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Hi folks. I apologize for the down time of posts. My hosting provider was having load balancing issues that was not anticipated. However everything I believe is now resolved and I’m back here doing blog entries. Here’s a quick recap of the missed TWiT episodes which if you have not listened to yet make sure you do now.

Episode #9 - June 19, 2005

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Kevin Rose, and Robert Heron
Topics:

• Windows Updates - should they be daily or monthly?
• Burning in Gaming Machines
• To Update or Not to Update Drivers
• and so many more topics

Running Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
Download Sources:

• This Week in Tech - Feedburner Feed
• BitTorrent seeds - high quality
• The Official TWiT Mirrors Page
• TWiT mirrors

Episode #10 - June 20, 2005

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Robert Heron, David Prager, and Yoshi DeHererra
Topics:

• Server woes
• Good, Cheap, or Fast - pick any two
• Yoshi’s new job at Gentle Giant Digital
• Firmware 1.5 for Sony PSP
• and so many more topics

Running Time: 58 minutes 58 seconds
Download Sources:

• This Week in Tech - Feedburner Feed
• BitTorrent seeds - High Quality
• The Official TWiT Mirrors Page
• TWiT mirrors

Episode #11 - June 27, 2005

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Robert Heron, David Prager, Roger Chang and special guests, Jessica Corbin, Chris Pirillo, and Andy Walker
Topics:

• Server woes
• Good, Cheap, or Fast - pick any two
• Yoshi’s new job at Gentle Giant Digital
• Firmware 1.5 for Sony PSP
• and so many more topics

Running Time: 1 hour 18 minutes
Download Sources:

• This Week in Tech - Feedburner Feed
• BitTorrent seeds - High Quality
• The Official TWiT Mirrors Page
• TWiT mirrors

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
————-
(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

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

I’ve been meaning to blog about my favorite podcasts and video shows I watch/listen online. Since I’ve become quite a big fan of these types of broadcasts for entertainment and learning I thought I should pass this along to as many people I can. Podcast or podcasting in general is a way of publishing audio files via the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed and receive new audio files automatically using a podcast application. For a good in depth explanation of what a podcast is check out Wikipedia on Podcasting. Video shows or Internet TV or dot TV are just shows done by the general public and released via the Internet for free to watch. Here’s my favorites that I check on a regular bases. Heck this content is better then any content you’ll find on television or the radio at least from my perspective.

Favorite Podcasts

Note: Each podcast is usually provided in MP3 format and provided for download via direct download or via BitTorrent. Therefore you will require a media player such as Winamp and a BitTorrent client such as Azureus. Additional application to help manage and subscribe to podcasts you can use a podcast client such as iPodder.

This Week in Tech (TWiT)

Former G4/TechTV hosts Leo Laporte, Kevin Rose, Patrick Norton, Robert Heron, John C. Dvora, David Prager, Roger Chang, Yoshi and many others in a round table discussion of the week’s big tech stories recorded via voIP. You can interact with the show by submitting questions in audio only. Contests are also in the works. The show is entertaining, humours and informative. You never seem to know what will happen in each episode, highly recommend.

The Laporte Report (audio edition)

Daily tech news updates from Leo Laporte. Quite informative.

Leo Laporte’s KFI Airchecks

A technology-oriented talk radio show on station KFI AM in southern California. Tune in Saturday and Sunday, noon-3p Pacific on KFI 640 AM via broadcast and Internet from Los Angeles.

You can find more podcast by using podcast directories such as PodcastAlley.com and CanadaPodcasts.ca.

Favorite Video Shows

Note: Each show provides a email newsletter to keep you informed of new episodes and news for those that wish to subscribe. Videos are usually provided encoded in Divx or Xvid and in some casts are only provided for download via BitTorrent. Therefore you will require Divx (download link) or Xvid (download link) codec installed, media player such as Winamp and a BitTorrent client such as Azureus to watch the below shows.

