http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php Tech Talk is a podcast for everything about technology. It is done by a trio of equally nonsensical high school students. We're a little underground, we're a little shady, and we commit no piracy yet somehow we know everything about it... Feeder 1.2.5 http://reinventedsoftware.com/feeder/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License - NonCommercial Sampling Plus 1.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/nc-sampling+/1.0/ en-us Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:43:00 +0500 Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:43:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/logo.jpg http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php 128 12 The funniest one-liner ever happens in this show. You'll have to listen to find out. Other than that, this show was pretty damn good. This 60 minute show had some amusing news and for the topic we discussed our preferred brands for particular items. Mon, 8 Jan 2007 06:07:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com We're back again because you care. TK is back too. We had a regular show for the first time in forever. 30 minutes, a full cast, a real topic, and it felt good. The news turned out to be pretty amusing and the topic took a relatively serious because Windows Vista is..uh...serious. And stuff. Sun, 3 Dec 2006 00:16:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com We're back with our first show in 2 months. Thank you, bitches. You'll quickly notice that TK is absent from this show. You'll have to listen to the show to find out why. The news was amusing enough with just me and Dan and the topic was something to marvel at. We talked about traffic...in my car...on the highway. I will warn you that the quality is less than wonderful due to road noise, rain, high speeds, recording on my laptop mic and lots of other things. Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:16:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com I actually paid money for this show. That's right, I bought real hosting from Dreamhost and that's where our site, our forum, and our shows will be hosted. The address is http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com and hopefully you'll be visiting there soon. In other news, we will hopefully be doing a show this weekend. It's really hard to get together to do one since we're all going to different colleges and we've all agreed that we don't want to degrade the show by using Skype. If there are any problems with the new site or forum, let me know right away (Contact Us page on the website). I've updated all the links in this feed and last but not least, the new address for the RSS feed is http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/rss.xml Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:21:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com This is a long story but I'm going to try and condense it as much as possible. My plan was to film our most recent show and release both an audio and video version. This didn't really work out for several reasons. Originally I planned to film it using the camera we used for the behind the scenes and intro videos but I recently got a webcam that recorded at a much higher quality. Obviously, this webcam didn't have a microphone so I planned to sync the audio from the show to the video. To make a very long story short, it didn't work. Just check the pictures out Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:45:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=60 For those of you wondering about the future of the show, here's the deal: it will continue although on a very limited schedule. Dan, TK and I have agreed that doing the show on Skype or even on a regular phone just wouldn't be the same (check out our first show if you don't believe us). We will do the show whenever possible but that unfortunately won't be very often. When we do get around to releasing content we will try to do as much as possible. My advice to you is subscribe to our RSS feed and just let our brilliance come to you whenever we release a show. Now, as for this show, it was pretty good overall. We turned the second half of the show into a kind of philosophy session...just listen for yourself. Sun, 13 Aug 2006 09:59:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com I don't think anybody even listens to these but we love doing them so here's another one. This one was pretty long compared to most of the other ones and there are some funny moments if you're brave enough to sit through all the boring parts. Sun, 13 Aug 2006 09:59:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com Once again we bring you a 60 minute show with 13% less cholesterol than before. We spiced up the news a bit by answering some questions posed in the headlines and we finished up with some pretty good stories. For our topic we covered even more programs we love in part 3 of this running topic. Tue, 8 Aug 2006 00:45:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com It's been awhile since our last philosophy session so we decided to do another one for your utter and pure enjoyment. Tue, 8 Aug 2006 00:45:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com There will be no show for July 21 as I will be on vacation. Fri, 21 Jul 2006 21:00:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com The news was extremely limited in this show thanks to a complete lack of anything interesting happening in the past week. However, the topic brought the news up from the trenches by making fun of how bad the newest version of everybody's favorite website, Digg, is. Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:55:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com Sorry about the extreme delay in getting this show out but I've just been so busy with work and lots of other stuff plus this show just wasn't all that great. We had an exclusive news story thanks to TK but aside from that this show was pretty average. Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:55:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com
