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Check out Leo LaPorte's TWiT lineup. Only one podcast is directly to do with open source (FLOSS Weekly, hosted by Leo, Randal Schwartz, and on occasion Jono Bacon) but all of his shows are extremely well produced. Leo is a "real" geek and a bona fide on-air radio personality as well, a rare combination. My other favorite on the network is Security Now with Steve Gibson. It's a good podcast if you like in-depth discussions on crypto, CPU architecture, network protocols, and other low-level topics.

Check out Leo LaPorte's TWiT lineup. Only one podcast is directly to do with open source (FLOSS Weekly, hosted by Leo, Randal Schwartz, and on occasion Jono Bacon) but all of his shows are extremely well produced. Leo is a "real" geek and a bona fide on-air radio personality as well, a rare combination. My other favorite on the network is Security Now with Steve Gibson. It's a good podcast if you like in-depth discussions on crypto, CPU architecture, network protocols, and other low-level topics.

Check out Leo LaPorte's TWiT lineup. Only one podcast is directly to do with open source (FLOSS Weekly, hosted by Leo, Randal Schwartz, and on occasion Jono Bacon) but all of his shows are extremely well produced. Leo is a "real" geek and a bona fide on-air radio personality as well, a rare combination. My other favorite on the network is Security Now with Steve Gibson. It's a good podcast if you like in-depth discussions on crypto, CPU architecture, network protocols, and other low-level topics.

Seriously, reconnect. The keys used for the encryption will change, and it's multiply keyed to boot. Check the discussion on SSL (which SSH uses) on Steve Gibson's Security Now podcast. http://twit.tv/sn

GSM encryption is quite a mess apparently: http://wiki.twit.tv/wiki/Security_Now_213

As for the OPs talk about "open enough so the state can listen to any citizen's conversation", the government can already listen in - they don't need to crack stuff since GSM stuff is already decrypted at the towers.

AFAIK, GSM encryption is only used between the phone and the tower. After that the conversations or messages travel unencrypted through the rest of the network.

Indeed twitter's centralised service is what makes it such a problem.
Personally I use http://identi.ca/

It's based on laconica, is free software and is federated. eg. http://army.twit.tv/

I'm at http://identi.ca/tdobson and this downtime is not causing me any problems! :)

No affiliation here to the website, just a really good podcast/netcast. http://twit.tv/sn193

Pretty good interview
http://twit.tv/floss71

If you are interested in this type of thing, I suggest listening to the FIB podcast interviewing Michio Kaku or read his book Physics of the Impossible , which also discusses teleportation.

Haven't seen android myself, but Leo Leport predicted this on a twit podcast.

Jason Kilar, CEO of Hulu, admitted on the company's blog that the content owners demanded that Boxee stop displaying Hulu content.

Then I will have no remorse when traditional content producers die an albeit slow death. I'll continue to watch content I record with my DVR (and fast forward through commercials), I'll continue to download content via torrents (where there aren't any commercials), and I won't watch content with Hulu, where, ironically, I was willing to watch commercials.

Die, die, die. Long live TWiT, Revision3, and Wine Library TV. Just like music publishers gave into getting rid of DRM, every other industry will be forced to get rid of ridiculous restrictions or they will meet their end.

Have a look at SugarCRM. May I also recommend this podcast: http://twit.tv/floss32

you should check out what leo laporte is doing with http://live.twit.tv/ he says that he gets as many viewers for his flagship show as tech tv ever got on cable. Sure the network only runs for like 30 hours a week, but the staff is TINY. This is the wave of the future.

There are several TWiT podcasts, and some of them only partially meet the criteria of the person who submitted the question. Let's review the criteria: "entertaining, informative, and, most importantly, thorough," not dumbed down, "dive deep into projects and discussions instead of simply skimming the surface."

The two TWiT podcasts that meet all the criteria that come immediately to mind are Security Now and the (unfortunately now defunct) MacBreak Tech. Security Now is very technical and educational, and it doesn't dumb things down, but instead it manages to explain very technical topics in ways that make them easy to comprehend. It's mostly about computer and information security (naturally) but it also gets into networking and other related topics as well. MacBreak Tech was mainly focused on Macs as the name implies, but I learned a lot of things from the podcast that don't just apply to Macs specifically. I think all the old episodes are still available, so browse through the titles and descriptions and download anything that looks remotely interesting.

