The Global Geek Podcast #83 :: Be Verwi Verwi Quiet
Short and sweet this week. Awesome show don’t miss it! Cait and I had a real blast recording the show and it was great to get back to the regular format.
We have all the usual segments for you and a special surprise from the Lab Rat.
The show is not hosted on the TPN servers due to instability so if you are having trouble getting it use the direct download link. Again sorry about the inconvenience.
The Global Geek Podcast #83 (MP3 - 31.2MB - 1:31:05)
Be sure to send us feedback, you can do that via email or leave us a voicemail. But if all that is too hard then a comment is tops!
Show Notes
Welcome
Tech News
- Live Maps Update
- OS Updates Comparison
- Aussies get the Unlocked iPhone
- Increased Music Sales
- The Mets Rickrolled
- HP to Launch the HP Mini
- Swiss Schools go Linux
- Pizza.com… great investment
- Man Arrested over Assault with a Weapon
Promo Spot: The Extraordinary Everyday Lives Show
Applications
- WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin: Complete updating via the Plugin
- Amic Email Backup: Back up your email, settings, address book and more
- MozBackup: All in one solution for backing up Thunderbird and Firefox
- Desktopia (Mac and Windows): Automatic updating of your wallpaper with quality backdrops to please the eye
Firefox Extensions
- Configuration Mania: Make changes to your about:config via an extension in a GUI interface
GGP Mac Lab Rat
Sites and Services
- summize: Reviewed reviews and twitter search
- time machiner: send emails in the future (it worked!)
- simplebucket: Very simple image hosting
- lefora: Hosted forum solution done right
- twubble: like hunting rabbits only for twitter buddies
Updates
Feedback
Farewell
- Dave’s Blog (Second Life: Rooster Rubble)
- Cait’s Blog (Second Life: Knowledge Tomorrow)
- Keith’s Blog (Second Life: Maezik Darwin)
Featured Music
Pink Computer
“Will You Be Mine” (mp3)
from “So 80’s”
(Somekind Records)
More On This Album
April 16th, 2008 at 12:32 am
It’s great you will be able to get the iPhone unlocked in Australia. I’ve heard that you can also buy it like that in Germany but the unlocked version costs 800 euros!
If they do the same thing in Australia it will stop the sales as much as the vendor lock-in.
It will be so funny if the Americans visit Australia just for the iPhone and the sales in the US will drop because of that.
Raf
April 16th, 2008 at 12:42 am
i just cant believe the server is up .. Look ! ! Its up ! I can read .. Type ! Comment .. havent listened to the show but have a bad feeling that Dave .. was drunk, Cait .. was drunk .. that HErne is kind of an asshole
.. that Raf .. is a firstposter .. that Doug must still be sleeping.. Call it intuition .
April 16th, 2008 at 1:51 am
Most amusing episode EVER. You guys should do more work with “experimental drugs” (ie; alcohol for those who haven’t listened).
On other notes;
Gee thanks for giving out my email address “on air.” Now I’m going to get all sorts of pr0n spam!–Amusingly enough, “private.com” is a pr0n site and they’re probably wondering where all the mail for “me@private.com” is coming from.
Some very interesting stuff for me to look at in and amongst the semi-drunken ramblings. Also thanks to Dave for giving me a lead on a web hosting service, I’ll try and stop bothering people about it now.–I haven’t yet signed up with them, but I think I probably will as soon as I get my act together and at least make a splash page for the domain.
I already used Twubble (that wascally thing) before I heard the show. Someone, possibly @Mashable tweeted about it.
Lefora also looks interesting and I might just use it when I set up my own webspace.
@Keith: Your wife sounds very cute ;). (I’m not sure how anyone could “sound” visually appealing, but that’s my story!)
@Cait: Glad to have you back on the air and correcting Dave’s typos on the blog.
@Knightwise: I resemble that remark!
I’m also debating on “coming out” (not of the closet, KW, calm down) once I have my own domain up and running.
Nice job, guys!
–From one of “the usual suspects”
April 16th, 2008 at 3:55 am
Hern is coming out ?? Do you mean you are going to show us your real identity ? But .. i mean .. aren’t you Norbert ?
April 16th, 2008 at 9:36 am
Doug .. Why don’t you face reality .. you have lost the edge . you are getting older by the minute .. Perhaps this internet thing is something for young people ?
