Live now: MacBreak Weekly with Andy Ihnatko and Don McAllister. Guest: Paul Kent talking about Macworld Expo 2010. http://live.twit.tv Discuss here....
Apple could take that video and make a Mac ad out of it... with minimal editing.
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
I played around with the 27in iMac at the Apple Store today actually. Beautiful machine. You have to see it to understand how big it is.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
I love the Magic Mouse. Tried it today. Hope it gets a windows driver :)
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
Tease: this week on Macbreak Weekly: Dancing Microsoft store, a look at the new 27" imac, and Black Friday rumors.
- Leo Laporte
Leo: sorry I didn't post any stories today, just woke up. lol
- sunkenplanet
I am an international trade manager for a liquid nutrition and fertilizer company. How much does fertilizer run-off contribute to this?
- Johnny Worthington
Yet another ecological scourge may earn a place on the ever-lengthening list of problems associated with climate change: the formation of some types of so-called "dead zones"--marine expanses covering hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles that become too oxygen-starved during the summer to support most life forms. Armed with new analyses of Oregon's 2009 dead zone season, Jack...
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- Leo Laporte
Today we're talking with Oregon State University, Jack Barth... Physical oceanographer...High-resolution observation of jets and eddies over the continental shelf and slope and in an eastern boundary current region; modeling of wind- and buoyancy-forced coastal circulation.
- Leo Laporte
Fertilizer efficiency is a big issue, but sadly it's because of the high costs of raw materials rather than the ecological effects.
- Johnny Worthington
So dead zones are really the red flashing light saying 'Hey, something's not right'
- Johnny Worthington
1. Google Dashboard launches http://www.informationweek.com/news... Google introduced Google Dashboard, a Web page that provides a summary of the information Google users have stored online and a set of links for modifying data storage settings.
- Leo Laporte
Audible Pick: The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything UNABRIDGED By Guy Kawasaki Narrated by Paul Boehmer
- Leo Laporte
Audible Pick: 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before ColumbusABRIDGED By Charles C. Mann Narrated by Peter Johnson http://www.audible.com/adbl...
- Leo Laporte
Leo, have you talked about the Dell Inspiron Zino HD before? I just noticed it and I was thinking about getting one for my home theatre or even as my Adobe Lightroom / photography machine. Does it have enough grunt?
- Johnny Worthington
Apple isn't open enough to expose the hooks for H.264 acceleration to Adobe In Flash Player 10.1, H.264 hardware acceleration is not supported under Linux and Mac OS. Linux currently lacks a developed standard API that supports H.264 hardware video decoding, and Mac OS X does not expose access to the required APIs. We will continue to evaluate adding the feature to Linux and Mac OS in future releases. Still significant CPU acceleration gains over 10.0.x
- Leo Laporte
Windows performance is significantly better YouTube 720p - 64% to 15% YouTube standard - 20% to 12% Hulu Desktop - 75% to 38%
- Leo Laporte
devastated and sickened. no world cup again! France's entry into the World Cup = highway robbery at the expense of Ireland and poor officiating. Boo.
- Pam Gwenzi
Ryan comment was great about settlement of 1.25 Billion might help their quarter...
- Jim Turner
Problem with the settlement: The government agencies wont stop investigating Intel.
- Martin
Item 5: ASUS Windows Home Server TS Mini SOHO device Pic here: http://www.engadget.com/2009... Target audience: Small Office/Home Office users who need to store, share, back up, and synchronize data easily and securely Configuration: Intel Atom N280 based, runs on Microsoft Windows Home Server, free 500GB ASUS Web Storage,...
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- Leo Laporte
Gaming laptops are just stupid. Much better getting a CULV and a gaming desktop.
- Martin
Just get an Acer 1810TZ. Much better notebook. Core 2 Duo. 10 hours battery life.
- Martin
Item 6: ASUS and NVIDIA showcase new notebook with 3D Vision integration
- Leo Laporte
Item 7: ASUS EeePC 1201N Seashell Netbook sports NVIDIA ION chipset
- Leo Laporte
You're all in the same sinking boat, you may have different ideas on how to plug the holes but you are all still sinking :)
- Johnny Worthington
Allan, from what I can understand, BioPerl is a language that interfaces between the machines that do the sequencing and the programs that interpret that data. I think it's like a codec.
- Johnny Worthington
Normally I tune in and can catch on . but not today Whew!
