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“@darutter I love the iPhone but without Flash you can't watch TWiT Live, and without video you can't send q's. And where's the podcatcher?”

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what if you made a custom iPhone app for the twit.tv network? Integrate video & interaction? Possible genre-defining experience. - Sparky

I second Sparky's idea. - Robert Hafer

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Can't do it without Flash support. We'd have to find a provider who streams QuickTime - the only format the iPhone supports. I don't know of anyone who does this for free. Sorry but the iPhone is crippled and we can't do anything about it, it's up to Apple. - Leo Laporte

if you write a custom app then surely you could incorporate any video decoder you want? just a thought. - Nick Takayama

Don't agree that the iPhone is crippled and I can't blame Apple for not wanting Flash on the iPhone, mainly because it's a resource hog. You can do some pretty cool streaming of H.264 (an open standard, unlike Flash) to the iPhone. Apple open sourced it's streaming software years ago; any decent ISP should have no problem allowing you to stream: http://developer.apple.com/ope.... - Albert Willis

I'm still jealous you have an iPhone Leo. Vodafone NZ in there greed, have priced the average person out of the market. So I would love an iPhone (even with no support for flash) but prices need to come down to an acceptable and sensible level. - Michael McGimpsey via twhirl

I think Apple knows exactly what we want but is way too smart to grant all our wishes at once. The stuff it built into the iPhone 3G was probably a careful calculation of the 'critical mass'; one that would make users want it. - Parth Awasthi

I wish people would quit calling MPEG4 an open standard. It is patent encumbered and requires a license to distribute encoders and decoders. It is a formal ISO/IEC standard, but there is nothing open about it. - Nicholas Sanders

@Albert Flash is a memory hog. Flash Lite is designed specifically for mobile devices to avoid that problem. It supports all of the video formats Flash does. No reason for Apple not to implement it. - Evan Sims

@Albert Also, TWiT currently relies on /free/ services to distribute the stream. QT is very expensive to stream, and no one I'm aware of even comes close to doing it for free. - Evan Sims

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“@wegues Why not install OpenBSD? In Linuxes I like Ubuntu - it's based on Debian and very polished. Visit http://distrowatch.com for choices”

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I ran Ubuntu for a while but have since switched to openSUSE. They are both excellent distros. - Michael Tefft

I've been using Hardy since beta on a Dell Optiplex. Just last week did they fix a bug to let my stock ATI card work in dual screen mode properly. Not Ubuntu's fault, because its ATI's closed driver, but these sorts of legal issues are stilting desktop growth. Other than that, though, Ubuntu has gone above and beyond any other OS I've used. - Will via Alert Thingy

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I'd never run OpenBSD for a desktop solution; that's what FreeBSD's for. - Akiva Moskovitz

I use OpenBSD as a desktop solution. It's fine as long as it has the desktop apps you need. FreeBSD might have more selection, but OpenBSD is all I need. - David Blankenship via twhirl

When it came time to upgrade to Hardy, I chose Linux Mint instead. So far I've been very pleased. Mint is an ubuntu derivative aimed at being a little more media friendly than ubuntu is out of the box. I may switch back to ubuntu at some point in the future, but for the moment I don't feel compelled to. http://linuxmint.com/ - will killian

I have been running ubuntu for 2 years now, and I'm really liking it :) - Tor Erling

Another vote for OpenSuSE - Victor Ryden

Debian or FreeBSD for servers, in my opinion. Stable. Mature. No nonsense and no license encumberances to worry about. - Glenn Batuyong via twhirl

I have been running Ubuntu server edition on a box at home for a year now and it works well - Norman Hammer

I heard yesterday that Dell is now selling PCs with Ubuntu as the OS? - Jody Carbone

Linux Mint 5.0 Elyssa has been great for me - based on ubuntu... but better! - Chris Heath

Yes, Dell just started shipping Ubuntu 8.04. - William Thresher

Ubuntu 8.04 is far and away the best distribution for the desktop user. It has its quirks still, but what it does it does best. - Patrick Sweeney

I don't care much for Pokemon. - Gez

Whatabout Open Solaris? - Ansgar Wollnik

I'm using Ubuntu at work for 3 years now (without a need for Windows!). Rock solid. Only problem is my work using Exchange/Outlook. Evolution doesn't handle calendaring too well. - imabonehead

Been running Ubuntu for a yr. When I get my latest desktop purchase set up, old WinPC will be the new Linux box; likely SUSE. - MiniMage

I really like to tweak Linux, so I use Gentoo. quick and pretty, easy to pickup? choose Ubuntu. there is a distro of opensolaris called nexenta which is modeled to be like ubuntu. ZFS is the new interesting filesytem. - rob friedman

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“iPhone is sold out. Kevin Rose is appearing on TWiT Sunday. The Tricaster died. These things do come in threes!”

yesterday at 3:37 pm - Link

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Those are all bad things? - Andrew Smith

