Golly goshers! While building a bandwidth monitor for MTNL today I was thinking of a way of (ab)using a peculiar MTNL quirk: viz: uploads are not capped on any of their broadband plans. It's the quintessential Indian blood in me ...
Now, a while ago during a post-presentation discussion at a Freedel/Freed do I'd suggested a way around the broadcast limitation of an internet radio server (ie the maximum number of streaming listeners that it can cope with) - the proposed solution was p2p broadcasting. I didn't know if it existed already, but the idea was that a p2p broadcasting network would work so that the more popular a station is, the better the service will be. Anyway, I forgot about it for a while. Until today. Today I stumbled onto the peercast applicaton, (http://www.peercast.org/), which has been around for a while. Also does video. Neat. More at http://www.peercast.org/info.php It means that anyone can be an internet radio/tv station that can grow without worrying about bandwidth. I find that flabbergasting. PJ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