- Allan Bunt
Item 1: Last week Microsoft patched an integer overflow vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows Embedded OpenType Font Engine (T2Embed.dll) when processing a web page embedding a malformed EOT file. Microsoft expects widespread exploitation of this flaw soon. http://www.vupen.com/exploit...
- Leo Laporte
2012 was not that good... eye candy... no story
- Rick
Item 1: NEWS Canadian high school is first in the world to announce the supply of Sony Readers in place of printed textbooks http://www.newswire.ca/en... Embracing the benefits of electronic reading, students at Blyth Academy are today beginning the transition from using traditional printed textbooks to digital textbooks read on the Sony(R)...
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- Leo Laporte
Item 2: Oxford English Dictionary's Word of the Year: Unfriend http://mashable.com/2009... Other tech words considered: hashtag – a # [hash] sign added to a word or phrase that enables Twitter users to search for tweets (postings on the Twitter site) that contain similarly tagged items and view thematic sets intexticated – distracted because texting on a...
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- Leo Laporte
Nasa dispels 2012 predictions with website http://www.nasa.gov/topics... Question (Q): Are there any threats to the Earth in 2012? Many Internet websites say the world will end in December 2012. Answer (A): Nothing bad will happen to the Earth in 2012. Our planet has been getting along just fine for more than 4 billion years, and credible scientists worldwide know of no threat associated with 2012.
- Leo Laporte
GUEST Ian Manheimer, CEO, Measy Inc Skype - TBD
- Leo Laporte
WEB APP http://snailmailr.com This is a fun but modest project that was started by a friend of mine: Enter Snailmailr. Keep in better contact with elderly relatives, send a special letter to a friend, write a landlord, or mail a resume and cover letter: a cheap, simple, faster way to do a common task
- Leo Laporte
Tease: Use the web to send snail mail, the Oxford English Dictionary word of the year, and NASA responds to 2012.
- Leo Laporte
The real iPhone killer will come from Android/Droid + YouTube + GoogleVoice + possible streaming music service(?) + Gmail + Google Docs
- Johnny Worthington
I like to watch the pre-game show and then turn it off and listen to the podcast when it comes out. Haha! I'm probably in the minority there, huh?
- Michael Kaiser
I'm pretty interested in a netbook running Android. I saw a video of an Asus Eee PC on the snapdragon chipset running Android & I was impressed.
- Jason Hansen
Cell phones that are locked require 3 yr contract in Canada plus additional fees.
- Greg
Well, hashtags make sense when using things like lost or #Lost... :)
- Holger Eilhard
hash tags started from IRC ... all rooms in IRC start with #
- z3cka
Tease: Gina lust over the Droid, Jeff joins Google's Data Liberation Front, and we'll show you how to find all your Google accounts in just one place.
- Leo Laporte
Droid sucks. A lot of people are drinking kool-aid over it.
- Fnord
Have you thought of covering other cloud services? amazon, Microsoft for example?
- USC Trojan
Make sure to vote for best Podcasts from Nov 13th - Nov 30th at - http://podcastawards.com/ Vote for all TWIT.TV shows (TWIT, TWIF, Security now, Daily Giz Wiz, Munchcast, Floss Weekly) also Tekzilla (PatrickNorton & Veronica Belmont) No Agenda & Cranky Geeks (John C. Dvorak) and GDGT.
- echostreamer
GOOD SHOWLEO every things ok way down in georgia yeh i love mw 2itss its got 2be a movie some day
- daveccorey
Sudheera, the schedule had to be changed due to travel plans for the hosts and they taped yesterday before twit. - the audio podcast should be released some time today (soon i think) - keep an eye on leo's friendfeed or the twitter.com/twit feed for the announcement of the release
- Chris Heath
Droid is way cool. I had to take the first one back because it kept rebooting. When I signed on to the new one it restored my background and apps. Way cool. Love the Droid.
- Kevin Clark
Live now: Dr Kiki's Science Hour with Kirsten Sanford and guest Kevin Mayeda of the University of California Berkeley's Seismological Laboratory on Earthquakes! http://live.twit.tv Discuss here...
Item 1: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Let's be serious, this is the only thing happening this week Never has a game so thoroughly lived up to the hype However: There is some controversy around the single player campaign Related: Microsoft bans up to 1 million players from Xbox Live for cheating
- Leo Laporte
Item 2: Windows 7 on a netbook It's fine. But it's still a netbook
- Leo Laporte
Item 3: Windows Mobile 6.5 It does not suck as much as you've been led to believe In fact, it's better than the iPhone in a few areas It's not nearly as good most of the time. Let's not get crazy
- Leo Laporte
Unpolished compared to the iPhone? How many years did it take them to add Copy/Paste to Android?
