Audio Download: Linux Kernel to be on Radio 161
cyber_rigger writes: "The Linux Kernel is to have a (spoken) reading on Radio Free Linux and some other regular radio station throughout the world.
http://radioqualia.va.com.au/freeradiolinux/
I guess this makes Linux offically 'free as in speech.'
'The Linux kernel contains 4,141,432 lines of code. Reading
the entire kernel will take an estimated 14253.43 hours, or
593.89 days. Free Radio Linux begins transmission on
February 3, 2002, the fourth anniversary of the term "Open
Source."'" If only the mysterious numbers stations would open their source as well.
no human is reading this... who will listen? (Score:1)
Will there be anyone listening?
Or will someone go and have a computer listen to the transmission and turn it back into code
George
bahaha (Score:1, Insightful)
Even art, if to be appreciated, has to be observed. If you can call this art.
How lame
Number Stations on DMOZ (Score:2)
I'm not a karma whore I'm a karma whores mate and I'm only whoring karma cos tha karma whore is late
Re:Number Stations on DMOZ (Score:1)
or:
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/05/27/1735225.s
http://www.shmoo.com/numbers/
http://www.dxing.com/numbers.htm
http://havana.iwsp.com/radio/numbers.html
I'll preview it this time
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes.
- Dr. Warren Jackson, Director, UTCS
OT: Your sig is a lie (Score:1, Offtopic)
I believe that quote belongs to Tannenbaum.
Its from Computer Networks: Third Edition.
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."
See ERCB: Computer Networks X 2 [ercb.com] for more info.
Re:OT: Your sig is a lie (Score:1)
"Unix is not a "A-ha" experience, it is more of a "holy-shit" experience."
- Colin McFadyen in alt.folklore.computers
Re:OT: Your sig is a lie (Score:1)
Re:Number Stations on DMOZ (Score:2)
No sites matching your query were found in the Open Directory.
Try your search on one of these search engines that incorporate Open Directory data in their results:
Netscape
Google
AOL
Lycos
advance ET IT (Score:1)
Can they keep up? (Score:1)
I wonder (Score:1)
What Kernel revision? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What Kernel revision? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What Kernel revision? (Score:4, Funny)
DJ: Hi, you're live now. What's your name?
guy: David.
DJ: And what music do you want, son ?
guy: I want the preemptible kernel patch.
DJ: Oh, so you like low latency, uh ?
guy: Yep. I sure do.
DJ: Ok, here it goes. We'll now play Preemptible Kernel Patch Opus 1, No. 1. Trio Sonata in E Minor
593.89 days == 1.63 years == quite long (Score:2, Informative)
Will they also read patches while they arrive?
Why ??? (Score:2, Insightful)
And does anyone plan to listen for more than 30 seconds?
Only in the USA... (Score:1, Insightful)
(I know I'll get mod'ed down for this, but please don't just write this off as an anti-american troll before reading it. Some of my best friends are american.)
Only in the United States of America could anyone think that this is a good idea. How is it that anyone can think that a symbolic action like this could change the reality of whether the kernal is actually 'Free Speech' or not?
It strikes me as in some ways similar to those people who secretly walk along an overgrown and disused public right-of-way once every 20 years just to make sure it can't be closed down. It doesn't actually achieve anything - it's just fiddling about with legal technicalities.
Why only the United States? Well, similar things might happen here in the UK, but we have not yet become quite such a litigation- and legally-obsessed nation as the USA. Also, the US preoccupation with 'free speech' is something most Brits just don't get.
Ok, now watch all that hard-earned karma evaporate...
Re:Only in the USA... (Score:2, Insightful)
Similar things do happen in the UK, and what happens is everyone grumbles about it for a while but not enough for things to change. Witness the handful of privacy/freedom restricting ("criminal justice/public order") laws of the last 10 years or so.
Re:Only in the USA... (Score:1)
:-)
eset(r a d i o q u a l i a)
Re:Why ??? (Score:1)
Re:Why ??? (Score:2)
So if you could get such information from a high rank officer and supply it to China, you wouldn't be a spy, right?
