Do you remember “The Screen Savers” Tv show? It is back.

Leo Laporte and Patrick Norton kicked off the first episode of “The New Screen Savers” Web television show that geeks have been begging for, for more than 10 years.
As a fellow Geek myself I can not be more tech excited than this.
Here is Episode 1 of The New Screen Savers Found on the Twit Network.

Leo Laporte brought back a screen savers show called “The New Screen Savers”. Yep the show with Patrick Norton and Leo talking tech and answering questions is back. It looks like the launch was very quiet.
But we can fix that.

But who’s going to relaunch Tech Tv?
Maybe “The New Tech TV” or “Techy’s TV”
We shall see how The New Screen Savers plays out.

BTW love the way the intro works.

Actual drone playing the part of the drone.

Revision 3 acquired by Discovery channel

According to Kevin Rose, Discovery channel is now the owner of Revision 3.
My question is ” Will this mean that Discovery has a similar show line up that they want no competition so they will crush the shows like G4 did to tech tv, or does this mean that discovery will now be running Revision 3?”
Either way, we should have some good shows.

Downside is, major media now owns independent New media.

Wonder who will host the videos now.
Wonder if there will be a fee to watch tekzilla online.

Wonder what is to come of Twit network or if there have even been any offers.

Top Ten Podcasters of the Year: TruXter’s Choice

Well the year has brought so much news to the tech world, Via podcasts. Since that is a media source, TruXter tech Review will list the choice of podcasters for 2009. From tenth place down to the number one spot.

These podcasts are not necessarily  all tech, it’s the means in which this media is brought to us that makes it tech. There is great talent and tons of devotion in these people, that is why they are making the list. There are some that are very talented but had no devotion or motivation to carry on this year as they had in the past years. So this year they will not be making it to this list. Some are great talent but a bit slacking this year so their scoring isn’t as wonderful as it could be. This post is not to bash, but show apreciation, keep that in mind if your or your favorite podcaster is not in the top 2.

There will be no award that can be given other than readers of this site, a chance to listen to the media on the podcaster’s site. So i hope they enjoy the notoriety, no matter how small the traffic might be or low the number of interested link followers their are.Well without further  blathering, this is the list of 2009’s podcasters we hope to hear more from during 2010.

If you know someone with a podcast that should have made the list, leave their link. If it’s your link please let me know. i will gladly listen to more than one episode. probably every episode you do within 2010. Just respond to this post.

#10. Leslie Katz-Cnet News Daily Podcast, voice is kind of cool and not disruptive. Topics are clear and interesting.

#9. Alex Albrecht-Diggnation He drinks with Kevin Rose and reads from digg.com frickin a.d.d. train wreck lol!.

#8. Kevin Rose- Diggnation Gets drunk with Alex and gets off topic so often, I love it. Weekly Show.

#7. Andrew G.R.-Jobacle.Com s.Mostly writing there now. but still doing shows.

#6. Bryan LundukeComputer Action Show Computer Action Show. Seems like it’s up to twice a month nowe.

#5. Chris FisherComputer Action Show Computer Action Show. Seems like it’s up to twice a month now.

#4. Veronica Belmont-TekZilla New episodes: Thursdays usually around 45 minutes.

#3. Patrick Norton-TekZilla New episodes: Thursdays usually around 45 minutes.

#2. Leo Laporte –The Tech Guy Podcast Two Podcasts a Week for this show, Hours of entertainment while at work in a Zone.

#1.  Andrew McCaskey- Slashdot Review SDRNEWS SDR News Producer and Host – Slashdot Review about 15 minutes of just straight to the point tech news. No worries if you get super interested and can’t keep up, he has show notes on his website.

net@night 104

http://twit.tv/natn104

Is up and ready, Swing by Leo’s site (click his name) and send him a thanks. Don’t forget Sarah an Amber Mac! (is it still Mac?)

Hosts: Amber MacArthur, Sarah Lane, and Leo Laporte

Guest: David Cann of almost.at.

Facebook’s vanity URLs, tweet reading cat burglars, Keyboard Cat, Jauntsetter, and more.

Site of the week: Sarah Lane shows us Jauntsetter

Audible.com pick of the week: Raise Your Social I.Q.: How to Do the Right Thing in Any Situation , unabridged by Michael Levine, Narrated by Mary Woods. For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/night.

