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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 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.

Alternageek Episode 26: gOS 2.0 Rocket & KDE 4

linuxchic — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:02:52 +0000

In episode 26 of the Alternageek Tech Show Linuxchic reviews gOS 2.0 Rocket that was released last week and CodeNinja gives a review on KDE 4. The episode is also chock full of opinion on the latest FCC investigations into BitTorrent traffic shaping by Comcast, AT&T’s announcement that net neutral may not be the way to play and the Gizmodo antics at CES.Links:

Click here to download this episode in OGG formatAlternaGeek.com Podcast, Episode 26 for the week of January 14th, 2008Featuring Linuxchic, TechMonkey & CodeNinja Podcast also available at:Techpodcasts.com:techpodcasts.comandMy Odeo Channel (odeo/5461d19991df79ec)