Re: FW: [Web cast] Patterson "How to Have a Bad Research Career"

[Lloyd Lim <lim@bmrc.berkeley.edu>]

On Thursday 29 November 2001 02:35 pm, Norman, Skip wrote:
>Hello;
>
>I'm trying to get set up for the web cast mentioned below.  I
> downloaded the MASH software and installed it onto my Windows 98
> system, but receive now instructions on how to proceed from here. 
> How do I run it, configure it, and test it.  And how do I set it up
> for tonight's web cast?

Sorry, MBone users tend to assume that people who are going to tune in 
know how to use the MBone tools.  Obviously, this isn't true for new 
users.

Here are step by step instructions:

1. Start up nsdr.  It will ask for your name and phone number the first 
time you use nsdr.

2. The nsdr program displays announcements of ongoing multicast 
sessions.  The window will slowly fill with announcements as nsdr 
receives them from around the world.

3. If nsdr does not receive any announcements after a while, your 
Internet service provider probably does not support multicast.  You 
probably won't get this fixed in time for today's broadcast so you're 
out of luck.

4. You can click on any session announcement to see more information 
about it.  Look for "UC Berkeley Systems Seminar" and click on it.

5. In the "Program Info" window, you will see a list of applications.  
You should only try to run listings that begin with "vic" or "vat".  
The vic program displays multicast video.  The vat program plays 
multicast audio.  Click the Run button to the left of the vic and vat 
entries to watch/listen to the speaker video/audio.

(The seminar won't start for a while, but video of the room is 
currently going out.  No audio is being transmitted now.)

6. Look for the "UC Berkeley Systems Seminar - slides" and click on it.

7. Click the Run button for the vic entry.  Depending on the speed of 
your machine, you may or may not be able to receive the actual slide 
stream during the seminar.  If your machine is too slow, you can try 
muting the other video streams by clicking the mute checkbox.

(Currently, I'm sending out a small blue test screen on the slide 
session if anyone is testing their setup.  When the real slide stream 
starts up, I'll stop the blue screen.)

Hope that helps,
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Lloyd Lim   <lim@bmrc.berkeley.edu>
Open Mash   <http://www.openmash.org/>