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DATE: 03/16/2006 06:46:00 PM
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I just tried loading Windows Live on Ubuntu Linux. After I allowed the site in NoScript, it loaded in just a couple seconds in Firefox. On XP, it was still showing as loading 2 minutes later with only the search box and Windows Beta log.

Sounds like a good one. Interesting topics for robert to rant about - looking forward to it! :D

When I try to watch the show live with firefox, it sayes missing plugin? what plugin do I need? thanks, Mitch

Hmmm...I'm not getting anysound from the show tonight. Anyone else having trouble?

oops that was says missing plugin? in firefox, what plugin?

either the Windows Media Player plug-in or the Flash plug-in

I get sound, but no picture

I get the same problem in IE.

oooooo! Well now Pat has to, lol! Yay and Woo Hoo!

I love it when Alex stops by with the cool Pixel Corps info. That guy is amazing and is doing wonderful things with the Corps. One of the last times he was on, he showed that new, low-cost compositing tool that adds CG to real video with ease. Always great stuff.

So he's going to have a show with Leo over at twit.tv? That's incredible news!

You guys are the most lax people I have ever seen with regards to attention to detail of the set. Fix the black sheet or paper or whatever you have taped to that table!

my cdma cell phone will actually interfere with my moniter before it rings, the moniter sorta goes fuzzy

I just saw a product called Cellstik that will backup a phone book with the push of a button. It's like 39 bucks and I'm about to get one... can you guys try it out??? Please?

Patrick keep the Nokia OUTTA THE WATER :-P

Ventrilo is old news... Teamspeak uses better compression and less bandwidth..

long live the gamers:-)

Yes, that desk skirt is sloppy. Should be mounted below the table edge without thumbtacks. It's amazing the careful detail people will give to a case mod or custom car and then be a total slob elsewhere. And what's with the random remotes?

Yup, they did their first show at the big mac get together just after CES. Then Alex has done 2 specials on how they are creating MacBreak.
Also stars Amber MacArthur and a 4th person that I don't know.

We want to see Patrick's kilt !

Obviously, Patrick and Robert probably already know this, but Kevin Rose did a great Asterisk overview on an episode of Systm: http://revision3.com/systm

That episode is probably *the* one thing that changed my opinion of Kevin Rose. It's a little dry, but it goes into some good depth, and shows how internet shows like Systm can go into more detail than your average network tech show.

There is also a free (and legal) Asterisk book from O'Reilly available at http://www.asteriskdocs.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=11

Can't wait to see DLTV tackle the subject as well!

Hi there
I was watching the bit about the Ipod in a bag and I thought that Pat would have showen how to put the cable through the bag. A trick that many motorcycle riders used for many years to lube the cables on there bikes will work here too. Poke a small hole in the corner of the bag and thread the cable through the hole and then wrap a rubber band around the bag and cable. Be sure to get the rubber as tight as you can. ( At this point the motorcycle guys would hang the bag up so that it was above the cable and then pour some oil into the bag, let it sit over night and the oil will seep down through the cable to lube the inner part of the cable.)
A few things to note about bagging you Ipod or phone ect.
*Do not take into the water anythine that you cannot or do not want to replace.
*Water protection is best used to protect from a splash of water.
*If you want to take your gear into the water get a diving case that is rated for deeper then anything you plan the dive.

Scotchbrite pads, freezer bags, wires and masking tape. Sure sounds like a digital life to me.

The monitor went into hibernation for reasons unknown. Statistics said 1500+ frames dropped/skipped. When it came back up the MP was locked had to restart.

Wonder what was on the back of Robert's shirt? Anyhow, great show! Funny watching Patrick's giant fingers trying to manipulate those wires!

Ahem, I happened to see a monitor like the one you used to have on another show earlier today? You need to chase down the Head Crank and get it back!

Are those available online? I just checked TWiT and Pixel Corps and couldn't find them. But it is possible that I am blind and/or stupid.

After seeing how hard it was to open that mac it just gave me another great reason never to buy one. PCs today will come apart with the push of a button.

After seeing how hard it was to open that mac it just gave me another great reason never to buy one. PCs today will come apart with the push of a button.

Kyle, The desktop Macs are amazingly easy to open and work on. They open with a single latch. The mini is more like a notebook, made for compactness, not ease of modding. The mini opens easier with the putty knife method, don't know why Patrick was messing around with the wires if he had not figured out the technique yet.

The mini's have such high resale value, it's smarter to buy a new one with the options you want than to upgrade it yourself.

But anyone who will title a post "Macs suck" is probably not actually considering buying one anyway (even with Intel inside and the Windows hack).

It was a case of catch them as they came out through the regular channels.

Currently they are only available through iTunes. Just search for MacBreak under podcasts.

There is only 1 available from the twitorrents

http://twitorrents.com/bm/library/7

Man my brain just exploded. We're not worthy of that kind of coolness

Every time I see Patrick it brings a smile to my face. There's just something about him. He's very photogenic and you just instantly trust what he says. It's a very strange quality. This sounds lame, but this had to be said!

Dvorak, we know it's you!

Thanks rlj! Although I'm not a Mac owner, it's still great to see the behind-the-scenes "specials" that Alex presented for MacBreak.

It's really some great looking stuff!

Not only am i not learning, im forgetting stuff i used to know!

If encodeing is not done till tomorrow can we have the ones that have already been encoded tonight?

I just started checking out the show and like it a lot but I was wondering why you chose such an odd codec. Why not use something like divx or xvid? Or at least have those as an option. It took my a while to figure out how to get the audio to work under Linux because of the aac format. Emerging several packages and adding the "aac" USE flag got it working though. I do love the show. Keep it up.