Other TWiT podcasts that the asker might enjoy: This Week in Law and FLOSS Weekly. This Week in Law gets in depth about the legal aspects of computer technology and the computer industry. FLOSS Weekly is all about Free (Libre) Open Source Software and consists largely of interviews with lead developers of major open source software projects.

Another decent computer security podcast is Security Bites from CNET. Security Bites is not nearly as in-depth as Security Now as the episodes are very short and more focused, but the show is worth listening to as well.

If you don't mind the shameless self-promotion, I'm one of the hosts of MacMod Live, which deals with Mac modding and peripherally-related topics. MacMod Live doesn't always get super technical, but MacMod.com has a lot of interesting stuff too if you're interested in computer modding.

All of the above are audio shows (sorry if you're looking for video content specifically). Occasionally we do videos on MacMod Live, and those get posted in the same podcast feed as our audio shows.

There are several TWiT podcasts, and some of them only partially meet the criteria of the person who submitted the question. Let's review the criteria: "entertaining, informative, and, most importantly, thorough," not dumbed down, "dive deep into projects and discussions instead of simply skimming the surface."

The two TWiT podcasts that meet all the criteria that come immediately to mind are Security Now and the (unfortunately now defunct) MacBreak Tech. Security Now is very technical and educational, and it doesn't dumb things down, but instead it manages to explain very technical topics in ways that make them easy to comprehend. It's mostly about computer and information security (naturally) but it also gets into networking and other related topics as well. MacBreak Tech was mainly focused on Macs as the name implies, but I learned a lot of things from the podcast that don't just apply to Macs specifically. I think all the old episodes are still available, so browse through the titles and descriptions and download anything that looks remotely interesting.

Other TWiT podcasts that the asker might enjoy: This Week in Law and FLOSS Weekly. This Week in Law gets in depth about the legal aspects of computer technology and the computer industry. FLOSS Weekly is all about Free (Libre) Open Source Software and consists largely of interviews with lead developers of major open source software projects.

Another decent computer security podcast is Security Bites from CNET. Security Bites is not nearly as in-depth as Security Now as the episodes are very short and more focused, but the show is worth listening to as well.

If you don't mind the shameless self-promotion, I'm one of the hosts of MacMod Live, which deals with Mac modding and peripherally-related topics. MacMod Live doesn't always get super technical, but MacMod.com has a lot of interesting stuff too if you're interested in computer modding.

All of the above are audio shows (sorry if you're looking for video content specifically). Occasionally we do videos on MacMod Live, and those get posted in the same podcast feed as our audio shows.

There are several TWiT podcasts, and some of them only partially meet the criteria of the person who submitted the question. Let's review the criteria: "entertaining, informative, and, most importantly, thorough," not dumbed down, "dive deep into projects and discussions instead of simply skimming the surface."

The two TWiT podcasts that meet all the criteria that come immediately to mind are Security Now and the (unfortunately now defunct) MacBreak Tech. Security Now is very technical and educational, and it doesn't dumb things down, but instead it manages to explain very technical topics in ways that make them easy to comprehend. It's mostly about computer and information security (naturally) but it also gets into networking and other related topics as well. MacBreak Tech was mainly focused on Macs as the name implies, but I learned a lot of things from the podcast that don't just apply to Macs specifically. I think all the old episodes are still available, so browse through the titles and descriptions and download anything that looks remotely interesting.

Other TWiT podcasts that the asker might enjoy: This Week in Law and FLOSS Weekly. This Week in Law gets in depth about the legal aspects of computer technology and the computer industry. FLOSS Weekly is all about Free (Libre) Open Source Software and consists largely of interviews with lead developers of major open source software projects.

Another decent computer security podcast is Security Bites from CNET. Security Bites is not nearly as in-depth as Security Now as the episodes are very short and more focused, but the show is worth listening to as well.

If you don't mind the shameless self-promotion, I'm one of the hosts of MacMod Live, which deals with Mac modding and peripherally-related topics. MacMod Live doesn't always get super technical, but MacMod.com has a lot of interesting stuff too if you're interested in computer modding.

All of the above are audio shows (sorry if you're looking for video content specifically). Occasionally we do videos on MacMod Live, and those get posted in the same podcast feed as our audio shows.

FLOSS weekly and Security Now. They are both shows that Leo LaPorte of This Week in Tech does. They all can be found here http://www.twit.tv/. FLOSS is one open source project per episode. Security Now is about computer security; current events, how stuff works and anything else that relates.

Links are helpful.

On the October 6th, 2008 "This Week in Tech", Kevin Mitnik talks about how he now deals with taking his laptops in and out of the country.

