This Week In Tech ep. 17
August 8th, 2005 Posted in General |
Sorry about the sound quality - but there are only four more hybrid TWiTcasts then all of us will be together and the audio quality should be markedly better. We’ll taping before a live audience (that’s you!) at Noonan’s Bar and Grill in Larkspur California just a couple of blocks from the SF-Larkspur Ferry every Sunday at 4p starting September 18.
The Torrents are seeded, or use the Dijjer link for P2P. The AOL link will go live soon.
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Kevin “TV Makes You Smarter” Rose, Roger Chang, Robert Heron, Steve Gibson, and John C. Dvorak
Topics:
* FCC says Bells can close their networks to other ISPs
* “Sell outs!” cries Dvorak
* Are they or aren’t they? Is Apple using TPM the technology formerly known as Palladium.
* Dvorak says it’s a dead end - Apple should sell the OS separately anyway
* Will the Treo 670 run PocketPC not Palm?
* Steve is keeping six Tungstens in deep freeze in case Palm discontinues them
* In search of the perfect keyboard - the key is the Alps switch as found in the Avant Stellar and Matias Tactile Pro.
* Apple’s $50 Mighty Mouse is hard to get, but probably not worth the trouble.
* What’s dumber than the OQO?
* Paul Allen’s OQO clone the Flipstart.
* What’s Palm Founder Jeff Hawkins up to next? Voice recognition?
* Kathi from Germany asks how soon is Microsoft going to die?
* Michael from Las Vegas wants to get audio files working on SuSE Linux. Get the OSS drivers and use XMMS.
* We won the People’s Choice Podcast Awards. We accept at the Podcast Expo, November 11 in Ontario, California. Thanks for your votes!
* Jay aka TwitCommander from Boston asks about the Pogo Radio Your Way
* Just buy a Radio Shark from Griffin
* Brian from Hoboken, NJ asks about Ruby on Rails. Odeo is in ROR.
* PHP is not dead yet. Look for a PHP net framework from Silver Orange
* Jay from San Francisco on how to safely create an open Wi-Fi access point for the Pragers of the world
* OpenWRT is one way but check your ISPs License agreement
* Brian in Pittsburg asks about x86 open source ports and Apple.
* David in Houston Texas is looking for a combo DV cam and digital still camera.
* Dvorak recommends the Samsung DuoCam
* Too bad about Foveon.
* Check out the new JVC Everio line - 5 megapixels and 3CCDs
* Amy from Australia asks about cracking Audible’s DRM. Kevin says he has, but he can’t remember how - good thing because Patrick is worried about getting sued. Jhymn won’t work.
* Thanks to Andrew Leyden for the link to the map of podcasts.
* The Sony Libre is the only epaper solution on sale right now.
* Leo’s been listening to David McCollough’s 1776 on Audible…
* …and reading Steven Baxter’s Evolution and Coalescent.
* Dvorak loves the Firefly DVD - wait ’til Serenity!
* Steve Gibson compressed the entire set into 2GB using DiVX and the PocketPC Player
* The Toronto Meetup featuring Leo, Kevin, Amber, Andy and Alex Albrecht is August 11, 7:30pm at No Regrets in Libertyville.
* And we’re going to start taping TWiT in front of a live audience at Noonan’s Bar and Restaurant in Larksput Landing, California, starting September 18 at 4p.
* Mark Mark Mark hates the echo in Episode 15
* And that’s one of the reasons we’re going to a live taping
* Chris from Sherman Oaks asks what are the downsides to buying an iBook?
* They’re not so good for gaming.
* Leo plays World of Warcraft on his Powerbook
* Robert is waiting for Age of Empires III
* Rick from Redmond, WA asks for wireless router brand recommendations
* No to Linksys (despite the new security button)
* We all agree that the Belkin Pre-N is the way to go
* Any Airgo based Pre-N should do you well, low latency, extreme distance, and 100Mbps throughput
* Belkin has an easy setup routine - the best Dvorak’s ever seen
* Kevin likes the Netgear routers
* Michael is looking for a good cell phone
* Verizon hasn’t enabled music on the LG 8100 yet.
* PIM cell phone hacking software
* Leo likes his Sidekick II
* Steve and John like the Motorola Razr
* Mike with the NYPD is looking for a program that does partial word searches in Word documents
* We like X1, but you might try Yahoo’s Desktop Search - it’s the same software.
* Dvorak was having problems with Blinx
* We hate Plaxo.
* Jefferson from Curacao (aka Ghetto Cash) wants to know if the Dell Ultrasharp can be used for TV and PC.
* Kevin loves the Dell LCDs and Kevin and John love MythTV for video recording.
* Robert is a Snapstream guy.
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