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Dunno who it was that originated what I am about to paraphrase but "if video games influnced human behaviour then wouldnt the kids that played pac man end up in dark neon lit rooms listening to electronic music and taking pills?"

Hi Planters,

I been playing and I got a new toy for you all, a web launched SHOUTcast stream player.

There are some prerequisits but those being met you can use this from Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris or Windows and similar based operating systems.  All you need is to have a Java J2SE runtime of version 1.3 or higher and to have the WebStart function enabled.  There is more information on Java requirements at the test site.  

This application is skinable using Winamp classic skins.  Not all Winamp classic skins work and not all those that do render 100%.  Those of you that use WinAMP, MacAMP, FreeAMP and XMMS should be familer with how this application operates.  With that in mind you can load any other mp3 or ogg file from your PC or Internet stream using the playlist.

I'll be monitoring this thread as I would like some basic feedback which will help me maintain the link and provide you a troubleshooter FAQ if needed.  Anyway, to get playing go here and the feed back questions are below.

What OS are you using?
What version of Java are you running?
Did it work?
Did you encounter any problems while getting it to work?
What were the problems you encountered?
How did you overcome these problems?
How simple did you find it to get started and then use?
Is it something you think would be useful for the growth of the SPR audiance?
Is there a WinAMP skin you would recommend?

Prepare to be assimilated!

Time: 29 April 2006 (Saturday) at
18:00 UTC | PST-11am | EST-2pm | UK-7pm | NZ-6am

Dial-up listen at:  http://radio.spiritplants.org:8000/low.ogg.m3u
High speed listen at:  http://radio.spiritplants.org:9000/listen.pls

Duration:  ~5hrs


This week:  

Hi folks, so Cenacle has let us know that he will not be streaming today.  Well, I know some of you will be wanting that gap filled by something, this is not a substitute only a change in the random play list to keep you entertained with a little spoken word.  So what have you got to look forward to?  Basically a collection of pod casts and downloads I heck out and find during the week mixed from crazy surrealism, tech, fiction, rant and news.


00:00 â€" Episode 1 of Tales from the After Now.
Join Independent Librarian Dynamic Sean Kennedy IV as he hijacks the stream broadcasting from the future to relay the background of the dystopian future hat he lives.  In this episode out narrator of the future describes how the world got this way in terms of current day events.  WARNING:  by listening to this you may have your government issued listener license revoked.


00:51 â€" News Real dated 2006-04-24
Following the future of the past broadcast then hear about the now.  The real Sean Kennedy relays the news of the past week with his own editorial commentary.  Co-hosted with the founder of RantMedia.CA James “Cimm” O'Brian.  The news you need to stay alive and fight against the corpolitical tyranny that's trying to enslave you!  

Hu heckler on harassment charge.
Solar-powered implant could restore vision.
New Technology Could Force TV Ad Viewing.
Drinking Problem? Try Drugs.
New law requires some businesses to secure their WiFi networks.
Fruits, vegetables not as nutritious as 50 years ago.


01:48 â€" LUG Radio Season 03 Episode 14 “Novell or Navel”
Show summary: Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Ade Bradshaw, Matthew Revell, and special guest Ted "Novell Open Audio" Haeger talk about Linux and whatever else comes along, including:

Why oh why...do you need so many media players installed on a Linux desktop in order to get an acceptable multimedia experience?
Do your collar and cuffs match? A new segment looking at the differences between OSS companies' public declarations and what they actually do. This week: Novell, what with Ted being on the show and all.
Can the open source community do revolutionary research? Jono returns from a trip to Microsoft's research labs to ask whether we can match them.
Your mails! Including more nominations for the Fasthosts free server for a year -- send in your nominations for an open source project to receive a free server.


03:13 â€" The SubGenius Hour of Slack Episode 1045
LeMur: HOS Intro #531
Stang: I believe in THAT FACE!
Radio Synaesthesia 3-12-6-d - Yeast Hitlerstory
Princess Wei on Free Radio Santa Cruz #1
Stang @ Winterstar '06-1- Sermon Intro
Puzzling Evidence Show, KPFA: Dr. Howll's 1985 letter
"Do the Robot" - Johnny Future
Credits 1
bLeMur: Calcium 2
Stang @ Winterstar' 06 - 3- Slack 2 Drugs
Radio Synaesthesia 3-12-6-d2 Book reviews: 1491, Alternate History
Rev. Norel Pref: "tzone2"
Credits 2
LeMur: Smoke_Gun2
Misc. LeMur Cuts


04:13 â€" Off The Hook dated 2006-04-26
Tech news and the law from the publishers of 2600 the Hacker Quarterly.

