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why the lucky stiff

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Aug 6, 2005, 1:16:41 PM8/6/05
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My friends, I've got my act together now and a BitTorrent tracker up
with some of the videos from OSCON. The two Least Surprised cartoons
and the foxes video. And Quicktime in cases where my Quicktime encoding
wasn't all muxxxored.

<http://whytheluckystiff.net/starry/>

I'm curious what other recordings were done of the various talks. If
you want to distribute on the tracker, let's do.

I really want to thank the FOSCON attendees. The OSCON hoopla wouldn't
have happened without the noxious pheromones that we polluted the
PDX::Atmosphere with on Thursday. I especially loved the people nesting
up in the rafters. There was plenty of room in there, but it gave the
illusion that we were beyond standing-room-only and had started stacking
new structural levels to the room. Tranquility base, we're on our way
to colonizing the ceiling!

_why

Phil Tomson

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Aug 6, 2005, 5:29:01 PM8/6/05
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In article <42F4F04D...@whytheluckystiff.net>,

why the lucky stiff <ruby...@whytheluckystiff.net> wrote:
>My friends, I've got my act together now and a BitTorrent tracker up
>with some of the videos from OSCON. The two Least Surprised cartoons
>and the foxes video. And Quicktime in cases where my Quicktime encoding
>wasn't all muxxxored.
>
> <http://whytheluckystiff.net/starry/>
>
>I'm curious what other recordings were done of the various talks. If
>you want to distribute on the tracker, let's do.

Unfortuneately, while we at FOSCON had great podcasting dreams alas we did
not awake to fulfill them. Maybe this was all for the good because that
way our stories got bigger and bigger with each retelling.

>
>I really want to thank the FOSCON attendees. The OSCON hoopla wouldn't
>have happened without the noxious pheromones that we polluted the
>PDX::Atmosphere with on Thursday. I especially loved the people nesting
>up in the rafters. There was plenty of room in there, but it gave the
>illusion that we were beyond standing-room-only and had started stacking
>new structural levels to the room. Tranquility base, we're on our way
>to colonizing the ceiling!

They were trying to get to that cardboard spaceship thingy with the
wire-for-smoke engines that was above the stage.


why, you've already done so much, but I'm wondering if you'll be putting
up the "I suggest Ruby!" song? Can't get that one out of my head.


Phil

Jim Weirich

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Aug 8, 2005, 2:59:53 AM8/8/05
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On Saturday 06 August 2005 05:46 pm, Phil Tomson wrote:
> why, you've already done so much, but I'm wondering if you'll be putting
> up the "I suggest Ruby!" song?  Can't get that one out of my head.

Dang! Me too! I've been humming that one all week.

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why the lucky stiff

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Aug 8, 2005, 1:45:03 PM8/8/05
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Jim Weirich wrote:

>On Saturday 06 August 2005 05:46 pm, Phil Tomson wrote:
>
>
>>why, you've already done so much, but I'm wondering if you'll be putting
>>up the "I suggest Ruby!" song? Can't get that one out of my head.
>>
>>
>
>Dang! Me too! I've been humming that one all week.
>
>
>

Dedi Hubbard sent me a recording of Wednesday night, which is now up on
the tracker. She was kind enough to split it up into parts, so you can
pick out the stuff you like. Anyway, both the uncut mp3 and the cutup
playlist are there.

<http://whytheluckystiff.net/starry/>

A good swarm of seeders has stuck around, Lord bless them.

_why


Ezra Zygmuntowicz

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Aug 8, 2005, 1:52:41 PM8/8/05
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Thanks _why-
I loved you presentation at the foscon.
-Ezra Zygmuntowicz
Yakima Herald-Republic
WebMaster
509-577-7732
ez...@yakima-herald.com

Jeff Wood

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Aug 8, 2005, 4:31:22 PM8/8/05
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Is there any copy of these sitting somewhere that doesn't require bit torrent?

I don't have access to a bt client from this machine... ( please please please )

j.


--
"So long, and thanks for all the fish"

Jeff Wood


Ezra Zygmuntowicz

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Aug 8, 2005, 6:21:57 PM8/8/05
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I've downloaded the torrents of the MP3 files. I'm uploading them to
my server right now and I will host them for a week or two so you can
get em without bittorrent. Here you go: <http://yhrhosting.com/
FOSCON_why_Songs.zip>

Enjoy!
-Ezra

Phil Tomson

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Aug 8, 2005, 7:13:25 PM8/8/05
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In article <E9901C3B-5EF4-433E...@yakima-herald.com>,

Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ez...@yakima-herald.com> wrote:
>I've downloaded the torrents of the MP3 files. I'm uploading them to
>my server right now and I will host them for a week or two so you can
>get em without bittorrent. Here you go: <http://yhrhosting.com/
>FOSCON_why_Songs.zip>
>

Thanks!
BTW: the "Might I recommend Ruby" song is mislabled as "The Magic Elf".

Phil

Ezra Zygmuntowicz

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Aug 8, 2005, 9:08:35 PM8/8/05
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Yeah I know. Thats the way _why put them up in the torrent as well.
Too bad as that was my favorite song from foscon.
-Ezra Zygmuntowicz
WebMaster
Yakima Herald-Republic Newspaper
ez...@yakima-herald.com
509-577-7732

John Wells

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Aug 8, 2005, 9:17:45 PM8/8/05
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why the lucky stiff said:
> My friends, I've got my act together now and a BitTorrent tracker up
> with some of the videos from OSCON. The two Least Surprised cartoons
> and the foxes video. And Quicktime in cases where my Quicktime encoding
> wasn't all muxxxored.

