'll get you months' worth of a varied collection of pretty darn good music from the LA and Tokyo DJ scene. Even "rap wars" a la 8 Mile that are actually fun to listen to (never actually saw the movie, but that's what I get from the clips). I swear I must have a couple months or more of continuous, non-repeating music stored in just 16MBs of m3u files. Laid my 220GB MP3 collection to waste. Sure it took a bunch of iterations to get the command sequence just right, but once I was able to grab every m3u pointing to every mp3 in their archive while retaining the directory and file names, I was satisfied and haven't been back since. I really should cron up an rsync or something.
Finally, yes, I also have the MP3 Stream greasemonkey script from http://www.barkingstars.com/blog/000031.html installed. It places a little "stream" logo next to every URL ending in ".mp3" on viewed webpages. Not sure if you're also a Slimdevices customer, or just run the streaming server, but it gets a little annoying having to paste in.pls URLs for each individual song you may find on some college kid's web page, but for long-playing recordings (such as any Vibeflow show episode!) and streaming radio stations it works out very well.
I also just started using it to play classroom lectures from Purdue University's "Boilercast" lecture podcast series. I just pull up their listing, and firefox gives me a.pls link suitable for streaming any of their classroom audio right through the SLiMP3/Squeezebox/whatever. Too bad they didn't publish a.pdf of the materials list and homework assignments right there with the audio from the first class of the semester!
Thanks for checking in, and I hope you found it helpful.
And loving it.. I run the server in a VMware ESX guest with the CPU shares lowered to just 5 - same as my DNS server (default is 1,000). My father-in-law changed out my exploded water heater on Father's Day for free last year so I thanked him with a 2nd gen Squeezebox. He ABSOLUTELY loves it, and built a 220GB MP3 collection around it, and wired up whole-house audio and music around the pool.
I have had some issues with Centos 4 show up only in that VMware guest, however. ARPs don't complete properly and the MAC for the SliMP3 shows up as (incomplete) until I cron up a job to fix it manually. I also have to cron up an ntpdate command every 10 minutes, as the clock is off by about 45 seconds every 10 minutes. Strange.
Finally, as others have pointed out their favorite things to play.. years ago I found Vibeflow.com for hundreds of hours of a wide variety of great music. And if you poke around behind the curtains, you can find a.pls generator they coded up and basically wget the.pls files for their entire collection! No one else has mentioned the tight Shoutcast integration. Finally, more recent versions of the server software lets you pop a.pls URL right into the web page and tune in. Pair that up with greasemonkey script that adds a.pls link alongside every MP3 URL and you can quickly and easily queue up any.mp3 URL you find on the net.
Seriously, check out Vibeflow's Alias Circa show archive.
Sun freezes hell, gets IBM to sell Solaris on blades Friday October 28, @10:55AM Rejected
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FYI Google Chat uses Jabber. Now you know two. I loaded up the Google suite on my Blackberry and now have a "unified buddy list" on my phone for free. Keeps my minutes usage and SMS charges down -- especially once I added the free AIM SMS gateway addresses to that unified buddy list. Just find an open AIM gateway in the Jabber world, and register it with your Google Talk roster using Psi.
Works really well.
I'm a bit surprised to not see any mention of Democracy Player so far, especially when integrated with tvrss.net. After a false start with MythTV some time ago and a long time user of a hacked Series 1 TiVO and Comcast HD DVR, I'm now on long term business travel and Democracy Player and tvrss take care of some of my needs. So here's what's missing.. a method for matching up consumers with MythTV users who volunteer to automagically record and submit content into the TVRSS system. I want to watch the 5:00 news from Philadelphia while on the West Coast. It can be captured, torrentized, posted to TVRSS, and downloaded in Democracy all before I leave the office for the evening. Can someone please develop a module whereby requests for content, sometimes from a specific market, will be fulfilled by people volunteering disk space and bandwidth? Leave the commericals in, I don't care. I just want to know what's happening at home. I don't have to remind you of the benefits of pairing up BitTorrent with RSS, especially when "the little guy" is involved. What about software for TiVO that will let me browse other markets and subscribe to the evening news anywhere in the country using the same mechanism? Just make it easy to use. Imagine browsing TVRSS.net from your TiVO and subscribing to content? I love it!