TWiT 163: MitNicked

Kevin Mitnick was recently on TWIT 163 this past weekend discussing a recent incident he had at an airport in Atlanta, GA coming from Columbia where he was detained and ICE/Customs officials were attempting search through his property and a laptop of his. He offers some tips on what one should do before taking your laptop with you when leaving the United States.

http://twit.tv/163/

Perhaps... Jonathan Coulton? He recently stated that he is now making more money off his music annually than he did working as a software engineer.

Leo Laporte covered this on This Week in Tech months ago. The twitterer is "comcastcares".

Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson went through a technical analysis of these kinds of products last week: http://www.twit.tv/sn151

A couple of weeks ago one of the developers of 280 slides was interviewed by Leo Laporte and Amber MacArthur on their net@night podcast.

Thanks for your elucidation.

To which I have to agree. But have you listened to the radio recently? I'd say the signal to noise ratio on the commercial radio waves these days is FAR worse than I find on Podcasts. Plus, I find the semi-professionally or professionally produced podcasts (Hi there, http://twit.tv/) and then often my new subscriptions are "referrals" from those rather than "podcast surfing". I also admit sometimes my choice of podcasts is driven by friends who recommend another podcast... but more often than not they're occasionally amusing and at best get listened to when I have nothing better going on.

Thus, to your point; yes, the majority of podcasts and blogs are drivel... but those good ones that are worth listening to get a listenership, and through them often feed other blogs/podcasts. That's pretty much how the radio works, too... but there's a LOT of crap on the radio. There's also a lot of crap on TV, but that's another story entirely :)

To the GP; no, podcasting didn't fail the Technorati, either. In fact, I consider myself a member of the Technorati and I listen to Podcasts all the time when I'm commuting or when I'm out for a long walk on my own. I even listen to tech podcasts... yes, I'm a geek. Podcasting being a failure is a point of view of the author of the original article. I'm not sure it's really shared by that many people. Everyone I've turned onto podcasts still listens to them... some people stopped listening to the radio (like me). The only people who have "sidelined" podcasting in my opinion are those who've never heard of it, or those who never found a podcast to their taste. Well, I know a lot of people who have "sidelined" the radio and TV (myself included) because there's never anything on to listen to or watch that's worth my valuable time.

YMMV.

Can you show that podcast has propelled any of these new business models into actual profitability?

This week's TWIT had a good discussion of this tradeoff.

There's an old saying -- open if you're losing, closed if you're winning. Apple will open this thing up more as competition increases. Until then, user experience will dominate.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing. Apple's reputation is built completely around a fantastic user experience.... so do they:
a) allow developer freedom to create runaway apps that destroy that experience (OMG it's an iPhone Virus! Or something with backdoors to tape your phone conversations?)
b) restrict developer freedom to preserve the user experience.

They'll obviously choose the latter; the market has not punished them for it on the iPod. The device *has to take phone calls* regardless of what app you're using, so it will unceremoniously quit that custom app at any time.

Also, this is the *first version of the SDK*. It's not set in stone. Certainly instant messenger applications will become important, and they'll find a way to allow them to run in the background (or they'll make one themselves).

As for VOIP over EDGE, the complaints are ridiculous -- the latency of EDGE would make conversation nearly impossible. We're talking 56k modem speeds with 1000-2000ms latency at times! When the iPhone goes 3G, perhaps.

It's a scary time. Especially if all of Jason Calacanis' predictions made on this week's This Week In Tech regarding Wikipedia become true. :(

It was Cory Doctorow who complained about Audible's mandatory DRM, in TWiT 124, around the 43 minute mark.

I understand this was originally causing quite a stir with Audible.com. Audible stats that it will not allow any non DRM books to be placed on there site. Even if the author requests that they do so. I know of one author mentioned on TWIT - This Week In Tech. (I believe was John C Dvorak, but can't remember) that we was not going to put his book up on Audible.com just for the reason he wanted it not DRM'd. With all the major book companies shifting to a none DRM format, I wonder if sites like this that are smaller will change there attitude.

This is on This Week In Tech #135 in which Robert Scoble reported from South by Southwest (SxSW) about the uproar: Sarah Lacy was playing softball and flirting with Mark Zuckerberg, and the audience as well as Mark was expecting hard though questions. At the right point the audience interrupted, which made Sarah go defensive -- a bad move that made her loose control of the interview.

Jason Calacanis (in the TWiT podcast) then explained that Sarah's been flirting with Mark for a very long time, and these softball questions are very unprofessional of her.

