On Mar 3, 3:12pm, you proclaimed:
} Sounds like a great idea. Im not, however, familiar with Mosaic - can
} someone explain it?
I don't have a FAQ handy, but basically, it's a graphical tool to view
multimedia hypertext documents distributed over the internet - imagine
gopher on acid :) It seemlessly integrated inlined or external images,
sound files, even movies.
How do you access it? The best way is to have direct access to a
machine running X windows, a Mac, or a PC running Windows directly
connected to the net. From there you can either ask your sysadmin
if Mosaic is installed, and if it's not, grab it yourself from
ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu and install it. When you start it up it connects
you to NCSA's home page, and there are hypertext links from there to
other places around the net, too. I've put techno.stanford.edu's
info files up on the "World Wide Web" as well, meaning you can
access it via Mosaic using the "URL" "
http://techno.stanford.edu".
For more info, and probably the FAQ, read comp.infosystems.www. My
job at Wired over the past few months has been to get them up to
speed on WWW, so I'm a big booster of it :)
If you have any other questions, read the FAQ first, then mail me
if you still don't know the answer. This should be kept off IDM
generally, until I post the URL for the Rephlex discog. :)
} Maybe we could plug in some .avi files too.
The standard sound format right now is the 8-bit 8-khtz .au format -
it's what most people can play and record with on the net, and is
acceptable in terms of kbytes/sec. MPEG compression promises to be a
little better, but until it's a real standard we should stick with
.au. (Again, all comments/flames on that subject should be sent
privately)
} Sounds
} wouldnt be too hard as I own over half of the stuff anyway - sounds like
} a fun project (he said with his new multimedia system) ;)
Cool! If you could digitize the music (30-second samples, 250K each,
there are sound converters on techno.stanford.edu) and you or someone
else scan in the covers (small so that they can be inlined - like 150x150
or something, GIFs prefereed) then I'll work to combine them into an
HTML doc. Also, I can provide hypertext links to reviews in other
documents on the site, as well as to any other info someone wants to
get me.
} not Courtney
} Fluid in drag.
:)
Brian