The Coding Weasel

In what I laughingly refer to as "my spare time" I do lighting and sound for an amateur theatre company. The current play (plug: come see it - it's really, really good) has some fairly major tech behind it - particularly for a small amateur theatre ...

Well, by "journalism" I mean "reprinting a press release". Normally this sort of thing would be over at my other place, but since it's open source related, I figure it can go here.
I'm referring to this piece on the site itwire.com.au, which is a straight rewrite of a press release....

Courtesy of Daniel, I got a betatest account for The Venice Project, the latest project from the folks who gave us Kazaa and then Skype. This is their attempt to do to TV what Skype does to phone calls.
So what is it? It's a peer-to-peer system for distributing full quality on demand streaming television over the internet....

Bruce 1.2 is out. This is the version resulting from the work Richard and I both did while preparing our talks for OSDC a month ago, and means you can run the presentations I linked to earlier, without needing to grab the SVN version of the code.
It works on MacOS X, Unix, and Windows - but note that some bits, such as SpawnPage and ShellInterpreterPage won't work currently on Windows. If someone wants to contribute patches to make these work (it shouldn't be hard - I just don't have a need or...