EPISODE #35 (February 27th, 2006)

Thanks to the LinuxCaffe for letting us shoot inside; even though it was a little dark in there, we produced a fun and lively show for you - and Jeff does a segment from Halifax about external hard drives.  Enjoy!

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Linuxcaffe
Google launches Google Pages
Weak Points in Apple OS
Apple launches its billionth song
Gervais charges for podcasts
Web 2.0 Logos
Dress Kevin
Text messaging injuries
Rich media patent stirs controversy

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CSS Live - Watch a live page come together in 18 steps
How they named companies

techTIPS
Iomega

webPICKS
Podbop (Amber)
Toaster.org (Mike)

Comments

[justme]

Re: How many Mac users use a firewall or anti-virus...

By default, Macs ship with all ports closed (Firewall) and all services disabled.. They may not know that they're running a firewall, but they are..

From Apple's MacOS X page -

Secure Default Configuration
Apple’s conservative approach to security protects your Mac from attacks over private or public networks, such as the Internet, right out of the box. All the communication ports are closed and all native services — personal file sharing, Windows file sharing, personal web sharing, remote login, FTP access, remote Apple events and printer sharing — are turned off by default.

re: anti-virus? Back in the MacOS 9 days (and as far back as System 7) I ran Virex and told everyone I knew that they should as well.. Started with Virex 4 when it was still made by Datawatch ;-) Newer versions, unfortunately have been problematic at best, so I've had to give up on Virex, now by NAI...

Now, I'm using ClamXav (Free!), set to scan my Desktop and Mail attachments folders. (And yes, I tell all my Mac using friends they should as well) Free, unobtrusive, and kept well up to date (definitions for oompa-loompa were quickly added)

Also use a great tool called "Little Snitch" to monitor connection attempts going out from my Mac.

Just my $0.02

[Amber Mac]

Thx for the update - I've heard of Little Snitch, great tool ;).

Now we have to get Mike into Law School!

-Amber

[muchiey]

hie , good show .thanks for entertaining us

[Blahber]

I'd like to see mike with a few beers in him. That'd be a VERY entertaining episode.

[Andrew in NC]

Blahber commented: "I'd like to see mike with a few beers in him."

Last time I checked there were already one too many vlogs like that. Diggnation comes to mind. Friends don't let friends vlog drunk.

[Aaron Theodore]

webPICKS
Podpop (Amber)
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i think theres a typo there shouldn't it be Podbop ?

[dan]

Dear Amber,
You are gorgeous.

[Dino SoCal]

"AlbinoSheep.com" (For Sale) was displayed in your cast & should be Albinoblacksheep.com.

[Jason Brown]

Awww. Amber I caught you! I heard you drop the f-bomb. I must say ,I'm shocked, I didn't think you used words like that :-)

Approx. 14:34 minutes in.

[Jim]

Don't drink before a show.

[C. Flowers]

Jason Brown,
I think she actually said "I'm just bugging you...". But it may be the other thing...who knows! LOL...I guess only Amber knows really.

[Brian McKechnie]

Amber did not drop an f-bomb!

Trust me! I listened to it many times in editing to make sure.

She says "I'm just bugging you" but because she is laughing it comes out sounding a little "off".

-Brian

[Amber Mac]

Nice try guys - but Brian is correct, no F-bomb and no drinking on this ep!

-Amber

P.S. It's Albinoblacksheep.com ;).

[Jason Brown]

Dang it, I thought I got you. I listened to it a few more time too. I guess she didn't say it. Ignorance was bliss, it was funnier when I thought you had.

We'll get you over to dark-side someday Amber.

[Peter]

Jeff, any thoughts on the different memory sizes of external hard drives and if that is an important factor to consider before buying?

Another great episode guys...

[Jeff MacArthur]

I would always buy an external hard drive that was at the very least bigger than my biggest current hard drive (e.g. my desktop or laptop internal drives).  That way, you can take full advantage of backing up your whole hard drive, or even making a bootable copy of it (so that you can boot from your external drive, instead of your internal one).

So I would say to buy something around 1.5 times the size of your current largest hard drive, just to account for future drives (and bigger is usually better here).

If you think you'll be backing up all your hard drives onto the same external drive then I'd suggest an external drive that is bigger than the sum of all your other hard drives (and, again, you might want to have some extra room here too).

[Peter]

sorry jeff, i meant memory (mb cache) as opposed to hard drive space (GBs). For instance, some hard drives appear only to have 8mb cache while others have 16mb cache. http://www.edealinfo.com/DDCateg/harddrives.shtml#20060228062

Is this an important consideration?

[Michael]

Concerning Ricky Gervais:
Content wants to be free.
Check on mininova. ;-)

To throw in my two cents worth:
Overrated, not worth the money and definitely a bad precedent.
Commercials are ok and I would donate to support the shows I like.

Great show, keep them coming!

[Steve]

You guys did it again, another fantastic episode of CommandN.
-Steve

[willij]

I can't download. It keeps timing out and it is slow. You need to upload to another mirror please. thanks.

[Brian DeWitt]

Congrats on another great episode. And for giving me yet another reason to move to Canada. :)

Keep up the great work gang! :)

[Jazza]

Great episode, though was a bit on the dark side

[schmoogala]

Just like to drop by and say that you guys have put together an amazing show. And, keeping it free is a big plus. This is my first episode and I'm looking forward to the next few eps.

Cya!
~~schmoogala

[Amber]

Thx for watching! :)
-Amber

[BeeRich]

Mike, I don't have a toaster!