The Global Geek Podcast #067 :: Dual Screens Hunting Leopards in Linux
Well we are alive and well. Many apologies for the absence last week. We have good excuses, although Keith’s is a bit lame… But then he is Canadian.
This week we made our own Tech News with Tim’s Linux 1 week challenge, Keith’s Leopard and Dave’s dual screens.
Applications this week is IM from Mozilla, screen savers from Digg and a killer app to beat the date hover.
While in sites and services this week we take a look at the Marble that spells Doom, an excellent image discovery site and some contributions from our listeners.
The Global Geek Podcast #67 (MP3 - 43.45 MB - 1:15:54)
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Show Notes
Welcome
Image of a Yellow Faced Whip Snake
Tech News
- Tim talks about Linux
- Keith talks about Leopard
- Dave Talks about Dual Screens and Modems
Promo Spot - The Box Office Weekly
Applications
- InstantBird: Mozilla’s first attempt at an IM client
- Prism: Break web apps out of the browser and onto your desktop
- Digg Labs Screen Savers: Screen savers based on Digg activity visualisations
- Reaper 2.0: Latest version of the free multi-track audio editing software
- DateInTray: Simple but effective productivity improvement
- Real Alternative: Play Real Media without Real Player
Featured Firefox Extensions
- Meebo for Firefox: Adds the popular web IM service to Firefox, nice
- Customise Google: Tweak Google services easily
GGP Mac Lab Rat
Sites and Services
- Marble of Doom: All the time wasted… add your own
- picurls: Picture discovery and aggrigation service
- Quick Bookmarks: Web based bookmarking service, we give some useful applications
- Feed43: Powerful feed creation service, but not for the feint hearted
Feedback
Farewell
Featured Music
Great track this week!
The Stremes
“She’s Electric” (mp3)
from “God Made Woman”
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October 30th, 2007 at 10:46 pm
I am not obsessed. I am merely a concerned citizen.
October 30th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
It is OK to be concerned about grammar, really… cool with us
October 31st, 2007 at 12:19 am
Ok…I’m obsessive, but not obsessed!
It’s a Canadian thing.
October 31st, 2007 at 1:05 pm
Only listened to about 25 mins so far but here goes….
I stayed back at work last Friday till 6pm just so I could head up to Myer and get leopard. I was surprised there was about 20-30 people waiting up there to get it so it was rather interesting having a bit of a chat with them. I picked up the family pack which allows you to install on 5 computers as I have 2 iMacs but so far only installed one for reasons you will see in a moment.
Not sure if people know but the single user pack ($159AUD) and the Family Pack ($249AUD) are identical discs and have no licensing issues with the discs. You can in theory use single user disc and install it on as many machines as you want but as Pirillo mentioned in his video blog post about it it’s matter of trust. Apple trust their users and Microsft dosen’t and thus has lall that crappy activation which makes you wantto pull out your hair.
Leopard had also been leaked on to torrents last week so not sure if that cost them anything, I am sure most people would rather have the physical discs anyway.
Leopard install was anything but fine for me..see below
have had najor issues on my intel iMac. I did a clean install on Friday night (why can’t you skip disc check without failing install?) and it worked fine through till Saturday arfternnon. I needed to reboot for some reason and it wouldn’t boot, it just sat there at loading screen for ages.
I tried force boot by holding option key as a I have a bootcamp partition and all of the sudden even though I was selecting the Mac OS partition it kept booting into Windows. Tried this a few times until eventually it just failed to see the Mac partition at all.
I then tried to instal Leopard onto Windows partition by reformatting it and it started to install and then that drive disappeared as well. I tried several times to boot from the DVD and install leopard o no avail.
I then dug out my Tiger discs and tried to install Tiger and it found both partitions (now both Mac partitions) and installed eventually.
I then tried to do Migration Assistant and that took over 15 hrs to transfer from my G5 to my iMac and last I saw it had been stuck at less than a minute to go for about 3.5 hrs before I had to leave for work.
