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What I’m Watching: Dr. Kiki and Ray Maxwell
May 15th
This week I finally caught the live stream of Dr. kiki’s Science hour on live.twit.tv, Leo Laporte (of TWiT.tv)’s live video stream of everything he does, even some shows which you can’t directly get a podcast feed of, such as Maxwell’s House with Ray Maxwell and Dr. Kiki’s Science Hour with Dr. Kiki Sanford. Usually I’m passive with viewing these shows, but they were somehow exceptionally wonderful this week.
Dr. Kiki spread the show over just about every topic from medicine to chaos theory in drawers with cords, very thought-provocating. Ray Maxwell introduced the atomic theories such as Bohr, Ruthford, and will be spending the next few weeks going into great depth. But, this gets better, because Ray Maxwell is going to be joined by Dr. Amanda Peet (aka @kiwinerd in the TWiT chat rooms, on Twitter, and the TWiT Army) who has been with the University of Toronto since 2000 and appeared in PBS’ NOVA ‘The Elegant Universe’.
These two shows (Maxwell’s house and Dr. Kiki’s Science Hour) are both great shows which tend to broadcast on Thursdays at 2p (Maxwell) and 3p (Kiki) Pacific time. To get an up to date schedule, see this calendar.
Or should you miss any TWiT show, you can get it at ODTV.me (which is coincidently run by kiwinerd). The links for the two shows mentioned above are:
Hak.5 April Fools
Apr 4th
I’ve been a bit behind on my tech podcasts, or atleast the video ones, and I’ve just got to the the Hak.5 April Fools’ Day episode (episode #507) which takes place in 1995. They talk about Windows “Chicago” 95, the SNES, Sega, the coming Song PlayStation, and how-to get free long-distance using phone tones. In the episode they mention a BBS at bbs.hak5.org, and well, I couldn’t resist.
I opened terminal and used the command telnet bbs.hak5.org and it actually worked! This uses the ancient telnet protocol, and they must have set-up a server. I’ve made a video of this:
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[UPDATE-19:26]Episode number is #507, not #90 as I had mis-stated.[/UPDATE].
Google Chrome Update: Security Now!
Sep 12th
In this weeks installment of Security Now! with Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson, covered the security (and to an extent the performance), it’s interesting that I love Chrome, And so have many others, but Steve Gibson doesn’t so much share theat opinion. Take a listen for yourself at twit.tv/sn161 and see more about security at Steve Gibson’s security site at grc.com.
Triple Head 2 Go Review – by Macworld
Sep 2nd
This video demonstrates how to use a computer (mac or PC) with up to 3 displays via VGA or DVI. The computer only requires one monitor out via VGA or DVI (depending on which model you choose). How this works is that all of the monitors havve to have the same resolution across the moitors (say 1440×768)… to the computer it appears that it’s one monitor at 4320×768. This device isn’t for high-performance gaming but is great for spreadsheets, office, web, etc.. just don’t try gaming with it.
The Franken Mac by Macworld
Aug 31st
This is an episode of the Macworld (magazine) video podcast about the “Franken Mac” which is a macintosh which is built by Macworld to compare with the Psystar Open Mac. Check out the article here and the video below.