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Links: NewEgg
The Familiar Project
GPE Home Page
OPIE Home Page
GEP vs OPIE Posts (So far my most fair comparison on the two)
GPE vs OPIE Wiki-Like Site
The Intimate Project
Official Project Hub Site for Linux Handhelds
Really Good Article About Linux on the iPAQ
Differences of iPAQ vs Zaurus and Technicalities of their Hardware and Putting Linux on them
The Pocket Workstation Project
Wiki for Handhelds
OpenZaurus Home Page
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Downloads: [ Download, Blooper, Blooper 2 ]]]> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:34:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com Completely lacking in any discernable form of enthusiasm, this show was one of the worst we've ever done. For some reason we were all way more tired than usual and it showed to say the very least. The news was pretty funny while the topic dragged us down to new lows. We covered our favorite products and while the content was good the delivery was subpar. Check this one out anyways. Sun, 4 Jun 2006 15:53:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com
Sites: [ How to disable USB mass storage, WinPE, Boot Windows from USB device, Firefox saved passwords for all to see, Disable LM Hashes ]]]> Sun, 28 May 2006 00:55:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com Here's another philosophy session for you to enjoy. After listening to this one there's a lot you won't really get but it's still funny nonetheless. Sun, 28 May 2006 00:55:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com
Sites: [ Mailinator, IRCSpider, IRCSpider image we mentioned, Hack A Day, Diggdot.us, IronGeek, My Contribution to IronGeek (bottom), Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, Free Dictionary, Free Translation, Ignorant American, Wikipedia, Uncyclopedia, Chuck Norris on Uncyclopedia, YouTube, KeepVid, Google Video, Metacafe, CSS Zen Garden, W3 Schools, PHP.net, The Onion, Weather Underground, Weather.com, Ask A Ninja, BugMeNot ]]]> Sun, 28 May 2006 00:55:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com
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Sites: [ Instant Ophcrack Online Interface, Ophcrack and Ophcrack Live CD, pwdump2, pwdump3, pwdump4, pwdump versions 1 - 5, pwdump6, Cain, SAMInside, RainbowCrack, More RainbowCrack and misc stuff, Lophtcrack, bkhive and samdump2, Auditor, Whax, Knoppix STD, BackTrack, Free Rainbow Tables for Download, Plain Text, Cracking Windows Passwords with BackTrack, Cracking the SAM using Auditor, Local Password Cracking, John the Ripper, John the Ripper compiled for Windows, More Rainbow Table downloads, Offline NT Password & Registry Editor, Knoppix ]]]> Mon, 15 May 2006 19:25:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com This show was average. That's probably the best way to sum this one up. I was way too excited about the redesign of our news site that I did but then again we're the only ones that can see it since it's the news site we use for the show. Anyways, the news was decent and the topic was Windows tweaks which turned out better than I thought but definitely not as good as it could been. Sun, 7 May 2006 18:52:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com Here's another philosophy session for you to enjoy. Compared to the past 4 that we have done I must say that this is by far the worst but since it is us it can't possibly be that bad. There's a lot of silence and downtime but when we're actually talking it's great. Sun, 7 May 2006 18:51:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com We decided to do something a little different for this one. We covered Scary.Movie.4.TS.XviD-PUKKA and Scary.Movie.4.TS.SVCD-SEPTIC before going over our favorite movies and telling you the best release of those movies. Here is that list: Sphere.DVDRip.XviD-aGGRo, Jurassic.Park.DVDRip.DivX-SLeTDiVX, Jurassic.Park.2.DVDRip.DivX-BTV, Jurassic.Park.3.DVDRip.DivX-ViTE, The.Butterfly.Effect.Theatrical.Version.DVDRip.XviD-iMBT, The.Butterfly.Effect.DVDRip.XviD-ALLiANCE, Oceans.Eleven.2001.iNTERNAL.AC3.DVDRiP.XViD-aGGr0, Alien Quadrilogy by INCiTE, Godzilla.DVDRip.XviD-IFFM, Gone.In.60.Seconds.DVDRip.DivX.AC3.iNTERNAL-FFM, The.Beach.2000.iNTERNAL.DVDRip.Xvid.AC3-NEPTUNE, Red.Planet.DVDRip.DivX-BTV, The.Italian.Job.DVDRip.XviD-DEiTY, The.Fast.And.The.Furious.DVDRip.DivX-SMB, The.Fifth.Element.iNTERNAL.DVDRip.XviD-DvF. Here's a list of movies that just don't have a good and/or easy to find release: Event Horizon, Deep Impact, Armageddon, Gattaca, Swordfish, Top