IMO She really needed a wake-up call -- SxSW live isn't print!

Disappointingly short at only 5 minutes. He did a really interesting interview on FLOSS last year, that people might find more interesting.

Incidentally, the most recent FLOSS Weekly podcast (with Randal PERL Schwartz) is about POV-Ray. As usual interesting:
http://www.twit.tv/floss24

Incidentally, the most recent FLOSS Weekly podcast (with Randal PERL Schwartz) is about POV-Ray. As usual interesting:
http://www.twit.tv/floss24

Why else would he be so angry at Intel for producing the Classmate PC?

I know Python, would like to learn Perl, and don't and won't learn Ruby. Ruby fills the same niche as Python, but I like Python's language and documentation more. When I heard about what Catalyst had to offer developers over Rails, my desire (small as it was) to learn Ruby just got the nails in its coffin. I heard a really interesting podcast on FLOSS Monthly with Jay Shirley, a Catalyst proponent.

(Side note: The page I link to actually uses the word 'evangelist'. I just looked up the meaning of 'evangelist' for curiosity's sake, and it means, in Latin, a person who brings the word of God. Notice that the word contains 'angel'. In this light, using 'evangelist' to describe a proponent of anything not considered holy is sacrilege. If this isn't bothersome to you, then this note simply doesn't concern you :).)

You can listen to Leo Laporte talk about it from July 23, 2007 on his show the Daily Giz Wiz (Dick DeBartolo): http://twit.tv/dgw361

Woah woah, Dvorak may like and prefer Windows, but if you had listened to This Week in Tech recently, you'd know that Dvorak actually recommends that people buy Macs for home use when they ask him for counsel on a computer purchase.

That said, I just bought my first Mac about a month ago (after thoroughly hating them from school in the System 8 days), and I love it. I also like the Mac OS. I also like Windows. Especially Windows networks. I also prefer Internet Explorer when I'm using Windows.

You don't have to hate Mac OS to like Windows. You don't have to hate Windows to like Mac OS. You can like both. You can also recommend one over the other, even if it's not your preference.

Nah, Google is the new Apple. This is just one part of his classic formula. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAWDYaWAVQQ. For all the Dvorak haters listen to an ep of Twit http://www.twit.tv/ with him. He's not stupid, he is just on an endless quest for numbers. You'll start to like him if you do what I do. Just think of him like the old uncle at the family reunions that just hates everything. "Bah! The Google phone will never work! You damn kids with your Web 2.0!" "Oh uncle Dvorak..."

I was listening to a recent This Week in Law podcast on the subject of patents. One lawyer on the panel said that in general, companies that make electronics see the patent problem very differently from biotech companies.

Companies that make electronics are begging for reform because any given product usually touches on hundreds of patents, and any one of those could be used as a threat against that product's launch (via injuction, which extorts them into buying a license rather than let their product become obsolete during lengthy litigation).

Whereas biotech companies tend to invent products that involve a small, manageable number of patents. Therefore biotech companies want patents to remain as strong as possible, whereas computer companies need relief from death by a thousand cuts.

So apparently it's not *just* patent trolls who are against reform.

Leo was one of the hardest working men on television back in those ZDTV days.

Now he's one of the hardest working men in podcasts / radio. Check out http://www.twit.tv/ (i.e. This Week In Tech) - his podcast empire. Leo helps make my daily commute tolerable.

So, yes, if you distribute a linux kernel that you downloaded from "xyzzyplugh.com" you can direct people to "xyzzyplugh.com" for sources. But if "xyzzyplugh.com" goes out of business, you still need to be able to provide the sources.

Specifically, part 3(c) of the GPL v2 says:

c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)

However, the issue at hand is one of software patents not copyright. So the origin of the code does not come into the equation for even a second. It doesn't matter where the code came from either, that's copyright, too. What matters with software patents is only what the user is doing with the code.

There are other ways to know that M$ is out after Samba. First off, if M$ had obeyed any of the court decisions and published info on CIFS, then Samba would have been completed long ago. Following that, Samba has had a lot of work to figure out how the protocol works, and work is much harder for version 2 since M$ engineers were told to " fuck with Samba ". That's a quote from the interview, so pardon my French. IIRC the quote's about 40 minutes or so into the interview. There's a lot of unfortunate banter, but otherwise an interesting interview.

