At Murmurs.com, a fansite for the band R.E.M., they operate a section of their site called "Give It Away" (a reference to an R.E.M. song, for those in the know). This is a legal list of torrents of live R.E.M. material, over the bands 20-some year career. R.E.M. is perfectly A-Ok happy with allowing the sharing of their live music, and infact Ethan, the guy running Murmurs.com, works for the bands record company.
Check it out: http://www.murmurs.com/torrents/
~~Aryq~~
We also use LTSP, but in a completely different style. We operate an event photography business, where we go out and photograph all sorts of school events and sports; Soccer tournaments, Baseball tournaments, Show choir competetions, etc.
Three years ago, we were printing thumbnails of the images we took, where parents could view them, and place an order on paper of what they wanted. Now, due to LTSP, we have viewing stations. Most weekends we deploy between 12 and 18, depending on the size of the event -- but we have, and have the ability to operate 30 at any one given event. We've done events where all 30 were in use at one time, and everything works perfectly.
We have a custom-written web-based application which handles everything for us. We dump the photos into directories, Imagemagick comes in and makes all of the thumbnails for the parents to view. The thin clients run IceWM with Firefox in a customized/trimmed-down full-screen mode, which automatically boots up in that mode, with the application as the home page. Parents can then view the photos right there, on the screen, add images to their shopping cart, and complete the checkout process.
We initially looked into Wyse thin clients, using a Windows-based server setup. The cost was going to astronomical, in licensing fees, compared to what we ended up paying using Linux and LTSP. Our server runs Slackware, which we did go ahead and purchase to support Patrick. The server, which I built, is a dual opteron setup with 2gig of ram. It handles everything we can imagine it needing to do.
Alright, I've gotten a bit off-topic here, but thanks to LTSP and Slackware/Linux, we're kickin.:)
~~Aryq~~
Thankfully, this is no longer the case, here. I got fed-up with the run-around from First about their website (not to mention $5.95/mo for online bill pay, when its mostly free elsewhere), and switched to Fifth/Third (53.com)... and I told them exactly why I was leaving. I'm sure its not changed, but hey, at least I gave them my two cents. 53.com works beautifully in Firefox, btw.
Another Slashdotter from the Terre Haute area, color me surprised.:)
--Aryq
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At Murmurs.com, a fansite for the band R.E.M., they operate a section of their site called "Give It Away" (a reference to an R.E.M. song, for those in the know). This is a legal list of torrents of live R.E.M. material, over the bands 20-some year career. R.E.M. is perfectly A-Ok happy with allowing the sharing of their live music, and infact Ethan, the guy running Murmurs.com, works for the bands record company. Check it out: http://www.murmurs.com/torrents/ ~~Aryq~~
I apologize for one huge paragraph, there. My bad! ~~Aryq~~
We also use LTSP, but in a completely different style. We operate an event photography business, where we go out and photograph all sorts of school events and sports; Soccer tournaments, Baseball tournaments, Show choir competetions, etc. Three years ago, we were printing thumbnails of the images we took, where parents could view them, and place an order on paper of what they wanted. Now, due to LTSP, we have viewing stations. Most weekends we deploy between 12 and 18, depending on the size of the event -- but we have, and have the ability to operate 30 at any one given event. We've done events where all 30 were in use at one time, and everything works perfectly. We have a custom-written web-based application which handles everything for us. We dump the photos into directories, Imagemagick comes in and makes all of the thumbnails for the parents to view. The thin clients run IceWM with Firefox in a customized/trimmed-down full-screen mode, which automatically boots up in that mode, with the application as the home page. Parents can then view the photos right there, on the screen, add images to their shopping cart, and complete the checkout process. We initially looked into Wyse thin clients, using a Windows-based server setup. The cost was going to astronomical, in licensing fees, compared to what we ended up paying using Linux and LTSP. Our server runs Slackware, which we did go ahead and purchase to support Patrick. The server, which I built, is a dual opteron setup with 2gig of ram. It handles everything we can imagine it needing to do. Alright, I've gotten a bit off-topic here, but thanks to LTSP and Slackware/Linux, we're kickin. :)
~~Aryq~~
Could the mods stop "tagging" these stories as "gay"? Uhm, thats all. Back to your regularly scheduled programming.
Color me impressed! THats all I gotta say about that one. Wow. --Eric
Thankfully, this is no longer the case, here. I got fed-up with the run-around from First about their website (not to mention $5.95/mo for online bill pay, when its mostly free elsewhere), and switched to Fifth/Third (53.com) ... and I told them exactly why I was leaving. I'm sure its not changed, but hey, at least I gave them my two cents. 53.com works beautifully in Firefox, btw.
Another Slashdotter from the Terre Haute area, color me surprised. :)
--Aryq