Gun, Hackers, The Patriot, Sanjuro Sat, 29 Apr 2006 20:13:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com We felt like it was about time for another philosophy session. By "we" I mean me really so of course, as the leader of this little production, the session went ahead. I had to appease Dan and TK by feeding them and such but it worked out in the end. However, the first take was recorded on my laptop's mic since I forgot to plug in the real mic so we decided to do another one. Let's call it take 2. Take 2 is also funnier so I would recommend getting that if you're only getting one. Here are the links: http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/shows/philosophy4take2.mp3 and http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/shows/philosophy4take1.mp3 Sat, 29 Apr 2006 20:06:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com This show was average. If you remember our ups and our downs, this was somewhere in the middle. Insults were plentiful and we finally had our first made up news story about ourselves thanks to our very own IceCube. A first of firsts in Tech Talk and another milestone we have passed. Sat, 29 Apr 2006 19:48:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com We have our ups and our downs. This was a down. We gave the word filler a whole new meaning with probably a third of the show being nice padding. Of course our padding is way better than anybody else's but that's not saying much. The news was good as long as it lasted and the topic was the recent Digg conspiracy that there's a ton of censorship and such going on at everybody's favorite news site. Sun, 23 Apr 2006 15:26:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com This was by far one of the best shows we've done in a while. The news was quite classic and amusing, perhaps even a bit more than usual. We decided to take a break from covering technology since we've all had our trials and tribulations with the college admission process. Translation: we didn't do any research, didn't feel like pulling a tech topic out of our asses, and we figured this would be the best replacement. Enjoy. Sat, 15 Apr 2006 21:50:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com This show was definitely an improvement over last week's despite the fact that that's not saying much. We covered some pretty good news stories and followed that up with a relatively delicious topic of web design. Thu, 06 Apr 2006 22:32:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com We can only do so many good shows in a row and this was definitely the end of our two show streak. This episode was average at best with seemingly random news stories and a lackluster coverage of Office 2007 as our topic. To top it off, there was a nice interruption that I edited out fairly nicely though you should be able to pick out pretty easily anyways. Sun, 02 Apr 2006 16:14:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com Two legitimate shows in a row. What were we thinking? I'm not sure but I do know that it turned out pretty well. We had some amusing news stories as always and covered how to crack MS-Cache hashes in the most informational show we've had in a while. NOTE: Be sure to check our site for the show notes to this one Sat, 25 Mar 2006 19:13:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php Our official one year anniversary episode showed how far we've come since our first dismal show. I won't say that this particular show is a high point but we've certainly done a lot worse. We had some decent news stories and our first relatively legitimate topic in a long time. Enjoy. Sun, 19 Mar 2006 16:42:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php Remember when I said we love giving you more? Well, here's some more. I put together a quick and simple wallpaper for Tech Talk as well as a very well commented (if I do say so myself) picture of the official Tech Talk set. I also took a picture of my desktop in my room and added some comments to that just to give you a little insight into my life: http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.phpwallpaper.jpg, http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.phptechtalkset.jpg, http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.phpmyroom.jpg Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:00:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php We here at Tech Talk love giving you more. More bullshit, more racism, more outlandish comments that offend everybody. That's what we do best. So here's our third philosophy session that I recorded before our show on outsourcing with David and Prakash. It is a bit hectic and difficult to understand but if you stick with it there are some hilarious moments. Sat, 11 Mar 2006 00:53:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php Here are the releases we covered this week: Goal.DVDRip.XviD-DoNE, Dave.Chappelles.Block.Party.2005.CAM-PRiDEVCD, Ultraviolet.CAM-MALASiUS. Not really much else to say for this one. Enjoy. Sat, 11 Mar 2006 00:39:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php Being veterans in the podcasting game we continue embarking upon our noble quest to teach you as much as possible and uphold the values of copyright and intellectual property. The news was good and we covered some more of our favorite programs in a part 2 of our other