Thanks Again, Scott!
Scott Redmon, artist extraordinaire, sent me a 1st Anniversary celebration header for the Blog! Thanks, dewd!
Month: June 2006
Dr. Bill Podcast #40 – “Dr. Bill Dare’s to be Stoopid!”
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Dr. Bill Podcast – 40 – (06/10/06)
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One year of Blogging! 40 episodes of Podcasting… and Dr. Bill dares to be “stoopid” in the process! Lot’s of corrections, but as long as we are daring to be stupid, it is OK!
Weird Al’s “Dare to Be Stupid!”
Geek Software of the Week is Kaxy: A Web Proxy to “anonymize” your Web time! Dr. Bill PLEADS for contributions of Geek Software of Week nominees and Geek Culture, a Bill in Congress that if is passed this week will take away our “fair use” rights to listen to music! Discussion of MythTV and a comparison with Beyond TV for Windows by Snapstream… very cool stuff! Another feature that we were waiting for in Vista bites the dust! What WILL we finally get in Vista? Ethereal changes its name to “Wireshark.” Remember, DARE TO BE STOOPID!!!
Ethereal Changes Name to “Wireshark”
The well known Open Source Packet Sniffer “Ethereal” is now known as “Wireshark!”
Ethereal Changes Name to “Wireshark”
“Gerald Combs, founder of the Ethereal project — billed as the world’s most popular network protocol analyzer — caused a flurry of excitement among users and developers Wednesday when he announced on the Ethereal developers mailing list that he was changing jobs, moving to a new location, and taking the project and its core developers with him as he leaves.”
This Blog: One Year Anniversary!
Today is officially one full year since starting this Blog! Wow! We have come a long way in one year! We now have not only the Blog, but the Podcast, and I am actually considering a VODcast (Videocast, Vlog… take your pick.) We have become part of the Techpodcasts.com Network, and we have (as of today) 27 folks from around the world that have put a pin in our Frappr map (so far!)
So… time has marched on, and I trust that you have found my musings entertaining and informative! Let’s go boldly into the next year!
Another Vista Feature Dead in the Water
Will the “next generation” Windows only look better than XP? Will that be it’s only “claim to fame?” Well, maybe that, and it is sounding like it will be a bit more secure… which is good. But, the P2P synchonization of data feature is now dead, much like the WINfs file system died.
Another Vista Feature Dead in the Water
It sounds like they are having real trouble with this one. Delays, and more delays, now this. Hummmmm… will they make their new timetable to release work?
MythTV has the Virtue of Being Free… but THIS is Interesting…
OK, I am a HUGE Open Source supporter… and I would recommend “playing” with MythTV to do a totally free open Source Digital Video Recorder… BUT, this actual “buy-it-and-pay-for-it” product looks interesting if you want a “polished” product and don’t want to spend an “arm and a leg” on it! In fact, the bundles with the hardware are about as cheap as the hardware alone!
Hummm… a “bundle” of the TV tuner card and this software… a Father’s Day present for the man who has everything, but is a die-hard geek? I can dig it!
Sign me up for the Snapstream Beyond TV dual tuner model… dewd!
If This Bill Passes, It Will Change the Way That You Listen to Music
And, not for the better! Talk about an appropriate post for “06/06/06!” Evil!!!
“Congress goes into summer recess Friday, but not before considering the Section 115 Reform Act of 2006 (SIRA). Never heard of SIRA? That’s the way ‘Big Copyright’ and their lackey’s want it, and it’s bad news for you. Simply put, SIRA fundamentally redefines copyright and fair use in the digital world. It would require all incidental copies of music to be licensed separately from the originating copy. Even copies of songs that are cached in your computer’s memory or buffered over a network would need yet another license. Once again, Big Copyright is looking for a way to double-dip into your wallet, extracting payment for the same content at multiple levels. Today, so-called ‘incidental’ copies don’t need to be licensed; they’re made in the process of doing *other* things, like listening to your MP3 library or plugging into a Net radio station. If you paid for the MP3 and the radio station is up-to-date with its bookkeeping, nobody should have to pay again, right? Not if SIRA becomes law. Out of the blue, copyright holders would have created an entire new market to charge for — and sue over. Good for them. Bad for us.”
The Worse Bill That You Have Never Heard Of
Let your congress-critters know how you feel about this one!
Geek Software of the Week: Kaxy
Wanna be a spy? Wanna sneak around and have no one be able to trace you? Are you freaked out by the NSA? Well, you probably shouldn’t be so concerned, dewd, but if you are, here’s a cool free service that will “anonymize” your surfing, so that no one can trace what you are surfing back to you.
Using the free Kaxy Web Proxy service, you can Google info, and no one can trace back to you. Why would you want this ability? Ahhhh, don’t ask me… but if you do, now you know. Shhhhh! I am sneakin’ around! Be vewry, vewry quiet! I’m huntin’ wabbits!
Addendum: Adam Wenner pointed out in a comment to this post that the EFF has a project called “Tor” that allows for anonymous surfing (and more) as well. Check out that link:
Thanks, Adam!
Dr. Bill Podcast #39 – “The Palindrome Version”
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Dr. Bill Podcast – 39 – (06/03/06)
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Intro, eWeek has an article comparing Vista with OpenSUSE 10.1!, Internet2 Gets Gigafast-er! Would you believe 800 GIGAbytes per second!?!?!, Microsoft Officially Launches it’s “Live OneCare” Service, now they can charge us for THEIR problems, What is YOUR Level of HTML Knowledge?, The First StarOffice/OpenOffice Virus!, A “Notebook” for the Geek Who Has Everything! The Dell XPS M2010, Geek Culture from “Weird Al” Yankovik, a takeoff on a song by Bob Dylan, he made the video to look just like Bob Dylan’s video, but the whole parody song is done in palindromes! Wild!
A “Notebook” for the Geek Who Has Everything!
OK, “notebook” is stretching it! It has a 20” screen after all! And, it weighs in at 20 lbs.! Zowie! But what a geek machine!
Slide Show of the Dell XPS M2010
“The M2010 will be configurable with mobile Intel Core Duo processors, all the way up to a T2600 (2.16Ghz) CPU. The minimum RAM available will be 1GB, and an ATI Mobility Radeon X1800 graphics board will also come standard. Outfitted with a big 12-cell battery, according to Dell the machine should last about 3 hours on a single charge. Prices will start at $3,500.”
Wow.