Austin this weekend
Some of you have been commenting to me hey your in Texas let's get together. I will be Austin this weekend staying down on 5th street at the Hilton. If you want to get together drop me a e-mail today.
From the archive
October 2004
101 posts
RIAA is still bitching even though shipment of CD’s are up!
Seems the RIAA is not satisfied that shipment and sales of CD's are up and are vowing to continue to take the fight to consumers. [ZDNet]
Broadband user cut off after hitting 150 gigs in one months
I meter my bandwidth at home to keep track of how much traffic my family moves. I am a power user and pay for a power user account. I have never came even close to pulling 150 gigs of traffic in a month. I am sure if I had a user in my area pulling a 150 gigs each a
Boycott HBO until they decide to allow Fair Use!
In a few short months HBO will put the hammer down and invoke DRM on all of their content analog and digital. Thus doing everything in their power to prevent recording of their shows. The question I have for all of you is this, do you feel strongly enough about fair use to cancel your HBO subscription. I do and
Geek News Central Podcast #4 10-19-04
Show number four is in the can, it took twice as long due to an application error half way through the first recording. It was one of those moments in which you want to smash the computer but shrug your shoulders and start over. New Podcast link previous link will die next show. Download Skype and call us at "GeekNewsCentral".
On the verge of things getting out of control!
Do you ever get the feeling that things are about to get out of control. Not out of control in a bad way, but in a good way. I love suspense but not when I am the one who has to be quiet about it. Yes folks something is brewing here. ;)
Humax DRT800 TiVo DVD-RW recorder
If you have been sitting on the sidelines and waiting to buy a TiVo this may be the time to get off the fence. The only thing I do not like about this unit is that it does not have 2 tuner heads. [Engadget]
Flat Screen TV alerts the SAR Satellite
When I first saw the headline for this story I thought it was probably a joke, turns out it wasn't. Seems a year old Flat Screen monitor was emitting a signal at 121.5 mhz. For those of you that do not know their are satellite in orbit that look for a 1000 HZ warbling tone at 121.5 and 243.00 mhz.
If you use a public PC keep your eyes open for the Google Desktop Icon
System Administrators are already having near stokes in realizing the power of the Google Desktop Search engine. As an example today I received a notice from a company I deal with that they could not update my yearly subscription because my credit card had expired. I went to the site to update my CC info and realized I had forgot
Yes you can listen to Geek News Central Podcast on your PC!
I have gotten some e-mails from readers asking about our show and how to listen to them. Everyone of you that reads this site is doing so via a computer thus you have everything that you need to listen to the show at your finger tips. All you have to do is right click on the show URL and select
Paypal down for Maintenance
What the heck is the deal with Paypal they have been pretty unreliable lately. This goes to prove that their is room in the instant payment arena for another player. [www.paypal.com]
Mixing Creative Commons Licenses between Blog & Podcast Content
I have a dilemma and I am hoping to get some feedback. It is my desire to create a Creative Commons License for both the written portion of this site and my Podcast. Based upon everything I have read so far I will probably want to create one type for the written content and a different one for the Podcast.
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