Record as I Am

Tech && Soccer && PHP Coding - More Bolivian than America expected.

For a while now, digital cameras have been able to record movies along with just taking photographs.  Camera vendors use different video codecs to compress and save the video you take.  Common codecs include one of Apple's quicktime codecs (usually saved as a .mov file) and a variety of codecs with the .

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You might think that apple is poking fun at windows in this "http://images.apple.com/movies/us/apple/getamac/apple-getamac-security_480x376.mov" class=
"Vista Security">latest Mac advertisement, but you'd be fooling yourself.  But judging by
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I stayed up way too late last night researching a potential desktop replacement. I'm torn between a DIY AMD64 PC vs an Apple. Up front, the biggest decider will be price, as I want to keep the price at or below $1,000. That rules out iMac's and MacPros, leaving the Mac Mini as my choice from Apple.

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Jason says that the most interesting announcement from Apple today was the inclusion of a calendar server based on iCal. As Sandy points out in Jason's comments, Apple will also make the code available under the Open Source Apache 2.

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Lots of good numbers in today's reuters story about Apple profits. I want to focus your brian on the fact that Apple;s share of the US notebook market had "doubled to 12 percent" in the last half of 2005.

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Mossberg answers a question in his mailbox column today, including the security threat posed by viruses to Apple's computers (unless you choose to run Windows on it, then you're just as vulnerable).  His assessment also applies to computers running Linux.

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Preach it "http://www.los-merida.com/patty/archives/60-Google-partnering-up-with-AOL..html">Patty! ...click to continue reading.

Sandy's use of MacSFTP to connect to our server, for some unknown reason, was causing a PAM
authentication failure - even though it would log him in fine.  Since I installed "http://fail2ban.sourceforge.net/">fail2ban to protect the server against SSH script-kiddie
attacks, he got banned a couple times since a line that said "Authentication failure"
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From PVRWire, who digs deep in the TiVo community boards comes news that better Mac support is coming for Tivo in 2006.

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Is TiVo trying to hitcho onto the iPod halo effect? According to gizmodo you'll be able to move recorded shows from your tivo to your PSP or iPod. The current Windows-only method for getting shows off the Tivo onto a non-Windows device, involves stripping the DRM.

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