Episode 105 - Stealth WiFi In The Office, Big Notebook Drives, iPod Accessories! [Discusison]

[marilee]

Wooden iPod Dock, Secure Your WiFi: WPA2 + Random 13 Character Keys, Blu-ray vs. 720p, Shure X2u: Best XLR Mic Adapter Yet? Parallel Port to USB, iFixIt, Folding@Home, Adding WiFi To The Corporate Network (will get you fired). IDF, Apple, Leica, Motorola: tons of announcements this week!

Watch or download this episode now! (http://revision3.com/tekzilla/icicle)

[fee]

Great Episode! I enjoy the part about the iPod and iPhone Accessories! I agree with Veronica, that thing is nice, i jerry-rig many things to get my iPhone to stand. I never made anything this crazy thou

http://www.feebonics.org/uploader/files/1/500x_iphone-hanger.jpghttp://www.feebonics.org/uploader/files/1/500x_iphone-hanger2.jpg

(From http://gizmodo.com/5355553/iphone-stand-would-make-macgyver-proud-if-he-ever-stops-laughing )

Also that a bad ass shirt you had on Veronica! (And i though that before i saw the bloopers) lol

[geekdw]

I'm so glad I watched the bloopers.

:P

[nav13eh]

What in the world was Veronica doing, was she drunk? Every guy in america just found a new hompage.

http://revision3.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1213&d=1252628047

[silentspyder]

I didn't even know what a Cthulhu was. Thank you google/wikipedia. I should read more than just graphic novels from time to time.

[fishtoprecords]

Thank you for the "no bootleg WiFi" advice. Network ops folks and sysadmins all over the world are thankful.

The Logitech SqueezeBox Boom and their new Radio, while not as cute as the panda/pig, also sound far better than you'd expect from their size. The wonders of modern DSP and audio engineering.

The Shure XLR-to-USB thing looks nice, if a tad expensive. For the wanna-be podcasters, I'd be even stronger, just buy a SM58 or SM57. After a year, you will know what else to buy. For $100 retail, just get the Shure.

Later you can get a RE20 or Countryman.

[davmoo]

While I was watching the episode just now I was thinking about something I wanted to comment on. Then I saw the outtakes, and suddenly I can't remember what I was going to say. She's definitely been touched by His Noodly Appendage :eek:

Now, seriously, and speaking as someone who deals with system security for clients, what I wanted to say is a big "thankyou" for including the warning about adding personal wireless routers to corporate networks. On any system I administer, the first time I catch you doing this (and I *will* catch you) you will get a very stern warning from both me and your boss. The second time, your boss will have you escorted from the building by security (if the client has their own staff for that) or a local police officer (if they don't), and I'll laugh in your face as you walk by me. Thankfully, after 4 instances of having to warn people, only one was stupid enough to go on to win an escort and open laughter.

Now...please excuse me while I go watch the outtakes again. And again. And again. And some more after that. :D

[thebenjamin]

Where in the world did Carmen Sandiego buy the Monster Cable - SoniTalk Microphone Headphone Adapter for $9.99? The closest I was able to find was Best Buy
"http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9120426&type=product&id=1218027045791" @14.99 I know it's only 5 more bucks but hey I'm CHEAP. I also wanted to order it online due to the sales people are more eager to help me. LOL Oh well I guess with shipping and all that jazz it would have been $14 something. Now it's going to run $20 or so. HMMM anyone have any ideas?

[metallicnitro]

Best bloopers ever? ;)

Great episode, thankfully I don't have an iPod or else I would buy those woodtec docks.

[computoman]

Wifi snooping? Time to build a portable honeypot.

[thefu]

THANK YOU for being clear about corporate security. In many corporate environments, even non-wireless routers are forbidden due to the ability to abuse and violate contractual obligations for large customers. A few of our customers include very specific requirements concerning who had access to any part of our internal network. Not everyone that works in the company will know the details of these contracts.

Thanks again, Patrick.