Re:Why ??? (Score:1)
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Re:Why ??? (Score:1)
Re:Why ??? (Score:1)
How could you possibly "properly" present an arguement that computer code is subject to the highest level of First Amendment scrutiny? Trying to make that claim at all is a screw-up because it's patently false.
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Re:Why ??? (Score:1)
WTF? (Score:1, Troll)
And we thought Linus took a while. (Score:2, Funny)
In other news today... (Score:5, Funny)
"I don't understand," says Ira Tional, promotional manager of the PI channel. "I thought everyone loved pi, and they could now get it 24-7!" Tional thought that perhaps if they had started the channel with guest stars doing the reading, such as Drew Carey or Britany Spears, the PI channel wouldn't have come to such an abbrupt halt. "But for some reason, they told me I was being too irrational."
Re:In other news today... (Score:1)
Re:In other news today... (Score:5, Funny)
If only they had realized that people can only take pi about 22/7. 24/7 is just more than people want it.
Re:In other news today... (Score:1, Redundant)
Re:In other news today... (Score:2)
Re:In other news today... (Score:1)
geesh, it was meant as humor, not for calculating orbits.
Re:In other news today... (Score:1)
Re:In other news today... (Score:1)
"I don't understand," says Ira Tional, promotional manager of the PI channel. "I thought everyone loved pi, and they could now get it 24-7!"
Wrong! You can now get it 22/7, approximately.
Re:no prob,I have a transcript of the broadcast (Score:1)
The transcript reads like this:
Three point one four one five nine two six... Oh, I've just been handed a note from our program director that we are to be preempted permanently by Loveline. This is John Doe signing off.
It's nothing new after all. (Score:1)
But it was in a machine readable form, so a little bit more advanced technology...
link for numbers station (Score:1, Offtopic)
dave
Re:link for numbers station (Score:1)
Minimalist Art. (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Minimalist Art. (Score:1)
Whoa! That is a really cool idea. Just get an old Mac Classic or a nice looking ultra-old PC laptop, run up SimCity, and keep it running as a form of artificial life. Nice talking point for the living room
what kernel ? (Score:5, Funny)
slash kernel slash sched dot c slash asterisk line break asterisk (...) 1998-12-28 Implemented better SMP scheduling by Ingo Molnar
Dang! It's the vanilla kernel where are user mode Linux and Alan's cool toys ?
switches station
Silmarillion. Spoken. Again.
switches station again
eight dot three four six minus a dash greather than c zero wb zero yn dot eat...
Yay, they've got Reiser in this one, but they're still reciteing the console driver, it'll be 3 days before we get to the filesystem
switches stations frantically
hash include less-than linux slash config dot h NO NO GET OUT OF HERE WHAT ARE YOU DOING ?
Hello, I am Richard M. Stallman and you are being deceived, for it takes much more than a kernel to get a computer going. Here are 3 billion lines of GNU code that this radio hasn't read aloud yet. [DOOR SLAMS] Tee hee, and how do you think you get those tiny little icons on the screen ? Here's the XFree86 source to be read.
turns off radio, goes to slashdot, picks cowboyneal option on poll
Re:what kernel ? (Score:3, Interesting)
Reading the code symbol for symbol would seem to me to be slightly, well, geeky. But not in that good way.
On a side note, has anyone thought about calling Guiness ( the records guys, not the beer guys) for a note in The Book? This has to be the longest online reading ever.
On second thought, call the beer guys too. It might be harder to understand, but it would be a hellava lot more fun. And I can always get the written transcripts later:)
Re:what kernel ? (Score:2, Informative)
Just a little OT history lesson. The Guinness book guys are the Guinness beer guys. The idea came about when Sir Hugh Beaver, managing directory for the Guinness Brewery, went to a shooting party where he became involved in a discussion as to what was the fastest game bird in England. He had the idea for a book, Published by Guinness, that would provide the answers to these sorts of questions would be perfect. The first edition was published in 1955.
