BLUG: 04/28/07

Saturday, April 28, 2007

Re: [BLUG] Having a BLAST with Bzflag

Mark Krenz wrote:
> Wow, that was great. We had 7 people total turnout. We had 5 playing
> at once and most of the time 4 where playing. So it was quite a bit of
> fun and we ended about 12:30.

I just got home a few minutes ago but if I'm not busy and anothe BZFlag
session is scheduled sometime I'd be happy to participate. It was a lot
of fun last time I played it (2001-2002 iirc).
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Re: [BLUG] Having a BLAST with Bzflag

Wow, that was great. We had 7 people total turnout. We had 5 playing
at once and most of the time 4 where playing. So it was quite a bit of
fun and we ended about 12:30.

I've put some more games on the schedule in advance so that you have
more time to prepare. When I have time, I'll put up instructions for
the other games. I think that there is obviously more demand for more
accessible games. But we'll still do some commercial games too.

On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 02:18:59AM GMT, Mark Krenz [mark@slugbug.org] said the following:
>
> There are 4 BLUGers logged into the BZFlag game right now. I'd like
> to see more.
>
>

http://www.bloomingtonlinux.org/wiki/BZFlag_instructions
>
> Its actually a lot more fun that I expected with this game.
>
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Re: [BLUG] Having a BLAST with Bzflag

Same here, the first time I tried this game a good while back, I didn't understand it and just deleted it after playing one round. After tonight, I'm ready to play again.

On 4/28/07, Mark Krenz <mark@slugbug.org> wrote:

  There are 4 BLUGers logged into the BZFlag game right now.  I'd like
to see more.

  http://www.bloomingtonlinux.org/wiki/BZFlag_instructions

  Its actually a lot more fun that I expected with this game.

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Re: [BLUG] personal music server

I don't know what you all think about a shoutcast server, but I set one up a couple years ago on my linux box and it streamed 128kbps fine over insight or sbc/yahoo dsl -- i can't remember which one. It's free and you can lock it down. Just thought I'd through that one out there. It's been a while, so I don't know what it's like now.

Weldon

On 4/28/07, Ben Shewmaker <benshewmaker@yahoo.com> wrote:

I want to set up a web based music streaming app so I can listen to my music from anywhere. I don't want to get myself into trouble by sharing with everyone, just a way for me to listen to my music collection when I'm away from my computer. I have two questions:

First, does anyone have a recommendation on software for this? There are two I am looking at, Jinzora (http://jinzora.com/ ) and Ampache(http://www.ampache.org/). Are these any good, or are there any better ones?

Second, I have two options as to where to host this. I have an Ubuntu box I use as a print server/file backup that is on most of the time. I could set it up here, but I don't know much about apache/php/mysql and how to keep it running smoothly and securely. Is it safe to run this type of web server at home? I could also install it on my shared hosting account. This would be faster and more reliable, but it would take a really, really, really long time to upload my music here, plus I worry about somebody hacking open my music directories and leaving them open to the public.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Ben

Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell?
Check out new cars at Yahoo! Autos.

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[BLUG] Having a BLAST with Bzflag

There are 4 BLUGers logged into the BZFlag game right now. I'd like
to see more.

http://www.bloomingtonlinux.org/wiki/BZFlag_instructions

Its actually a lot more fun that I expected with this game.

Re: [BLUG] personal music server

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Ben,
I'm a big fan of ampache. Simple setup, nice random playlists, works
with a very diverse set of players, and you get to lock it down by
login. I use it any time I'm not at my desk and need some music.

Rich

Ben Shewmaker wrote:
> I want to set up a web based music streaming app so I can listen to my
> music from anywhere. I don't want to get myself into trouble by sharing
> with everyone, just a way for me to listen to my music collection when
> I'm away from my computer. I have two questions:
>
> First, does anyone have a recommendation on software for this? There
> are two I am looking at, Jinzora (http://jinzora.com/) and
> Ampache(http://www.ampache.org/). Are these any good, or are there any
> better ones?
>
> Second, I have two options as to where to host this. I have an Ubuntu
> box I use as a print server/file backup that is on most of the time. I
> could set it up here, but I don't know much about apache/php/mysql and
> how to keep it running smoothly and securely. Is it safe to run this
> type of web server at home? I could also install it on my shared
> hosting account. This would be faster and more reliable, but it would
> take a really, really, really long time to upload my music here, plus I
> worry about somebody hacking open my music directories and leaving them
> open to the public.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben
>
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> Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell?
> Check out new cars at Yahoo! Autos.
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Re: [BLUG] personal music server

I've tried this before with iTunes, but my upload on my Insight
connection did not provide enough bandwidth to do this without a lot of
audio skipping. I'd check on this first with regards to your home
connection.

You might want to look at something daapd based, particularly if you
have a savvy client you like using (such as iTunes, likely Songbird, etc.)

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[BLUG] personal music server

I want to set up a web based music streaming app so I can listen to my music from anywhere. I don't want to get myself into trouble by sharing with everyone, just a way for me to listen to my music collection when I'm away from my computer. I have two questions:

First, does anyone have a recommendation on software for this? There are two I am looking at, Jinzora (http://jinzora.com/) and Ampache(http://www.ampache.org/). Are these any good, or are there any better ones?

Second, I have two options as to where to host this. I have an Ubuntu box I use as a print server/file backup that is on most of the time. I could set it up here, but I don't know much about apache/php/mysql and how to keep it running smoothly and securely. Is it safe to run this type of web server at home? I could also install it on my shared hosting account. This would be faster and more reliable, but it would take a really, really, really long time to upload my music here, plus I worry about somebody hacking open my music directories and leaving them open to the public.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Ben

Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell?
Check out new cars at Yahoo! Autos.

[BLUG] BZFlag multiplayer game tonight at 9pm

I setup the BZFlag server and put instructions for how to connect and
play at:

http://www.bloomingtonlinux.org/wiki/BZFlag_instructions

Its actually a rather easy game to setup and will work fine on older
3D cards. So I hope to see a lot of you playing tonight. Even if only
for 10 minutes. The session will start at 9pm.

I've also rearranged the gaming page on the wiki a bit to have a
schedule and point to instruction pages for each game. It will grow as
we get closer to trying each game:

http://www.bloomingtonlinux.org/wiki/Weekly_BLUGers_gaming_session

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