'lo Planters,

Not sure how many of the listeners and streamers are on this forum so excuse me when I repost this to the SPR mailing list.  So basically I fill in when there is no real show and I do know some of the cheesy disco in my music collection may be of dubious taste and it is all fairly random when it plays back to back with William Shatner, William Burroughs, Coltrane and Monk.

Just recently I've been looking for interesting podcasts to subscribe to and when they post new stuff I've interrupted the randomness to play them.  A Canadian outfit from Langley B.C. called Rant have been playing some commentaries and opinions, The Sub Genius Hour of Slack has been playing and for the techie folks out there every other week there is a new Lug Radio Show about Open Source.  There are other podcasts some may stay and some may go.

This is where I need you guys to respond back, tell me some podcasts you might like to share and I will subscribe and play updates.  But the thing I most want your help for is because I know some of you are tinkerers and tweakers of audio.  If you produce some thing upload it some place, either using yousendit or megadownload type services and let me know where it is.  I will download it and integrate I into the randomness, I can not guarantee you will hear it or if any one might but one day you might just be listening and there you are or some one else hears it and notices your IRC handle scroll by in their MP3 player display and start asking you questions.

[Cenacle:]

Quick question...username and password is a little public isn't it?  I would recommend that it be set to the same password for the stream access so that it is a common secret already known by those of us that would use the blog else is maintained in the same way where it is a mutually maintained secret.

Cenacle: how do you post there? i'm not seeing a link for doing so

Click on the BlogThis! link which should give a popup that challenges for logon credentials that will then change to the text editor.

For some of you more mobile users there are ways to blog from your cell phone but is a US only services on certain providers.

Yola!  Time for me to wake up.  I've finally got back on the case at providing a back up feed.  Ya'll free to kick me off at anytime, planned shows have a priority.

So on with the show a random selection from the borg collection.

Hi Stone,

There are a few vendors out there that will sell pre-installed linux PCs, very few but then I have never looked to any great depth.  You could always go for a self build but that isn't everyones cup of tea.  That would put Windows out of the equasion.  

If you are looking to have a dual boot so that you have the Windows that you are familar with and the GNU/Linux that you want to experiance I would recomend you ask the vendors to be precice on answering one particular question, does it come with a Windows restore disk or a Windows install disk.  In fact, I think most supply the install disk these days and I have made it up about some vendoes only having restore disks.  

Dell I know for certain (in the UK at least when you buy from the business outlet) give you a full install disk.   Nuke the HD, repartiation using the Windows installer and install Windows in the new sized partition.  Once running, get your GNU/Linux distro of choice and install in the remaining diskspace.  Beware on Dells, there is a partition that contains the factory reset data, only remove this partition if you are absolutly sure you never want the preconfigured Dell set up.  It is no great loss to leave it be, it will only occupy 50Mb of space.

If all else fails, you might want to invest in a copy of Partition Magic.

Hi,

Saw this and thought some of you might be interested.  I'd like to see how this works out, might make an interesting toy.

Nicholas Negroponte, chairman and founder of MIT's Media Labs, says he is developing a laptop PC that will go on sale for less than $100 (£53).  He told the BBC World Service programme Go Digital he hoped it would become an education tool in developing countries...

//http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4243733.stm

Hey there folks,

Yup, loving them mini macs.  I've only just become interested in these forums recently and though I was signed up to the now missing link I forgot my user name and didn't even lurk.  So mini intro over and what I am really saying is forgive me if you are already aware via a post in the missing forums but...

I've been loving what VIA Technologies have had a large part in bringing to more general attention, the mini-itx mobo form factor.  AMD have picked up on it with their Geode and now obviously Apple.  I've been reading mini-itx.com for over a year now I think and always tempted to get me the parts and build one for no reason other than to own one.  My favourite home build has to be the NASA scientist that bought eight mini-itx mobos and used them as nodes in a cluster running FreeBSD as a development platform before trying it out on its bigger and more expensive brother.  

Next up from VIA, the nano-itx at 12cm x 12cm, next stop embedded systems.

A rubber lizard stuck to my white board and a fake blue Norwegian parrot.  The parrot lost an eye so the remaining one was pulled out and re-applied to its forehead.  The parrot perches on a monitor and pines for the fjords.

Hi White,

Not sure exactly it is you are asking.  What I can offer though is this.  I am assuming that you are using Winamp and are wanting to change what the listener sees when listening to what you are boardcasting.  

In the SHOUTcast Source plugin select the Output tab and depress the Yellowpages button.  You should find a field called Description, what you type here will be appended to the SPF Radio portion of the stream title if it was SPF you are conected to.  If not already done so and if the fancy takes you you can tick to enable title updates further down the form and make them automaticly strip the artist and track from the file you are currently playing.  

Hope that that helps you.  Let me know if I am totaly wide of the mark, I can help with the Nullsoft sc_serv and sc_trans scripts if that is where the problem lays.

Regards,

Alfie