Iron Wil

APC mag has reported that HP will start selling computers with RedHat Linux installed.

“Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop will come pre-loaded on the HP dx2250 desktop computer — an AMD-based model. The PC itself comes with a range of AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core, Athlon 64 and Sempron processors.”¹

Read the article here.

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PIP and More Perfect Passwords

Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte

Steve looks at VeriSign’s Personal Identity Provider, an OpenID service that works with the Paypal token, and talks about updates to his Perfect Password page.

get yours here.

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I Bought a Mac recently put up a tutorial for setting up an AirPort Extreme and Express [with AirTunes]. The article is about 3 pages long and Brent does a really good job [he included screen shots - sweet!] If you are going to buy an Extreme, I would recommend using this to set yours up. I will be setting up mine with this tutorial after my upcoming move.

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The Guardian published a story on Saturday [the 25th of August] about The Pirate Bay. The website hosts Bit Torrent files for all types of media from the latest movie, to music, and digitized books. Because of the current state of Swedish Law and because they don’t host the files on The Pirate Bay, they are technically classified as a search engine [The Google of Piracy].

The article gives a brief history of the site and some information about Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm, and Fredrik Neij. If you are looking for additional information on The Pirate Bay, there is an article on Wikipedia. The full Guardian article is here.

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Unlocked

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Wil Harris, Ryan Block, Robert Heron, and Veronica Belmont

Details of the iPhone hacks, the Nano cease & desist, and the game of the year…

get yours here.

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We’re proud to announce the public release of HandBrake 0.9.0.

Download it now.

This is a major release. The changes cannot really all be summed up, but here’s a try:

• User experience is improved through a re-envisioned Mac interface and a Windows interface that’s been rebuilt from the ground up.
• Picture quality is improved through better image scaling, better deinterlacing, new filters for denoising, deblocking, inverse telecine, and new presets devoted to high quality settings.
• Speed improvements due to updated copies of x264 and ffmpeg. This includes improved multi-threaded encoding for the iPod.
• Compatibility is improved through new presets for devices like the iPhone and PSP. As well, HandBrake now supports DTS as an audio source and has limited support for .VOB and .TS file containers as input. Most excitingly, HandBrake can now output to the Matroska (MKV) file container.
• Stability has been improved due to countless bug fixes. (Including audio drop and mp2 issues). HandBrake also has optional support for MP4 files larger than 4 gigabytes.

This is my favorite DVD ripper for putting content on my Mac or iPod.

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Steve’s Mailbag #2

Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte

Our second mailbag episode with a dozen questions and comments from our listeners.

get yours here.

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