-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ,--[ On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 07:54:46AM +0000, PJ wrote: | 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.
Thanks for mentioning this. P2P rocks :) . I'll give it a try tonight :). - -- Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल http://wahjava.wordpress.com/ ·-- ·- ···· ·--- ·- ···- ·- ·--·-· --· -- ·- ·· ·-·· ·-·-·- -·-· --- -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIJAmKHy+EEHYuXnQRAtJ+AKCDp6ujSP4Ys1WN8DpsZYast2NMrQCgjwn9 jxbg88p+L3OhIjHUXHolDT4= =3A3g -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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/