Sorry about that. I jsut realized there are other codecs. I'm so silly. That's what you get for not reading. Anyhow great show! :)

That segment with Alex Lindsey from the Pixel Corps about 3-D photography was great! I took all kinds of pictures of the outside and inside of a HUGE building--almost an entire gig of raw, high res images. Now, I can make a freakin' 3-D model of the bank I was planning to rob! HOLY CRAP! Thanks guys, you just made my job a WHOLE LOT easier! Kudos.

I have no problems with the Nextel USB cable on my PC running XP. Just downloaded the drivers from moto. I use the USB cable to download and edit my phone book too.

What is the sony phone robert is waiting for to come out?

I am building a pc and have a choice between a 3.2 GHZ. XEON or an 2.2 GHZ. Dual core 64-bit opteron. Wich is better any ideas or other processor recommendations?????
THANX :)

Depends on your application. Also, with those cpus you might want to look at what motherboards are going to have the features you need (eg. NUMA, SCSI, PCI-X, SLI, ECC, etc). Do a google for "techreport X2", you should find the direct comparison you're looking for.

I'd like to see it, but I doubt server parts will be seen much on dl.tv.

Finding non-conforming sites is like shooting fish in a barrel.

That being said, the extremetech family of pages are uglyville anyway, imho. DLTV still great though.

I really enjoyed the show today, great work! Thank you!

The Otterbox I use for swimming with music gets lots of comments at the pool. The only place I've found that has reliable stock of headphones is waterproofcases.net. They have some new ones I've just ordered. Keeping headphones in your ears while swimming isn't easy. I'm waiting for new implementations of the skeletal conduction thing using cheek bones.

You guys are really hitting your stride. The timing is getting very relaxed and the chemistry between David and Pat has never been better. Kudos lads, I think this is your best work so far. Thank you for the wonderful entertainment, all the best. :)

Oops, I meant "Robert" and Pat. :)

It's been quite a long time since I downloaded dl.tv. Awesome show guys. Keep up the good work!

Alex Lindsay rocks. More Alex!

I can't believe you talked about the phones buzzing just before an incomming call rings and you didn't set it up to be called during the (non) demo.

The issues with GSM phones and audio equipment are not already very well known in Europe. I did not understand the technobabble about 217MHz? GSM is around 900/1800/1900 MHz depending where you are.

Anyway, what is happening is that the radio signals used by the phone are being picked up by the audio equipment. This should not happen, audio equipment should be immune to radio signals, but the signals from a nearby phone are relatively strong. Only active equipment is effected, passive devices like loudspeakers are not, but amplifiers built into speakers are, especialy cheap ones.

These radio signals are sent using a technology variously called Narrow band Time Domain Duplex and time division multiple access TDMA. That is the phone transmits a pulse of data and the base station transmits a pulse in turn. The frame length is 4.6mS so the repetition rate is 217Hz. In addition, 8 phones share one channel so in a voise call the phone is only on for 1/8th of the time. So it might send a pulse of radio transmission for 575 microseconds, 217 times per second.

When the phone transmits it uses high power, half a watt or more average. This high power RF gets into the audio circuitry which rectifies the RF and and often causes a small jump in the audio level, you hear this as a buzz.

When the phone is acquiring a new base station, it will use full power initially and you might hear that as a few pulses. Just before a call, there is some handshaking and ranging before the phone rings, you hear that as a regular rythm. When in call you will get a constant buzz.

With CDMA you do not hear this for two reasons. One is that the phone is transmitting wideband signals with much shorter bursts and the other is that the pulse repetition frequency is well beyond the audio range. It can still affect video though.

Why does GSM use pulses and not transmit all the time like analogue phones used to? Because with TDMA/TDD if you do not transmit and receive at the same time it means you do not need a duplexor. These are phsically large and expensive to make.

i get buzzing with cdma phones. my brother has a tri-band phone operating off a cdma network, and i hear noises through his 5.1 computer speakers all the time.

You are welcome Karate Media. I don't own a Mac either, yet.

I'm using IE and in2tv doesn't work. It plays the commercials, then when it's time to play the actual episode it's just black with 0:00/0:00 showing up. I don't get this. Did anybody try installing that Hi-Q activeX codec? I installed it then regretted it immediately.

BIG freakin' surprise there! I joined AOL in the mid to late 90s. It was rare when something they offered actually worked. When and if it did it usually didn't work long. When I want old TV reruns I just watch TVLand... Hi-Q is most likely buggy, I wouldn't risk it.

On the bit about cell phones interfering with the headphones. I have noticed on my CDMA phone that it interferes with my monitor as well. Just before a call or text message comes in my monitor will get crazy lines across it.

Great show guys, nice job.

Now that you have me hooked, how about a dedicated site wrapped around your show. Have some hardware rewiews based on stuff you've talked about, or even some videos from the show. Lots of fun stuff.

What I'm saying is, I want a reason to go back to your site more than twice a week.

And In2TV is Windows XP and Windows 2000 only FOR COPY PROTECTION purposes per the website. iTunes manages cross platform copy protection software why can't AOL?

Does anyone know why there is no web page link to download Episode 45 of DigitalLife TV?

Tuesday March 21, 2006. 11:55PM Eastern Standard Time.

Same as above....

Anybody notice how much Partick "Likes that thought"?

:)

Keep up the great work, guys.

There is a company called Optware that is developing a Holographic Versatile Disc, similar to a DVD that can store 200Gb to 1Tb in the future.

http://www.optware.co.jp/english/top.htm

Also, there is an interview with the developer on EE Times website:

http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=180206971

Hey, i did a google search for scotchbrite pad mods and dl.tv is top

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Did I miss something or did they forget to do this segment again? Any chance it can be discussed on a future show?