GarageBand, Podcasting and GTalk

Well, I guess I better get a post in for the month of November.  Ugh, it's been a long month.  Anyway, fiddling with free podcasting tools and methods and I discovered some updates in Snow Leopard that are pretty cool. I little while ago on Leopard I found…

Cisco ISR G2's on the way

I've gotten a look at a powerpoint with the technical details now.  Nothing too earth shattering.  More of a natural progression of capabilities and performance. I'm such a geek.  The one cool new feature is that they have finally put in a USB console port.  Actually…

A good Google Wave explanation

Just stumbled across this post describing why Wave is such a big deal.  I think he does an excellent job of describing it, including his follow up post.  The idea behind the protocol really is liberating and solves a number of problems.  Read it!…

Twitter is dead, and Facebook might not be far behind

Reading about Google Wave today as I wait impatiently for my invite.  It better come. I was reading the latest (I think) developer blog update and near the end is this gem: "We're also working on larger changes like providing anonymous read-only access to embedded waves --…

Google Wave...possibilities...

Hoping for a Google Wave invite today.  The possibilities for Wave look intriguing, not because of what it's launching with but rather because of what it's built on.  The core is essentially XMPP from what I've been reading, with a healthy dose of HTML5…

Google and voice...and video....and IM

There's been a lot of noise lately about AT&T and Apple and Google not playing nice together.  The latest is AT&T carrying on about Google Voice blocking rural numbers because their costs are so much higher.  Ok, that's kind of crappy, but…

Blue Iris for video security

Zoneminder, argh.  I'm not sure how much time I've put into getting Zoneminder to work but it's a lot.  There's just something about it that confounds me, whether it's because of the underlying OS or hardware problems...Zoneminder seems to…

Cheap remote sniffer

Looking for a cheap and reliable way of doing packet capture remotely.  I found this reference to using PFSense and it looks like a pretty slick idea.  I was quite happy with PFSense when I was using it as a firewall so this idea looks like a winner.  I'…