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2004

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How to record Streaming Audio & Video

I have been doing a lot of streaming Audio and Video recently and have never had a need to capture the Audio and Video but do now. Google has led me into some interesting sites and I have found 2-3 programs that seem to do a ok job. I would like your opinions on what you use and your experiences.

Don’t throw away that OLD PC

A lot of you out there have old PC's stuck away in closets not quite knowing what to do with them. DesignTechnica has some great suggestions and if you don't like what they suggest there are always schools that need computers. [DesginTechnica]

Spirit on Mars on the road to Recovery

This country has some damn fine Geeks, the technical team at NASA JPL have three working theories on what happened to Spirit. a. The software which handles file management for the flash memory is not robust enough. b. That there may be a problem with one of the motor control boards. c. Or that a recent solar event caused problems

Opportunity on Mars all Systems Go!

The Opportunity Rover on Mars has been sending back new data the science team excitement about the landing site is hardly being contained. [Opportunity & Spirit News Conference Recaps]

Britain facing new Ice Age!

A very interesting article which is getting some serious air-play and is being taken seriously by scientist seems to have raised concerns that due to Jet Stream changes could change Britain into a Arctic Zone. [news.independent.co.uk]

Opportunity Pictures are out of this world!

The pics that came in from Opportunity are amazing even viewed thru my streaming video of NASA TV. Nothing on the NASA website yet but hopefully we will have some pics to link to here in a few minutes.

Opportunity is sending Data Via Relay

Appears the Rover Opportunity is passing 22 megs of data via Relay and we are awaiting pictures. [marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov] All of this data is being derived from Nasa TV Superior play by play information at Adot's Notblog*

Opportunity is on the ground

Opportunity is on the ground and everything is looking very good awaiting updates. UPDATE: The lander is alive and on the ground with good reception signal strength no comes a several hour wait until we have some good juicy info.

Live Opportunity Landing Coverage in Process

Those of us here at Geek News Central are monitoring live NASA coverage of the Rover Opportunities Landing on Mars. Thus far all systems are go and we are 1 hour out from touchdown. We will be keeping an eye on things if you want to tune into live coverage tune in here. [Live Coverage NASA TV]

Free After Rebate

How many of you drive to stores just to score some Free after Rebate Items, if your one of those people there is a dedicated site just for you. (Added to my Daily Bookmark) [www.freeafterrebate.info]

Bill Gates needs to call Hector Santos

Seems Bill Gates has been investigating ways to kill Spam. Well my good friend Hector Santos has figured out a way to kill spam and if Bill wants a solution that works he should give him a call and throw a million or two his way. If I had the money I sure as hell would. I have been happily

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