Also, with all the holier than thou stuff going on around here about not watching tv anymore, you're missing out on some pretty cool, legal content being published by universities and other organizations all over the globe - video podcasts from Princeton University and the NIH come to mind immediately. KQED QUEST is another incredible source of interesting, legal content. I also enjoy the BBC Breakfast Takeaway. By actively dismissing and rejecting all video content not in a Netflix envelope, you just may be hurting yourself more than you realize.
In Second Life, if you zoom your camera up to a wall, you will normally just zoom in to see closer detail of the wall. But once up against the wall, swing the camera around to the side, and you can "back your way in" through the wall. Release and click again, and the camera is now "mounted" inside the house. Its so much fun to watch people inside their homes, especially when your avatar is prevented from entering the property. Some even pay for a little orb that still tells them that no one is detected within 30m. Its fun because the clicks still work, too, like right clicking on someone and IM'ing them.. to tell them that you liked their last outfit more than this one, or the couch looked better in the other corner.. really freaks them out. That is definitely a "bug" (or feature) I couldn't live without... not in SL at least.
Let's not forget Xcelis who plays in this space, too, with the PC-VOIP. Drop in a SIM card linked to an add-on line on your cellular plan. Hook up a phone wire to your VOIP TA, and the gateway will now route calls bidirectionally between your cellphone and the VOIP always using mobile-to-mobile and (hopefully) unlimited VOIP minutes. Supports speed dial, registered users, remote configuration using DTMF, and configurable inbound forwarding.
$350 + $10/mo on Cingular, for indicative pricing. Three years payback ROI if you can drop enough minutes to save $20/mo on your plan.
I've been using Democracy to download and watch video podcasts, and the BBC's EULA has always been really weird. The closest thing we get to the news is a weekly update from Newsnight, and even then the EULA says we're authorized to subscribe for 7 days.
On another note, Democracy says that you can view Google/YouTube and Yahoo! videos, but while the searches work great, clicking the download link results in "Not Found" 100% of the time. Has anyone else experienced this and found a fix? I'd really like to have daily news updates from the Beeb in Democracy, no matter how it gets there.
Thanks..
Personally, I was a big fan of 8:02pm on February 20th, 2002 (20:02 20/02/2002)
I, too, enjoy linking times with dates for interesting patterns, and was surprised your comment was this far down. I enjoyed 01:02:03 on 04/05/06 for instance.
And for the 24-hour clock comment way up the stack, it doesn't bug me as much anymore, as I've been playing around a lot with AO-51 amateur radio satellite lately, and have to back up 4 hours (often across midnight) in my pass calculations. After a month or so, you'd quickly adjust to not only the 24 hour format, but UTC as well.
--LH in FN20me
IBM, like most large organizations, has a standard desktop image running Windows. Actually, about 30 of them if you count the site-specific customizations. This has been called c4eb, or Client for eBusiness for several years. I first saw the Linux version in late 2001. Now, in what seems like a fork, a new standard Linux desktop, OpenClient 1.0 or something like that, has gone GA. I've run several iterations under VMware workstation to track its progress and functionality. I've used this Eclipse-based version of Notes. It is bears no resemblance to the full client you are used to. Problem is, my guest still swaps even after I give it 512MB, particularly after I loaded Notes. It is huge. But as the new Linux desktop continues to mature, I'm sure I can expect to come across more than one or two people a year running it as their primary desktop, as has been the case so far.
Hope this helps.
I'm almost surprised they even decided to proceed to the point that they did today
I was about 35 miles to the northwest, flipping back and forth between CNN and NASA TV being fed from my laptop. I was under darker clouds, and was afraid that the clouds were going to block my normally spectacular view. Then they scrubbed it, and I packed up and went over to the track for the race. True Florida vacation, this one.
No matter how many laptops you buy, you won't be able to share your life, your lessons, your beliefs, or your ideas with a laptop.
:) Its the closest thing to producing a digital "mini me", created after your own image. Learning from your lessons. Following your beliefs. Remembering your ideas forever.
You obviously don't run an ALICE bot
I've actually had a completely wacked out schedule, sometimes working at home 5 days a week for a year straight, other times doing the ole' 5-4-3 for half a year or more. Its rare that I actually have a commutable assignment. Luckily I haven't had to fly for the 5-4-3 jobs (yet), but I was still away from home nonetheless. Those who pointed out the importance of your wife's situation speak from experience. My wife grew up as an "IBM daughter" and therefore knew her Mom as an "IBM wife". Now she's an IBM wife and has absolutely no trouble adjusting to dramatic schedule changes.