show on our favorite programs. Overall this was a pretty good follow-up to Celebration. Sat, 11 Mar 2006 00:25:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php It's hard to believe we've been doing this show for almost a year now. We decided to basically talk a little bit about how the show got started and a bit of reminiscing plus a ton of talking about how great we are. For the topic, I talked a lot about how much I do to keep this little production afloat and how little Dan and TK do. Ah, I'm great. Sat, 04 Mar 2006 16:41:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php Guests flying everywhere! We had two guests on this show and they were live this time. Yes, that means no guests Skyping from Canada this time. David (also featured in 10/21/05 MP3 Players) and Prakash from The Hindu and the Jew joined us for our 49th episode. The show was a bit chaotic since TK seemed to be having his period and there were five people trying to insult each other at the same time rather than three. However, we got in some good news and worthwhile discussion about outsourcing plus a bunch of hilarious moments. Check this one out for sure. Fri, 24 Feb 2006 21:58:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php This is the first official episode of our new segment entitled Tech Talk Piracy Edition. Each show will cover a few scene releases and will be about 5 minutes long. Links to each release covered will be provided in the show notes (Casanova.TELECINE.SVCD-SEPTIC, Casanova.TC.XviD-PUKKA, Just.Friends.SCREENER-SEPTIC). Corrections: I'm not sure why I was confused about the rerip for Just Friends. The link to the rerip can be found here and it has not been nuked. As for the diagonal lines I mentioned for the Just Friends screener, I found out that those were because I was using an experimental build of VLC to view the sample (visit our website to get the actual links because I can't put them in the RSS feed) Fri, 17 Feb 2006 23:54:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php For once we actually kept our promise and made this show informational with a guest thanks to Skype. IceCube, who is from the Slyck forums, is the man behind most of the promotion of Tech Talk. As for the show, we took a few minutes longer on some damn good news stories and then more or less let IceCube cover his specialty: the eDonkey2000 network. We made sure to ask questions and almost be like a real set of hosts on a real show with a real guest. Amazing. Fri, 17 Feb 2006 23:03:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php Here is a bunch of stuff that I decided to release for no particular reason at all. Firstly, there is a philosophy session that I don't even know when we did. I think it was sometime at the end of 2005 or something. Next, there is a terrible botched attempt at something we like to call Tech Talk Piracy Edition. You'll see what it is about when you listen. We will hopefully try it again later and see if we can make it into something worthwhile. Finally, I put up a blooper from our last show on video codecs. For the RSS feed, I had to put the links below because I didn't want to add 3 seperate entries: http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/shows/philosophy2.mp3, http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/shows/pe.mp3, http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/shows/techtalk021006blooper.mp3 Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:24:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.phpshows.php How about that? We did a show on time for once. And how about that? I released it before Saturday. I would say that this show was technically perfect but I was unavoidably detained by my dad for the last 3 minutes of the news. As such, my fellow cast members were more or less lost. Aside from that, the show went very well. We did another relatively simple topic but we hope to do a real show with either a real topic or a real guest (or perhaps even more than one) Fri, 10 Feb 2006 23:23:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php Here is yet another show that we had to push back a day and it didn't turn out all that badly. It didn't turn out well but it definitely didn't turn out badly. The news wasn't good at all but the topic was pretty informational considering the fact that we decided it after the first half of the show. Check this one out anyways since we are awesome. Sun, 05 Feb 2006 16:35:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php Lots of news. Lots and lots of news. For some reason, we were quite energetic for this show, and that always helps. The news took a while since we had a ton of stories, but it was all worth it. The topic was awesome because I was talking forever. I mean forever. We covered podcasts, basically going over which ones suck and which ones are good and why. Sun, 29 Jan 2006 02:50:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php This show turned out a lot better than I expected. Firstly, I forgot to plug in the mic for the first half of the show so everything was recorded on my laptop mic. Other than that, everything was pretty damn good. The news was more or less like usual, and the topic was basically Dan and TK sharing their experiences with old school games. Make sure to check out the links to see some of the games they talked about. Sat, 21 Jan 2006 