Bandwidth for net@night is provided by AOL Radio.

The cat’s away, the rodents will play

Well I was trying to log into live.pirillo via the Wyldryde irc chat connection. I ran into a bit of an issue. Some how the site scrambled my password.

I headed to the help command “/nickserv help”. The list showed that by typing “/nickserv SENDPASS” it would send my password to my email account so I can verify that I typed it properly. If it was not the proper password I would just go ahead and use the password I typoed. but no, that did not happen, the instant replay was “SENDPASS command unavailable because encryption is in use”. I of course humored by the irony of the no/help  post into the chatroom a quote of this error nottice, meanwhile the server keeps changing my name to unidentified, but chatzilla kept trying to sign me back. no less than two seconds after I posted the  statement, a low level moderator decides to tell me it isn’t stupid, then kicks me out of the room. I am shocked that he flipped out instead of helping out, I come back and of course “mouse” decides that he hasn’t proven himself a man yet so he goes on to make threats. I have no idea what has him so hot. So I say in some foul words “untill they removes a person like you from moderation, I will not be coming back” and I leave.. What’s he do???  He goes to an unassociated venue that he and I are both signed for, of course he is a moderator there, and he locks my account  Geek  Pirillo.

Chris clearly does not know this going on and my messages are getting intercepted before they get to him.

Here is the chat log.

> * b has Quit: Client exited
> <romeoxx1> hey
> <Bkil> hi
> <romeoxx1> everyone
> <thisisnotanick> hello
> <HellBoy> Hey guys.
> * Ashryne waves
> <romeoxx1> what is this thing about
> <thisisnotanick> i still got a o-zone song stuck in my head =/
> <Bkil> hi Ashryne
> * TruXter is now known as Unidentified18569
> <Bkil> so…many…ports…to…

forward
> * romeoxx1 has Quit: Client exited
> <Ashryne> Take care everyone. Off to help my sister move.
> <thisisnotanick> have fun
> * joe14 has Quit: Client exited
> <CornishNerd> cya Ashryne :d have fun
> <manmaed> bye
> * Unidentified18569 is now known as TruXter
>  * wicket Changed The Topic To: Topic: Notebooks / Chris is sleeping and
> dreaming about his trip to Asia / Live Video @
> <TruXter> *nickserv*    SENDPASS command unavailable because encryption is
> in use.   <— stupid
> * questiuoner has joined #chris
> <thisisnotanick> encryption is stupid?
> * aghhhhhhhhhhhhha has joined #chris
> <Bkil> no
> * TruXter is now known as Unidentified46735
> <mouse> Not really
> <Bkil> encryption is goood
> <aghhhhhhhhhhhhha> why is chris off air hes never off air ??
> <Bkil> good*
> <Bkil> what is down
> <Pixie> Yes, we know. The stream is down. It will be fixed shortly. Please
> don’t complain about it, as there is nothing we can do to fix it.
> <Unidentified46735> not sending me my password because the security level is
> handled improperly is stupid. and not understanding what I mean was stupid.
> <thisisnotanick> retorical question :P
> <thisisnotanick> Unidentified46735: not sent because its encrypted
> <Bkil> Unidentified46735: its good the passwords are encrypted
> <thisisnotanick> as far as i can see
> * Ashryne is now known as Ashryne[Away]
> <CornishNerd> lol 46738
> <ResidentNerd> Unidentified31080, your password is *******
> <questiuoner> Hello I like computers very well I wanna practise english so
> maybe is here oneone who like talk on skype for example?
> <Bkil> its hashed
> <CornishNerd> 46735*
> <Bkil> it can’t be sent to you
> <nichols15> i hate when my computer hates me
> <Bkil> your password isn’t stored in clear text
> <ResidentNerd> hash != encryption
> <thisisnotanick> Unidentified46735: it doesnt know what your password is so
> to speak
> <nichols15> :(
> <Bkil> so it can’t be sent to you
> * aghhhhhhhhhhhhha has Quit: Client exited
> * Unidentified46735 is now known as TruXter
> <Bkil> ask an 0per to help you
> <mouse> You can drop that attitude right now (lol WHAT???)
> <thisisnotanick> Unidentified46735: when you login with your password, it
> encrypts the one you send and compares the two

