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Alternageek Episode 50: With Bells On

techmonkey — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:43:35 +0000

In this episode we have an update on Walmart DRM servers, we talk about TDS Telecom fighting public broadband, Comcast cable installation snafu, Verizon raising SMS rates, Verisign and ICANN DNS fight, Eee PC with touchscreen, Debian asking for help with Lenny, Clickjacking browser bug, “This Runs Linux”, Gmail Goggles add-on, Google Blog Search enhancements, a lean, clean Ubuntu machine, Nerd Girls, T-Mobile G1 emulator and the Hackles cartoon.

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Alternageek.com Podcast, Episode 50 for the week of October 13th, 2008 – Featuring Linuxchic and TechMonkey.

Alternageek Episode 49: Deja Vu Ditto

techmonkey — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:40:06 +0000

In this episode we get exuberant about the newly announced T-Mobile G1 Android phone. There are both good and not so good things about the G1 but overall we both would love to get one. We also cover AT&T temporarily reducing speeds for U-verse customers, RIAA-Jammie Thomas mistrial, Apple being not so nice to iPhone developers, Hollywood and ISPs forming a filtering coalition, photo mapping with Flickr bikes and Bejeweled coming to Warcraft.

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Alternageek.com Podcast, Episode 49 for the week of September 29th, 2008 – Featuring Linuxchic and TechMonkey.

Alternageek Episode 48: No One Is Laughing

techmonkey — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:11:28 +0000

…snickering maybe…

In this episode we have an update on the San Francisco network saga. We also talk about inquiries into rising text messaging rates, Apple app store rejecting a podcasting app, the latest Microsoft commercials, CERN’s big collider going online, installing Ubuntu games using Playdeb and the first beta of Google’s Chrome browser.

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Alternageek.com Podcast, Episode 48 for the week of September 15th, 2008 – Featuring Linuxchic and TechMonkey.

Alternageek Episode 47: Robotic Dreams

techmonkey — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:19:57 +0000

In this episode we talk about Comcast bandwidth caps, Veoh prevailing in infringement lawsuit, iPhone security flaw, RedHat security breach, RedHat Perl bug, Flash/Firefox bug, Google dropping features from Android SDK, Android Market, specs on the Android G1 phone, Internet Explorer 8 beta 2, Mozilla’s Ubiquity and SIMable cell phone unlocking device.

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Alternageek.com Podcast, Episode 46 for the week of September 1st, 2008 – Featuring Linuxchic and TechMonkey.

Alternageek Episode 46: Open Source For The Win

techmonkey — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:40:12 +0000

In this episode we talk about the videos we took at the LinuxWorld Expo conference, the recent VMWare 3.5 Update 2 issue, Vista security, a landmark legal decision for Open Source Licenses, Ohio suing Diebold (now Premier Election Solutions) over faulty voting machines, the 10 worst web glitches of 2008 (so far), EFF’s Switzerland ISP packet monitoring tool and T-Mobile offering the first Google Android phone.

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Alternageek.com Podcast, Episode 46 for the week of August 18th, 2008 – Featuring Linuxchic and TechMonkey.

Alternageek at LinuxWorld Expo – Day Two Review

techmonkey — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:37:56 +0000

Day two review update from the LinuxWorld 2008 exhibit floor

Check out our videos at Youtube and our photostream at Flickr.

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Alternageek at LinuxWorld Expo – Day One Review

linuxchic — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:22:47 +0000

Day one review including session and keynote updates, and discussion about the show floor featuring Installfest, zareason, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Canonical, the Free Software Foundation, and Splunk.

Check out our videos at Youtube and our photostream at Flickr.

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Alternageek Tech Show, Special Episode LW1 – Featuring Linuxchic and TechMonkey.

Alternageek Episode 45: Throttling Smackdown

techmonkey — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:06:27 +0000

In this episode we update you about the FCC deciding to lay some smackdown on Comcast’s P2P throttling, ISPs across the pond agreeing to throttle bandwidth of illegal filesharers, the recent DNS exploit in the wild, two controversial intellectual property bills being fused into one, network administration gone rogue in San Francisco and how passwords were made public, the newest release of IPCop, the Techcrunch Web Tablet project and safer Google mail with HTTPS.

We also address listener requests and talk about the Free Geek project and the difference between Gobuntu and gNewSense.

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AlternaGeek.com Podcast, Episode 45 for the week of July 28th, 2008 – Featuring Linuxchic and TechMonkey.

Alternageek Episode 44: SCO got Pwnd

linuxchic — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:30:45 +0000

A day late but with TechMonkey on vacation Linuxchic was left to dust off her mad editing skillz and had to remember how prep the show.

In this episode we update you on the latest antitrust charges being leveraged against Intel by the EU, SCO’s legal woes in the battle for Unix intellectual rights with Novell and what this all could mean for Sun, emails suggesting collusion between Nvidia and ATI, the new Linux MySpace PC, the availability of OpenMoko’s FreeRunner open source mobile phone, Google Android running on the Nokia N810, Google Android openness in question, the new T-Mobile Sidekick 2008. We talk about the DNS vulnerability that has everyone in a patch frenzy, discuss the new design on Last.fm, and review a new website, Twing.com.

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SCO Goes Down and Sun’s In Trouble Practical Technology
Linux Kernel 2.6.26 Brings Improvements LinuxDevices
Email Reveals Nvidia & ATI Colluded to Inflate Prices Gizmodo
The LinuxPC for Social Networkers (or at least MySpacers) DesktopLinux
Sick of the iPhone? Unboxing the FreeRunner from OpenMoko Holden’s Blog
Google Android, Not So Open After All? Ars Technica
T-Mobile Sidekick launching July 30th, no, it’s called the Sidekick 2008 The Boy Genius Report

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Last.fm - Social Music
Twing - A search for Forums and Communities

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AlternaGeek.com Podcast, Episode 44 for the week of July 21th, 2008 – Featuring Linuxchic and TechMonkey.

Alternageek Episode 43: Shenanigans!

techmonkey — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:08:38 +0000

In this week’s episode we talk about a location bar bug in FireFox, FCC slams Comcast filtering, backlash on Google storing IPs, NebuAD defends web tracking, release of the iPhone 3G and the ensuing “iPocalypse”, the Pirate Bay wanting to encrypt all Internet traffic and Best Buy selling boxed Ubuntu Linux. We also review Swurl a new social network aggregator and Grouply.Finally we talk about attending this year’s Linux World Expo out in San Francisco August 4th – 7th. We will be providing daily coverage and hope to have a chance to meet some listeners at the event!

*Update: At the time of recording we mentioned that a Last.fm app was not available from the iTunes App store. As of this post there has been one released and is a free download.Click here to download this episode in OGG format AlternaGeek.com Podcast, Episode 43 for the week of July 14th, 2008 – Featuring Linuxchic and TechMonkey.