Aug 22nd 2005
This Week in Tech 19
Episode 19 is In the Can
Episode 19 is available now from the following locations
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- Fighting blog spam with Typekey on Movable Type and captcha on Blogger
- Hunter S. Thompson's funeral - they blow up his ashes
- Dvorak reminisces
- Is Microsoft at fault for the Zotob virus?
- Monad is removed from Vista
- PCMag's video review of the Vista Beta is next week
- Would 12,000 people riot for a $50 four-year-old Dell?
- Watch the video
- John explained it all last week in Marketwatch
- Steve and I plan to try using Lulu to offer CDs of the Security Now podcast
- Mom was right: looking at porn (or violence) makes you blind
- Linus is trademarking Linux
- Dvorak reminisces about GNU founder Richard Stallman
- We owe him for free software and the GPL - thank you Richard, I promise never to make you sing again
- Google sells another $4 billion in shares
- Dvorak loves Jim Cramer's Mad Money
- Who's going to unseat Google? Teoma? Clusty? All the Web?
- What do they spend the money on? Google's free Wi-Fi network? IM?
- Why is Yahoo spending a billion on a Chinese venture?
- Steve says Google engineers say Yahoo works better
- Part of Google's success is aesthitic - we love the clean white page
- Kevin likes the new MSN Home Page - using Ajax
- Dvorak.org/home.htm is Dvorak's home page
- Now that we've reached widespread broadband access who needs text only pages
- The FCC's broadband definition is bogus
- Where is the fast DSL the telcos promised us?
- Is Cisco holding out on us with 100 mbit DSL?
- Norton's patching bad copper with a visegrip
- Verizon's FIOS is all for show
- Come to our first live show at the SF Apple Store, 9/4 at 4p - come for the TWiT pocket protector
- Kevin wants something cooler. Like a coin purse.
- We extend an invitation to Martin Sargent
- Shilo from Zanesville, OH is looking for free music for his podcast.
- Try opsound.org. Creativecommons.org.
- Jeffrey from the Netherlands asks about the future of user interfaces
- Dvorak says it's like the automobile, now that we know how to use computers they're not going to change
- Leo says Jef Raskin's Archy is very cool
- How about voice recognition? It's not going to happen says Dvorak
- Scansoft owns Dragon Dictate and ViaVoice.
- Kevin from ivroots.com asks about IPTV
- Dvorak's got a newsletter about it IPTVDaily.com
- Patrick is doing a weekly IPTV show with Ziff-Davis
- IPTV is already in place around the world in countries that don't have cable
- Sweden's got it
- MythTV and Akimbo are attempting to make IPTV more friendly
- Dvorak offers to sell TWiT to Infinity Radio for $5 million
- Andy in Phoenix asks whether John gets spam. Andy, John gets NO spam.
- Lucky Phil in Sydney needs a BitTorrent client that doesn't set off alarms with his ISP. Any suggestions?
- Kariand Les of the The Signal podcast love the Firefly theme song. We still hate it.
- Randall from Charlestown, WV says his federal job won't allow USB devices. Is there an MP3 player that doesn't use USB? Hmmm.
- Leo promises to annnounce the winners in our name contest next Sunday. Finally.
- Dvorak wants to give away his old cables at the live shows.
- All geeks have a cable drawer.
- Puffy wonders about Internet security suits. We say build your own from free software like: AVG Anti-virus or Antivir, Microsoft's anti-spyware, Spybot, and Adaware.