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Written by Andrew McCaskey
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 15:29 |
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Here's your Free Sample of SDRNews-HL !
It's apparent that the regular SDRNews show is going to have to take second place this week, with all the coverage for CES. I just do not have the personal bandwidth, starting the week with a 20 hour day to get here and get set up - it is not going to be possible to keep up the pace.
So, this week, the remaining of the episodes (Wed-Friday and Monday January 12 will be special editions, to introduce you to SDRNews-HL, the new four minute headline service and commentary to the regular news show, SDRNews.
All of the audio channels: SDRNews, SDRNews7 and SDRNews-HL will have the same programming while CES is in progress.
And in progress it is: We have our first press only event in about two hours.
Regular programming will resume next week. In the meantime - enjoy TPN coverage !
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Written by Andrew McCaskey
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 03:14 |
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I am Not Asleep - Really
I was really making the effort to streamline the production process for SDRNews, before I hauled everything out to CES. The goal was finally quitting the XP Toshiba laptop and transferring the production to the Macbook. But, I am still not able to find an audio editor as sleek, fast and easy to use as the Propaganda mixer that runs only on the PC.
The trusty Marantz field recorder developed a firmware glitch, and is off at the shop, and the Zoom HandyRecorder H4 is nowhere near the match as far as usability. So, I am back and forth and combined with the sleep deprivation that is a part of the CES experience, it's off to a frustrating start. I am recording in Audacity, then to thumb drive into the other box, edit, encode, and then back again.
So, if I xouns like I am about to fall asleep or double up phrases on the regular show - there's a good reason why. |
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Written by Andrew McCaskey
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Monday, 29 December 2008 14:09 |
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Here's the latest from SDRNews -
CMS Weekly Podcast is a weekly summary of the latest news from the Content Management System area.
The very first episode is up, and the RSS feed is here. |
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Written by Andrew McCaskey
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Wednesday, 17 December 2008 10:47 |
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Too Many Moving Parts
I am finally getting the hang of this Mac OSX thing. And find that for all of the smooth convenience and performance that the MacBook Pro allows, things get really strange as the disk fills up close to the edge.
Most listeners know that I have gradually been moving my operation to the Mac platform. I became a switcher due to aggravation with malware maintenance on XP boxes and personal experience with Vista. My first toe into the water was a Black Friday ASUS laptop machine from Walmart - the most expensive computer I have had since the Compupro 816, once you figure in time. Three trips for warranty repair, motherboard replacement and now it seems to be more or less functional.
But I digress. The production process for SDRNews is about 2/3 OSX, 1/3 XP, with scripts on the Mac side and a few manual process details. Plus some back and forth between machines for audio files. It usually proceeds smoothly, until I get very tired and late into the early morning hours.
Publishing the HP Magic Giveaway last night put me well behind the power curve in prep and recording of the regular episode. Then around 1:30 - I went to publish the episode, and could not log in to the underlying Wordpress database. Alternate login - no luck. Getting panicky - time for a call to GoDaddy support to look for unusual activity in logfiles. Nothing found. No luck login on Firefox or Safari. No luck resetting password. It’s approaching 2:30am.
I finally attempt login on an old Dell - XP Home and Firefox. The login proceeds slick as can be.
I get the episode posted (although with some manual steps that put the wrong filename in place in the enclosure field) - and that is what causes the delay
So - with the audio and video from the CMSExpo safely stashed on external Firewire drives, I have set out to get things in order on the MacBook Pro. There is about 5GB left on a 100GB drive, and the combination of OSX swap files and Protools scratchpad - OSX is gracefully dying.
It just had a senior moment, but was too polite to tell me it was sick.
A good old XP box would have served up the Blue Screen of Death weeks ago. Maybe that would have salvaged a few hours of sleep.
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Written by Andrew McCaskey
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Thursday, 11 December 2008 23:17 |
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Intellectual Property Aspects of Open Source Extensions
The video for today is the SDRNewsroom raw streaming video feed from the .Chicago Jooomla Users Group (December 2008).
It is raw, it is lengthy and it is long. Did I mention it is long ? Just let it roll and listen and you will begin to pick up some great content.
There is a portion of Kendall Kabe's Joomla 101 tutorial, and then Mike Carson and Attorney Bob Brill (who is also has degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and computer science) go through GPL, copyright and intellectual property issues from a programmer and developer perspective. Complete info at BobBrill.net. Bob is an Intellectual Property lawyer with business sense. Mike Carson from Joomla Showroom poses developer questions - based on almost twenty years in the business.
This weekend, with luck, that video is going to be transformed (if FedEx does the right thing).
Keep your eyes out and come back again by Sunday, and catch it again.
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