Steve Gibson of GRC fame spits out another useful tool: It simply displays if some newer hardware features are available on your PC. The screen-shot is verification that the 64bit PC I built almost three years does support DEP. DEP: Prevents buffer overflows in hardware – this a very big deal. Of course the operation [...]
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Update (2nd July): Since this post I have reverted back to using Juice Receiver which although not designed for video has fewer glitches. If anyone knows of a more reliable solution please let me know. IPTV is about where podcasting was when I started manually downloading podcasts in the summer of 2004 [i.e. in its [...]
It appears Craig Shoemaker’s Polymorphic Podcast is a year old this month. As a side-effect of running through his year as a podcaster Craig gives out some great tips on how to start, grow and publicize your own podcast. This special show is under 15 minutes long and I recommend everyone listen to it. If [...]
HanselMinutes (.Net and Tech Tools) Scott Hanselman has utilized Carl Franklin’s skills (or vice-versa) to deliver a well produced podcast right out of the box. Scott agrees with me that many podcasts are full of fluff and he tries hard to be different. He has often said that Podcasting Sucks, and I would like to [...]
Given that my recent review of the Polymorphic Podcast was based mostly on vague memories amends have been made and I listened to six recent episodes since. The original ‘review’is repeated later, but be assured that the new text is still honest sans-hype. Always covering positive and negatives is something of a trademark; it even [...]
Remember the debate over the word podcast? Bet you probably know someone who a better word for ‘compressed audio file transmitted via http and an RSS enclosure’ right? Media Cast, Radio Me, Audio Blog are just a few of the plethora of suggestions we heard; PodCast was just to aligned with Apple for most of [...]
Podcast listeners out there will get the (lame) ‘On a Podcast’ gag. Well in Alabama I was on a podcast, the WallyCast to be precise. I am pretty quiet compared to the MVPs and MSFT employee but still ran my mouth as normal forgetting that Wally was recording most of the time. I love to [...]
Episode nine of Steve Gibson’s Security Now podcast covered Rootkits – I thought I knew what a root kit is but was wrong. As always Steve’s podcast starts out very basic, but the latter half generally has a few nuggets for more technical peeps . This week is no exception, I learned that to be [...]
While driving to work this morning and catching up on the weekend’s Slashdot Review Andy McCaskey started talking about one of my blog posts. Being linked to from a big name blogger is one thing, but hearing your name come out of your own car’s audio system – well it is just plain freaky. So [...]
For about two months I have been really looking forward to the 4.9 version of iTunes – I expected seamless podcast support and most importantly auto conversion to bookmarkable aac files. When you listen to number of podcasts I do you want a good podcast receiver. So what did I find: Intergration with iTunes is [...]
