TWiT Episode 0019 August 21, 2005

Title: TWiT Episode 0019 August 21, 2005

Description: Hosts: Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Kevin Rose, Steve Gibson, Roger Chang, and John C. Dvorak * 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 IPTV Daily.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.Running time: 1:15:16

Format: 64Kbps MP3

Share it? No Remix it? No Use commercially? No