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Systm episode #2 has been released for your viewing pleasure. Get your BitTorrent ready and remember to leave your BitTorrent clients running so Systm can be downloaded by others. I recoomend to use Azureus as your BitTorrent client.

Here’s what I got in the Systm newsletter. Make sure to subscribe.

From “The Systm Crew”

We are pleased to announce the release of Systm episode #2! This time
we feature a how-to on the popular open source based PVR software,
MythTV. MythTV brings you the ease-of-use of a TiVo and the flexibility
of a ReplayTV without any associated monthly service fees. We use the
bootable Linux-based OS, KnoppMyth, to demonstrate just how easy it is
to install, configure, and ultimately enjoy!

Don’t forget to download our first Systm episode, “Building A War Spying
Box,” if you haven’t done so already. It features the first ever
handheld auto-switching war spying device (links available at systm.org).

Episode #2 Links
(BitTorrent required for download – www.bittorrent.com):

Large Format
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(198 MB) Windows Media

http://www.prolexic.com/systm/vid2/systm–0002–mythtv–large.wmv.torrent

(198 MB) XviD

http://www.prolexic.com/systm/vid2/systm–0002–mythtv–large.xvid.avi.torrent

(191 MB) H.264 Quicktime

http://www.prolexic.com/systm/vid2/systm–0002–mythtv–large.h264.mov.torrent

(230 MB) Ogg Theora

http://www.prolexic.com/systm/vid2/systm–0002–mythtv–large.theora.ogg.torrent

Small Format
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(111 MB) h.264 Quicktime

http://www.prolexic.com/systm/vid2/systm–0002–mythtv–small.h264.mov.torrent

(120 MB) Ogg Theora

http://www.prolexic.com/systm/vid2/systm–0002–mythtv–small.theora.ogg.torrent

(98 MB) Windows Media

http://www.prolexic.com/systm/vid2/systm–0002–mythtv–small.wmv.torrent

(107 MB) XviD

http://www.prolexic.com/systm/vid2/systm–0002–mythtv–small.xvid.avi.torrent

Thank you for signing up for our mailing list and being patient while we
work out all the kinks in our workflow. We were unable to give our
newsletter subscribers an early release last episode, so we wanted to
make up for it this time.

Support Systm:

As many of you know this is now our full-time gig. Help support Systm
by purchasing a t-shirt http://www.systm.org/tshirts, or using the
PayPal donate button on http://www.systm.org

Thanks again,

-The Systm Crew

Hi everyone. I know there has been a few people waiting for me to post about this. I apologize for such a delay. I’ve been really busy at work and consulting work is crazy right now. I have one screen done and I wanted to do one more for this first theme. For now I’ll give it post and see what everyone has to say. I said I’ll make something and I will. The theme has the same look/feel as midgard-project.org, but I like it. It’s original and it works. I just wanted to achieve more with the orientation of the data presented. I have a better solution on I believe for the orientation of the data. I’ll try to do that soon. Anyways enough babble… here’s the mock up theme I’ve done.

Please send in your comments, suggestions or directions.

Hard on the heels of a lovely Episode 7, here’s Episode 8. I wanted to get this out before Steve Jobs WWDC speech on Monday, just in case we’re all wrong. Please excuse the sound quality, but to expedite delivery I used the plain Skype track, not our high quality tracks (that takes a lot more editing and mixing).

Taped June 6, published June 6 2005 @ runtime of 48 mins 05 seconds

Hosts:

Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Kevin Rose, Robert Heron, David Prager, Roger Chang, and John C. Dvorak

Topics:

We discuss Apple moving to Intel, WiMax, .XXX, and more.

Download Sources:

• adamsdesk.com
• BitTorrent seeds
• TWiT mirrors

Original Source: This Week In Tech

Hi everyone. I’ve decided that I’m going to be a mirror for the podcast show TWiT (This Week In Tech). For now you will be able to download the podcast directly in MP3 format. I’ll see about possibly making a specific mirror for TWiT via a RSS feed later. You can learn further about TWiT by reading my blog entry, Favorite Podcasts / Video Shows.