I hope it is all good when I get home or I really dunno what I am gonna do with my intel box, at least I haven’t tried to upgrade G5 yet which still has most of my data.
Anyone has ideas I am more than willing to listen.
I now have it up and running and hopefully for good and its working great after using migration assistant to transfer everything from my G5 it just like being on that machine.
I picked up a 500gb external drive for Time machine although I have a 750gb hard drive I doubt I will ever use the full amount as I will keep most of my video files on the G5 as that’s where AppleTV looks for video and it’s just easier to keep it that way.
Also Dave did you buy a modem or a router? I guess being in the sticks near Lismore maybe your still on dial-up
October 31st, 2007 at 6:23 pm
@Blogslut I got a modem/router
Sorry to hear about the torrid time with Leopard. Be interesting to see if anyone else is having similar issues. Keep us informed!
October 31st, 2007 at 6:33 pm
More follow-up. i actually don’t use meebo at work, it is blocked. I do login to gmail and use talk in there everyday along with web Twitter feed. It helps keep me sane during the day.
November 1st, 2007 at 4:15 pm
Perhaps they should have called Leopard Kitten.
November 1st, 2007 at 4:19 pm
Totally off topic, check out this site
http://merzo.net/
It contains Starship dimensions from SF films. I have wasted too much time on it already.
November 2nd, 2007 at 9:25 am
Hi there Dave,
Yeah I agree with the whole dual screens thing. I design electrical control systems for industrial processes and now i have 2 by 21″ screens I would never go back.
On one streen I have a drawing open, on the other either a catalog, spreadsheet or database.
Its also really handy when programming autocad, you can have your program on one screen and run it in the other, no more flicking between apps
Have fun with it Dave, I love your prog, listen every week
Cheers
J
November 2nd, 2007 at 9:43 am
@John Always great to hear from someone new. Thanks for listening and for whacking a comment on the blog!
One thing I would like is to be able to play a game in one screen and have something else open in the other screen. So far this is the only limitation I have had with the dual screens. But I don’t play games that much so not a big issue. I agree it is the flicking between one app and another that really changes things, so much faster. Like when I was doing the show notes; I was able to drag the links from one screen to the other - nice.
Thanks again John and don’t be a stranger!
@George great find… and a big time waster. Although I think the person that put it together wasted a whole lot more. Truly dedicated sci-fi nut.
@Blogslut I did not know you were sane…
November 2nd, 2007 at 11:31 am
@George: I LOVE that site. Dave’s right about it being a time waster…lol
It’s a great resource for the Star Trek RP group I’m involved with.
November 2nd, 2007 at 9:12 pm
I use a 30″ Mac Cinema display at werk. I’m thinking about switching to dual 19’s at home–I’m in the Graphic Design industry.
Re: Leopard. It’s pretty, but is it really worth the upgrade? I still use a lot of “classic” apps in my field of work and I sort of need that “classic” environment running in the background to get some things done. At least it’s way better than Vista.
Anyone played Portal and finished it? I’m stuck near the end… darn nerve gas.
November 2nd, 2007 at 10:43 pm
@Hern you can’t beat dual - even if they are smaller in my opinion.
By the way if you are finding that level hard in Portal then give this site I found a try
http://www.portalwalkthroughs.com
Video walkthroughs, nice
November 5th, 2007 at 2:29 pm
Finally listened to the podcast and worked out what the dripping sound was (Dave). Thanks to Jeff for letting Dave know what it was.
Again another informative podcast guys. I must admit I have now also become hooked on Cameron Rileys Napoleon podcast.
Cheers
November 5th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
@George Is that a nice way of saying you won’t be listening to the GGP?
November 5th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
Dave no no no.
When travelling I can listen to two or 3 napoleons in a row that i have not listened to. Im up to date with the geek but my monday travels normally dont tie in with your update.
George
November 7th, 2007 at 11:47 am
Nice podcast guys
to clarify,im a “loosr” as in loosr.com as opposed to someone who lives in his moms basement and plays wow all night
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:33 pm
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