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POPSColossal Squid Thaw to Be Webcast Live
Webcast Enjoy live video from the tank and dissection room. We are trying to make sure we record when the scientists lay out the squid for display so that Northern Hemisphere people can catch up on what has happened. > Wide angle camera http://www.r2.co.nz/20080427/camera-4.asx > Dissection table http://www.r2.co.nz/20080427/camera-2.asx > Thawing bath - fixed camera http://www.r2.co.nz/20080427/camera-3.asx > Thawing bath - scanning camera http://www.r2.co.nz/20080427/camera-1.asx > Rotating view - switches between cameras every 30 seconds http://www.r2.co.nz/20080427/rotate-1.asx > 4 cameras on the same page You will need a broadband connection to view this page. Be aware that this page is sending a lot of data and will increase your data usage.10 minutes is around 75 MB. http://www.r2.co.nz/20080427/matrix.htm The webcast is best viewed in Windows Media Player, Real Player or Mplayer under Linux or Os-X. Totem and VideoLan also work well. Apple users
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POPSGeeXboX-Under 10 MB Linux
What is GeeXboX ? GeeXboX is a free embedded Linux distribution which aims at turning your computer into a so called HTPC (Home Theater PC) or Media Center. Being a standalone LiveCD-based distribution, it's a ready to boot operating system than works on any Pentium-class x86 computer or PowerPC Macintosh, implying no software requirement. You can even use it on a diskless computer, the whole system being loaded in RAM. Hardware Needs 'GeeXboX is an operating system but you still need something to boot on ;-) You're lucky, GeeXboX is based on MPlayer, which can be considered as one of the less cpu-dependent movie players, thanks to the use of FFMpeg for decoding movies. So, here's what can be considered as a typical / minimal config : * x86 Pentium-Class CPU or above (P2-400 should be quite enough) or Macintosh NewWorld G3 (G4 highly recommended) * a VESA 2.0 compliant graphics card (for x86 PC only). * an ALSA compatible sound card. * at least 64 MB of RAM * CD-ROM or DVD-R
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POPSRuby audioscrobbler library I am personally sick of bloated music playing apps, I like mplayer really... but would like to leverage audioscrobbler reporting while using mplayer.... maybe consider writing ruby wrapper + this library? Have not really looked at api or library yet. I know there have been bash scripts that wrap mplayer with some scrobbler stuff, but I really hate coding in bash.