Oct 2nd 2005
This Week in Tech 25
The Silver Anniversary Episode Is Ready
The silver anniversary episode is ready!
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 21:15 UTC.
Guests:
Cory Doctorow,
Alex Lindsay
- Happy 15th birthday to the Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Meeting DVD Jon aka Jon Lech Johansen
- The Million Dollar Home Page actually seems to work for IP Chicken.
- Serenity the movie is out, and awesome
- Gotta love those ACE remixes like The Shining as a romantic comedy
- West Side Story as a zombie flick
- and Titanic as a horror film
- Cory says Neil Gaiman's movie Mirrormask is amazing
- Thanks for the pens UneasySilence
- Google's free WiFi will be capped at 300kbps...
- Should Google agree to China's terms - we agree to disagree
- BitTorrent raises US$8.75 million and plans to go mainstream
- We rundown the top 10 from PC World's Top 100 products of 2005
- Forget the Seagate USB 2.0 pocket drive, La Cie's Carte Orange is prettier, cheaper, with twice the capacity - (I've got to get one now!)
- Cory and Leo are using greylistingto block spam - with mixed results
- MIT's $100 laptop
- Intel and Microsoft turn against HP, Dell, Apple, and Sony and endorse HD-DVD.
- Cory says All Complex Ecosystems Have Parasites
- Fight against the broadcast flag. Email your congress critter right now.
- Thanks to PFC Lubinski, the 3rd Dragoons and all the TWiTs serving our country.
- Audience Question: I'm an IT supervisor. How can I figure out what cool video my users are downloading?
- Monitor and decode the packets with Ethereal and look for the .torrent metafiles
- Audience Question: Will Adobe purchasing Macromedia crush options for web developers?
- Nah. Expect Freehand and GoLive to go away, but Illustrator and Dreamweaver will get better because of it.