April 16th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Good show!
Although there was one discrepancy:
You said at the ages of 13-14 you could not work. Whilst you may be correct for certian states in Australia, “There is no minimum legal age limit for starting work in New South Wales” (http://www.industrialrelations.nsw.gov.au/youngworkers/looking/what+age+can+i+start+work.html)
Also if I was that age (I mean, Im not, am I?) I would be making a fortune with raido prizes (you know, setup your own personal call centre with everyone mobile phones and off you go..) Oh and of coure I never did this…..
@KW, yes I was sleeping!! Im planning on creating a Doug-team to help fix this problem, i MUST be first poster as I am always correct.
Anyway good show,
Fill up your bar fridges for next week! (Dan Murphy’s or Liqorland is a good place for this)
I must be off to write my critique for next week:D
April 16th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Damn Doug! LOL
@Herne: I agree abou8t Keith’s wife… she sounds like a very nice person
Wow - great to be getting some awesome feedback even though the feed is buggered and not showing up in iTunes… sorry about that guys but thank you for making the effort to get the show and comment.
Thanks also to the guys that sent in emails we love getting emails - I have every intention of responding to them on the show… the next one that is - we really are not sure when that will be) I am going to try for next week - but it depends on the server. We need the show to work in iTunes.
Also great to hear that you guys don’t mind the fact we were a bit nuts.
Oh and sorry Herne for releasing your me@private.com email address to the public… whoops I did it again
April 16th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Herne’s real email address is norbert@dr.evils.com
April 17th, 2008 at 1:38 am
You kids believe that symantec FUD and even gave it air-time. I’m loosing my faith. Think about their business model. Would they have anything to gain if they claimed OpenBSD has the fastest security patches? Not really. They’d have a lot to gain if people migrated to the mediocre MS platforms. Dont be naive.
April 17th, 2008 at 2:06 am
@Eric: to be honest mate - on the other foot is the fact that the reports that symantec do on a regular basis are well respected. Their data is backed up by evidence - they don’t just make it up. If I remember rightly they slammed MS last time. In addition to that as you have correctly pointed out - they have a brand that IS respected and valuable. It would not be in their interests to release bogus data. It would damage the brand and make it worthless. Also these reports are not the sort of light reading that the Mums and Dads of this world - the ones that would run out and buy symantec products - would read, 100+ pages! To balance it out as well, you are a bit bias, no?
We have to be balanced. If this data was complete crap, then I would know about it. Additionally, there would be every open source blog on the planet up in arms about it. I have not seen anything come out of Red Hat on the issue.. they would be the first to be screaming.
Sorry you loose faith, but the facts are facts. I’ll admit when I am wrong every time. But in this case, I can’t see it. But if you can demonstrate that the data is false then I’ll be glad to be corrected. Heck we were wrong about the 100 dollar note!
Have a read of the document and let me know.
April 17th, 2008 at 2:20 am
Lose! It’s LOSE! …
mutters
April 17th, 2008 at 2:31 am
Hi Dave & Kate
Thanks for mentioning Simplebucket.com on your podcast. I loved every moment of it. You guys brought up a lot of valid points.
@kate: yes, I’m listening….
Simplebucket does bring up some similarity of with “the other bucket”, but I have to go with Dave on bucket is a pretty generic thing and my motivation behind the site’s name wasn’t trying to copy “the other bucket”. The inspiration behind the name is actually because Simplebucket utilizes Amazon Web Services, S3, to host the photos and “bucket” is a terminology referring a “folder” for each account. The simple part is pretty obvious and so Simplebucket!
@Dave: I’m sorry that the site did not load properly for you when you were trying. Let me know if you are still having problems.
Thanks
Khang Toh
Founder, Simplebucket.com
April 17th, 2008 at 4:55 am
@Dave
I’ll have a read. I really respect what you’re doing here and I value your stand.
That said I am a religious fanatic and I believe BSD is vastly superior to anything else.
btw - I do not work at Sun or Apple nor would I claim Apple offers any sort of security.
April 17th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
@Herne… you know I can’t spell…
@Eric fanatic… Noooooooooo…
@Khang: Thanks for responding to our mention of your service and the explanation of the origins of the name. Plus don’t worry it was not your site that was not loading - that was desktopia’s site. Yours was fine. Keep up the good work!
