TWiT Retro - Episode 24: The Semi-Anniversary Edition is On the Air (20050926)
Channel: R Twit
Date: 2016-01-07

We've outgrown Noonan's already. We're prospecting for another location - probably in San Francisco proper. Stay tuned to this site for information. 

    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

    Two of 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