Taped June 2, published June 4 2005 @ runtime of 59 mins 6 seconds

Featuring:

• Leo Laporte
• Patrick Norton
• Kevin Rose
• Robert Heron
• Yoshi DeHerrera
• Dan Huard

Topics:

• Using our new high fidelity recording technique
• Sharp Aquos 45″ 1080p LCD TV
• Patrick Shoots for a Darwin Award
• Bad Caps? http://badcaps.net
• The best recall ever
• Leo buys a tablet PC (HP tc4200) and he likes it
• Robert says he prefers the IBM T40
• We talk about ideal screen resolutions
• DSL price wars
• DSL versus Cable modem
• Kevin talk about the madness of the systm launch
• 800 people in IRC
• Prolexic to the rescue
• How DDoS attacks work
• NTT swallowed Verio
• Kevin estimates 60,000 downloads - that’s about six terabytes
• Batman Begins looks better than Star Wars
• Kevin’s Blog moves back to Typepad
• Kevin’s last day at G4
• Hacker blackmail
• Viagra
• Trackerless BitTorrent
• Hiding your IP on BT
• iPhantom versus Anonymizer for anonymity
• Dan Huard says hello
• Dan and Kevin are coming home
• Yoshi has a new job doing special effects
• TWiT Action Figures on ThinkGeek?
• Microsoft’s newest Longhorn feature: bye bye My
• PC Gaming
• Pentium D vs AMDs X2
• Latitude keyboard
• IBM notebooks
• Lenovo takeover
• MPAA puts video cameras up in downtown LA
• Hacking security cams
• Star Wars
• Kevin on Call for Help

Download Sources:

• adamsdesk.com
• BitTorrent seeds
• TWiT mirrors

Original Source: This Week In Tech

This is quite shocking news. Microsoft is actually claiming they are going to adopt the XML file format in the up coming Microsoft Office 12 (expected in 2006) applications. Too top it off even further Microsoft is going to be publishing the XML Open Format on a royalty-free basis to the industry. I hope this is going to happen exactly as it’s stated. This is great news for everyone. Finally decent file format that produce a file 75% smaller then Office 2003. Finally interoperability customers have been asking for, for years. This is also great news for other third party developers. Support for Microsoft’s file format should be possible to be very close if not 100%.

Source: The Register - Microsoft adopts XML for Office formats

I was surfing today and came across this online flash game called “Student Survivor”. The game is very similar to “The Sims”. The objective to the game is to keep your health, social life and academics up to keep the virtual character happy. You have to balance your money as well. One major difference in this game is you do not use your mouse to control the character. You have to use keywords to tell the virtual student what to do. Sometimes the student will not listen. Down side, there is advertising around the game. I don’t recall ever sewing any in the game directly.

Source: Student Survivor

Oh this has to be the coolest DIY project I’ve found yet. This one I’m definitely trying. Now I just need to locate our old cordless telephone and buy a soldering iron. In this project Christoffer Jarnaker shows how one can take a old cordless telephone and turn it into a telephone that can be used to talk voice over the Internet using for example Skype, Team Speak, Netfone, etc. and not be tied to your computer. A very cool but experimental project. Saying this I mean that the instructions are not an exact science unless you are able to get your hands on the exact same cordless telephone Christoffer used. If I end up doing this project I’ll document it and let everyone here know how I was able to achieve it or not :-).

Source: How to Build a Skype Phone

It’s amazing what designs one can come up with by stacking coins. We’ve all done it I’m sure at one point or another but no where near the level this guy has done coin stacking without any glue. He’s just using the weight of the coin to hold everything together. Apparently he is not the only one doing this. There is also a page on people that have done coin stacking themselfs and have sent pictures in.

I’m came across this article posted by liskl on how to DIY install of an inverter to provide 110v jacks in your car. This is a cool DIY project and would be interesting to try out some day. I just wonder what the impact is of doing this on your alternator.

Source: DIY: 110v Power Jacks In Your Car

Sarah Lane uncovered this cool eye color calculator online. Since it’s so unique I had to blog about it and let you all know about it. Check it out, Eye Color Calculator.