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T&A: Technology and the Arts Podcast #8 Launched

T&A: Technology and the Arts
Famed rock ‘n’ roll producer and engineer Eddie Kramer is the guest on the eighth installment of the Technology and the Arts podcast. Other topics include the Trenton Computer Festival, music collaboration site Kompoz.com, updates on the battle to save Internet radio and the March 22 Bum Rush the Charts project, and several interesting Web sites relevant to technology and the arts. Hosts: Brian Kelley, John LeMasney. File size: 14.8 MB. Time: 32 min., 10 sec.

T&A: Technology and the Arts Podcast #8 Launched

T&A: Technology and the Arts
Famed rock ‘n’ roll producer and engineer Eddie Kramer is the guest on the eighth installment of the Technology and the Arts podcast. Other topics include the Trenton Computer Festival, music collaboration site Kompoz.com, updates on the battle to save Internet radio and the March 22 Bum Rush the Charts project, and several interesting Web sites relevant to technology and the arts. Hosts: Brian Kelley, John LeMasney. File size: 14.8 MB. Time: 32 min., 10 sec.

Report: Growing by Degrees: Online Education in the United States, 2005

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USB flash drive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

November 4, 2005

As a result of a request of a former employee and his subsequent departure, I have become the recent keeper of a 1GB USB Thumb Drive. Not having been very excited in the past in USB drives due to a real lack of usable space on these kinds of drives, I was happy to find that this was no longer an issue with the 1G USB drive.

So for the last few months, I have been using the drive pretty regularly to take things back and forth from home to work and back, and to use key applications like Portable Firefox, which runs from the drive, but does not need to be installed.

My other big use right now is sneakernetting movies and tv shows back and forth to watch during lunch. I can get hour long TiVo recordings down to about 700MB in Mpeg 2 format, or backed up DVDs into 800 MB MP4s, both of which fit nicely on the drive alongside some portable apps.

VLC++

At this point, I am totally obsessed with finding more portable apps to use with the drive, and today I hit the info_motherlode where you might expect I’d hit one: Wikipedia.

USB flash drive -

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Keydrive applications

* USBApps - Listing of USB keydrive applications
* TinyApps - Tiny applications for your USB keydrive
* StandAlone - Stand alone applications for your USB keydrive
* airWRX - USB Keydrive application framework
* kikizas.net - Freeware programs to run from a USB stick
* Portable Freeware - The Portable Freeware Collection
* RUNT - ResNet Network Tester for USB Keydrives
* CryptoStick Software - Encryption, Private Internet Browsing, PestPatrol, all for your USB Device
* USB driver
* Dekart Private Disk - User-friendly disk encryption software for Windows XP/9x/2000 - AES 256 bit encryption
* Truecrypt - Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows XP/2000/2003

* Gaim - a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows.
* Portable OpenOffice - A complete office suite for your USB pen drive
* Portable NVU - The Complete Web Authoring System
* Portable AbiWord - the popular word processor AbiWord optimized for USB pen drive use
* Portable Mozilla Stuff
o Portable Firefox - Web browser
o Portable Thunderbird - Email
o Portable Sunbird - Calendar application

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HOWTO pages

* Encrypted thumb drive and autoplay howto - Open source tools and a very clear walkthrough
* Combining encryption and mobility howto - A guide on using Portable Firefox, Thunderbird, Instant Messenger in a secure way

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GNU/Linux distributions for USB

* DamnSmallLinux (DSL), a small derivative of Knoppix, tailored to USB
* Knoppix USB Based.
* featherlinux - distribution specifically created for USB sticks
* Flash-Puppy a mature distro designed for keydrives
* Flonix: USB Keydrive Operating System
* Generic Howto on USB booting, incl. with using a floppy/CD for the initial boot if the BIOS does not support USB
* Installing Debian from a USB stick
* LiveDistro.org - Operating systems and HOWTOs for LiveUSBs

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*** OIT ADVISORY SERVICE OUTAGE ***

October 31, 2005

Date: Wednesday, November 2
Time: 8:00 – 8:30 am
Users affected: Faculty, Staff and Students
Services affected: Myinfo/WebAdvisor, Colleague and Benefactor

The server will be down during this time frame for required maintenance. Please call OIT Help Desk at x3000 if you have any questions.

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Alexa - Web Discovery Machine: Watching the ‘Net Trends

October 29, 2005

I was a bit surprised to find that I had been doing many of these. It really does give you a heads up on what’s going on to pay close attention to del.icio.us/popular, for instance. You end up being the one who says “Hey did you hear that ?” all the time, and people respond with some wonder, thinking “How did he hear about that - I’ve been on CNN all morning and they never said a thing. That’s web 1.0 thinking right there, buddy.

I must say though, I’m not as big of an alexa fan as this guy.

John|work++

Alexa - Web Discovery Machine: Watching the ‘Net Trends

Watching the ‘Net Trends
My job requires that I keep tabs on all the latest trends on the ‘Net, but there is no single good way to do that. Some things still escape my attention. So, I thought it would be interesting to have a discussion about trend-watching on the ‘Net and the methods for keeping up.

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APP.COM v4.0 - Principal curbs kids’ Internet activity | Asbury Park Press Online

October 26, 2005

Somehow I don’t think they thought this out very well. I know privacy is dying in this country, but it’s certainly not dead yet. blogging == free speech, especially where personal independent accounts exist. I think Rider might take some issue with what their students blog on their own, too, but I’m sure they would never try to do anything to stop them.

APP.COM v4.0 - Principal curbs kids’ Internet activity | Asbury Park Press Online

When students post their faces, personal diaries and gossip on Web sites like Myspace.com and Xanga.com, it is not simply harmless teen fun, according to one Sussex County Catholic school principal.

It’s an open invitation to predators and an activity that Pope John XIII Regional High School in Sparta will no longer tolerate, the Rev. Kieran McHugh told a packed assembly of 900 high school students two weeks ago.

Effective immediately, and over student complaints, the teens were told to dismantle their Myspace.com accounts or similar sites with personal profiles and blogs. Defy the order and face suspension, students were told.

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Wired News: Futurists Pick Top Tech Trends

October 26, 2005

The futurists are envisioning a pretty cool future, as usual. In this latest set of predictions:

Simplicity, Mobile Socialization, The end of the combustion engine, and a move towards greener living, capped with a 2006 Technology Explosion the likes of which we haven’t seen in like, at least 8 years. Fun stuff, but a lot of it seems positioned to be true.

Wired News: Futurists Pick Top Tech Trends

Simplicity: Over the past couple of decades, gadget makers have toiled ceaselessly to add functionality. As a result, your cell phone can now play games, do math and sound off like a barking dog when your ex calls. Your digital camera can shoot extremely poor-quality video. And nearly every device you own with a screen also contains a clock.

The problem, says Ian Pearson, futurist in residence at British Telecommunications, is that most people buy a device for a particular purpose. They neither want nor care about all the extra capabilities.

“We’ve done 20 years of adding functionality, and 99 percent of that functionality isn’t needed,” Pearson said. “There will be an enormous market over the next several years for really simple stuff.”

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Announcing lugip|blog

October 22, 2005

Linux User’s Group in Princeton (LUG/IP) has a new way of sharing news: lugip|blog is available at http://lugip.org/blog and invites you to keep an eye on what’s going on with Open Source Software in the Greater Princeton area.

All of our meetings, activities, news, and related items will show up here. We plan for it to be a clearing house to keep you informed of our status.

Hope to see you there!

The RSS feed is http://lugip.org/blog/?feed=rss2 if you’d like to subscribe.

lugip|blog

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