Our aim is to make the PeerCast client code open source (GPL) at some point in the near future so that it can be checked and ported to as many platforms as possible. Our main priority now though is getting the system stable and usable. One reason for not releasing the source code so far is literally because we haven`t had the time yet.
If they want to GPL the code anyway, why not do it sooner rather than later?
Obviously, the developers at Peercast haven't read ESR's "The Cathedral and the Bazaar". It describes how the best time to open the source code is in the immediate stages of the product, so that it gets the bugs seen and fixed as soon as possible. If they have the code, and if they want to GPL it and make it available, then what's stopping them? Sourceforge is available and wouldn't cost them a thing.
And if you happen to be stuck with, or chose to use Windows, CDEX already supports Ogg. Insert disk, click CD->MP3 (they haven't changed the interface yet) and it looks up using CDDB, rips, encodes, names files via CDDB. The only thing you'd need to do is enforce a standard naming convention, so everyone named files appropriately.
Doesn't this sound like the freenet project? An encrypted and decentralized system where everything is P2P, no-one can re-construct your data, and everyone trusts everyone else?
Sorry, just a blatant attempt at a humorous karma whoring. I'm sure that some people put more thought into what they buy than just "lInUx RuLZ, MS Sucks"
And you thought checking parity on...
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your serial port was a pain in the ass!
<speaking from experience>Speaking as someone who builds measuring equipment for industrial manufacturers that communicates over RS-232. I can't tell you the number of times a customer calls complaining about getting their system to communicate with at PC, and it boils down to a stupid parity setting that's IN THE FSCKING MANUAL.</speaking from experience>
Why wait? Join the penguin side now. Get away from the closed, proprietary, DRM, ??AA enforced fluff.
All kidding aside, just because a NEW mac comes out with DRM and other assorted crap, doesn't mean that your machine instantly becomes subject to the same.
Unless, of course, Verizon, T-mobile, Voicestream, etc. "influence" their favorite congress rep and get some BS law passed claiming that VoIP on 802.11 is so cheap and available that the terrorists will use it to coordinate missions. And then, when someone uses your hub, you are now responsible for aiding terrorism.
On second thought, forget I ever posted this. Those bastards don't need any more ideas.
Loudspeaker Design Cookbook by Vance Dickason
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I own the 4th and 5th editions of this book, and it has everything you would ever want on enclosure design. You can pick it up from Crutchfield, or I'm sure Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc. should carry it.
Varad doesn't seem to have their own website, but I've seen these in the car stereo world. You'd have to have a 12V DC power source at home, but that shouldn't be too hard to set up.
I heard about an auto dealer that offered a "Tax-free" car purchase, but got in trouble with the tax authorities about actually paying the taxes for the buyer. Their resolution was to figure out the tax bill, and deduct that from the price of the vehicle. YMMV, IANAL, other assorted acronyms.
I'm in this boat with a Perl app I would like to migrate to a couple of Windows 2000 servers. It's a simple app that runs well on our Unix boxes and if it wasn't for the overhead of having to install perl and all of the required modules, it would be a no brainer.
He's not migrating to Win2K. He already has Win2K. He wants to migrate the Perl app from UNIX to Win2K.
I've used one for a digital readout system before and it lasted for about 8 hours. I'm sure that APC would have something small that you could plug in and charge, then plug your hub in wherever you wanted to use it.
I have a SONY TRV130 for work and a 27 minute presentation in raw format from the camera was 5.5GB. I had to take the camera home and process the video, because I only had a 4GB hard drive in my machine.
All this talk about HOW to deflect an asteriod is wonderful, but I think many people forget that we actually have to SEE the damned thing first.
Amen brother! How many stories have there been on/., CNN, etc. on asteroids, meteors, etc. that missed earth and we only saw them after the fact? If we're going to spend money on researching something, how about a larger scale version of NORAD?
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Back on topic...I can see this as being useful on a local network in a college dorm or apartment complex...cool
if you could have the washer/drier lock itself until you log in and unlock it to keep ppl from throwing your still wet clothes all over the place. Checking status would be very nice too.
Unfortunately, for everyone that this makes sense for, there's a fscking ID10T in their complex who leaves clothes in the machine OVERNIGHT! The stupid washer has a timer that shows 34 minutes and all the apartments have microwaves with a timer function, but still, people leave their shit forever. I'd destroy the machines in my apartment if one of the morons locked the machine and then forgot about it all night.
On a somewhat related topic; our complex uses a laundry card system from Schlumberger. Does anyone know where I might find a manual to this thing?
For those not in the know, visit the Freenet project. It's a secure, distributed network where, from what I understand, anything goes. The problem with this so far is, like the first days of the web, there isn't a good search capability available.
But, in reading your post, it hasn't been touched by politicians and definately doesn't restrict based on content.
Or, how about, if you have an account then you have a journal. While you can't necessarily put the images from the page there, you could copy and paste the article text into your journal.
This accomplishes 2 things. First, since it's not the/. editors who are caching the content, they can stay away from copyright claims that they say are a problem with caching. Also, you can reduce the karma whore effect of everyone and their grandpa getting +5 informative for posting the text of the article.
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UK Patent Office
Forgive me for taking the submitter of a story at their word. Now granted, this may run through as a copyrighted term, but the submitter and the link included point specificly to the term patent.
