Bastard Sons of Dial-Up

Update:

WE HAVE A KAILLERA SERVER! Yaaaay! What is Kaillera? Simply it allows emulators to netplay. What??! Whats an emulator you ask? It lets you play game consoles on a PC (or other consoles, like in my NES segments I used an xbox). Want to play, get a Kaillera enabled emulator, ROM, and a friend, and plug into:

kaillera.lostcarrier.net:27888

We are still working on it, but feel free to use it. This may randomly go down as its worked on. We will let you know when its up and stable. If you need a netplay buddy, pop on IRC and ask. Many of us enjoy a good game on NES, SNES, MAME, Genesis/Megadrive, etc. We have been going bonkers playing Spot (the game, JU) for NES quite a bit.

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We seem dead to the world, and hate to disappoint. BSoD is just as lively as ever! We still need help with user submissions for segments, as always, but we have been working on a new BSoD v3 release. We have quite a few people helping behind the scenes, so credit served where credit due. Ensifer has offered a new file host, Cookie gave us a file mirror as well, but he has also been donating and helps run the IRC network. Nick from www.TechCentric.org aka Limp_Trizkit, is our deadhead idle server admin and all around go-to guy for server help. He also hosts the www.Lostcarrier.net IRC Network and makes sure its up, running, and stable. Lostcarrier also hosts a private Shoutcast Server in #LostRadio. BSoD has a www.bitlbee.org Server running on our explicit node, which lets you connect to your favorite Instant Messenger networks via IRC. This has been running for quite some time, but not many people use it due to things like Twitter.

If you take a closer look Mustang has uploaded and has been trying to maintain BSoD episodes on his http://vimeo.com/bsod/videos page. We have gotten many requests for streaming episodes. Check the streaming links on the right of the main page, or in the Episodes section. In the meantime Sythen has been working hard on getting BSoD segmented, uploaded, tagged, and published on Youtube. That's a whole lot of work, so make sure you give him a hearty man hug if you ever see him, just make sure he doesnt clobber you with his salt-rock. Once things progress we will also add Youtube to the Streaming links, and perhaps even add them to each episodes individual pages.

We have a new website layout and design in the works and should be rolled out eventually once we all decide what direction the creative process should go in. cSc is helping a great deal with this, and a few select others. LokiChaos has helped embed direct links to every episode about page to the respective mirror. The BSoD main Filedump has be HAMMERED lately, so if you have slow bandwidth off of Filedump.bsodtv.org try out the other mirrors. That was a *LOT* of work, and without him that wouldn't have happened anytime soon.

We are all discussing on IRC new segment ideas, website layouts, streaming episodes, look & feel, possible new features and a lot more! BSoD has always been run by the people, for the people, and although we dont post every little thing to the main site, things on IRC progress really fast. There was some minor talk about doing a Twitter feed, but not a whole lot, since the BSoD Facebook page has barely been maintained. There is an idea of putting together an XLink Kai server together, since we often hop on Xbox and get our gaming on. We might go as far to get some kind of Gamer Lounge going so we can netplay classic consoles via Emulation, but that's still just a vague idea. We are in need of talented coders that are willing to help to tie together the loose ends. As always personal affairs with school, family, and life often get in the way. This is something we all quickly get to understand and respect.

If you feel like you want to help us out, just suggesting new ideas or helping to work out the bugs to get things rolling is a big part of the community. We strongly urge you to pop on the forums, though they are somewhat dead these days, so get on IRC and hang out for a while. Every single one of you is part of the community, regardless of your commitment. Just downloading the show, watching it, and speaking your mind and explaining your concepts not only is what BSoD is about, it helps things progress.

Recently we have had the idea of creating a "BSoD Sandbox" - a compilation web space for contributors and general BSoD'ers. It will be a place where we can work on off-topic projects and hobbies. beyond being a blog it will bring people together by making our personal concepts, projects, opinions, and web-presence part of the BSoD Community as a whole. Since not every concept can be a segment, it doesnt mean the project shouldnt have a place to live on the internet so it can blossom and thrive. You little blinky LED robot might not be a segment, but a writeup on it could inspire someone. BSoD is a good example of what I mean. To me, BSod is my every day hobby life in a tutorial form. Though many of my projects aren't "BSoD Worthy" I am often asked to explain/document my ideas, findings, and general rants. I think a BSoD Sandbox would be a great way to expand ideas that could attract more like minded people, and perhaps even lead to more people making segments.