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Props to Alex from eMurse for taking some time out of his busy schedule to get in a tech check.
Yeah, I can hear my mic too. I know it was too loud. This show was a breakneck test to see how fast I could go from nothing setup to show, and it took 30 minutes from start to finish, with another 21 for upload time. The unfortunate consequence? The bad audio level. I screwed something up in my audio settings and didn’t do a good enough mic check beforehand, which i paid for dearly after the fact.
Lesson learned.
Tech Check Daily relaunch
Hey everyone, today’s show is the first of a new style of show. I know it got screwed up, but that’s what alphas are all about! Enjoy anyway.
Thanks to Chris from Joystiq for coming on the show.
Comments to the bad: I know you can’t hear me, because my audio was only on one channel (half as much audio, sry!) second, I know it gets jumpy in the middle (new recording system bound to have bugs) so i’m now bug testing this thing and will figure out what happened / why, and get on it.
I think it has something to do with video throughput and hard drive recording speeds. I’m going to get a new USB2 hard drive and see if that remedies the problem. I figure i’ll either put all my b-roll / backgrounds on it and save my RAID to record, or vice versa. Probably the viceversa option, because i’m lazy and don’t want to relink all the old stuff.
Regardless, it’s changing, so watch out!
Spammers hit for $1 billion+ lawsuit
Project Honeypot looks to take a bite out of spam.
I bwoke it.
Sorry, new studio = new problems. Today, in the five minutes I had, I broke it.
We’ll be back tomorrow. Here’s what I wrote for today, with a link in the show notes.
Seems like we’re always harshing on DRM, but guess what, there’s always something to harsh on. Today’s sip of hater-a-ade? T-Mobile’s parent company, deustche telekom, says up to 75% of their customer support calls for their music service Musicload are related to DRM. Musicload is in a fierce battle in the german market against the iTunes Music store, but unlike their competitors from cupertino, Musicload allows labels and artists to sell their music without any DRM. Seems like they took an apple-esque public letter approach to put pressure on the labels to relax DRM, but hey, it’s not like apple hasn’t ever copied anyone before.
Excuses 2.0
So we’re still not done yet, but here’s a mini tour of the office.
Moving day!
We’re moving, so no show today!
Mid-day update
Today’s mid day update, we’ve got the Wii selling like gangbusters, Ashcroft selling out, Windows is probably cracked and conservatives convinced wikipedia is cracked in favor of liberals.
Noon edition
So far, Microsoft has dominated today’s news, with word of Vista’s activation being cracked, and Xbox360 getting it’s first taste of homebrew code.
Vista’s activation gets cracked
Using an illegal serial for your copy of Vista? Thanks to a visual basic script, you can probably use it for a little longer.
Meta for today
We stepped outside the headlines, and into something a little more comfortable. Randall wanted to show you around his pad before we move into our posh new offices on Friday. Enjoy!