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Hi, I'm Computer Science undergraduate at The University of Cambridge, England. I'm currently writing a dissertation on using Vorbis for "Receiver Driven Layered Multicast". This uses a similar idea to bitrate peeling to create a multicast audio stream where the client can pick the bitrate by receiving a subset of the multicasted layers. I will be happy to release some code/talk about it after m...

I am trying to create the perfect development environment for rails and i dont know exactly which way to go. Do i create a windows environment or a *nix environment. If i go *nix, what distro is best suited for rails. I would be using mysql, so that would come in to play. If i go *nix, i would use apache. Any ideas for the right environment would be greatly appreciated. I guess the major choice is