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Re: Leo’s Twitter Updates for 2008-05-17

leolaporte — Mon, 25 May 2009 14:33:01 -0000

It's Wolfram Alpha - http://wolframalpha.com - enjoy and thanks for listening!

Re: The Skypesaurus Story

leolaporte — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:36:41 -0000

We have a ton of bandwidth. Currently the Skypesaurus runs on our Comcast business class cable with 4Mbits up and 30 down. It's working fine, but we've ordered IEEE 802.3ah from Sonic.net which will give us a symmetric 10Mbps (or possibly 12mbits because we're two blocks from the CO). We'll use that for Skypesaurus starting tomorrow or the next day.

We also have a T1 for video streaming, a business class DSL line for another Skype box (which we use for the single host shows), and ISDN for the radio show. We spend $1200/month for bandwidth and need it.

Re: The Skypesaurus Story

leolaporte — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:29:50 -0000

That's what we bought - so it must work! We did buy some cheaper RAM and had a problem. Hence the Corsair.

Re: The Skypesaurus Story

leolaporte — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:27:18 -0000

We're not green, alas. But we have endeavoured to stick with low power solutions when possible. The Mini-ITX case is very low power. Our entire lighting grid uses only 250-watts. Nevertheless, we do use a lot of power to do what we do. I'd love to go all solar, but since we rent the studio I don't think that's likely.

The Ebox is a good looking solution - Colleen may not have know about them. Our Atoms were cheap, and had s-video out, which was a key part of the solution. They also offer optical audio out which we'll be using soon. We are planning to add DC power bricks to them to eliminate fan noise.

Virtual machines won't work. You need four discrete audio and video channels - that means four hardware boxes.

I wanted to make sure we had the latest version of Skype to work with. The Linux versions seem to lag the Windows versions.

Thanks for watching!

Re: The Skypesaurus Story

leolaporte — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:23:09 -0000

Colleen, of course.

Re: tumbléo

leolaporte — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 11:45:31 -0000

It was a follow-up tweet to a story I did about the mainstreaming of Twitter with Bill Handel on KFI. It's newsworthy - just as the link to celebrities who tweet was - one doesn't have to follow the link.

Re: Windows 7: Snap!

leolaporte — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 03:24:04 -0000

It's around 3GB - but get it soon. They say no more downloads after Feb 10.

Re: Windows 7: Snap!

leolaporte — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:06:03 -0000

Thanks! Wonder how this is different from the no sandbox switch.

Re: Windows 7: Snap!

leolaporte — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:04:40 -0000

Works! Thanks.

Looks like I'll have to add this to all my saved application shortcuts, too. Thanks!

Re: Facebook in Real Life

mjstwrt — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:00:55 -0000

Thanks Estelle I havn't posted in a while but I have a few in the works now which I am going to post soon.

Re: Facebook Connected

leolaporte — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:11:18 -0000

I had no idea it was turned off. Must have reset itself somewhere. Or I never noticed it. I'm off to fix it right now. I hate excerpts in RSS!

I just checked and it's been on full text all along.

Re: Twitter Hacked

leolaporte — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:01:17 -0000

I really appreciated your openess, John. It's good to know what actually happened.

The full conversation is on Qik: http://qik.com/twit#v=813128 (along with other videos of the revelry last night) Our conversation begins about 3 minutes in at the 10:00 mark. It was good meeting you too - sorry about the camera work!!

Re: A River of TWiT

leolaporte — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:04:36 -0000

XMPP automatically time stamps every message. Done!

Re: A River of TWiT

leolaporte — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:04:04 -0000

You bet! We just don't want to begin and end with Friend Feed.

Re: A River of TWiT

leolaporte — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:03:31 -0000

My first concern is always for the download listeners - they're the biggest audience and, in fact, the ones the advertisers pay for. Dont worry!

And as far as I can tell this is practically free content for me - so I'm not worried it will overextend me.

Re: A River of TWiT

leolaporte — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:58:26 -0000

Great idea!

Re: A River of TWiT

leolaporte — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:55:58 -0000

I am currently thinking you get a default set of follows and then add others you're interested. The default is just the basics but you can build it up to Scoble levels of noise if you're so inclined. That's why FOLLOW is so important.

Re: A River of TWiT

leolaporte — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:51:23 -0000

I think that the clients can be designed to handle this. For instance, I LOVE someone's idea of putting a slider in a client that can titrate the rate of flow. These things are easily solved with XMPP and RSS.

Re: A River of TWiT

leolaporte — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:50:32 -0000

The problem with Laconica (and Twitter) is that XMPP is an afterthought - starting with a messaging system then building static web pages makes much more sense. Laconica is decidedly not real-time - or even that reliable.

Re: A River of TWiT

leolaporte — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:45:50 -0000

That's the point of having a FOLLOW command. We'd populate it with a default set of follows (say, me, the show hosts, and a few trusted contributors) but you could add others. You won't see ANY spam unless you explicitly follow a spammer (or watch the unedited feed, which few will do).

Re: Egypt Video

leolaporte — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:19:32 -0000

I understand. I've asked Stickam to modify their embeds so they don't autoplay. They promise that's coming soon. Until then you can go directly to the blog by bookmarking http://leoville.com/blog - sorry for the inconvenience.

Re: TWiT.am

leolaporte — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:47:13 -0000

Ahh. That's great! Thanks for figuring this out.

I think that Icecast is neither a pls or m3u but simulates m3u for compatibility. I don't think it does a .pls file at all.

Re: TWiT.am

leolaporte — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:00:21 -0000

QuickTime is not an Icecast client. You need to use iTunes, Winamp, or many of the other Internet radio programs.

Re: Library Time

leolaporte — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:40:22 -0000

A lot of images from older posts are missing - this blog has been moved so often and we've crashed a few times, too. Sorry!

Re: TWiT.am

leolaporte — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:34:06 -0000

It's a 24x7 stream (barring technical difficulties). During live shows (~35 hours/week) it's a simulcast of the TWiT Live video. The rest of the time it's a playlist of TWiT programs plus various interstitial randomness (music, old radio shows, short bits, etc.)

It's an Icecast2 stream - http://twit.am/listen.m3u - port 80 or 8000

Thanks, Paul - we'd love to be in your database!