- Steve Mesik
You can't count iPhone apps by numbers, because half of them are nothing more than $4.99 "flashlights" that simply turn the screen white.
- Steve Mesik
You heard that the FB app developer stepped down because of apple?
- Holger Eilhard
from iPhone
HI good show listing from georgia on a suny day in november :)
- daveccorey
“My decision to stop iPhone development has had everything to do with Apple’s policies.” – Joe Hewitt
- Peter Costello
Audible pick of the week: Under the Dome by Stephen King "On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand is severed as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands in the...
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- Leo Laporte
Tip of the week: Get the latest Zune HD games First, download a minor Zune HD firmware update (v4.3) Then get access to 5 new games and one other app Some of the games are 3D Nothing major, but a nice bonus for Zune HD users
- Leo Laporte
He was just on with Michael Krasny yesterday... I wonder if he's in town...
- Ken Sheppardson
Y'all notice the notices at the bottom of the Droid commercials that say "Droid is a licensed trademark of Lucasfilm... used under license..."
- Ken Sheppardson
I think you should change the name of the show too ... "Report For Duty!" This title is more fitting with the topic discussed. LOL
- David Sanders
Question [ 1 ] - Mike in Baltimore, MD wonders about changing his SSH port daily: Every time you talk about SSH and port configuration I remember I want to ask this question: In addition to logging the SYN packet request, would changing the SSH open port number every day to a randomized port provide any additional security? My Linksys router running the Tomato firmware allows me to map...
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- Leo Laporte
Question [ 2 ] - Dana Rae Park in Kelseyville California declares self to be a "SNite head." Through Leo's radio program, I got turned onto Security Now ... and it is my favorite podcast. It took two weeks, but I finally downloaded every one of SN's 220 episodes! Steve, your reminiscing about old computers took me way way back when I was selling Apple IIs and IBM ATs. I had been out of...
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- Leo Laporte
Question [ 3 ] - Andrew DeFaria in Tempe, AZ offers some SSH tips... Here are some SSH tips you didn't mention: 1) Turn off username/password functionality. Use a Pre-shared SSH key only. 2) I put together a Perl script I call bice that scans the logs nightly looking for attempts to break in (of course they can't because they'd need a pre-shared key but try they do nonetheless) and...
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- Leo Laporte
Question [ 4 ] - Duane McElvain in Chicago, IL wanted some SSL clarification: Steve & Leo, In a previous episode, someone brought up the idea of using SSL on every web page, every time. This sounded brilliant to me and I believe your consensus was that while it's not necessary, it's a great idea. The drawback to that is that the sever overhead could be crippling for high-volume sites....
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- Leo Laporte
GOOD SHOW hi from a november day in georgia
- daveccorey
Question [ 5 ] - Jason M in San Diego raises an interesting point... Steve and Leo, thanks for the great podcast. I always look forward to seeing the latest episode pop up in my media player. I have to take slight issue with your justification of using public keys of 1024 bits, specifically that they will expire after usually no more than three years. That is true of the certificate --...
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- Leo Laporte
Question [ 6 ] - Paul Wilde in Bristol, UK feels that "Security Shouldn't Annoy The User"... Guys love the show, very informative. I'm in the UK and my bank - Smile - has just introduced two factor authentication with the addition of a card reader pin generating add-on. Great, I hear you say, but it's NOT, it's a big calculator sized thing that you have to have with you when you want to...
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- Leo Laporte
Question [ 7 ] - Jason in Rochester MN had a brainstorm... Hey Steve, I just got an idea while you were talking about port-knocking in episode 220. Since each port knock conveys one fewer than 16-bits of information, four port-knocks equals close to 2^64 combinations. (16 billion billion). But if someone happens to be *sniffing* the traffic during a valid knocking sequence, they would...
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- Leo Laporte
Question [ 8 ] - Michael OConnor of Oswego, IL shares his "Biometric Abuse" story of the week... Dear Steve and Leo, I'm flabbergasted! Like many married couples, my wife and I each have our own checking account in addition to our joint account from which we pay our bills. Every couple of weeks each one of us goes to our respective bank, withdraws some cash from our own account, and...
