Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote: Good to know you're OK. The time I've read about it was on VT, the first thing that rendered some concern on my mind was just you. Terrible it's most probably not enough an expression. I'm afraid it's the biggest killing on a US campus? Glad you're fine. -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

On Mon Apr 16, 2007 at 10:23:42PM -0400, sam javor wrote: pretty on the ball for not finding the gunman for 2 hours after the first shots

On Mon Apr 16, 2007 at 10:23:42PM -0400, sam javor wrote: speaking of the BBC, does anyone know a free way to tune into the World Service, preferably digitally? theyv discontinued their shortwave transmissions to north america and western europe, so even in ideal propagation, the only possibilities are remote signals, and coupled with the 60 hz hum of power lines, and random other hums of other devices, plus the blockage from urban density, tuning in the shortwave is more or less out of the question, as for the streams, afaik its only realaudio and/or windows media. apparently there are some FM stations in the US and elsewhere that carry a half hour of BBC here or there to fill out their schedules, but from what i can find, all the streams are also real/wmv or 24 kbps mp3 which is actually physically painful to listen to. am i missing something? or is the BBC just out of touch with the realities of digital delivery..

On Mon Apr 16, 2007 at 11:53:28PM -0400, Thomas Vecchione wrote: its not so much that theyre unplayable, its that you have to enable codecs in mplayer, then usually the browser determines youre lacking the proper plugin, so doesnt ev en send you to the page where you can view source and look for something resembling an audio URL in an <embed> tag, otherwise you reconstruct it from the javascript.. then youre rewarded with some 16kbps dreck which fatigues your ears after a bout 3 seconds since its like a set of knives digging into your eardrums with the most awful psychoacoustically-masked crap ever. i guess i'll just avoid the BBC until they bring back the ogg streams..

On Tuesday 17 April 2007 00:26, carmen wrote: Works fine for me.... Cache size set to 64 KBytes Cache fill: 12.50% (8192 bytes) ASF file format detected. Clip info: name: Live news and information author: BBC World Service copyright: (C) British Broadcasting Corporation 2007 ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [dmo] Win32/DMO decoders GetOutput r=0x0 size:16384 align:1 StreamCount r=0x0 1 1 AUDIO: 22050 Hz, 1 ch, s16le, 20.0 kbit/5.67% (ratio: 2500->44100) Selected audio codec: [wma9spdmo] afm: dmo (Windows Media Audio 9 Speech DMO) ========================================================================== alsa-init: using device default alsa: 48000 Hz/1 channels/2 bpf/32768 bytes buffer/Signed 16 bit Little Endian AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 1ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Video: no video Starting playback... A: 93.9 (01:33.9) of 0.0 (unknown) 6.9% 3% They're talking about Manchester United, as someone only vaguely familiar with British culture might expect people over there to be doing at any given time. dpkg tells me: ii mplayer 0.99+1.0-pre8-0ubuntu4 The Ultimate Movie Player ii w32codecs 20061022-0.0 win32 binary codecs Kubuntu 6.06 here, so I'm not exactly bleeding-edge. Obviously I'd rather they were broadcasting in Ogg or MP3, but I don't actually listen to the BBC so at least they're more Linux-friendly than, say, XM/AOL Radio. Rob