> <Bkil> they can send you a new pass
> <questiuoner> who want to talk on skype?
> <mouse> And what he means is he forgot his password, and the server will not
> send it

> * Nico has left #chris
> <TruXter> HAHAHAHA and that means it is stupid. if it can not sen you your
> password, then it shouldn’t store your password and it shouldn’t have the
> option to send you a password
.
> <Bkil> what?
> <Bkil> you should remember you own pass

> <ResidentNerd> Truxter, lose the attitude
> * TruXter is now known as Unidentified16043
> <Bkil> so you don’t want services to exist? (dude it’s not a service if it does not work)
> <mouse> TruXter Because its not something you like, doenst mean it is stupid
> <Bkil> that is what you are saying
> <Unidentified16043> do ne a favore, type /nickserv help
> * TheDude has joined #chris
> <questiuoner> anyone wanna talk about pc on skype or ventrilo?
> * iniall95 has joined #chris
> * Nico has joined #chris
> <Bkil> I don’t know if its possible to edit the help files for anope
> <thisisnotanick> wb Nico
> <Luma> ok back
> <thisisnotanick> wb
> <iniall95> why aint the stream up?
> <thisisnotanick> brb
> <Unidentified16043> mouse, if mc donald’s drive through had a brick wall
> right after you take your order…. just because you do not like it, does
> not mean it’s stupid.

> <Luma> who here knows of Hanz Zimmer?
> * Unidentified16043 is now known as TruXter
> <Luma> wow what the heck did i miss
> <Nico> tnx thisisnotanick
booted me
> <mouse> I hate people who think like that.
> <Bkil> nothing important
> <Luma> mouse: you should speak to one of my friends lol
> * TruXter has joined #chris
> <CornishNerd> righto peeps i gotta go :D bbl
> <mouse> id kick em in the head.
> * TruXter is now known as Unidentified23617
> * TruXter is now known as Unidentified23617

> <Luma> he always says things like “i think anyone who watches a movie like
> this is stupid”
> <CornishNerd> lol mouse
> <thisisnotanick> a brick wall at every mcdonalds drive through would do the
> world good
> <Highlander> woot!
> <ResidentNerd> Unidentified23617, give it thirty days and it will expire
> <Unidentified23617> mouse, I do not have an additude.   let’s just relaxe
> and you figgure out who I am as the server changes my name every 3 minutes

> <Luma> i try to tell him, thats your opinion and he always goes “no its fact
> its a stupid movie, and the fact that it has topped box office just goes to
> show how stupid everyone is”
> <Luma> mouse, why dont you speak to him? :P
> <CornishNerd> thisisnotanick = well it is a drive-thru…maybe if they give
> u a wall to drive thu it’d be more fun….
> <mouse> Nope i wont relax, and i especially dont take orders
> <Luma> it was a joke lolz
> * TheDude has Quit: Client exited
> * Dawn has Quit: Take my advice. I don’t use it anyway
> <ResidentNerd> and this isn’t the place to go on about resetting your
> password on this network
> * nitrous has Quit: Client exited
> * Dawn has joined #chris
> * CornishNerd *sighs* have fun all
> * ismetteren has Quit: Connection reset by peer
> <thisisnotanick> CornishNerd: lol yeah
> * Milos has Quit: Connection reset by peer
> * compgenius999 has Quit: Connection reset by peer
> <thisisnotanick> cya
> * BladeRunR has Quit: Connection reset by peer
> * ismetteren has joined #chris
> * landorindustries has Quit: Connection reset by peer
> * Milos has joined #chris
> * ijonlive has Quit:
> <Bkil> Unidentified23617: it changes your nick every 1 minute
> <Pixie> You may change your nick by typing /nick followed by the nickname
> you want, and hitting enter. Example: /nick newnickgoeshere
> * BladeRunR has joined #chris
> <Bkil> yes Pixie
> * DataBrokers has Quit: Goodbye
> * pcuser14 has joined #chris
> <Luma> oh right
> * CornishNerd has Quit:
> <ChrisPirillo> what is apple
> <ChrisPirillo> what is mac
> * lalala has joined #chris
> <Pixie> Yes, Chris is surrounded by these particular Apple computers:
> http://www.jdoqocy.com/click-471546-10505522 – get one for yourself, and
> check out the latest coupons for the entire Apple Store:
> http://chris.pirillo.com/2008/11/30/apple-store-cyber-monday-sale/
> * compgenius999 has joined #chris
> <Unidentified23617> ok, then you offer no solution yet you ban because
> someone uses logic to talk to you?   you are a twelve year old with an
> ability to boot people and are more damage than use., untill chris removes a
> tard like you, there is no need in coming here, dumbXXX