If you haven't done something like this before, get ready for a big change. If you have kids, get ready to pull your hair out and cry into some scotch at the hotel bar. We don't have kids yet, so we only had to adjust to the changes (and having 48 hours notice to pack for a trip to Europe -- commonly referred to as, "The Upside").
Nevermind that I think every state surrounding it has already allowed those alcohol products (and more) to be sold just about everywhere.
I'm a New Jerseyan transplanted to PA. NJ still has liquor stores for selling alcohol. You still can't buy any alcohol in a supermarket or 7-11, so the practice has been the norm my entire life. In PA, they have stores that are allowed to sell beer, but the wine and higher alcohol content beverages are sold in state-run stores (called "state stores" no less).
You bet. Thank you for serving!
It seems a way to circumvent all the regulatory concerns would be to produce a wired headset with the encryption hardware right on the wire. Let the end users buy two or more at once and program the shared key list via USB before deploying them. That way, any phone could be used, even cordless house phones and rentals.
I'm not sure all the details, but I do know it works
Just in case you do want the details. That's at least how to get my card working with your config.
using my Verizon DSL username/password, I could connect to the Verizon wifi network in New York City [..] here's to hoping this still works when I get back
Sorry, but nope.
Yikes. One of the first things I usually do after an install is:
vi
PermitRootLogin no
I once did some work at a university with a guy building servers with public IP addresses. He was leaving root logins enabled. When I convinced him to shut off root logins via ssh, the very next thing he did was:
visudoers
hisid ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: ALLJust as important as good passwords are to ward off dictionary attacks, so are actually having "strong" non-root userids. If I ever see "flarkle" in an ssh dictionary attack, I might fall out of my chair.
I'd really like to see the PTO require working models of all "inventions" submitted for patent
I respectfully disagree. I submit patent applications as an IBM employee, and while I don't have the resources to ever bring my ideas to market, IBM can certainly bring to bear just about anything I submit that they deem worthy. But why would they ever tool a manufacturing line and build a working demo of every invention *before* having a patent covering the idea? I started to develop a residential answering machine that allows a family to setup individual profiles with independent mailboxes, greetings, and email addresses to forward messages as attachments. I did my due dilligence and found too many related patents and applications out there. Even if someone hasn't developed a working demo yet, I can respect that they claimed the idea as their own. Why can't you? And why don't you feel that "Joe Inventor" who works in his garage for 20 years trying to find the next big thing should be allowed to make money by documenting cutting edge ideas just because he can't afford to fab circuits, develop code and burn EEPROMS?
Kicking it up a notch, how about IBM implementing a new chip design? We can simulate complete chip designs entirely in software. Why should they spend a billion dollars to fab the first version of the chip just so they can ship it to Washington so a patent clerk can validate its worthiness? I feel this position was borne from the fact that a tiny fraction of the folks we meet and work with in our daily lives are actually backed by an organization that may at one point actually do something with our ideas. You certainly don't mind demanding that those of us who *can* spend millions of dollars in development actually *do* spend that kind of money. Obviously, software patents are a different story, but you didn't say "all software inventions". You want every patent application accompanied by a working model.
I've had AIM, Yahoo! IM and MSN Messenger flat rate on Nextel for years. If you can browse the web via WAP on your Nextel, then you have this, too. I'm typically more mobile than my contacts, so I prefer this over "texting". I'd rather my conversations blend in with the others they're already having on their desktop.
Not to mention something Nextel has had for years. If I put my regularly scheduled meetings in my datebook, I can program the phone to switch to vibrate on its own, shut off the two-way radio feature, and even decide who in my phonebook is allowed to ring through, just for the length of the meeting. Its really an excellent feature, and I love it.
just bring me fiber to the home
They just shoved it underground at my condo yesterday. My development is littered with these huge machines shoving big orange tubing into a hole in the ground. I asked the workers, and they said it should be ready in about 45 days. Can't wait to give Comcast the finger. Although I am probably going to have a tough time without the Flyers action.
I, too, have commuted via Amtrak over the last year.. not just a short leg where Amtrak picks up the load from a local commuter line, but from NJ to CT. Every single time I've been on board, they announce that photo ID is required **if you paid by credit card**, and even then, they've only checked my ID half the time. Once because I had it out ahead of time. But you are absolutely correct in that id checking appears to be more lax on trains, and the best thing to do is buy it in cash. Particularly if, in the context of this discussion, the idea is to get to Washington DC anonymously. Good ole' Amtrak and a taxi.