OT:If I'm posting a reply to my post to make a correction, why do I have to wait 20 fscking seconds to do this? Couldn't slashcode see that I'm the original poster and figure that I'm fixing something??
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From the peercast website (emphasis mine):
If they want to GPL the code anyway, why not do it sooner rather than later?
But, that doesn't stop them from putting it out there and having someone with a sense of style clean it up.
Obviously, the developers at Peercast haven't read ESR's "The Cathedral and the Bazaar". It describes how the best time to open the source code is in the immediate stages of the product, so that it gets the bugs seen and fixed as soon as possible. If they have the code, and if they want to GPL it and make it available, then what's stopping them? Sourceforge is available and wouldn't cost them a thing.
And if you happen to be stuck with, or chose to use Windows, CDEX already supports Ogg. Insert disk, click CD->MP3 (they haven't changed the interface yet) and it looks up using CDDB, rips, encodes, names files via CDDB. The only thing you'd need to do is enforce a standard naming convention, so everyone named files appropriately.
Doesn't this sound like the freenet project? An encrypted and decentralized system where everything is P2P, no-one can re-construct your data, and everyone trusts everyone else?
Sorry, just a blatant attempt at a humorous karma whoring. I'm sure that some people put more thought into what they buy than just "lInUx RuLZ, MS Sucks"
your serial port was a pain in the ass!
<speaking from experience>Speaking as someone who builds measuring equipment for industrial manufacturers that communicates over RS-232. I can't tell you the number of times a customer calls complaining about getting their system to communicate with at PC, and it boils down to a stupid parity setting that's IN THE FSCKING MANUAL.</speaking from experience>
Why wait? Join the penguin side now. Get away from the closed, proprietary, DRM, ??AA enforced fluff.
All kidding aside, just because a NEW mac comes out with DRM and other assorted crap, doesn't mean that your machine instantly becomes subject to the same.
Unless, of course, Verizon, T-mobile, Voicestream, etc. "influence" their favorite congress rep and get some BS law passed claiming that VoIP on 802.11 is so cheap and available that the terrorists will use it to coordinate missions. And then, when someone uses your hub, you are now responsible for aiding terrorism.
On second thought, forget I ever posted this. Those bastards don't need any more ideas.
I own the 4th and 5th editions of this book, and it has everything you would ever want on enclosure design. You can pick it up from Crutchfield, or I'm sure Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc. should carry it.
Sorry, but it asked me to register from that link. Oh well.
Varad doesn't seem to have their own website, but I've seen these in the car stereo world. You'd have to have a 12V DC power source at home, but that shouldn't be too hard to set up.
I heard about an auto dealer that offered a "Tax-free" car purchase, but got in trouble with the tax authorities about actually paying the taxes for the buyer. Their resolution was to figure out the tax bill, and deduct that from the price of the vehicle. YMMV, IANAL, other assorted acronyms.
He's not migrating to Win2K. He already has Win2K. He wants to migrate the Perl app from UNIX to Win2K.
I've used one for a digital readout system before and it lasted for about 8 hours. I'm sure that APC would have something small that you could plug in and charge, then plug your hub in wherever you wanted to use it.
To paraphrase the X-Files movie: Kill Bin Laden and you risk turning one man's quest into a crusade. (Originally said about Fox Mulder)
I have a SONY TRV130 for work and a 27 minute presentation in raw format from the camera was 5.5GB. I had to take the camera home and process the video, because I only had a 4GB hard drive in my machine.
Amen brother! How many stories have there been on /., CNN, etc. on asteroids, meteors, etc. that missed earth and we only saw them after the fact? If we're going to spend money on researching something, how about a larger scale version of NORAD?
Unfortunately, for everyone that this makes sense for, there's a fscking ID10T in their complex who leaves clothes in the machine OVERNIGHT! The stupid washer has a timer that shows 34 minutes and all the apartments have microwaves with a timer function, but still, people leave their shit forever. I'd destroy the machines in my apartment if one of the morons locked the machine and then forgot about it all night.
On a somewhat related topic; our complex uses a laundry card system from Schlumberger. Does anyone know where I might find a manual to this thing?
Asketh the original poster:
Better question: Why the hell do the editors publish these on the front page?
Not as good of a question: Why the hell don't we just set our preferences to block these from the front page?
For those not in the know, visit the Freenet project. It's a secure, distributed network where, from what I understand, anything goes. The problem with this so far is, like the first days of the web, there isn't a good search capability available.
But, in reading your post, it hasn't been touched by politicians and definately doesn't restrict based on content.
Or, how about, if you have an account then you have a journal. While you can't necessarily put the images from the page there, you could copy and paste the article text into your journal.
This accomplishes 2 things. First, since it's not the /. editors who are caching the content, they can stay away from copyright claims that they say are a problem with caching. Also, you can reduce the karma whore effect of everyone and their grandpa getting +5 informative for posting the text of the article.
From the original story:
Forgive me for taking the submitter of a story at their word. Now granted, this may run through as a copyrighted term, but the submitter and the link included point specificly to the term patent.
s/iterview/interview
OT:If I'm posting a reply to my post to make a correction, why do I have to wait 20 fscking seconds to do this? Couldn't slashcode see that I'm the original poster and figure that I'm fixing something??
The same European patent office employee who got his iterview pulled from /.