00:20:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php I can't say that this show topped our last one, but it came damn close. Dr Kang, M.D. comes in to join us (listen to the show and you'll see what we mean, he's not a real doctor). We did a normal show this time around with some great news stories and an informational yet boring topic discussion. Fri, 13 Jan 2006 22:00:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php We bring in the new year with a bang. This release may be a little late coming, but I'm sure you will agree it was worth the wait. We extended the news to 20 minutes and shortened the topic to 10, and it was pretty much perfect. We were more or less hilarious for the whole show, covering a ton of news stories and then looking back at 2005 and obviously making fun of the whole year. Sun, 08 Jan 2006 18:08:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php I compiled about 8 minutes of some of the best Tech Talk material of 2005. I tried to pick out the funniest stuff I could find, but you and I both know that there is no way in hell that I was going to listen to all of our shows to find everything. I did my best and hopefully you guys will enjoy it. Mon, 02 Jan 2006 21:23:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php Thanks to IceCube, Tech Talk is now available at the eMule Content Database. Check it out Fri, 30 Dec 2005 15:49:00 +0500 http://content.emule-project.net/view.php?pid=1208 We kicked ass. Somehow I managed to find a handful of worthwhile news stories for this show, though we ended up looking for a few stories towards the end. The news, though, didn't even hold a candle to the topic. We decided to talk about the holidays, and it was most excellent. Firstly, we took on Santa from an engineer's perspective, figuring out that he and his reindeer would be vaporized. Then we put down a few common technology gifts this season. Quite the show. Tue, 27 Dec 2005 04:19:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php This was an average show. That's pretty much all I have to say about this one. The news ended up being good, but the topic was a dissappointment, probably because we picked the topic in the break between the halves of the show, but I'll leave that up to you guys (NOTE: I'm going to be out of town and lacking internet access until Monday. I'm leaving sometime in the next few minutes, so I don't have time to release the next show or put up links for this one. But rest assured this will be done on Monday) Sat, 24 Dec 2005 08:02:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php The task of topping our last show proved to be a difficult one, and we couldn't manage it. Well, at least we weren't quite as informational as our last show. This show incorporates a lot more humor, and I think it turned out fairly well. I am proud to announce that we will boldly go where no podcast has ever gone before: porn. Enough said. Download it now. Fri, 16 Dec 2005 22:31:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php As promised, we had a nice, serious show for the first time in a while. It turned out damn good, and we threw so much information at you that you probably won't be able to keep up. The news ended up being pretty good, though not as amusing as it usually is while the topic was so kickass I can't even begin to describe. Again, we weren't quite as funny as usual, but the massive amount of knowledge you will carry away from this show makes up for that Fri, 09 Dec 2005 17:00:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php For the first time in a long time, I tried something new for the encoding. I used LAME at 64 kbps, and I shaved 3 MB off the total size with no noticable degradation in quality. As for the show, the news was pretty good overall, regardless of the fact that we ran over time more than a minute. The topic was once again determined minutes before the segment began, but fear not, we plan for an actual informational and serious show next time, so be ready for it Sat, 03 Dec 2005 00:55:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php Here's a nice bonus bit for you. I decided to record our discussion for about 25 minutes before the show, and hopefully you will enjoy it as much as we did. From time to time, we actually have better discussion before the show than during, but, unfortunately, this was not one of those times. Dan does tell an amusing story, and I plug more programs than during most shows Sat, 03 Dec 2005 00:54:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php The final show of November turned out fairly average. The news was most excellent, and the topic fell short as usual. We still manage to be informational, but it doesn't quite live up to our high standards of entertainment. Check it out anyways. Sat, 03 Dec 2005 00:05:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php We manage to follow up my birthday episode with a pretty damn good show. This all could have been that we were all drinking Pepsi before the show, which is something that usually happened in previous shows, but that has not happened in the longest time. The news was pretty good and the topic went from average to most excellent in a matter of minutes Sat, 19 Oct 2005 23:53:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php This was my official birthday episode, and as a result it kicked ass. Some