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- Leo Laporte
Tease: We've got the latest security news, including an SSL hack, plus eight great questions from you and Steve's answers...
- Leo Laporte
Bill Cheswick, co-inventor of the internet firewall gives an interesting talk on Rethinking Passwords. Since most of Bill's talks ( see http://web.cheswick.com/ches... ) are available as PDF files here's a slightly older version of his talk in video http://vimeo.com/6298970
- Peter Costello
great show - vote for it for the pod cast awards! podcastawards.com (Nov 13th)
- echostreamer
Does it require the 'assistance' of someone outside the 'tech-centric' community? Quite often when I speak to people about this, it is cast aside as 'a couple of geeks having a whine'
- Johnny Worthington
It seems like there is the content creators who wants their stuff out there, consumers who want to get that stuff and a massive puddle of mud in the middle
- Johnny Worthington
They all laughed at Christopher Columbus When he said the world was round They all laughed when Edison recorded sound They all laughed at Wilbur and his brother When they said that man could fly
- Mark
Yeah -- and we are all going to go back to using Lynx.
- Brian Sullivan
adobe can make a PDF viewer 200MB and five thousand files on the hard drive somehow
- Mark
When I use Spinrite I get an error "Division Overflow Error!" :(
- Mark
Funny I was just thinking about Security Now! today imagining Steve Gibson would be having a field day with the Twitter viruses etc.
- James Robertson
Audible Pick: More Information Than You Require UNABRIDGED By John Hodgman Narrated by John Hodgman, Dick Cavett, Jonathan Coulton, Zach Galifianakis, Ricky Gervais, Ira Glass, Robin Goldwasser, Rachel Maddow http://www.audible.com/adbl...
- Leo Laporte
351 NOW WNOW VEDIOS AND AUDIOS ON THAT MAKES NO CENTS
- daveccorey
I also "hate Adobe" especially Flash, but also anybody who installs crap with no opt-outs
- midnightgolfer
We should all stop driving too! We could get hit by another driver (that we have no control over) and get killed! I understand the need for caution with javascript and the like, but its not a life or death situation people, its a risk we all take while using the internet, just like driving. We could get killed in our cars at any moment, yet we all accept the risk. If you ask me, I'd...
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- Matt G.
Live now: This Week In Tech 220 with Leo Laporte, the LA Times Mark Milian, Frank Barnako, Tom Merritt, and Wil Harris. http://live.twit.tv. Discuss here....
Although it sucks, isn't the RIAA just doing it's job by protecting it's members. Our beef should be with the studios that support the RIAA. RIAA exists as an easy scapegoat and take heat from the studio's door
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
http://eff.org/action and pick the ACTA petition (some congresscritters require you to contact them via their site directly, make sure the eff sends to all three of your congresscitters, mine only sent to two) i then had to go and copy/paste the message into the third's contact form
- Chris Heath
Tease: Tom Merritt explains net neutrality using potato salad, the elusive Higgs Boson vs. the LHC, and these are the droids you're looking for.
- Leo Laporte
good show from a rainy day in georgia and what about hulu copy write lae\w issues
- daveccorey
this episode is curiously missing from the TWiT AAC iTunes feed.
- Chris Spiller
While you all are waiting to go on the air. A question for Jeff: What's really the common theme for your mediawonks-list on Twitter?
- Gabriel
They also weren't doing a browser, an OS and a phone OS
- Johnny Worthington
Discussing about Motorola Droid and other Andrioid related stuff today?
- Gideon Guillen
google sites are acting up for me at the moment :s
- Chriz
Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 3407872) (tried to allocate 30720 bytes) in /home/ginatrapani/completewaveguide.com/includes/parser/Parser.php on line 1101 on completewaveguide.com
- Atul Arora
"Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 1048576) (tried to allocate 491520 bytes) in /home/ginatrapani/completewaveguide.com/includes/DefaultSettings.php on line 2625"
- Don Bonaddio
The pitfall of fast media propagation, is not being able to properly verify the information propagated and its consequent risk of the spread of potentially inaccurate information...
- Ciro
GOOD SHOW HAAPY HOLLOW WEEN EVRY 1 TRICK OR TREAT
- daveccorey
Tease: Coming up on This Week in Google, Eric Schmidt predicts the web's next five years, a Google maps mystery, and Gina makes a big announcement.
- Leo Laporte
the published audio is only 30 minutes :( where's the rest?
