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November 2004

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Geek News Central Podcast #8 11-08-04

Still fighting with the in office setup and we had a bitrate issue tonight as well. I will get that figured out to ensure that it does not happen again. We should have our first Interview on the next show. Will let you know in advance who the guest is. GeekNewsCentral-110804.mp3 Is Google Spying on Gmail Email? Technorati Improvements Google

BloggerCon III Thoughts

Having gotten out of bed late and forgetting to have the stream saver setup I missed the most important Blogger Session of the year and that was the Podcast Session at BloggerCon. So if any of you did have your act together please e-mail me the session. The other sessions which I was awake for and had my act together

Venus and Jupiter’s Upcoming Conjunction

Planet and Star watchers should be up to speed on this but tomorrow Venus and Jupiter will be the closest to each other. "This year's conjunction is rare for two reasons. First, the two planets are less than one degree apart; and second, they are more than fifteen degrees from the sun. Large number conjunctions, such as the one that

MPAA using RIAA gestapo tactics!

Imagine this you get a knock at the door and the mailman has a certified letter from the MPAA, inside that letter is a legal notice saying we have proof you have been sharing copyrighted music and you owe us a truck load of cash. Pay up and keep your mouth shut or we will expose you as the thief

BitTorrent using 35 percent of the Internets Traffic?

Personally I think whoever did this research is smoking something other than a cigarette. But hey I have known to be wrong a time or two myself. If 35 percent is the percentage of net traffic being consumed by BitTorrent is true then their has to be an amazing amount of music, software and movies being passed around. Their data

Geek News Central Needs a Bandwidth Sponsor

It has become very apparent that I am going to need some more bandwidth for the Geek News Central Podcast. Thus I am looking for a sponsor to host the Podcast or help out with the bandwidth. If you are interested in helping us out drop me a line geek at geeknewscentral.com

Geek News Central Podcast #8 11-04-04

Ok folks I am back in Hawaii and this first Podcast from the office. It was definitely a challenge, lots of fan noise from the servers which required me to shutdown two servers to make it tolerable. Time to find these servers a new home away from my office. Plus the office has no carpet so I am dealing with

Geek News Central Podcast 4 out of 5 Stars!

I want to thank the folks over at Podcast Review 4 out of 5 stars and thanks for their terrific comments. I was on my way back to Hawaii when this came out and found the link today. [Podcast Review]

iPodDownload 1.1

Apple invested significant coding time into blocking this application from working in the new iTunes. Well the programming crew came up with a fix and his given Apple the middle finger. [Engadget]

China shuts down 1600 Internet Cafe’s

It's nice to see that the communist spirit is alive and well in Communist China. As crazy as people have been here in the US about the election at least we still live in a free society and don't have to worry about the government shutting down Internet Cafe's. [Yahoo]

The best 5 WiFi Hotels

With all the problems I had at my last hotel with broadband connectivity this article is relevant in that it goes over the best five WiFi hotel chains. [WiFi Net News]

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