> * Unidentified23617 has left #chris
> <Bkil> lol!!
> * landorindustries has joined #chris
> <lalala> ololololfsdfdsfsfsdfd
> <lalala> s
> <pcuser14> whay off air ?
> <Bkil> what is down
> <Pixie> Yes, we know. The stream is down. It will be fixed shortly. Please
> don’t complain about it, as there is nothing we can do to fix it.
> <lalala> sorry my sister ;/
> <HellBoy> o_O
> <Bkil> ty mouse
> <mouse> Kline_Raider may want to talk to your friend.
> <Highlander> wow had their weeties this morning
> <thisisnotanick> this is one of the less strict channels ive been in
> <lalala> of air
> <lalala> off air
> <thisisnotanick> compared to others
> <Bkil> lalala: we know
> <Dawn> amen
> <HellBoy> Ive had stricter SERVERS
> <HellBoy> Lol.
> <mouse> and i didn’t ban anyone till after he left, so whos the idiot?
> <Kline_Raider> do you know what Kline is ?
> <Bkil> 1. we did offer a solution
> <Bkil> 2. you didn’t use logic
> <Bkil> 3. not a good idea to insult people who are trying to help you
(he was not helping)
> <Luma> thisisnotanick: what is the most strict channel you have ever been
> in?
> * pcuser14 has Quit: Client exited
> * matt has joined #chris
> <mouse> and i wont be removed. and im 30 to be exact oh and ive been a
> member almost 10 years

> * lalala has Quit: Client exited
> * Davidmoreen has joined #chris
> <matt> omg hes off air!!!!
> <thisisnotanick> Luma: cant remember, but most larger channels auto kickban
> on many things this does not
> <thisisnotanick> like links
> <Bkil> matt: we know
> <thisisnotanick> even though they are not allowed
> <Bkil> fff
> <Luma> yeah, this place is very balanced
> <Dawn> the thing is when a channel has as many people in it that this one
> does, the ops have to be proactive because if they ever get behind the 8
> ball the channel will devolve into such a mess nobody could chat

