Re: [school-discuss] falling costs of producing audio books

[mike eschman <meschman@etc-edu.com>]

hello,

everything is available and free --

go to http://www.etc-edu.com

go to downloads (in main menu)

go to audio books

download the loast world,
which contains the book and all the software,

there is a readme in the package.

cron is a good way to go :

here is a scenario :

1 - select a group of books from http://www.promo.net/pg/
2 - ftp download
3 - run the scripts
4 - put repository on line

2,3,4 are all cron candidates.

you want to provide ftp acess? if not, that's ok, i have 150 gig available ...

want to run 1 or more broadcast channels ?

i will put a new download package out tomorrow morning with additional bash 
scripts that improve output quality.

i'd like to avoid duplicates to some extent, at least initially.
so let's try to agree on book selections, focusing on holding dups to a 
minimum.

by the way, thanks for the responses :-)

mike eschman, etc ...
http://www.etc-edu.com
"Not just an afterthought ...



On Saturday 21 December 2002 01:06 pm, jeff williams wrote:
> On Saturday 21 December 2002 12:15 pm, Matt Payne wrote:
> > Quoting John Munro <jmunro@uvi.edu>:
> > > How many of these steps could be 'outsourced' to those with spare cpu
> > > cycles?
> >
> > Yes!  this is a lot better than Seti @Home.   Is the software you're
> > talking about all free?  If it is can't you make a kit for people to run
> > books through the cycle? -Matt
>
> Greetings,
>
> Ok, here is what I am thinking.  I could set up our computer lab for after
> hours work as a Cluster of Workstations (10 to 20 450 Pentii IIs) and
> automate and collect said books.  If we can set up a crontab to make this
> happen (and to reboot the things around 6:00 a.m. so to have Windows
> available for the "day shift") I think we could get about 8 hours a night
> of processing for the next semester.  I'm sure my boss wouldn't mind, and I
> think I could even work it into a project for a winterim class.  :-)
>
> You do have the software available, don't you?

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