"Wherever people congregate to talk, they will argue, and sometimes the joy lies in the arguing and would be lost if there were any definite answer. But more often the argument takes place on a dispute of fact, and it can be very exasperating if there is no immediate means of settling the argument. Who was the first to swim the Channel? Where is England's deepest well, or Scotland's highest tree, or Ireland's oldest church? How many died in history's worst rail crash? Who gained the biggest majority in Parliament? What is the highest point in our country? What is the greatest weight a man has ever lifted? And so on. How much heat these innocent questions can raise! Guinness in producing this book hopes that it may assist in resolving many such disputes, and may, we hope, turn heat into light."
- Rt. Hon. the Earl of Iveagh, Chairman of Guinness.
Re:what kernel ? (Score:1)
'Regular radio stations'? (Score:1)
Whaaaat? (Score:4, Funny)
Well hot shit! (Score:5, Funny)
Before this, it was test patterns. I consider this a lateral move.
- A.P.
I wonder... (Score:4, Funny)
Just how many people will be listening to this all day long, waiting to hear "fsck me gently with a chainsaw" (arch/sparc/kernel/ptrace.c) on public radio for the first time? ^_^
Also, how long will it then take before "concerned parents" get the project off the air? >_<
np: Phonem - Decay (Arovane/Phonem - Aer (Valid))
Not that good (Score:3, Interesting)
It also mispronounced "Linus Torvalds". How hard would it have been to sample Linus' name properly?
Of course, these are all things that can be improved as time goes on and I do hope they will actually do so.
Re:Not that good (Score:1)
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/SillySoun
But anyway, this is a complete waste of time. My god, can't people find something more usefull to do with their lives...
No...but kind've spooky (Score:1)
computer-generated voice! That was creepy!
On the other hand, it would sound pretty interesting as background to industrial/techno songs or maybe some Pink Floyd (which I'm sure it will be used for in not too long a while).
Code and Weird comments (Score:1)
Re:You have a point. (Score:1)
Are you serious? If not id mod you +1 troll if i could. But then againg you probably are serious...
Um, this stream is being encoded by... winamp? (Score:1)
Needs Scratchin' (Score:1)
It needs a bit of spice - a drum loop, some samples, and a bit of scratching. Give it a bit of 'old school' Hip-Hop.
f-f-f-for
LEFT paren
i-i-i-i
equals
z-z-z-zero
s-s-s-semicolon !
...
Needs Scratchin' (corrected) (Score:1)
It needs a bit of spice - a drum loop, some samples, and a bit of scratching. Give it a bit of 'old school' Hip-Hop.
[boom blat]
[bo-boom-boom-blat]
f-f-f-for [blat]
[bo-boom-boom-blat]
LEFT paren [blat]
[bo-boom-boom-blat]
i-i-i-i [blat]
[bo-boom-boom-blat]
equals [blat]
[bo-boom-boom-blat]
z-z-z-zero
[scratch-hctarcs-scratch-hctarcs]
s-s-s-semicolon !
General public (Score:1, Redundant)
arch/sparc/kernel/process.c:
Re:General public (Score:2)
Woah... (Score:1)
Microsoft's response... (Score:1)
That way they could prove that there are situations when there's no real difference between open source and closed source. It's both gibberish (as a radio show, that is).
Re:Microsoft's response... (Score:1)
Fork here : (Score:1)
/jk
What a waste of time... (Score:4, Insightful)
I'd be more impressed if they steered the bot so it began reading out loud the DeCSS code and other forbidden code over and over. Then it really would be about free speech...
Re:What a waste of time... (Score:2)
By the time this code is finished, the kernel will be quite obsolete.