great news stories followed into the best topic we have had in a long time. While we strayed as far from the topic as humanly possible, it was still hilarious. Make sure to listen to this episode, it is definitely not one to be missed Fri, 11 Nov 2005 23:45:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php I'm really sorry it took this long to get the show out, but I've been quite busy and haven't had much time to do it. Anyways, this was a fairly good show. The news wasn't too long or too short for once, and it ended up being pretty good. The topic was a bit off, but it still had a some useful information in it Mon, 07 Nov 2005 00:13:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php An extended 40 minute Tech Talk show for you to enjoy, and even a day early! We decided to do the show earlier rather than later, and it turned out pretty good. We had so much news that we had to make the show longer, and obviously we kicked ass on the news. So much news, so little time. Anyways, the topic was fairly lackluster and generally underwhelming, but clearly still worth listening to because of our vast knowledge about...well...everything Thu, 27 Oct 2005 22:38:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php Last week's show was a pretty tough act to follow, and this week we brought in a guest to see if we could top our last show. He just happens to be David from the Hindu and the Jew, a podcast we even advertise for on this site. His expertise was in the infamous iPod, and we basically made fun of him the whole time for his video iPod and general fanaticism regarding Apple MP3 players. Pretty good show overall. Sun, 23 Oct 2005 14:36:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php This could quite possibly be the best show we have ever done. We had the perfect amount of time for the news, with everything from bomb-proof trucks to MySpace to human genes. The news was not quite as funny as normal, but the topic was the most informational we have ever been. We are on a whole other level of knowledge here. We'll call it a plateau. We are the shit, thank you very much Fri, 14 Oct 2005 18:54:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php Finally! Damn our lives! Without them we would be able to do a show everyday, but we do have things to do in our normal lives. Sorry for the delay, but I hope you'll agree that it was worth the wait. We run through a bunch of pretty good news, and then the topic was absolutely kickass. You'll definitely hear some stuff that you have never heard in any other podcast...ever. Enjoy, bitches Tue, 11 Oct 2005 16:02:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php Sorry for the late notice, but we have to delay the show until Monday. I am leaving for a soccer tournament at 1:00 PM tomorrow, which is before school ends and therefore making it impossible to do the show. I will be back Monday though, and the show shall go on! Thu, 6 Oct 2005 22:07:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php We finish off September with a pretty good show. We have our ups and our downs, and I would say this is somewhere in the middle. We were slightly rushed for this show, and perhaps that will be apparent to our avid listeners. The topic for today was computer graphics animation, and I hope you will be able to tell how rushed this topic was... Sat, 01 Oct 2005 21:30:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php For the first time in a long time, and for the second time ever, we had a guest on the show. He really wasn't an expert on anything and mostly just sat there saying nothing, but we had a guest nonetheless! The topic was a kind of potpourri, including more about Xbox 360, the PS3, and the Revolution. Other things we covered were DDR3 RAM, OLED, and AJAX. Sat, 24 Sep 2005 16:25:38 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php In the words of Dan, this is "another bitchin episode." For once, we actually had the right amount of news. We weren't rushing as usual or doing time-filler bullshit. The entire news half of the show kicked ass, and the topic of the show was clustering. Dan handles this topic almost like I would...almost...Definitely an informative and entertaining show Sat, 17 Sep 2005 00:03:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php As a special treat for our 25th episode, we did a whole bunch of different topics that we didn't get to cover or thought of recently. I definitely think this was a good episode. The news was awesome as usual since I picked it out, and the topic turned out great. Some of the things we cover include: collisions (encryption), DHT (Bittorrent), rootkits (viruses), console modding, advanced Linux, ED2K, xpy, Knoppix 3.8 CeBIT Edition Sat, 10 Sep 2005 23:03:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php Thanks to some help from our loyal fans, we have actually gotten some press! Check out the following links to see us in all of our glory: http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13866, http://p2pnet.net/story/6094, http://home.mchsi.com/%7edigitaltopia/Archives/story25.htm, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech_Talk. Thanks to everybody who made this possible. One final note: as you have probably noticed, there was no show last Friday. This was because I was on vacation. There will be a show on Friday, September 9 at 8 PM (tentatively). We will be doing this show live. Thank you, bitches, that is all. Sun, 4 Sep 2005 16:05:00 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php To say the least, our first live show turned out worse than expected. We didn't have any technical difficulties, but for some reason it just wasn't a good show. Anyways, the news was great regardless of our shitty performance and the topic was basic p2p programs. NOTE: There will be no show on September 2 because I will be on vacation Sat, 27 Aug 2005 02:39:46 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php As a little experiment, we will be doing our next show on Friday, August 26, 2005 at 2 PM EST LIVE (normally we will have it at 8 PM EST)! That's right, you will be able to hear us 100% live and straight from the source. All you need is a program that can play Shoutcast streams, such as Winamp. The address is: http://mp3host.serveftp.com:8000/listen.pls Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:26:58 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php This was a damn good show, especially for losers like us. We make fun of the most serious news like we normally do, and I managed to pick some kickass headlines. The topic was password and hash cracking...you know...if you forget your password and such. Ha! I think not... Sat, 20 Aug 2005 00:10:31 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php Boatloads of news for this show made the first half of the show 2 minutes longer than normal. Make sure to check out the news archive if you want to read about the crazy stories we covered. The topic for the show was Live Linux CDs, especially Knoppix, Whax, Auditor. I spend forever on Whax, covering it like a fat kid on a candy bar. A pretty good show overall Fri, 12 Aug 2005 23:35:10 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php This show wasn't really our best, and it turned out that way for several reasons. Both guests we had planned to be on the show couldn't make it for various reasons, and Dan was, uh, confined to his home for undisclosed reasons, so he ended up on the phone. Anyways, we had lots of news from wacky to awesome, and the topic was geek wishlist. It's kind of hard to explain this bullshit topic here, so just listen! Sat, 06 Aug 2005 01:43:52 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php Funny can't really begin to describe this show. I'm not sure if it will seem amusing to you, but I sure as hell know we were laughing our asses off for most of the show. Some great news leads to interesting discussions, and the topic for the show was computer and internet culture. Basically we wanted a nice, easy topic to transition out of that fury... Sat, 30 Jul 2005 01:43:48 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php I'm not really sure what was so funny, but one news story absolutely cracked us up. You'll find out what I'm talking about when you listen in. This is one of our more amusing shows without a doubt, with the news topping even our best news from past shows. The topic is console piracy and we, like with all other pirating topics, have a field day. A great show to end the fury, check it out. Sat, 23 Jul 2005 01:15:52 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php This show was complete chaos. Neither TK nor Dan were available to do a show anytime between about 7 AM and 10 PM and you guys know as well as we do that there is no way in hell we're waking up before 7 AM to do a show, so we did this show right after everybody got home from the last one. Anyways, we had TK coming to us via Skype, Dan coming to us via a regular old phone, and me live as always. We hacked together some decent news stories in about 30 minutes. Somehow new shit that surfaced between the time we ended our last show and the time we began this show Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:31:19 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php We cover some really great news stories somehow. I still don't know how we manage to find almost a dozen new stories every single day for the past 2 days, but we do it for you guys. The topic was pirating, especially the practical and moral aspects of it as well as some ranting tangents. All in all, this turned out to be a pretty good show Thu, 21 Jul 2005 02:35:43 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php The fury continues with some very amusing news stories, from the insane to the downright stupid. We move on the a topic that just about everybody can use at some point in their lives: how to troubleshoot a slow computer. Even we have our moments... Wed, 20 Jul 2005 12:40:49 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php We're finally back with our first show in quite some time. We cover about a dozen news stories, some of which are funnier than others. Newsgroups are the topic of the day, and somehow we are quite informative except for TK since he was sleeping through most of the topic discussion...Anyways, we came back with a bang, so check it out Mon, 18 Jul 2005 22:55:52 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php TK and I also did a director's commentary for the video just for kicks and giggles. It is meant to be played alongside a muted video so you know what the hell we're talking about Sat, 25 Jun 2005 15:56:09 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php This is our