Podcast #4 and notes

Podcast #4

Show Notes:

Happy 61st Birthday to My Dad
Congrats to Kevin O on upcoming Marriage
My Personal Computing Problems
Registered the website for its own Domain @ Dot5Hosting
Digg Beta is up.

Wierd Clouds

june2004hastings-mammatus

The pictures may be altered, but wierd none the less.

Dial-Up Internet Going the Way of Rotary Phones - New York Times

Dial-Up Internet Going the Way of Rotary Phones - New York Times: "Last year, 36 million American homes, or 52 percent of all households
with Internet access, used dial-up services, according to SG Cowen, the
brokerage firm. That percentage is expected to drop to 40 percent at
the end of this year. At the same time, cable and phone companies are
expected to add 8 million broadband subscribers this year, bringing
their total to 38.7 million."

Not too many people on broadband.

Podcast #3 and Notes

Podcast #3

This one is 64kbps rather then 128kbps. Much smaller and easier to download


Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!!!

First off this week many of you Windows XP Users would or should have noticed that windows needed updated this week, if you have windows update set on automatic you should have had it downloaded and installed by now. However, if you haven’t I recommend hitting the Windows Update.

Next both of my favorite spyware removal tools have new versions out. Both Ad Aware and Spy Bot Search and Destroy need to be updated if they already haven’t. The new versions are available at Download.com. With Spy Bot Search and Destroy 1.4 if you haven’t already add the Tea Timer add on. It will let you know all the time what is trying to gain access to your computer.

Family News

I also wanted to let you know that our good friend Melissa Hansen has her webblog/website up , so check that out. From what I hear both she and Doug are having a great time back home with the family.

Speaking of family, Jessica from what I hear is having a great time with here Grandma’s, Grandpa’s Aunts Uncles and Cousins. It has been a strange 9 or so days without her. You know sleeping in, being able to go to a grown up movie, and have a nice quiet restaurant dinner. Don’t get me wrong we sure do miss her, but it is a nice little break from the normal. From What I also hear going shopping with her is quite the experience, LOL.

So while Jessica has been gone, I worked a little overtime on Saturday and Stephanie and I have been able to go to the show. We have went toMr. And Mrs. Smith and Batman Begins at 10:10 (inside joke, LOL). Both were good flicks and worth paying to see. Not much to tell, we are boring people, LOL. On a related note I came home Tuesday and had a hot tub in the back yard. Soon as I figure out how to hook it up it will be sweet.

It’s Geek to Me

Found another tech geek website from Amber Mac a current co-host on Call for Help. She like so many has a weekly Internet Video show called Command-N. Check that out, it is a little different. Also of note one of my favorite Tech Shows Call For Help is available via bit torrent. The bit torrents can be found at CFH Tracker. Of course this was one of the shows canceled when G4 purchased Tech TV. Leo Laporte still hosts, but it is based out of Canada and he tapes a week of shows on one day. Of course to date the show has yet to air in the United States. A good Bit Torrent downloader is Azureus. You just download the Bit Torrent Tracker and it loads itself.

Google Maps is currently in beta. You can search in regular mode and by satellite. Of course the satellite image is not the most current but fun none the less.

I also want to mention Kevin Pereira. At his webblog he recently posted a podcast Attack of the Podcast. In it he goes in to detail as to what makes a podcast and why they are useful.

I did make some minor tweaks to the webblog, not much but if you look you will notice, and through forums I have got some great response about our little blog from others. Which I think is pretty cool.

HAPPY FATHER's DAY

Don't know what I will be up to on this day. But I wanted to wish my father a Happy Fathers Day and look foward to doing some camping this summer with him.

Your ISP as Net watchdog | CNET News.com

Your ISP as Net watchdog | CNET News.com

Isn't the Government grand.

Credit card breach exposes 40 million accounts | CNET News.com

Credit card breach exposes 40 million accounts | CNET News.com: "Of those exposed accounts, about 13.9 million are for
MasterCard-branded cards, the company said in a statement. Some 20
million Visa-branded cards may have been affected and the remaining
accounts were other brands, including American Express and Discover."

Wayback bookmarklet. This from the July 05 issue of PC World

Ever live for the old days and want to see what sites looked like in the past click this and find out.

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Podcast 2

Highlights:

Apple/Intel
Jessica's Stay
New Neighbors
New Link
Radio Blog

That's All Folks

This Day in History: June 12

This Day in History: June 12: "Interleague play began in baseball, ending a 126-year tradition of separating the major leagues until the World Series."

This Day in History: June 10

This Day in History: June 10: "Affirmed won the Belmont Stakes and the Triple Crown."

This Day in History: June 08

This Day in History: June 08: "Negro Baseball League great Satchel Paige died."

This Day in History: June 07

This Day in History: June 07: "Richard Henry Lee of Virginia introduced a resolution in the Continental Congress proposing a Declaration of Independence."

How the MacIntel Will Change the Market by By John C. Dvorak

After this weekends buzz about the Apple/Intel deal I did some google searching. In my search I came across this article. The article itself is interesting but more interesting then that is the Date is was written. April 7th, 2003. I wonder if Dvorak has a crystal ball?

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This Day in History: June 06

This Day in History: June 06: "Thousands of Allied troops invaded the beaches of Normandy, France, on D-Day."

My First Podcast, Check It Out!!!

This Day in History: June 05

This Day in History: June 05: "Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot by an assassin and died the next day."

Wrapping Up May Heading Into June

Warm weather finally!!!!!!!!!!! After what seamed like forever it is starting to feel like summer, which we were able to take advantage of this past week. Over the weekend we were able to Lowes to get items to plant the garden. In addition, we purchased some more flowers for the front yard and a Black & Decker Electric Trimmer (yes finally). The landscapers also came over and dropped 4 yards of rock for the base of the deck. I know I have been promising pictures for quite some time. I am waiting to finish Jessica's birthday present to reveal the full effect.

Speaking of the star of the show, she is growing up so fast. Other then a few mishaps this week the she is using the potty on a regular basis. Yeah no more stinky diapers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Of course you may have noticed some change to the blog. I added a left-sidebar to the blog. I spent most if not all of Saturday getting it done. In order to do this I took a crash course in CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). Now i didn't go out and learn how to make web pages, it was more like a lot of cutting and pasting and trial & error (more error, LOL). The reason I did this was because I like the look better and plus I was wasting a third of the screen.

How many of you looked into Podcasting? Well I am working on the sites first podcast. I am having fun with it plus it is easier to post a podcast then type this entire post out.

Finally, I would like to leave you with this bit of irony. The RIAA has tried for years to go after users and developers of peer to peer sites. Now comes Yahoo with Yahoo Music. For $4.99 a month you can download straight to your computer unlimited songs. You can take these tunes and put them on just about any MP3 players however you can't burn them to a CD (ya, like that won't get cracked). By making this deal with Yahoo isn't the RIAA saying all the MP3's in the world are only worth $4.99 a month.

Later all.

Apple - Trailers - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - Large

Apple - Trailers - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - Large

Broadband Booster

A small tweak if your on broadband, and wanna surf the web faster. From my testing i got 30%-50% faster page loads. works with firefox untested with IE. It really works well!!!!

1.Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”

Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”

Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0”. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

If you’re using a broadband connection you’ll load pages MUCH faster now!



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