And what exactly would you suggest is better? SMB is supported by every major operating system, has several different methods of authentication, and file transfer speeds are about the same as FTP - it pretty much fills the pipe no matter what. SMB is reliable and efficient when administered properly; be it the Active Directory/LDAP setup for windows/UNIX we have at work, or the host based configuration that I use for the substantially smaller network I have at home.
No, universities generally (try to) specialize in smart people, or failing that, people that are willing to at least put some effort into things and figure stuff out. The commandline is likely to work better for people who are willing to put the effort into learning it.
We've been through this a million times on slashdot, the hardcoded maximum in firefox is 8. Really, IMHO, that option should be disabled - 8 hits for every one view seems somewhat wasteful of internet bandwidth on both the client and host sides.
Icecast will suit your needs just fine - it'll take your files, and encode on the fly to either vorbis or mp3. If icecast doesn't have native support for the file formats you want, grab something like foobar2000, play everything through that, and get the plugins that pipe that sound output to icecast for post-proccessing.
"Your task is to come up with a great idea for an online game inspired by art, film, music, writing or dance. We're looking for a game offering about 5-10 minutes of game play. The winning game will be made using Flash. You don't need technical or illustrative skills to take part but you do need to be passionate about games."
Wake me up when they're offering real prizes for real games made with my real skills, instead of lame teenager stereotyping.
Flac: Opensource, nonproprietary, cross platform, and has very good integration with ogg/vorbis.
As for metadata retention, that depends entirely on your encoder. I highly doubt you will ever find a WMA encoder that can retain the tags from a FLAC file, or mp3 for that matter. Oggenc (the vorbis encoder) does it by default:
$ oggenc -q7 *.flac
This will create ogg/vorbis files with the same filenames and will retain all FLAC tags.
I have no idea about mp3 encoders, becuase I almost never use them. I can say that I would doubt that they can directly open a FLAC file, and I would also doubt they can retain the tags - to achieve this you would probably need some sort of intermediary script or program to handle the FLAC -> WAV -> MP3, as well as tag transiton. That being said, most of the good mp3 encoders are open source, so it could be possible that FLAC support could be hacked into them.
Another solution would be to rip to every format at once. abcde (a better cd encoder) has support for several types of output, while only ripping the CD once. In fact, I would reccomend abcde regardless of what you choose, because it is great for batch rips.
Just as a last note, why in hell would you want to use WMA? I can understand vorbis and I can understand MP3, but why WMA?
Actually, Bill needed to keep them in business so that Microsoft didn't have a huge dump taken on them for monopolistic practices. We're calling Microsoft monopolistic now, but imagine what it would be like if there was no Apple around to even make a token competetion.
That being said, I'm not entirely sure what's hapening with SuSE. It is traditionally a KDE distribution (I think... I've never actually used it until recently), but Novell seems to be really into Ximian, which has pretty close ties to Gnome.
Sure I guess. I know where you're coming from too... I support the cause but I don't think I would ever buy blackspot shoes account of... yes... uglyness. However, the shoes are just the beginning of a blackspot 'meme' (uck, how I hate using that word), with new products in the planning stages like blackspot music and food.
Adbusters got on CNN near christmas, to do a little "advertisment" for Buy Nothing Day on the 26th. I'm pretty sure you should still be able to download the video. They framed it as an interview, and the CNN interview bitch cut the guy off a lot, and was especially annoying with the "but won't you think of the children" comments, but at least we got some airtime.
Hah, that goes down to almost nothing, considering about HALF of all wireless bandwidth is used up on data integrity acknowlegements. Then it gets even worse when you put more people on the same access point; There is no 'switched' alternative for wireless, you all have to share the same medium, so each access point itself is basically hub. Therefore the system is very prone to collision since it is all on the same medium.
But that doesn't change the fact that in general, any particular vehicle is generally more efficient at say 55 MPH then they are at 90 MPH. Yes I'm just pulling these numbers out of nowhere, and yes I'm sure there's some sort of special-case, exclusion, technicality, or other cheap anecdotal proof otherwise, but for the most part I would say that is a reasonable estimation.
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Good thinking, I should look into that.
Who are you?
How totally wrong you are. Doom 3 can do outdoors just fine. Don't belive me? Try the video:
http://www.pcgamemods.com/10560/
Like what you see? Grab the files for yourself and run through the map.
http://www.pcgamemods.com/10685/
I think you mean boldy emphasized.
And what exactly would you suggest is better? SMB is supported by every major operating system, has several different methods of authentication, and file transfer speeds are about the same as FTP - it pretty much fills the pipe no matter what. SMB is reliable and efficient when administered properly; be it the Active Directory/LDAP setup for windows/UNIX we have at work, or the host based configuration that I use for the substantially smaller network I have at home.
I bet that would be even easier to write than a keylogger - the clipboard is just a chunk of shared memory.