> <matt> is he ever off air?
> <thisisnotanick> usually you dont get a second chance
> <Bkil> yes no matt
> <Dawn> i wish some people could understand this
> * matt is now known as Unidentified1569
> <Bkil> now*
> <Luma> what i hate most is when people forget that chatting here is a
> privlidge
> <Bkil> I increased the firewall security on my router, and I think it broke
> ventrilo
> <thisisnotanick> Luma: yup
> <Luma> they dont have to be here just as we dont have to let them be here
> <Bkil> I port forwarded
> <Bkil> but it doesn’t work
> * Unidentified1569 has Quit: Client exited
> <Luma> they feel as if its a service they are paying for or something
> * ExtraNormal has Quit: Ping timeout
> <thisisnotanick> indeed
> <Luma> and all the hops / ops have to treat them with respect
> <Luma> but that usually ends pretty fast
> <Bkil> when they don’t treat other users with respect
> <ConstantNewbie> Luma, I find respect as a weaknesss.
> <Luma> definently
> <iniall95> why aint the live stream online?
> * vizzuttifan has joined #chris
> <Bkil> cuz it is
> <Bkil> we don’t know
> <Luma> my mother works with a man at a school who got angry at her for not
> called him “Sir”
> <iniall95> oh ok
> <Luma> even though my mother is older then him
> <mouse> If I was really mean, I would freeze him on geeks untill he
> appologized. But im nto that mean
(he did it, I’m locked out)
> <ConstantNewbie> I don’t respect anybody online, because they are complete
> strangers.
> <Bkil> lol
> * nichols15 has Quit: Client exited
> * UggZ has Quit:
> <Luma> as if she was some “student” of his
> <Highlander> i get no respect *Cry*
> <Bkil> is he still here?
> <ConstantNewbie> I don’t want any.
> * Joshua{XP} has joined #chris
> <Bkil> lol, his ban is the only one in the list
> * Luma gives Highlander a big tripple chocolate cake because he likes
> Highlander a lot!
> * mjsa has Quit: Client exited
> <mouse> it affects him and Kline_Raider
> <Bkil> aww
> <Kline_Raider> screenshot and emailed.  we all gotta have our proof :-)
> <Bkil> same person?
> * Joshua{XP} has Quit: Connection reset by peer
> * Highlander thinks he should be worried about luma liking him “a lot”
> * RPGM35 has Quit: Connection reset by peer
> <mouse> same ip
> * Milos has Quit: Connection reset by peer
> * landorindustries has Quit: Connection reset by peer
> * ismetteren has Quit: Connection reset by peer
> * compgenius999 has Quit: Connection reset by peer
> <Bkil> wow
> * Joshua{XP} has joined #chris
> * BladeRunR has Quit: Connection reset by peer
> <Luma> oi! lol i mean as a friend
> * jkls|Away is now known as jkls
> * RPGM35 has joined #chris
> * ismetteren has joined #chris
> <Bkil> we are getting a lot of connection resets
> <Highlander> lol
> * Milos has joined #chris
> * BladeRunR has joined #chris
> <ConstantNewbie> mouse, if I am ever banned from here I won’t be appealing,
> because I would rather serve my time anyway.

I also was logged in on another account called “kline_raider”.

I mean I can act a complete fool like anyone and make this really hard on everyone, but I’m not doing this.

I am trying to get it resolved.

Sarah Lane has a her own Chickapedia

Well at least the freaks and stalkers did her some justice.
By not stalking her to get more information than what she
wants to release. Like some vigilant Internet Paparazzi.

Sarah Lane Chickapidia
They left out some important facts about her that could
be listed or displayed to further help her career though.
Like the line that says “dudes She’s worked with”
Really needs to list
Kevin Pereira (lol I forgot his name had to google him) From “Attack of the show”.
Adam Sessler From “Extended Play” now known as “Xplay”.
Leo Laporte The backbone to the real “The Screen Savers”.
Alex Albrecht Short term nail in the coffin for “The Screen Savers”

Her whole intermingling with chatrooms while The shows she was on
was probably the biggest reason that all chatrooms show related
that ran during live airing and recording would pack with so many people
who just want to talk to a member of the show. She was the niche
that put it all together. Along with many other reason’s their shows
took off, she was of the largest addiction. (not to give her to big of a head)

The line that says her body of work. needs to say “The Screen Savers” because “screen savers” sounds like she worked for a spam site.

To counter the “Twit” Acronym, It would be amazing if She and amber mac
and Colleen (if you do not know, then you are to far out) put together
a show called “Wit” women in Tech or “Lit” Ladies in tech.
I guess “Chit” wouldn’t be cool.

is digg.com rigged?

Have you ever noticed that the same people keep getting the highest diggs?

Have you wondered why? or how they always do? have you wondered why your submissions never even get noticed? I know that I have. On a few occasions I have submitted stuff beforeanyone else and only got like one digg, then flamed to hell and noticed that someone else submitted the same story after me and pulled well over 1000 diggs. Why is that? Do you do follow up later to see what is going on?

See I go to the photos sections.

And, well, I notice something. That only certain people get butt loads of diggs. Is it that people will only digg something from someone if they see they already have a bunch of diggs? is it that people will only digg something if they know that everyone else already thinks it is cool? I mean is that what it takes to be cooler? is to be cool already?

I just wonder if this is a simple advertisement scam. I mean not all of it has to be a direct advertisement, but I would bet that more than 90% are in some shape or form, just a scam to advertise either the content directly mentioned in the post, or something within the page that is linked from the digg post. If a post is dugg 2000+ times, do you know everyone that has dugg that post? do any of the names look familiar? Have you read the responses in there? Are the posts automated? What percentage of the voted actually posts?