Will it be... (Score:2)
Perhaps if someone piped their radio through their speech recognition software, to get this transmission back into some compilable form, we might be able to finally get back to legendary Microsoft stability. (now this, is sarcasm.)
numbers stations (Score:2)
Re:numbers stations (Score:2)
http://www.ibmpcug.co.uk/~irdial/catfix.htm [ibmpcug.co.uk]
Where you can download the entire Conet Project. Be sure to buy a t-shirt [cafepress.com] or a physical copy [theserecords.com] if you liked it.
Why not Gutenberg? (Score:4, Interesting)
Why the linux kernel???
Why not start reading from the Project Gutenberg [promo.net] files instead, something that would support 'open' and 'free' concepts, but at the same time be useful and improving...
Re:Why not Gutenberg? (Score:1)
It sounds like ... (Score:1)
Voice Synthesizer? (Score:1)
It's all codswallop this morning ... where's my goddamned newspaper!!??!!
I listened for a bit ... (Score:2)
Icecast2 is pretty impressive (Score:3, Informative)
Thanks to all who are making this possible. Especially Monty, Ogg/Vorbis rocks!
What the hell is the point?? (Score:3, Funny)
After the first month, all the advertisers will pull out because the listener base = 5.
When they've finished, someone will ring up telling them that they made a mistake in line 2,432,243 it was "x" instead of "y".
And Microsoft will probably have something to say about it all being evil...
Wasteful? (Score:2)
It'd take a lot of spam mail to equate to an audiobroad cast that long.
-me
Re:Wasteful? (Score:2)
I was going to say that they could have devoted the same time, effort, and bandwidth to something like broadcast text from the Gutenberg project, and done something useful (as well as novel).
-me
Shorthand Writers Wanted.... (Score:1)
God (Score:2)
What's the point?
Re:God (Score:1)
Finally, we prove ourselves (Score:2)
The first interstellar message we receive will start out:
RCS file:
retrieving revision 1.146
diff -r1.146 Makefile
I'm really impressed (Score:1)
Linux radio (Score:1)
Today on Linux radio weekly we have the module blah.c for discussion, joining us are, so and so.
A bit of discussion, and open up to some questions. Could be quite educational
Re:Linux radio (Score:1)
Re:Linux radio (Score:1)
Perhaps this could be useful. (Score:1)
Perhaps we could download and install new kernels and mods just by tuning in the channel. Perfect for newbies or the dialup-bandwidth challenged.
/* Kernel Marketing Patch */ (Score:3, Funny)
USB support sponsored by
KFC - Try the Kernel's special recipe today
Pepsi - The Choice of a GNU Generation
Raid - Kills bugs dead
*/
Background noise? (Score:2)
A silly idea.... (Score:2)
Cool... (Score:1)
I'm auditioning for this!!! (Score:4, Funny)
Nifty. (Score:1)
Lyrics/Tabs? (Score:2)
X
Repetitive garbage (Score:1)
vertical bar d vertical bar... f vertical bar f vertical bar f vertical bar ... plus sign hyphen minus plus sign hyphen minus plus sign hyphen minus plus sign hyphen minus vertical bar vertical bar veritcal b vertical bar b verictal bar...
Wow! (Score:1)
Special guests (Score:1)
d'oh! (Score:1)
Tom
Re:magic numbers + the synth sux (Score:2, Interesting)
I was disappointed by the bad speech encoding. I had expected in 2002 you'd actually be able to synthesize a voice that sounds close to human or at least be understandable. The old amiga 500 had a utility that was much more understandable than this is.
I don't know about the Amiga but I had an old TI99-4A that had a speech synthesis module. It was quite good at reading most words but had a built in list of words it could read. You could get it to read other words but it meant that you had to express the word in a special way so that the module could pronounce it properly. That really defeats the point of text to speech.
I think text to speech has come on a long way since those days but it seems like slow progress which is due to the complexity of the subject. There is a good open source text to speech engine called Festival [ed.ac.uk]. You can test it with your own text here [festvox.org]
.Re:Linux must be perfect and free of bugs now, the (Score:1, Redundant)
IMHO, this is a tremendous waste of resources.
Re:a loophole? (Score:1)