No, universities generally (try to) specialize in smart people, or failing that, people that are willing to at least put some effort into things and figure stuff out. The commandline is likely to work better for people who are willing to put the effort into learning it.
gnuplot homepage
It has a learning curve, since it is mostly commandline based, but if you're in university you should be able to figure it out... I hope.
Sandvine PTS
Slightly more technical description of services provided. Notable quote: "QoS policies can be set for latency sensitive applications like VoIP and gaming."
If you try to read through the buzzwordese it might actually make sense. Although, I think this is probably overkill for what you want.
We've been through this a million times on slashdot, the hardcoded maximum in firefox is 8. Really, IMHO, that option should be disabled - 8 hits for every one view seems somewhat wasteful of internet bandwidth on both the client and host sides.
Did you do any bit of research at all on this?
Icecast will suit your needs just fine - it'll take your files, and encode on the fly to either vorbis or mp3. If icecast doesn't have native support for the file formats you want, grab something like foobar2000, play everything through that, and get the plugins that pipe that sound output to icecast for post-proccessing.
Icecast homepage
"Your task is to come up with a great idea for an online game inspired by art, film, music, writing or dance. We're looking for a game offering about 5-10 minutes of game play. The winning game will be made using Flash. You don't need technical or illustrative skills to take part but you do need to be passionate about games."
Wake me up when they're offering real prizes for real games made with my real skills, instead of lame teenager stereotyping.
I for one, thought it was funny.
That's awesome :) *bookmarks*
Flac: Opensource, nonproprietary, cross platform, and has very good integration with ogg/vorbis.
As for metadata retention, that depends entirely on your encoder. I highly doubt you will ever find a WMA encoder that can retain the tags from a FLAC file, or mp3 for that matter. Oggenc (the vorbis encoder) does it by default:
This will create ogg/vorbis files with the same filenames and will retain all FLAC tags.
I have no idea about mp3 encoders, becuase I almost never use them. I can say that I would doubt that they can directly open a FLAC file, and I would also doubt they can retain the tags - to achieve this you would probably need some sort of intermediary script or program to handle the FLAC -> WAV -> MP3, as well as tag transiton. That being said, most of the good mp3 encoders are open source, so it could be possible that FLAC support could be hacked into them.
Another solution would be to rip to every format at once. abcde (a better cd encoder) has support for several types of output, while only ripping the CD once. In fact, I would reccomend abcde regardless of what you choose, because it is great for batch rips.
Just as a last note, why in hell would you want to use WMA? I can understand vorbis and I can understand MP3, but why WMA?
We shall assume 64 kbps for the purpose of arguing, which would quite possibly be the lowest bitrate of music that I could stand.
That would be 64kbits * 260 users = 16640 kbits per second, and then divide by 8 to convert to bytes per second = 2080 kbytes per second.
Even if you were broadcasting at something laughable like 16 k you would still be an order of magnatude off with 260 users.
Actually, Bill needed to keep them in business so that Microsoft didn't have a huge dump taken on them for monopolistic practices. We're calling Microsoft monopolistic now, but imagine what it would be like if there was no Apple around to even make a token competetion.
My bets are on Gnome, and metacity. Check out these visual developments we have on luminocity (metacity development testbed) right now.
That being said, I'm not entirely sure what's hapening with SuSE. It is traditionally a KDE distribution (I think... I've never actually used it until recently), but Novell seems to be really into Ximian, which has pretty close ties to Gnome.
Sure I guess. I know where you're coming from too... I support the cause but I don't think I would ever buy blackspot shoes account of... yes... uglyness. However, the shoes are just the beginning of a blackspot 'meme' (uck, how I hate using that word), with new products in the planning stages like blackspot music and food.
Adbusters got on CNN near christmas, to do a little "advertisment" for Buy Nothing Day on the 26th. I'm pretty sure you should still be able to download the video. They framed it as an interview, and the CNN interview bitch cut the guy off a lot, and was especially annoying with the "but won't you think of the children" comments, but at least we got some airtime.
Hah, that goes down to almost nothing, considering about HALF of all wireless bandwidth is used up on data integrity acknowlegements. Then it gets even worse when you put more people on the same access point; There is no 'switched' alternative for wireless, you all have to share the same medium, so each access point itself is basically hub. Therefore the system is very prone to collision since it is all on the same medium.
But that doesn't change the fact that in general, any particular vehicle is generally more efficient at say 55 MPH then they are at 90 MPH. Yes I'm just pulling these numbers out of nowhere, and yes I'm sure there's some sort of special-case, exclusion, technicality, or other cheap anecdotal proof otherwise, but for the most part I would say that is a reasonable estimation.
Who cares? I got it! ;)
Canada works as well, or at least Ontario.
And I thought RPM Hell was bad... geeze. Your life must be a living hell having to find all those dependencies.