Do you have any more information available on the scraping of the pls files to get the MP3 information?
.pls files on the fly. Goto vibeflow, and on the left you'll see recent MP3s that were posted. If you like DJ mix stuff, Radio2000 is actually pretty cool. Notice the URL to the MP3 of their latest episode..
r adio2000.2005-12-09.djkookane.1.mp3.m3u
.pls URLs for each individual song you may find on some college kid's web page, but for long-playing recordings (such as any Vibeflow show episode!) and streaming radio stations it works out very well.
.pls link suitable for streaming any of their classroom audio right through the SLiMP3/Squeezebox/whatever. Too bad they didn't publish a .pdf of the materials list and homework assignments right there with the audio from the first class of the semester!
Hey, nice to hear from you. I believe I was initally referring to some neat code the guys over at Vibeflow.com wrote that dynamically generates
http://www.vibeflow.com/m3u.pl/archive/radio2000/
Copy and paste that URL into your browser, but strip off the file, leaving just
http://www.vibeflow.com/m3u.pl/archive/radio2000/
Now you have a behind-the-scenes look at every episode recorded for the show (and each show is an hour or two long!) You'll see a mix of mp3's and rm's for various episodes. Go up one level higher (no "parent directory" link, so edit the URL again), and now you're at the head end of their entire list of all the shows they have ever recorded!
If you're good with lynx --dump with some creative greps, cuts, pipes (|), redirects (>), for/do loops, and wgets you can quickly build a directory of m3u's pointing to each and every episode of every show they ever recorded in mp3 format. That'll get you months' worth of a varied collection of pretty darn good music from the LA and Tokyo DJ scene. Even "rap wars" a la 8 Mile that are actually fun to listen to (never actually saw the movie, but that's what I get from the clips). I swear I must have a couple months or more of continuous, non-repeating music stored in just 16MBs of m3u files. Laid my 220GB MP3 collection to waste. Sure it took a bunch of iterations to get the command sequence just right, but once I was able to grab every m3u pointing to every mp3 in their archive while retaining the directory and file names, I was satisfied and haven't been back since. I really should cron up an rsync or something.
Finally, yes, I also have the MP3 Stream greasemonkey script from http://www.barkingstars.com/blog/000031.html installed. It places a little "stream" logo next to every URL ending in ".mp3" on viewed webpages. Not sure if you're also a Slimdevices customer, or just run the streaming server, but it gets a little annoying having to paste in
I also just started using it to play classroom lectures from Purdue University's "Boilercast" lecture podcast series. I just pull up their listing, and firefox gives me a
Thanks for checking in, and I hope you found it helpful.
Can you GNU/Hear me now? Good!
Shouldn't that be "More GNU/bars in more GNU/places"?
mmmmmm... baaaaarrrrrrs
And loving it.. I run the server in a VMware ESX guest with the CPU shares lowered to just 5 - same as my DNS server (default is 1,000). My father-in-law changed out my exploded water heater on Father's Day for free last year so I thanked him with a 2nd gen Squeezebox. He ABSOLUTELY loves it, and built a 220GB MP3 collection around it, and wired up whole-house audio and music around the pool.
.pls generator they coded up and basically wget the .pls files for their entire collection! No one else has mentioned the tight Shoutcast integration. Finally, more recent versions of the server software lets you pop a .pls URL right into the web page and tune in. Pair that up with greasemonkey script that adds a .pls link alongside every MP3 URL and you can quickly and easily queue up any .mp3 URL you find on the net.
I have had some issues with Centos 4 show up only in that VMware guest, however. ARPs don't complete properly and the MAC for the SliMP3 shows up as (incomplete) until I cron up a job to fix it manually. I also have to cron up an ntpdate command every 10 minutes, as the clock is off by about 45 seconds every 10 minutes. Strange.
Finally, as others have pointed out their favorite things to play.. years ago I found Vibeflow.com for hundreds of hours of a wide variety of great music. And if you poke around behind the curtains, you can find a
Seriously, check out Vibeflow's Alias Circa show archive.
Maybe this is why..
Sun freezes hell, gets IBM to sell Solaris on blades Friday October 28, @10:55AM Rejected
IBM won't sell Solaris or support for the operating system to customers, IBM said. Anyone interested will have to purchase the software and support from Sun.