Disqus - Latest Comments for leolaporte

Re: Props to Leo Laporte

leolaporte — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:15:38 -0000

Thanks, Jeff! Truth is, I only just figured out Twitter's arcane reply rules (@dane clued me in when I sent him a congratulations on 15 years in business and only our mutual followers saw it). I try, these days, to put the @ name in a subordinate clause except when I really want to limit my answer to only our mutual followers. I bet 90% of Twitter users have no idea what we're talking about!!!

Re: Blogworld And New Media Expo Report

leolaporte — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:24:52 -0000

Right on Paul. It's still a small - and perhaps even struggling - show, but it's OUR show and we need to help make it happen. See you next year, TWiTs in tow.

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: Roz Is OFF!

leolaporte — Mon, 25 May 2009 11:28:23 -0000

I'm having some difficulty with Disqus moderation. If you posted a comment and it's still not appearing here, my apologies. I'll approve them as soon as Disqus starts working again.

Re: Leo’s Twitter Updates for 2008-05-25

leolaporte — Mon, 25 May 2009 11:26:59 -0000

And here we are, one year later, and Roz has just sailed again!

Re: TWiT Army Laconica Plugin

leolaporte — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:55:43 -0000

Brilliant! Thanks Kyle!!!

Re: New mixer

leolaporte — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:03:12 -0000

The Telos Axia is still in the works. We'll probably install it in May or June.

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: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/03/can-microblogging-power-blog-community.html

leolaporte — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 09:33:48 -0000

This is an experiment we tried some time ago at TWiT and it's been a rousing success. A microblog focused around a community is a very different experience from the hurly burly of Twitter, and more satisfying in many ways. One also tends to use a small microblog differently - the public stream, for instance, is much more useful. I don't even follow anyone; I just read the public stream. We used Laconica for the TWiT Army install and it's working very nicely. http://army.twit.tv

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 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: HowTo: The Macintosh will be 25 on 1/24/09

leolaporte — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:49:18 -0000

I became a computer buff in the late 70s, first with Atari, then C/PM machines. I bought one of the first IBM-PC clones, an Eagle PC, in '83. I remember seeing the Lisa around that time and wanting one very badly, but at $10,000 they were way beyond the means of a midday DJ at KLOK-AM in San Jose (aka me). When the Macintosh came out I was really excited but it was still pretty expensive. It took me two months of yearning before I could bring myself to go into the San Francisco Macy's, plunk down my Macy's credit card, and spend $2,500 on my first Mac. It probably took me several years to pay off that Mac, but I never looked back. Which is funny, because that first 128K Mac was a real pain to use. I still remember the several hundred disk swaps it would take to copy a single floppy.

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.