What do you mean "sold out"? For how long? - Peter Ghosh

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Peter, what exactly makes you think Leo would know? - Michael Kogelman

Have the Tricaster folks called yet to say a new one is on the way. This is bad PR for them. - Alan Ashley

I'm looking into picking up a tricaster for my work. Any advice on the quirks or oddities? - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Maybe because he's one of the more famous technology authors/broadcasters? - Peter Ghosh

They sell out really quick when they go in stock. Pretty crazy that they are still in such high demand. We had a shipment of 16 gb iPhones this morning and sold out in minutes. - Dennis Jackson

You can get them in NZ not a problem just walk into Vodafone because nobody is buying them too expensive - Nick Brennan

It'll be interesting to hear what Mr. Rose has to say, especially on the subject of a certain rumored acquisition. - Jessica Holt

In the Northern VA, MD, DC area inventory turnover on these is very high. Two days ago, the largest store in this area (Tysons Corner) was claiming 9 - 10 hour waits. - seanb via twhirl

Got mine yesterday. Ordered over the phone to my AT&T store on Saturday. They said the white models come much quicker than the black models because they're less popular. Dunno why. I think they're cool! - Paul Reynolds

The Apple folks told me the time the UPS truck came each day. Sure enough 20 minutes after he arrived, I was able to buy one. - Andrew Leyden

I just ordered a white 16GB from AT&T. Got it 3 days later. Screw standing in line. - Cory Brown

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tokbox++. Between tokbox and ustream.tv, we've got video events covered at Rider University, and for free. tokbox.com/john32 - John LeMasney

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“@ryan10ad try 10 grand. For want of a hard drive an empire was lost. Or at least a nice little business.”

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Hi! I discovered the show through friendfeed, but I loose the sound... will the it be available to download? Thanks! - Alberto Otero García

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“@mcconnell I gave up. Jaiku got sold, Google closed it to the public, and all my friends stayed on Twitter anyway. http://snurl.com/34w4x”

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Great list!! :) - Daniel

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“Enjoying a cup of tea in my empty office. It's nice here when the staff is gone. Reminds me of the days when TWiT was just me and a mic.”

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You mean there's other goofy geeks running the show?! Keep up the great work, Leo! - Shawn Poulson

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“@MinutNudler MSM is not known for in-depth coverage. Reminds me of trying to squeeze 20 products into 3 minutes on Regis. I'm used to it.”

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“Talking about Twitter on the Bill Handel Show, KFI 640 Los Angeles in a minute or two.”

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Your show was a never-miss for me when I lived in LA. - Phil Gomes

I was tuned in via KFI website player. Hope this gives you a numbers bump. - Alan Ashley via twhirl

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i havn't heard that podcast in over a year are people still listening to it, wow - sadiq kassamali

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“@superavit actually I'm going to talk about Twitter tomorrow morning on LA's # 1 radio show. I'll probably say nice things.”

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posted a message on Twitter

“Now that Anathem is done I am bereft. I guess I'll go back to Peter Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy. It's like 3000 pages long.”

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Just added Anathem to my wishlist on Amazon. I love Neal Stephenson. - Michael Tefft

I consider Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon and Snow Crash to be 3 of my all time favorite books. The first and last should be required reading for high school seniors. - Tad Donaghe

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“Booked Christmas in France. Paris and Rennes. near Melanie Ct & Olive St”

Wednesday at 11:21 pm - Link

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Take your woolen undies - it's freakin' COLD in Paris in December - Dean Barnett

We're going to visit my daughter who will be spending her junior year in high school in Rennes. I know it will be cold - hope it will be Christmas-y too. - Leo Laporte

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Sounds like a wonderful vacation Leo! Have fun. :D - Daynah

Be sure to visit a 'Christmas market'. They are all over. http://gofrance.about.com/cs/f... - Andrew Leyden

Take me with you :) - Marman

Don't forget to make an extra 'care package' - Jes Tu

You gota go to Bertillon in Isle de St Louis, best ice cream in the world! - Andrew Fielding via twhirl

Exciting news for you and the family. Congratulations. - LPH

http://www.kottke.org/08/07/pa... - Nev Stokes

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“Carnitas super burritos for four. near Caulfield Ln & Lakeville St”

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mmm burritos... - Damien Franco

yes, what Damien said. - Alan

mmm, what Alan said. - Josh Haley

is someone using Loopt perhaps?!? - Niall Connellan

We know your location...you had better watch your burrito! - Daniel via twhirl

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spiffing, that. nicely done. - Alan Thornton

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“@marcoamorales @techcrunch is so adamant about Google buying Digg I am starting to believe. Asked @kevinrose to be on TWiT Sun just in case.”

