Podcasting What Geeks Really Want To Hear

Welcome to the new Geek Muse blog!

We’re done with Simple PHP Blog, although it has served us well over the last year and half. We’re now using WordPress via DreamHost. Things should be much faster and there will hopefully be less blog spam. I’ve moved over a bunch of the old entries; however, comments did not transfer. Speaking of comments, you must now get an account with the Geek Muse blog before you can post comments. It’s fairly painless and will help us keep down on spam.

I’m looking forward to working with the new blog (as I can now use Ecto and other blogging tools) and I hope that our little blog will get a little more use out of us, as well as all of our listeners.

Episode 47 URLs & Notes (MP3) (AAC)

• 2nd Gen MacBooks
• RadTech
• MAKE: Blog: How it’s made – Laser etching Powerbooks
• Modding
• Zune
• UMG fee
• Zune Marketplace’s Absurd Pricing Scheme
• Playlist: Report: Apple, Beatles close to iTunes deal
• CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Avoid the loony Zune
• WheresJames Startup Manager
• Zune and iPod Photo Comparison
• Study questions popularity of iPod video
• Kawasaki 7″ Universal LCD Monitor
• Zune Video?
• Zune Ugly Truth #1: Media Center Video Synchronization
• DVD to Zune
• Google: Zune Video Converter
• How To Bypass The Zune’s WiFi Sharing DRM – Gizmodo
• Durabrand 7″ Car DVD Player, PVS-1371
• Insignia Widescreen LCD
• Sun Opens Java
• MS Employees & iPod?
• Apple – iPod
• Creative MP3 Players
• Virtualization
• Parallels, Inc.
• VMWare Player
• VMWare (Wiki)
• Virtual PC (Wiki)
• VMWare server product comparison
• VMWare desktop product comparison
• VMWare server datasheet (PDF)
• Dr. Paul Juell

Awesome. Using the physics of sound to create a audio spectrum analyzer using fire.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyIphO4Ypoo&mode=related&search=

Episode 46 URLs & Notes (MP3) (AAC)

• Voting
  • Hacking Democracy (HBO)
  • Punchscan.org
• Tivo-like device records web and FM audio and converts to MP3
  • Tunatic
  • RDS: Radio Data System (Wiki)
• Spanning Sync
• Seagate builds encryption into the drive itself
  • Tivo
  • more Seagate encryption
• BladeFrame EX from Egenera
• Running .Net applications on Linux (and Mac) with Mono
  • What is .NET
• Menu Master
  • GIMP
  • Unsanity
  • EZ Macro

Episode 45 URLs & Notes (MP3) (AAC)

• Today is Mole Day!
• IE7 releaased
  • Firefox 2.0 Released
  • openSUSE
• Visa cuts off AllOfMP3.com
  • Visa & MasterCard Stop Accepting Transactions from AllofMP3
  • Music for the Masses
• Sun’s Data Center In A Box kit
  • PVM – Parallel Virtual Machine
  • MPI – Message Passing Interface
  • Black Box Scenarios
• scrybe
• Favorite Apps
  • Ethereal (Nem)
  • Smoothwall (Chris)
    • ClamAV – Server Anti-Virus
  • <oXygen/> XML editor – XML Editor & XSLT Debugger (Travis)
  • Firefox Web Developer Extension (Ludvik)
  • iShowU (Nem)
    • CamStudio (SF)
  • TCPView (Chris)
  • Wireshark (Nem)
  • Snapz Pro (Ludvik)
  • Pinpoint (Ludvik)

Episode 44 URLs & Notes (MP3) (AAC)

• Not November, September – Sorry!
• Zune Viral DRM – Not quite true
  • iRiver
• University Podcasting
  • iMovie
  • Pinnacle Studio
  • Avid Free DV Editor
• Podcast is ours – Apple
  • Trademark (Wiki)
  • Leo Laporte wants everybody to use ‘netcast’ instead
• Vista RC 2 Released
  • IE 7 to be released soon
  • Time Breakdown of Modern Web Design
  • Sending XHTML as text/html Considered Harmful
• E-mail from Aaron – Internet Radio
  • RadioLover
  • RipCast
  • SHOUTcast
  • indienow.com
  • Smooth Jazz
  • Sirius Satelite Radio
  • 2600 Magazine
  • Icecast.org
  • Rogue Amoeba
    • Nicecast
    • Audio Hijack Pro
    • Fission
  • Fair Use

At first, though this struck me as a bad idea, I couldn’t exactly point out what it was. Then it hit me: You forgot about how often one has to pick up a mouse. (Maybe they could put a deactivating button on the side, so you don’t pick it up and move it, you just hold a button and move it.)

The server config file is well documented and you can even set up another config file for playlists, using a smart playlist-like syntax.

The only other problem that I see right now, is that I can’t change the password used for access. If I do, iTunes just freaks out – it doesn’t ask me for a new password. This is likely a problem with the code being written for iTunes 6 and using it with iTunes 7.

Anyways, here’s a little screenshot from my Mac Mini, showing my windows box (first entry) and my Solaris box (second entry) with some of my defined playlists.

I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

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I’ve created a ZIP archive (11 Mb) of all of the high(er) res PNGs from this site. You can grab it here – Nem

For anybody that’s tried to explain to a layman how BitTorrent or almost any other P2P protocol works, here’s a nice little Java app that can show them visually. I suggest a single seed a two clients (hit ‘s’ once and ‘+’ twice) for simplicity sake.