My interest has been piqued by netpd and a bunch of us here have been playing with it. It's pretty fantastic --- there's only one caveat, which is that the netpd server crashes and pretty easily at that. I've seen the netpd.org server crash a bunch of times now. I downloaded and installed the server patch on an ubuntu Gutsy machine and that crashes similarly. I looked at the patch --- nothing too complex. I suspect there is nothing wrong with the patch itself.
I'm suspecting the problem is with netserver, written by Olaf Matthes . I suspect this because netsend~ and netreceive~ crash in my use in similar ways to what I am seeing now with netpd --- Olaf Matthes wrote those too. I was wondering if anybody could confirm or refute that netserver is what is crashing netpd. It would be great if we fixed this. In general I think we have a problem with some externals involving network communication and if we fixed this in several of the externals maybe we would solve a bunch of problems at once. I might be up for a shot at it myself.
-John
P.S. Some of us tuned in for the netpd jam that we thought happens every Thursday at 22:00 CEST. Nobody was there except us. Is this just old outdated info? http://www.netpd.org/Schedule