first stab at transferring our hilarity to video. It's basically what you could call an intro to the show. It includes us assembling, credits, and some bloopers. You should definitely check it out, it is quite hilarious Sun, 18 Jun 2005 19:09:49 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php One of the best shows. Ever. This show is perhaps the funniest we have ever done. Dan was our reporter in the field (which means he was on the phone since we were pressed for time and couldn't pick him up). He managed to somehow be at every single one of the current events we mentioned, including Deep Impact all the way up in space...Definitely get this show Fri, 24 Jun 2005 00:56:12 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php We cover some fairly amusing news and then we proceed to laugh our asses off during the topic discussion of spyware, adware, and viruses Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:15:42 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php We hit some good news stories on this one. Handheld consoles cracked and some other bullshit too. We pulled the topic of wireless security out of our asses as always, and we manage to be informative...sorta. We talk about ways to crack a wireless network and what you can do to protect against that. Fri, 10 Jun 2005 20:47:08 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php We made a special 40 minute show for this one. That's right, you get even more Tech Talk goodness. We had to spit out about 10 news stories in 2 minutes at the end of the first half since there were so many, but we finished strong and got them all done. We ranted forever about our favorite programs, but listen in and you may pick up something you'll like Fri, 03 Jun 2005 16:46:16 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php Another good show for the most part. Sorry about the delay in releasing it, I have been busy pretty much all day, and I went to sleep early last night. Anyways, we had some pretty good news, some funny and some serious stories as well. The topic was programming, and however boring it sounds, we add some spice to it like everything we do Fri, 27 May 2005 16:03:50 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php This show was unavoidably delayed by Dan and rudely interrupted by my parents. We basically did the news portion, which was funny as always, on Saturday. We then regathered on Sunday to do the discussion. Sorry about the delay. Enjoy! Sun, 22 May 2005 17:24:55 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php For some reason, great news stories keep happening and we keep reporting them. The news never seems to fail us, and the same holds true for this show. We cover The Scene for our topic discussion, and we more or less kick ass at that Fri, 13 May 2005 19:25:15 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php We stuck with the new mic on this show, so the sound should be perfect again. News was abundant for this show, so we were shooting them out faster than we could read them off the screen. Open source was the topic for today, and serious discussion ensues! Fri, 06 May 2005 19:40:58 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php We tried out yet another mic for this one, and I think it worked out very well. As a result, the sound quality is at a premium while background noises are nice and quiet. Our insightful comments have reached an all-time high in this show as we talk about some semi-serious news stories as well as a great topic: things to do with old computers Sat, 30 Apr 2005 01:14:36 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php Just before our last show, I had a great idea. I decided to give a little video tour of our "set." You get a chance to see all the cast members in action and you get to see all our equipment Sat, 23 Apr 2005 00:35:23 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php This has to be our most informational show yet. We obviously dig out some good news stories for you, but this time we one-upped our news with our topic for the show, IRC. This is definitely one of our best ones Fri, 22 Apr 2005 22:07:49 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php Yet another show for you to enjoy. Remember when I said we had a surprise? We had a special guest on the show. The news is good as always and the topic for the day is Linux Fri, 15 Apr 2005 16:18:01 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php Another show out of the tube. The news is way funnier than normal, and this time the topic is future versions of Windows. Obviously, this will be a very laughable session :) Fri, 08 Apr 2005 18:34:52 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php Alright, so the first show was a bit of an experiment. This show has the full 3 member crew, and this time there are no interruptions or other problems. The news stories are quite amusing as always, and the topic of discussion for this show is encryption. If the first show left a bad taste in your mouth, check this one out before you leave us Fri, 01 Apr 2005 23:16:14 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php We finally got around to doing our first show. Unfortunately, we were missing one of our cast members, but those present picked up the slack and we did the best we could Fri, 25 Mar 2005 02:07:14 +0500 http://techtalk.puzzlepants.com/index.php