As many know, HAL 9000 is a thinly veiled satire about the IBM 9000 mainframe computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey. HAL is difficult, touchy, and malignant in the film. I took the future Mrs. Jackson to the movie and we enjoyed the slo-mo graphics, the difficult computer, and the music.
I use HAL graphics in teaching and almost everyone knows what I am kidding about.
Now - the main point. IBM took over Ustream and stopped supporting the software we use. That change happened three years ago.
We need our own encoder to use with the IBM tool for distributing the video live.
You may recall that we had some fussing not long along when all the files were gone and then came back again. We straightened out the payments and everything was fine.
