http://thecommandline.net Podcast and blog exploring digital citizenry as a creator and a consumer. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:53:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is a feature cast. Listener feedback this week is from Walker Hale continuing the discussion of git. The hacker word of the week this week is dogpile. The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on mastery. Grab the detailed show notes with time offsets and additional links either as PDF or OPML. This ... http://thecommandline.net/2008/12/03/mastery/ This is news cast 162. In the intro, a correction on the authorship and history of git from Randal Schwartz. This week's security alerts are WordPress fixes a critical XSS flaw and a rootkit found in some network security software. In this week's news the final SCO judgement, Sealand's data haven goes dark, ... http://thecommandline.net/2008/11/30/news_162/ Quick News Links Legal guide for security researchers Another invaluable resources from the EFF. Hopefully the guidance through computer crime laws and digital copyright will encourage more researchers to publish what they can to improve network security. Google's SearchWiki drawing privacy criticism The privacy issues seem to center around how comments ... http://thecommandline.net/2008/11/30/week-in-review-for-11302008/ This is a feature cast. Listener feedback this week is from Paul Fischer on my coverage of DRM concerns with video in the iTunes store. The hacker word of the week this week is dogcow. The feature this week is a Hacking 101 on source control. Grab the detailed show notes with time offsets ... http://thecommandline.net/2008/11/26/source_control/ I rushed out my post on this event at Google's DC office and missed a few notes on the question of broadband access here in the US. The first question or idea is around reform of the Universal Service Fund. The fund was introduced in the wake of the Telecommunications ... http://thecommandline.net/2008/11/24/more-ideas-on-broadband-access-from-tech-agenda/ I contacted the organizer since no announcement has gone out via the list since his call for someone to step in for the November meeting, which would have been tomorrow. His response indicated he felt it was too close to the holiday and attendance would be poor. So ... http://thecommandline.net/2008/11/24/no-copynight-in-dc-for-november/ This is news cast 161. This week's security alerts are a hard to exploit but critical crypto flaw in SSH and a new bit of malware for the Mac. In this week's news the state of free software friendly social networking, Apple has added DRM supporting hardware to its new unibody Mac ... http://thecommandline.net/2008/11/23/news_161/ Quick News Links Released docs show feds can tap cells without help Documents received under a FOIA request show that a previously known technology, triggerfish, may not be as limited as civil libertarians thought. Laws prior to the Patriot Act also apparently did not cover use of this technology. Open bug ... http://thecommandline.net/2008/11/23/week-in-review-for-11232008/ I attended the first of a three part series at Google's offices in DC yesterday. I was very impressed by the panel, especially Ben Scott of Free Press, Harry Wingo of Google and Michael Oldak of the Edison Electric Institute. I am well familiar with Gigi Sohn's work ... http://thecommandline.net/2008/11/21/notes-from-tech-agenda-2009/ I have planned to attend two more events while I have the free time to do so. I missed Eric Schmidt's talk down at the Ronald Reagan building yesterday though I had planned to go. It is being covered well, so if I had gone, it would have ... http://thecommandline.net/2008/11/19/two-more-events-this-week/ A few weeks ago, I attended my first event at the New America Foundation. I wrote about it beforehand, it was a debate primarily between Jonathan Zittrain and Adam Thierer covering the main points of Zittrain's new book, "The Future of the Internet and How To Stop It". I haven't ... http://thecommandline.net/2008/11/19/is-success-killing-the-internet/ This is a feature cast. Listener feedback this week is from Chris Miller who has some additional advice for overcoming obstacles. The hacker word of the week this week is documentation. The feature this week is a Hacking 101 on structured data and designing your own file formats. Grab the detailed show notes with ... http://thecommandline.net/2008/11/19/structured_data/ I posted over the weekend that I received a job offer. Now I have two and if I keep a commitment for a second interview, I may net a third by this Wednesday. I have been working my tail off for two months with little to show for ... http://thecommandline.net/2008/11/17/an-embarassment-of-riches/ Laconica Tools is my WordPress plugin that supports sending status updates to the open micro blogging server, Laconi.ca, when publishing a new post. User, mcnee, on identi.ca noticed that some time in the last week or so, the plugin just mysteriously stopped working. No visible errors, it just silently refused ... http://thecommandline.net/2008/11/17/laconica-tools-v-112-released/ Co-creator of the wonderful, family friendly podcast, "The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd", lost his home this weekend to the wild fires out west. Doug also does the wonderful voice of Dr. Floyd