I came to this thread late but this guy has more Microsoft fan sites than any Apple fanboy. How about this, or this, or this? He's a one man Microsoft-love flash mob! Or how about Rob Enderle? Yes, Virginia, there are enthusiastic Softie fans out there!

iPhone batteries "die in 40 minutes"

Apple fanboys kill the messenger

By Nick Farrell: Friday 06 April 2007, 07:14

APPLE FANBOYS have really been going for hack John C Dvorak after one of his sources in Cingular told him the iPhone's batteries lasted just 40 minutes.
During Episode 93 of the spodcast this Week in Tech (TWiT)Dvorak said he received information from "a guy at Cingular who's testing the product." The unnamed, male Cingular employee told Dvorak "there's lots of issues" with the iPhone.

Dvorak said that the iPhone was blighted with not having a removable battery, so "you run 20 minutes and you're using up half the battery power. You get 40 minutes total talk time. And the interface fouls up constantly."

The Cingular geezer or geezerette asked Dvorak not to tell anyone. OK it is a "man in the pub told me" style story, but it does not mean that there is no truth behind it. Certainly it is an odd thing to make up.

But the fan boys are up in arms about the comment and every where the story appears on the interweb there is a diatribe from at least three fanboys about how unreliable Dvorak is as a reporter.

One post said that Dvorak had a background in news and was therefore not qualified to write about technical stuff. Others sited a 1991 prediction he made that didn't come true.

One poster said that if Steve Jobs said that 40 minutes on the phone was long enough to speak to someone that must be OK and he would curtail his usage immediately. Another added that if people used their phones longer than 40 minutes there must be something wrong with them.

More here: http://www.twit.tv/93

iPhone batteries "die in 40 minutes"

Apple fanboys kill the messenger

By Nick Farrell: Friday 06 April 2007, 07:14

APPLE FANBOYS have really been going for hack John C Dvorak after one of his sources in Cingular told him the iPhone's batteries lasted just 40 minutes.
During Episode 93 of the spodcast this Week in Tech (TWiT)Dvorak said he received information from "a guy at Cingular who's testing the product." The unnamed, male Cingular employee told Dvorak "there's lots of issues" with the iPhone.

Dvorak said that the iPhone was blighted with not having a removable battery, so "you run 20 minutes and you're using up half the battery power. You get 40 minutes total talk time. And the interface fouls up constantly."

The Cingular geezer or geezerette asked Dvorak not to tell anyone. OK it is a "man in the pub told me" style story, but it does not mean that there is no truth behind it. Certainly it is an odd thing to make up.

But the fan boys are up in arms about the comment and every where the story appears on the interweb there is a diatribe from at least three fanboys about how unreliable Dvorak is as a reporter.

One post said that Dvorak had a background in news and was therefore not qualified to write about technical stuff. Others sited a 1991 prediction he made that didn't come true.

One poster said that if Steve Jobs said that 40 minutes on the phone was long enough to speak to someone that must be OK and he would curtail his usage immediately. Another added that if people used their phones longer than 40 minutes there must be something wrong with them.

More here: http://www.twit.tv/93 [www.twit.tv] [www.twit.tv] [www.twit.tv] [www.twit.tv]

iPhone batteries "die in 40 minutes"

Apple fanboys kill the messenger

By Nick Farrell: Friday 06 April 2007, 07:14

APPLE FANBOYS have really been going for hack John C Dvorak after one of his sources in Cingular told him the iPhone's batteries lasted just 40 minutes.
During Episode 93 of the spodcast this Week in Tech (TWiT)Dvorak said he received information from "a guy at Cingular who's testing the product." The unnamed, male Cingular employee told Dvorak "there's lots of issues" with the iPhone.

Dvorak said that the iPhone was blighted with not having a removable battery, so "you run 20 minutes and you're using up half the battery power. You get 40 minutes total talk time. And the interface fouls up constantly."

The Cingular geezer or geezerette asked Dvorak not to tell anyone. OK it is a "man in the pub told me" style story, but it does not mean that there is no truth behind it. Certainly it is an odd thing to make up.

But the fan boys are up in arms about the comment and every where the story appears on the interweb there is a diatribe from at least three fanboys about how unreliable Dvorak is as a reporter.

One post said that Dvorak had a background in news and was therefore not qualified to write about technical stuff. Others sited a 1991 prediction he made that didn't come true.

One poster said that if Steve Jobs said that 40 minutes on the phone was long enough to speak to someone that must be OK and he would curtail his usage immediately. Another added that if people used their phones longer than 40 minutes there must be something wrong with them.

More here: http://www.twit.tv/93 [www.twit.tv] [www.twit.tv] [www.twit.tv]