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Leo LaporteTWiT Episode 24 Video

We've outgrown Noonan's already. We're prospecting for another location - probably in San Francisco proper. Stay tuned for information. The show will begin one hour earlier next Sunday: 3p.

Hosts: Patrick Norton, Kevin Rose, John C. Dvorak, Robert Heron, Roger Chang, David Prager

Special Guests: Amber MacArthur, Jenn Cutter, Alex Lindsay

Topics:

* Thanks for the Kangaroo Jerky with Flavor Enhancer 621
* Microsoft is reorganizing - Dvorak says it's a prelude to breakup
* Tivo is planning to require a one-year committment
* Dvorak prefers MythTV - expecially with MythKnoppix
* Steve Jobs says the record companies are greedy, and that their proposed price hikes will encourage piracy
* Isn't the future the Yahoo! $5 a month deal? even if it's spoofable with MuvAudio
* The Common Malware Enumeration Initiative is a plan to come up with unified names for viruses
* A very complete example exploit for taking advantage of the most recent Firefox hole has been posted on the net. Make sure to update to Firefox 1.0.7
* We still say Firefox is better than Internet Explorer
* It's a free browser. So how does Opera make money?
* Off the Google searches, of course
* We like the Google start page
* A new virus discovered Wednesday infects Symbian cell phones then, in a
* first, attempts to copy itself to the user's PC
* Google is offering free Wi-Fi in San Francisco - and anyone can use the Google VPN server
* Our favorite online TV shows: Amber MacArthur's Command-N and Jenn Cutter's OpenAlpha.tv
* A virtual plague swept through World of Warcraft - causing most players lower than level 50 to die immediately
* John has a fix for blog content spam he says works great. Just prevent bot posting - require all comments to come from your site's forms. Watch dvorak.org/blog for details
* Want to post without registering? Heron uses BugMeNot
* Jay asks: You can still see Leo and Kate's first ultimate gaming machine on Google video
* Dvorak says you'll never need more than 100TB of main memory
* Al asks about our favorite RSS feeds
* Dvorak gets his news from folks who email him
* Digg is adding RSS to its search feeds
* Kevin reads We make money, not art, Engadget, Gizmodo Boing Boing, Metafilter
* Amber likes waxylinks, TechCrunch, RUK.ca, and FURL
* I subscribe to Amber's Furl RSS feed, 43folders (based on David Allen's Getting Things Done), Lifehacker;
* The key is a Moleskine notebook - the ultimate geek fetish object
* A Modesto wishes a Happy Birthday to Chronic and asks what's the best way to record Skype calls? Hotrecorder. Kevin recommends Powergramo.
* Our listener loves AnimationMentor.com - you get to work with instructors from Pixar and ILM
* Alex Lindsay concurs
* Dvorak predicts 20% market share for MacIntel - maybe more
* And don't buy an Apple Mighty Mouse

Thanks to Chris Haynes from Corporate Casuals for the TWiT toppers.

Next week: a new location and Cory Doctorow from Boing Boing and EFF joins us. He's in town to celebrate EFF's 15 anniversary next Sunday.

Running time: 1:05:13


This movie is part of the collection: Ourmedia

Producer: Leo Laporte
Keywords: sky

Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

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