April 17th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
@Herne: great catch on the spelling… we all have to keep Dave on the ball.
@Eric: No OS is safe. Computers aren’t safe. Unless you want to disconnect it from every possible threat and have it run nothing but a fibonacci number generator that you wrote all by yourself in assembler… there’s a chance of a hole. The more people use an OS, the more quickly the holes get found.
General comment: That wordpress upgrade plugin looks really good. I’ll have to try it out. Sure beats the Unix shell script I wrote lst year.
April 17th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Sorry, but spelling is a peccadillo with me.
You should see the horrible spelling that some editors try to put into US textbooks…
April 19th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Lefora free forums looks very interesting - almost too good to be true. As has been said before, what’s the business model here? How do they make money?
What happens say after two years of using this service on your website and building up a successful forum with many users and lots of useful threads, that ‘due to unforeseen server use and storage issues’, Lefora decide to delete all old threads to free up space, or even ask for an annual fee to maintain the service. Their terms of use don’t seem to rule this out:
‘Lefora reserves the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, this Site, the Software and/or the Services (or any part thereof) with or without notice at any time.’
I’ve seen server and software issues on forums before and the ‘loss’ of old threads. Really annoying as tech forums for example are often a really good resource. You remember reading an interesting thread but when you search you find some old threads have disappeared.
Lefora may be best for hosting a forum which the webmaster doesn’t want to be a long-term searchable resource and doesn’t mind losing old threads or pulling out altogether if asked to pay an annual fee at a later date.
On the other hand, paying a fee may be fine if it’s a good reliable service.
April 20th, 2008 at 11:57 am
@colin_w As far as I am aware they are using an ad model - so basically ads are shown on the pages. However that may include ads in the RSS feeds etc as well. Me I am not convinced that this is the best model as an ad blocker or something similar fixes that - and ppl just don’t click ads (not the sensible ones at any rate).
But yeah I agree with you. But then as I said in the podcast it is is a great solution for people that don’t want the hassle of setting it up.
April 21st, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Sadly i am yet to listen, but did try the pizza website.
April 21st, 2008 at 10:01 pm
@George tiz ok mate. We know your there and that is the main thing. Damn feed is on the blink still so make sure you get the show here
Sorry about that folks
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:50 pm
*taptaptap* Is this thing on? Hrm… Cam said his team has fixed it…
I just wanted to say; Can’t help but notice that Cait hasn’t updated her blog recently…
(now ducking and running)
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Hell Herne… in the process as far as I know. Looking at our blog code though - it does not appear that we have been upgraded as yet…
Meh… same same…
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:57 pm
that was supposed to be “hello Herne”
April 23rd, 2008 at 9:10 pm
*throws a few more Hells in Herne’s direction*
Cait
April 24th, 2008 at 2:22 am
That’s more like it! A proper number of comments! :]
April 24th, 2008 at 7:02 am
Work is giving me quite enough hells, thanks Cait!
This being my 9th week of “we’ll slow down next week. It’ll just take a couple more days.”
April 24th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Lets go for 30 comments lol
*pifs another hell at herne
April 24th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
@herne Hmm, 9 weeks… maybe 9 & 1/2 will be the magic number.
Cait
April 24th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
@Cait All I need is a fridge full of food…
April 26th, 2008 at 2:30 am
I just had to put something here so we could have 30 comments!
Oh, and I sent a couple links to the Global Geek Feedback Gmail address about portable apps…
So, there, I had a legitimate comment anyway.
April 28th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Finally listened to the show, was indeed “relaxed” thanks to the god of alcohol.
The flickr vidoe interested me in that flickr is associated with good quality images, as you said, not videos. Perhaps this is not the path they should travel.
May 9th, 2008 at 3:43 am
Sheesh guys what on earth have you done to the RSS, everytime recently that you have put out a new show the feed is showing new stuff as about 4 shows back . I don’t have problems with any of my other feeds and this started when you had all the other feed problems.
I am one of those strange techs and use IE 7 so that may be why others have not noticed the fault if it only shows up in that
copied from my feed list -
The Global Geek Podcast #79 :: Invaded by the UK
07 May 2008, 16:18:39
Welcome to the GGP for this week. Pressing on with one short - hope that Cait is getting better!
May 15th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
James, is the feed working for you now?