Thebroken

The first technology/hacker video show I watched. I was instantly hooked. Thebroken is hosted by Kevin Rose and Dan Huard. The show is an on the edge of legal, showcasing technology, tech toys, social engineering and general all around hacking. They have also done interviews of hackers in the community. Even such people as Kevin Mitnick. Doing what hackers do best, exploring and learning.

Systm

Systm is a recently new production done by the crew of The Broken and hosted again by Kevin Rose and Dan Huard (former hosts of G4/TechTV’s The Screen Savers, may TSS rest in peace). Since it’s so recent and no explicit explanation of what this show focus is I will try to give a general synopsis. Systm is similar as The Broken however I believe it’s more focused specifically on how to technology projects and how one should keep themselves safe and secure. Systm is quite professionally done.

From The Shadows

I believe this video show is Los Angeles based (I’m two episodes behind) pushing technology limits and show casing new technology. Learn what technology can do and how far they can take it. Quite a unique show, worthy to watch!

exitFrame

Inspired by thebroken, exitFrame has come together to form a videozine that will demonstrate various methods of hacking, phreaking, and social engineering. This show looks like it has some potential but yet to see any new episodes past episode 1. I would like to warn though that this show may contain material and information that is illegal and maybe offensive. You’ve been warned.

I came across some more short films. This time from the amazing company Pixar Animation Studios. The only down side to these short films online is the fact that they are previews. You’ll have to find the whole short film released on Pixar Animation Studios movies. I’m not aware of any other place to see them in there entirety.

Source: Pixar Animation Studios

I have to say I was not a big fan of short films but after watching “Batman: New Times” and “Spiderman: The Legend of Doc” I’m hooked. The third short film “Delivery” by Till Nowak definitely has me more then interested. “Delivery” is an amazing short film of artistic talent and expression. The unique effects used to show dimension between the gray box and the land outside the building is nothing but amazing. I have to ad might as well that the music fits the scenes perfectly.

I highly recommend everyone to check out this short film. It’s well worth downloading the premium divx format (100MBs).

Watch: Delivery

Hi everyone. I wanted to inform everyone about this unique short film I came across yesterday. It’s called Batman: New Times. The short film was a student project undertaken by the December 2004 Graduating Class of The DAVE School. The short film Batman: New Times is the usually story of Batman and Robin saving Gotham City. What makes this short film so cool and entertaining is the fact that all the characters are played as Lego men with voices done by Adam West as Batman, Mark Hamill as The Joker, Courtney Thorne-Smith as Catwoman, Dick Van Dyke as Commissioner Gordon and student Josh Adams as Robin. That’s pretty cool if you ask me. Turns out that this cool short film was inspired by another short film called Spiderman: The Legend of Doc. Make sure to check that cool short film out as well. You can read further about the short film by going to the Batman: New Times about film page.

Short Film: Batman: New Times (86MBs, Quicktime [mov])
Short Film: Spiderman: The Legend of Doc (multiple video formats, full screen ones available)

Nintendo presedant Satoru Iwata have his key speak at GDC 2005 and reveal information regarding Nintendo’s next generation console presently refered to at “Revolution”, new game title “The Legend of Zelda”, Nintendo DS and DS software. I think I’ll leave this break down of the speak to Nintendo themselfs. You can read the news article, Nintendo President Outlines Bold Vision To Attract New Audiences To Video Games and GDC: Mr. Iwata’s Speech Podcast (mp3).

The Village movie depicts an isolated village with citizens fear of an unknown creature that lives in the forest. Little do the citizens know that what fears them the most is a deep secret going back to when the village was founded.

The story is some want interesting but really twisted. I must say though that towards the end of the movie is quite shocking. The only thing that really made me intridge by the movie was the shocking discovery. Just makes one think what could happen in reality like this. I don’t want to say much more for those that wish to see the movie. I personally say it’s okay but one of those movies I would let someone else pay for, so in other words not really worth paying for movie :-).

The motor sports event is coming soon, The Auto Trader Motor sports Spectacular at Saskatchewan Place February 18 to 20, 2005. Yeah I know Saskatchewan Place is now called Credit Union Centre, but to me it will always be Saskatchewan Place. Not sure if I will be attending this event or not. I would like to but will have to see.