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did he say he would? - Lise

He's in Chicago - I haven't heard yet. - Leo Laporte

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Leo, Jay Adelson may be a good guy to have on also - shruti

Has Fox News heard yet? Murdoch might sweeten the rumor! lol! - Jeff Garlick

If Kevin Rose is driving a Tesla or Audi R8, I think we'll know the rumors are true. - Andrew Leyden

WHAT?!!!!!!!!!!! - Jes Tu

Jes Tu: GOOGLE. MAY. BUY. DIGG. ;-) - Brent Newhall

Why? Would Google actually incorporate Digg into search results or keep it as totally separate from search? I can't wait to listen to TWiT to hear what Google gains. - Mark

would @kevinrose bundle pownce too with digg, or would google be more interested in @ev's twitter or other microblogging platforms (coming with it's own with identi.ca-like solutions?) - Pajama Domain via twhirl

@Leo, good to hear you're part of the Jacobs Media Summit in Austin. - Dave Martin

hope u can get him on, it'll be an interesting session. - shen heng

So when Microsoft buys Yahoo and gets Buzz, and Google buys Digg and gets...well, Digg --- are we gonna have a war? :-) - Eric

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posted a message on Twitter

“Interesting - Twitter just did a major adjustment of Follower counts. And I was so close to 50,000. At least @kevinrose shrank with me.”

Wednesday at 9:13 pm - Link

David Z, Mitchell Tsai, Johannes Kleske, Chris and 3 other people liked this

What exactly did they do? Did they remove spammers? - Daynah

Yeah, what the heck just happened? My accounts (personal, newspaper streams) each "lost" about 40% of their followers. Huh? - Kevin Hessel

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http://status.twitter.com/post... - Greg Schwartz

Lot of folks seemedto have lost around 20% of their followers! Wondering what other surprises Twitter will throw at us? :-) - arunram via twhirl

[Greg links to the status update that exlains all this...oh well] Something's broken. I also lost 1/3 of my followers, however more interesting is the fact that my "following" count is at zero, even though I'm still seeing updates from the folks I follow. It wouldn't surprise me at all if that missing 1/3 is still seeing updates and it's just the stats that are incorrect. - Ken Sheppardson

Man I hope they fix it with a quickness haha - Chris

@Ken - Isn't entirely clear from their post whether it's just the stats or actual followers/following lost (or I just read it too fast), but my account definitely lost people and not just stats. Quick scan and there are people missing, and I get a "follow" button when I go to their URLs. Wicked pissa! Hope they get restored. - Kevin Hessel

Even after the restore, I'm missing followers and people that I followed. I can only remember a handful of accounts to follow/alert out of the many that have gone missing. =\ - Louie

Man...I guess everything has to go thru growing pains but come on! - keith kleinschmidt

I'm done trying to read the status posts like tea leaves, re-follow people, route around fail whales by using other services, etc. The signal-to-noise ratio is unfavorable enough in the first place that it's just not worth all this housekeeping attention on the users' part. By now everyone I followed has an account somewhere else, so I can cut Twitter out of the mix without missing much of what I care about. Sorry, Twitter. Seeya. - Ken Sheppardson

I gave up on Twitter after this. It's just one more problem in a long chain. They SHOULD have taken the money they just received and fixed this rather than buying Summize. Once everything was working, then they could have gone on a buying spree. I've gone to identi.ca instead. - Joe via twhirl

posted a message on Twitter

“It's as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.”

Wednesday at 10:31 pm - Link

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Your iPhone down again Leo? - Jeff Jones

Use the Duct Tape; it has a light, a dark side and it binds the universe together - Robert Hafer

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Twitter down? - Eric Rice

I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other. I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen anything to make me believe there's one all-powerful force controlling everything. There's no mystical energy field that controls my destiny. - Nick

Is the universe down again? - Jim Stanger

nope -- looks like twitter has restored the db, but from three weeks ago. Poof! Three weeks have vanished with only the echo of a splash where once the fail whale had been just moments before. - Brad Collins via twhirl

"That's no moon...it's the FAIL WHALE!" - Jeff Garlick

I lost all my followers and everybody i was following, I have lost faith in Twitter. - Jay

did you exceed your 1500 SMS allowance again? damn UPOC - sean808080

I just think it's awesome that Leo quoted the exact movie line. - Brent Newhall

You can still hear them crying, can't you, Clarisse. - Jay Tannenbaum

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Adorable photo! - Daynah

this is what summers are for... - Jericho

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“Finally saw WALL-E last night. My wife thought it too grim and industrial - I loved it. Such imagination and detail. Loved the Axiom.”

Wednesday at 9:23 pm - Link

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I was laughing so hard at the spork thing. All I could think of was the Giz Wiz TTTT theme and the Spork promo. - Dave Moyer

Pixar == FUN - C.B.

She's gonna' LOVE "The Dark Knight"! - Jeff Garlick

Still waiting for Wall*E to find it's way to the dollar movies, or maybe to DVD. Would love to own this along with my other animated movies. - Les