Awesome...'cept...I can't see it. I wish you Rubyist MacHeads would
remember us Linux guys occasionally...that's one thing about coming to
Rails and Ruby in general...y'all love the Quicktime.

Most of the time, mplayer can handle it, but the .mov files you posted
give it fits.

I'll have to bide my time and watch it from my wife's eMac, or borrow a
Windows box at work.

:)

John

Phil Tomson

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Aug 9, 2005, 3:21:11 AM8/9/05
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In article <55448.172.16.2.8.1...@devsea.com>,

John Wells <li...@sourceillustrated.com> wrote:
>why the lucky stiff said:
>> My friends, I've got my act together now and a BitTorrent tracker up
>> with some of the videos from OSCON. The two Least Surprised cartoons
>> and the foxes video. And Quicktime in cases where my Quicktime encodin=

>g
>> wasn't all muxxxored.
>
>Awesome...'cept...I can't see it. I wish you Rubyist MacHeads would
>remember us Linux guys occasionally...that's one thing about coming to
>Rails and Ruby in general...y'all love the Quicktime.
>
>Most of the time, mplayer can handle it, but the .mov files you posted
>give it fits.
>
>I'll have to bide my time and watch it from my wife's eMac, or borrow a
>Windows box at work.
>

Actually, _why initially did them on Linux and (I'm pretty sure) was using
mplayer when he was showing them. Some of us MacHeads complained that we
couldn't watch them under quicktime (sound, but now picture).... at any
rate, I'm sure _why has something that will play fine on Linux.

...can you say 'Tower of Babel'?

Phil

Jordan Elver

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Aug 9, 2005, 3:57:19 AM8/9/05
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For the record, I'm on Linux and originally had problems until I
compiled mplayer with aac support. Maybe that's you're problem as
well?

Cheers,
Jord


Dominik Bathon

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Aug 9, 2005, 9:25:22 AM8/9/05
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On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 09:57:19 +0200, Jordan Elver <jordan...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> For the record, I'm on Linux and originally had problems until I
> compiled mplayer with aac support. Maybe that's you're problem as
> well?

Are you sure that you can play "The Least Surprised - The Red Scared.mov"
and "The Least Surprised - Time.now Is_a MagicTime.mov" on Linux with
mplayer?

My mplayer is compiled with aac and I get:

$ mplayer The\ Least\ Surprised\ -\ The\ Red\ Scared.mov
MPlayer 1.0pre7-3.4.4 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
..
85 Audio- & 196 Videocodecs
Spiele The Least Surprised - The Red Scared.mov
Cache fill: 6.29% (527965 bytes) QuickTime/MOV-Dateiformat erkannt!
--------------
MOV track #0: 1 chunks, 0 samples
Generic track - not completely understood! (id: 0)
--------------
MOV: longest streams: A: #-1 (0 samples) V: #-1 (0 samples)
Keine Streams gefunden.


When I play it on Windows with Quicktime and check the movie properties it
says something about flash embedded into mov. So I am not surprised that
mplayer can't play it.

Dominik


Bil Kleb

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Aug 9, 2005, 9:37:32 AM8/9/05
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Phil Tomson wrote:
> Some of us MacHeads complained that we
> couldn't watch them under quicktime (sound, but now picture)....

I just became a MacHead last week (largely Kilmer's fault), and
I got video with Quicktime after I installed the 3ivx codec,

http://www.3ivx.com/technology/quicktime/

Regards,
--
Bil Kleb
http://fun3d.larc.nasa.gov

Jordan Elver

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Aug 9, 2005, 10:57:52 AM8/9/05
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> Are you sure that you can play "The Least Surprised - The Red Scared.mov"
> and "The Least Surprised - Time.now Is_a MagicTime.mov" on Linux with
> mplayer?

I'll double check. I'm not at my Linux box right now.

Cheers,
Jord


Jordan Elver

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Aug 9, 2005, 1:15:37 PM8/9/05
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Sorry, stupidness alert :)
I was getting it mixed up with another mov I was having trouble with.

Cheers,
Jord
--
Jordan Elver


why the lucky stiff

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Aug 9, 2005, 3:45:27 PM8/9/05
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Dominik Bathon wrote:

> On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 09:57:19 +0200, Jordan Elver
> <jordan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> For the record, I'm on Linux and originally had problems until I
>> compiled mplayer with aac support. Maybe that's you're problem as
>> well?
>
>
> Are you sure that you can play "The Least Surprised - The Red
> Scared.mov" and "The Least Surprised - Time.now Is_a MagicTime.mov"
> on Linux with mplayer?

An AVI of this cartoon is up now. This one's the very same that I
played live with MPlayer on Linux.

_why

Robert McGovern

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Aug 9, 2005, 5:07:51 PM8/9/05
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> Unfortuneately, while we at FOSCON had great podcasting dreams alas we did
> not awake to fulfill them. Maybe this was all for the good because that
> way our stories got bigger and bigger with each retelling.

Thats a shame, I had hoped that those over here in Europe might get to
hear all the talks.

Rob


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