[xfuuey]

man...in my opinion, those wood ipod docks are a fuckin jip. 80$ for some of those? it's just a cord in in some wood, basically.

/me thinks of uploading a gif of clip at the end :p

[hectos]

H.P. Lovecraft would be proud....

[revision3fan]

At work, I have to use an Airport Express Wi-Fi router on my subnet which is behind the main router. Can I try to setup a DMZ? Will that be sufficiently secure? If necessary, is there an adjustment that needs to be made to our main router or my Airport Express?

Thank you. Also,


Can the Panda speakers be directed against a wall to reflect the sound for greater stereo separation?


What's the best airline for portable devices (laptops, Wi-Fi, USB, airplane mode phones, recharging, etc.)? I liked Song, but they were folded into Delta.


Do the headphones on the XLR to USB adapters receive audio before or after the analog to digital conversion? If after the conversion, it might cause latency at the higher sampling rates.


I noticed this about the parallel-USB adapter question since I am about to install such a cable on a friend's computer. Make sure the cable has the proper plugs. USB A on the computer and Centronics on the printer or DB-25 on the computer and USB B on the printer.


Thanks again.

[farren]

I've been using the Centrance USB mic adapter for well over a year. Great product.

http://centrance.com/products/mp/

Great show!

-Farren

[ollarney]

Wifi snooping? Time to build a portable honeypot.

Apple centric much, the first 10-15 minutes was pretty much all apple. The east coast and the global audience exists. Btw i work with macs on a daily basis.

[sauron974]

Patrick Norton!
No tapping on the microphone! Sheesh, you should know better than that! I mean, it wouldn't really do any damage to a 58, but it encourages bad behavior in others.

We sound folks have been trying to eradicate the "tap tap tap, is this thing on?" method for years! It's irritating, inefficient, and potentially damaging to your microphone. It always makes me cringe when people do that....

Anyway, a great show otherwise! I'd love to see you run a couple of XLR -> USB converters head-to-head through some signal analysis software. Great idea!

[mikec]

Now...please excuse me while I go watch the outtakes again. And again. And again. And some more after that. :D

I agree.

[computoman]

Certainly the out-take wanted to make my flag at attention also, but nothing I have not seen before. The mountains may move, but it is when the valleys tremble like an earthquake that win the game.

[davmoo]

It isn't just that mountains were moving...its who the mountains belonged to.

[cucumberboy]

Real subtle, guys...

[revision3fan]

I watched this episode during the lunch break at my office. I wouldn't want Revision3 to have to assign a rating system, such as "office safe", for its episodes but it might consider it in order to grow and retain its viewership. I am sure that many people watch Tekzilla in offices, libraries or at other locations other than the privacy of their own residences.

Thank you.

[nav13eh]

Certainly the out-take wanted to make my flag at attention also, but nothing I have not seen before. The mountains may move, but it is when the valleys tremble like an earthquake that win the game.
Apparently her mountains sure like to dance.

[valosonthor]

So, seriously, does anybody know where one can acquire that shirt? Even before I saw the outtakes, I was thinking how cool it was.

[fee]

So, seriously, does anybody know where one can acquire that shirt? Even before I saw the outtakes, I was thinking how cool it was.


Its a J1nx shirt

http://www.jinx.com/identity/summer09/women/sushi_womens.html?catid=125&cs=2&csd=125 woman's

http://www.jinx.com/identity/summer09/men/sushi_fitted.html?catid=124&cs=2&csd=124 man's

[davmoo]

Where in the world did Carmen Sandiego buy the Monster Cable - SoniTalk Microphone Headphone Adapter for $9.99? The closest I was able to find was Best Buy
"http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9120426&type=product&id=1218027045791" @14.99 I know it's only 5 more bucks but hey I'm CHEAP. I also wanted to order it online due to the sales people are more eager to help me. LOL Oh well I guess with shipping and all that jazz it would have been $14 something. Now it's going to run $20 or so. HMMM anyone have any ideas?

I just happened to be in a Best Buy today to pick up other things. And sure enough, they had these on the rack for $9.99 each.