- Tom
Inspiring Show! I every much enjoyed your show last week, TWIG: 14. From 54:45 to 57:45 your conversation reached into the higher levels of Maslow's Hierarchy. Public discussions like one (and much more in bits and pieces throughout) are both special and important. I believe that changes in our society have made inspired work much more accessible. When people do what they love and love...
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- timapatterson
GOOD SHOW every things a ok in georgia
- daveccorey
Live now: Dr. Kiki's Science Hour, talk with us via http://vidly.com/ using the #DKSH tag - 1. Thoughts on H1N1 and the vaccine issue? 2. Does science have a PR problem? 3. What is your favorite science experience? http://live.twit.tv. Discuss (or post links) here...
Some people are scared of getting the H1N1 vaccine because it was not tested a longer time, some people can't get it if they are allergy to a vaccine. I think another reason some are affair of the stories they have heard of other vaccine effects from the news. There is a short supply of the H1N1 in my area so it only going to kids and older people.
- Emery Walker
Ed Bott joins us to discuss Windows 7 upgrades ... and I think we finally have answers Upgrade scenarios and tips Feedback from Microsoft ... And some apologies
- Leo Laporte
I've heard that Microsoft only holds activation information for somewhere around 45-90 days. Any confirmation or truth to this?
- Steve Mesik
I wonder how much of Microsoft's revenue comes from the desktop OS vs Office, SQL Server, Exchange, etc. and what'd happen if they just gave away the OS...
- Ken Sheppardson
I remember the biggest fear was that Microsoft could remotely "deactivate" Windows and charge for continued use or require a recurring subscription payment.
- Steve Mesik
$5 Vista + 7 Upgrade < 7 Full. Sounds like a deal for PC builders
- Steve Mesik
Microsoft lowers prices on hosted Exchange To better compete with Google Apps Also improves the service
- Leo Laporte
Do we have any info yet on corporate adoption of Windows 7? Is the "wait for the first service pack" conventional wisdom still holding up this time around, or are institutions jumping on 7?
- Ken Sheppardson
Are we talking about Microsoft-hosted Exchange or third party hosting? I used to have third party hosting before I jumped to Gmail. Their pricing was (and still is) ~$10/mo pre user for a min of 3 users e.g. http://www.intermedia.net/exchang... What pricing's been lowered?
- Ken Sheppardson
Audible pick of the week: Googled: The End of the World as We Know It by Ken Auletta "In Googled, esteemed media writer and critic Ken Auletta uses the story of Google's rise to explore the inner workings of the company and the future of the media at large. Although Google has often been secretive, this book is based on the most extensive cooperation ever granted a journalist, including...
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- Leo Laporte
Tip of the week: Make the Windows 7 Upgrade media work every single time http://www.winsupersite.com/win7... Rundown of advice from Microsoft about installing with Upgrade media
- Leo Laporte
Software pick of the week: SkyDrive Explorer "SkyDrive Explorer is a free, easy-to-use, but very powerful extension for Windows Explorer. With SkyDrive Explorer you can make any every-day operations with your documents from Microsoft Live SkyDrive service using Windows Explorer, as if they were on your computer." Sort of. At least 25 people recommended this tool this week http://tinyurl.com/skydriv...
- Leo Laporte
Software pick of the week #2: Connectify Turn your Windows 7 laptop into a wireless hotspot Enables a feature that was supposed to be included in Windows 7 but was dropped Bad news: It doesn't work with all wireless hardware Thanks to Steve Moore for the tip http://www.connectify.me/
- Leo Laporte
Audible Pick: The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism UNABRIDGED By Ross King Narrated by Tristan Layton http://www.audible.com/adbl...
- Leo Laporte
Audible Pick: More Information Than You Require UNABRIDGED By John Hodgman Narrated by John Hodgman, Dick Cavett, Jonathan Coulton, Zach Galifianakis, Ricky Gervais, Ira Glass, Robin Goldwasser, Rachel Maddow http://www.audible.com/adbl...
- Leo Laporte
can you get the Rockband robot to level my Tauren Shamen (World of Warcraft) to level 80?
- echostreamer
Leo, in regards to FriendFeed and Robert's post, it's fair to say that he doesn't speak for the community nor is he a valid representation of a 'regular' user. If one person no longer finds value in a community, it does not mean that community is no longer valuable... Plus it was the Sunday after Halloween. Are we not allowed to have some fun?
- Johnny Worthington
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