himself. On the evening of Novmeber 14, Radio Adventures Of Dr. Floyd co-creator (and the voice of ... http://thecommandline.net/2008/11/17/please-help-dr-doug-from-the-radio-adventures-of-dr-floyd/ For the same reasons there is no full episode this evening, I have not provided summaries on the news links. But to the regular production schedule for next weekend's news cast, though. Quick News Links Obama wants to reform copyright, patents Obama FCC to push for market diversity for telecom, media WWII man ... http://thecommandline.net/2008/11/16/week-in-review-for-11162008/ I was out of town over night last night, taking a much deserved break. My voice is a bit shot from partying last night and, well, instead of doing my reading and researching I was playing my reward for successfully securing a job offer: Lego Batman. I've also add a ... http://thecommandline.net/2008/11/16/no-podcast-tonight-2/ The best news I have had in just over two months. One of the companies I have been courting made an offer last night. Given where the company is at in its growth, the role and, to be honest, the state of the market and economy, it is ... http://thecommandline.net/2008/11/15/i-received-a-job-offer/ This is a feature cast. Listener feedback this week is from Robert, Michael and Bruce on info overload, access to info in the hacking with a social conscience piece and weighing in against re-recordinbg the early Inner Chapters respectively. The hacker word of the week this week is do protocol. The feature this ... http://thecommandline.net/2008/11/13/overcoming_obstacles/ This is news cast 160. This week's security alerts are a severe bug in the G1 and more research on cracking WPA at least partially. In this week's news new version of the GNU Free Document License would allow Wikipedia to re-license under a CC license which may yield more freedom than ... http://thecommandline.net/2008/11/09/news_160/ Quick News Links Cross browser, cross domain AJAX This looks like a clever hack to circumvent the same domain origination policy. That is a frustrating limitation with good reasons to circumvent. I am a bit concerned that this can be used for attacks, too, though same origin clearly is ... http://thecommandline.net/2008/11/09/week-in-review-for-1192008/ I have liked the idea of Songbird since I first encountered it. A cross platform media browser that re-uses much of the same components as Firefox and Thunderbird clearly has a lot to offer conceptually. I have downloaded and experimented with just about every version since the first public testing ... http://thecommandline.net/2008/11/07/songbird-great-but-am-i-missing-something/ I kind of knew when I posted about that story about the British labels backing a new branding effort for MP3 based on compatibility that someone would take me up on my challenge. Here's the Ogg Vorbis graphic with thanks to Nido for putting it together so fast and Mike for ... http://thecommandline.net/2008/11/05/100-freedom-alternative-brand/ This is a feature cast. In the intro, a correction on my pronunciation of Diebold. Alex offers a CNN story, a a PBS story, and this one on the research out of Princeton to substantiate the case for the correct pronunciation. Also note that the first two YouTube links ... http://thecommandline.net/2008/11/05/hacking_conscience/ Thanks to Dennis for tweeting this BBC story about labels pushing a new brand fpr MP3 audio. It reinforces the theory that the move away from DRM has more to do with opportunities than freedom. I am fine with that as the trend doesn't seem likely to reverse ... http://thecommandline.net/2008/11/05/100-compatible-branding-for-mp3/ CNN is calling the election for Barack Obama. The numbers seem to be bearing this out as the tabulation continues. No candidate is all things to all Americans. But I feel a hope I haven't felt in years that now things will finally get better. http://thecommandline.net/2008/11/05/better/ I'll spare you the meme that seems to be making the rounds today. I already put my call to civic responsibility in my last podcast. I did vote, myself, this morning. The whole family shared a nice walk to our polling place, chatting about the election, trying ... http://thecommandline.net/2008/11/04/elections-zittrain-and-social-responsibility/ This is news cast 159. In the intro, a reminder to vote, news that I will be attending the debate between Zittrain and Thierer at the New America Foundation, and asking your opinions on releasing archival material through podiobooks.com and PodDisc.com. This week's security alerts are more info on remote key logging ... http://thecommandline.net/2008/11/02/news_159/ Quick News Links PHP gets namespace separator Committing to adding namespaces will make code re-use and maitainability better. The criteria for the new separator seem good on the surface but I have to side with the critics on this one in terms of how poor a choice the back slash ... http://thecommandline.net/2008/11/02/week-in-review-for-1122008/ As mentioned in my post beforehand, the topic of discussion this month was negative spaces in copyright. I missed Shannon's introduction but we re-visited the definition of just what is a negative space a couple of times as the conversation ranged very far afield. Kevin, apparently the child of two ... http://thecommandline.net/2008/11/01/copynight-dc-for-october/