[mikec]

Real subtle, guys...

Hey, THEY included the material in their show. If the folks at Rev3 don't know men are pigs, then they are very naive.

Now, if someone found footage of Ms B on the web and then linked it here or if someone taped her at the beach and showed it here, that is a different story.

[davmoo]

Real subtle, guys...

About as subtle as the way she polishes glasses. I'm guessing they were Roger's glasses...I'd like to have seen the look on his face when he put them back on :D

Seriously, I have to believe that Bearonica is smart enough to know what kind of comments might appear.

men are pigs

Hey! I resemble that remark!

[g15]

What in the world was Veronica doing, was she drunk? Every guy in america just found a new hompage.

http://revision3.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1213&d=1252628047

What's so funny about it? I don't get what was so funny. :(

[ollarney]

What's so funny about it? I don't get what was so funny. :(

He didn't say it was funny. Oh maybe on the set it was. It was unexpected sure.

[whoiseric]

I am one of those people with a 720P TV and a Blu-Ray Player. Samsung Ln32b460 and Sylvania NB530SLX respectively what should I output my Blu-Ray Player and my Xbox 360 for that matter to. 720P, 1080P, 1080P24. The TV is a 1396*768 so should I let the TV upscale a little bit or downcale a little bit more.

Thanks.

[valosonthor]

Its a J1nx shirt

http://www.jinx.com/identity/summer09/women/sushi_womens.html?catid=125&cs=2&csd=125 woman's

http://www.jinx.com/identity/summer09/men/sushi_fitted.html?catid=124&cs=2&csd=124 man's

Thanks. I checked every tshirt website I could think of, but I completely blanked on Jinx. Much appreciated.

[davmoo]

Its a J1nx shirt

http://www.jinx.com/identity/summer09/women/sushi_womens.html?catid=125&cs=2&csd=125 woman's

http://www.jinx.com/identity/summer09/men/sushi_fitted.html?catid=124&cs=2&csd=124 man's

My bad. I guess they weren't Roger's glasses. Apparently they come with the shirt.

I'll have to be ordering me a couple of those. Thanks for the link. Although somehow I don't think the shirt will look nearly as good on me as it does on V.

[cucumberboy]

Guys, guys. I know. The boob-discussion was inevitable. Take it easy.

It was just a remark on the mountain metaphore.

[jimeye]

you guys (Patrick and Veronica) talked about that $10 ipod/phone dock, welll i found a cheaper one :D

http://www.dessinemoiunobjet.com/iphone-and-itouch-paper-stand-dock/

just download and print the template PDF and there you go! probably not the prettiest thing in the world but hey, looks like it works and its free.

[nav13eh]

What's so funny about it? I don't get what was so funny. :(

It was funny because she acted like she was drunk and that it wasn't on camera.

[veronicazilla]

It was funny because she acted like she was drunk and that it wasn't on camera.

Acted like I was drunk? Do you even watch the show? I don't need to be drunk to act like that.

[fee]

Acted like I was drunk? Do you even watch the show? I don't need to be drunk to act like that.

What about Caffeine?

[nav13eh]

Acted like I was drunk? Do you even watch the show? I don't need to be drunk to act like that.

True, So true.

[guytheninja]

I watched this episode during the lunch break at my office. I wouldn't want Revision3 to have to assign a rating system, such as "office safe", for its episodes but it might consider it in order to grow and retain its viewership. I am sure that many people watch Tekzilla in offices, libraries or at other locations other than the privacy of their own residences.
Thank you.

I agree with you. It would be nice to have assurance that a show is family-safe, office-safe, or whatever and stays within those confines.

[geo27_90]

Acted like I was drunk? Do you even watch the show? I don't need to be drunk to act like that.

haha freaking hilarious
i never thought u would
do that

YOUR FAMOUS NOW!
lol

[davefriedel]

haha freaking hilarious
i never thought u would
do that

YOUR FAMOUS NOW!
lol

CAN I BE FAMOUS TOO GEO?? How that do I make? Is this real?

