Podcasting What Geeks Really Want To Hear

Hans Rieser, namesake of RieserFS, was arrested today for the murder of his wife. (previous story)

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.

Contrasting to RFID–which is essentially storing a key into some database which contains data–the idea here is attaching the digital information to the physical thing–for example, a digital version of a document woven into the paper of a hardcopy.

Episode 43 Urls & Notes (MP3) (AAC)

• Frappr map at 100 users
• Hak.5 USB Switchblade
• Zune vs new iPods vs Creative
  • MicroSoft Zune (Engadget)
  • New iPods
  • Creative Vision W
  • 24k Gold iPod Nano
  • YouTube Zune video
  • Microsoft Zune uses 802.11b and g
  • Zune Viral DRM
• RIAA & CDRs
• iTV, Media Center, MythTV, DVRs, DVD recorders, etc.
  • iTV (Macworld)
  • Codec Comparison
  • Official MythTV site
  • mt-daapd Project
  • IOData AvelLink Player2
  • K-Lite Codec Pack
  • Comparison of Display Technology
  • iTV (Engadget)

The house of Hans Rieser, namesake of RieserFS, is being searched for his estranged wife’s body.

Episode 42 URLs & Notes (MP3) (AAC)

• DSL Discussion
  • Broadband Speed tests
  • Dynamic DNS
    • Direct Update
  • Nem had bad luck with the Linksys EG008W – 8 port Gigabit switch
  • Computer networking (Wiki)
  • It’s the Latency, Stupid
  • Token Ring
  • Ethernet
  • Carrier Sense Multiple Access (Wiki)
  • A Crash Course on Network Bandwidth Metrics? (Slashdot)
• Asus WL-700gE WiFi Router: Built-In 160GB Drive, iTunes, and Bittorrent
  • ASUS screen shots, torrent review
  • ASUS GPL firmware source code
  • Sharp Zaurus
  • Ethereal
  • Official ASUS link
• Host security – Social Engineering, the USB Way
  • Disable AutoRun on Windows
  • U3 USB drives…
• myTunes strips iTMS DRM
  • myFairTunes6 v.0.2b – Windows C Port of QTFairUse6
  • FairUse4WM strips Windows Media DRM
    • Slashdot: MSFT DRM issues
    • Slashdot: How to tell if your patched and can’t rip your DRM out of your files

This tool needs to come standard. It looks for mentions of an attachment in your email, and notifies you if you haven’t actually attached anything, thus eliminating the follow-up “Oh, here’s the attachment I said I’d send you” email. (I did this yesterday, in fact.)

I don’t know anyone who doesn’t need this.