This is an article which looks at the alternatives for networking your home to use all the media you have with any computer, or audio or video device in your house. Here is part of the story…At these prices, a roll your own thing built around a low-cost PC becomes quite tempting. Start with a $200 Linux box from Wal-Mart, the Microtel PC with an AMD Sempr0n 2200+. Throw out the CD-ROM and replace it with a double layer DVD drive ($99). Add your choice of disk drives, since it has two open 5.25-inch bays and a 3.5-inch bay, plus four USB 2.0 ports. If a no-name box from Wal-Mart makes you a little uncomfortable, you can get your hands on an entry-level Mac Mini for $499, add a couple of drives through its USB and/or Firewire ports, and set up file sharing. It's not the prettiest answer, but you get a Mac to play out of the bargain.The Inquirer
The VOIP Security Alliance, or VOIPSA, launches today. So far, 22 entities, including security experts, researchers, operators and equipment vendors, have signed up. They range from equipment vendor Siemens and phone company Qwest to research organization The SANS Institute. Their goal is to counteract a range of potential security risks in the practice of sending voice as data packets, as well as educate users as they buy and use VOIP equipment. An e-mail mailing list and working groups will enable discussion and collaboration on VOIP testing tools. David Endler, chairman of the VOIP Security Alliance said , there are many ways to attack a VOIP system. First, VOIP inherits the same problems that affect IP networks themselves: Hackers can launch distributed denial of service attacks, which congest the network with illegitimate traffic. This prevents e-mails, file transfers, web-page requests and, increasingly, voice calls from getting through. Voice traffic has its own sensitivities, which mean the user experience can easily be degraded past the point of usability.
For those of you that were unable to watch the the SuperBowl, I bring you the most important part of the game, the Commercials! See the entire list of Ads from last night's big game here at ifilm. They even have the Ads that were banned from appearing last night. GeekNews Note: GoDaddy.com who's ad was a spoof on the wardrobe
iVeZeen from Boinx software is a $14.95 program which works with your iSight camera or many other firewire or USB webcams. iVeZeen has a one button interface with several presets to make it easy to create a Quicktime .mov file for distribution on the web or with emails. Get a demo key and try it for yourself. I did. I did a short review vlog of iVeZeen to show you how simple it was, even a broadcast Neanderthal like myself could do it. Grab it here and see for yourself. (This is an 8 meg download)
I have been doing some research were Geek News Central is supposedly hitting sites with trackback pings, when in fact we never did. Some low life's are trying to jury rig the trackback process.. The only thing I can figure is they are adding the pings to their database by hand or have a tool that does a fake reverse
The main page at TechPodcasts.com is looking a lot better and we have started to get the rest of the site organized. Still a long way from the way we want it but I am very much pleased with the way the site is looking. [www.techpodcasts.com] Update Spoke to soon! We had some issues this afternoon so I took the
The first ever Podcast Awards will be conducted begining June 15th 2005. The site went live today and will require some work to get it ready. [www.podcastawards.com]
I spent about 6 hours today going thru the various tutorials on how to use the Mac to create a Podcast. The initial setup was easy although I could not figure out why the Mac would not record iTunes or my Skype calls with what comes standard in windows. Instead I had to go download this flower power application. :)
MSN Messenger Worm Packs Double PunchAnti-virus vendors have raised the threat level on a double-barrelled MSN Messenger worm that lures users with the promise of sexy image files.
Microsoft is planning to release 13 patches next week according to the companies security bulletin advance notification service.The updates range from moderate to critical. 9 of the bulletins will effect Microsoft Windows and all 9 are critical. Other bulletins effect Microsoft SharePoint Service, Microsoft Office & Visual Studio, Microsoft .NET framework, Windows Media Player and the companies IM software; MSN Messenger.The
On the Monday Podcast, Our Geek mentioned that his back pain was causing him quite a bit of discomfort, so when I seen this article I thought it would be a good idea to share it with you, it’s from Wired News and it’s called "The Painful Truth"