[gadget_nut]

fan and ninja,
Come on. You're both acting like Veronica did a strip-tease(I wish). There was nothing "family" or "office-unfriendly" about the blooper reel or any other part of the show. Absolutely nothing.
You want something about which to complain? Turn on any major network during prime-time. You'll find everything from mild sexual innuendo to blatant, gratuitous sexual activity. Right there for everyone, including grandma and the kids to see. And I'll guarantee you that people in the office are talking about it at the water cooler.
Now, had she done something like that while wearing that little spaghetti-strap number she was wearing during the hackintosh ep. and, hopefully, had a "wardrobe malfunction", I might have expressed shock and dismay. But not until after I saved it to my hard drive for posterity.

[mathwhiz]

For those of you who are using the download of the week - Folding@Home - feel free to join the Revision3Fans team - team # 171563 (http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=171563)

Rich

[guytheninja]

For those of you who are using the download of the week - Folding@Home - feel free to join the Revision3Fans team - team # 171563 (http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=171563)

Rich

Heck yea join people! BTW I finally showed up in the stats :D.

[revision3fan]

fan and ninja,

You want something about which to complain? Turn on any major network during prime-time. You'll find everything from mild sexual innuendo to blatant, gratuitous sexual activity. Right there for everyone, including grandma and the kids to see. And I'll guarantee you that people in the office are talking about it at the water cooler.


It's not the content per se. It's that I would know if certain types of content will be shown that may be inappropriate for others.

[davmoo]

For those of you who are using the download of the week - Folding@Home - feel free to join the Revision3Fans team - team # 171563 (http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=171563)

Thankyou. I've been looking for another team. I started out with the team for DL.TV, but it's member stats lately are like the proverbial rats leaving a sinking ship. In the next few weeks I need to make a switch.

Edit: Anyone know what happens if you change teams in the middle of a work unit?

[guytheninja]

Thankyou. I've been looking for another team. I started out with the team for DL.TV, but it's member stats lately are like the proverbial rats leaving a sinking ship. In the next few weeks I need to make a switch.

Edit: Anyone know what happens if you change teams in the middle of a work unit?

I'm using Ubuntu for most of my computers. So I'm using the FAH Installer from the Ubuntu forums (FYI):

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FoldingAtHome/fah_install

When I switched teams, I shut the client down (/etc/init.d/foldingathome stop), changed client.cfg team number to 171563. Then I restarted the client. (etc/init.d/foldingathome start).

Everything worked fine for me. And yes... all my computers were in the middle of work units.

When the client is finished and the WU is sent to Stanford's server, your work will be credited to the Revision3Fans team.

[davmoo]

Everything worked fine for me. And yes... all my computers were in the middle of work units.

I just switched over my Redhat server box as a guinea pig. Worst that can happen is it blows up :D

[guytheninja]

I just switched over my Redhat server box as a guinea pig. Worst that can happen is it blows up :D

LOL, you have already passed me by. That must be some serious server you are running there. :D :D

Probably next year I'll buy a serious folding computer. Right now I'm running F@H on hardware hand-me-downs.

[davmoo]

LOL, you have already passed me by. That must be some serious server you are running there. :D :D

Nah, the server isn't all that...its a Dell PowerEdge, seems like its running a Xeon 3040 Conroe, but I haven't actually looked at the specs in a year or so.

What kicked it up is I also decided to switch over my main box, which is what I'm typing this on. And it does its folding by running the GPU client on a Nvidia 9800GT...puts that little ol' Conroe to shame.

[macgui]

Late to the party that's already over, but I *had* to comment.

Ms. Belmont is trés attractive, quite bright, and has a slightly salacious sense of humor. LOVE her!

I was thoroughly enjoying the episode and totally fell out when she demonstrated how her cthulhus hunt for prey.

Thank you, Ms. B.

[computoman]

I had to look the definition of salacious up. Unusual to see an upper class word being used on this site.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/salacious