TV with DVR & Internet: $89.90/moThe Real Deal 161: Road (and air) test
Tom talks about the Kindle, Internet, and Web sites while traveling. Rafe rants about WHS, talks nice about Apple, and is moderately pleased with Pogoplug.
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Kindle – Tom
Long start time when you begin to read
Weird prev page bug takes me back 5 pages
Can’t read during take off and landing
Hard to skim for parts. Easy to search but if you don’t know the words you’re looking for, that doesn’t help.
PogoPlug – Rafe
Internet
EVDO card and
iPhone had no data plans in Malta
Direct connection at Maui hotel was slooooow. Video almost unwatchable. But Wi-Fi was super fast. Nobody using it? 3G also superfast.
Was told Hawaii declined a fiber connection a few years ago.
WRT54GL
What router should Rafe get?
Website
How did we travel before the Web?
Online check-in now standard with kiosks in many hotels (kiosks have their own problems)
Can’t check in Hawaiian on phone. Plus hassle to reprint boarding pass on Hawaiian. United better in this respect.
Bought movie tickets to Honolulu theater while in Maui.
WHS rant from Rafe
data corruption
Mac update
Genius Bar – Rafe’s experiences
iPhone
Macbook
Comments on Twitter episode
topher2041 May 6, 2009 6:22 AM PDT I love the show. All great info and I tried out DestroyTwitter and TweetDeck but i have found one that is even better. AlertThingy, http://www.alertthingy.com/ , This not only lets you do do what TweetDeck and DestroyTwiter do but also ads the ability to check Facebook, RSS and other Networks and Services, Digg, Basecamp, Flickr, Jaiku, etc. It is great. You really should try this. Why limit yourself to just Twitter info? I leave this up and can read my Facebook, Twitter and main RSS feeds all in one feed. I do not need different apps.
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Tom/Rafe -
First off, thank you for hosting the Real Deal podcast. The knowledge gained from listening is great. I am in the market for adding some NAS to my home network and was wondering if you could clear up some F.U.D. for me. I have a Gigabit Switch for my house network hub that splits the internet 8 ways to the other RJ-45 outlets in my house. At the end of one of those outlets I have an Airnet Router 10/100 that has my XBOX and Vip722 Dish HD Receiver Attached to it.
My F.U.D. comes from:
1. Do I attach the NAS to the router or the switch? Does it matter, security?
2. Can I just get an NAS Enclosure and place a 1 TB HD in there, or is it better to get a Server Tower with RAID 1 or 5 setup?
Thanks again for all the insight that you have already given all of us.
Alan
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Static IPs and Dynamic DNS
In the past I have always used a Static IP address on my home internet
connection so I can access my computers remotely (Remote Desktop, SSH,
…). I have just moved and I may end up going with Comcast for my
next ISP. They want me to have a business account to have a static IP
and they charge significantly more for that. Is Dynamic DNS and
viable alternative to having to get a static IP address? How quickly
to the DNS cache update and propagate changes to my IP address? What
are some of the DDNS services out there and how much should I be
expecting to pay for one? Anything I should be looking for when
dealing with a DDNS service?
You may also want to talk about what DDNS is for the listeners that do
not even understand what it is I am asking about.
Devin Crumb
Rafe– Google Dynamic DNS. It’s not worth it to keep a static. – http://www.google.com/search?q=dynamic+dns&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
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This week in episode 161 you tapped your heels together and called for a pilot to answer your questions about electronic device interference on aircraft. I wish I could say that I know all the technical specifics for the current regulations but, alas, I do not. The fact of the matter is that technology moves at the speed of chilled molasses in the aviation industry. The reason for this is that safety takes priority over all else. If you were to research the archives of the National Transportation Safety Board, (NTSB), you would find them rife with examples of unintended or unforeseen consequences. Imagine a mechanic placing a bolt backward in a control assembly because it seems to make more sense to put it that way. Six years later the airplane gets into the wake vortice of a large aircraft and the pilot applies immediate full control deflection to compensate. The reversed head of the bolt which, to this point, has never been placed in that extreme position with that amount of force, jams inside the wing structure causing the controls to be locked. The airplane crashes killing all aboard and causing severe damage to persons and property on the ground. Yikes.
There are processes for proving new developments in aviation that are extensive, thorough and time consuming. Conversely in the electronics and digital technology industries you tend to see "betas" being being tossed out to end users to work out the bugs. The cost of failure in aviation has severe and long reaching consequences. In consumer technology failure can often be overlooked with a rebate and a revision. We in the aviation industry are anxious for seemingly overcautious restrictions to be lifted on personal electronic devices and relief is coming. It's just going to take longer than end users are accustomed to.
I, for one, am at least as excited as anyone on the planet for the Kindle to be my new chart book. It makes complete sense. The weight savings from digitizing our flight bags alone pays for the program in related fuel savings over a very short period of time. My company currently allows us to keep manuals in .pdf format on our laptops if they are not required for immediate access, that is, sometime quicker than my seemingly endless boot up time. I think this program took over 2 years to be developed and approved by the F.A.A.. My flight bag is already several pounds lighter. We are still required, however, to keep those laptops turned off and stowed from our before starting engines checklist until above 10,000 ft. unless we need to use them during taxi. If that's the case we must stop the aircraft and set the brake while the First Officer looks up the needed information.
While I can't explain the technological specifics. I hope that an awareness of a general process will suffice. Please bear with us. That flight attendant that makes you turn off your Kindle is following the letter of the regulation because she is not trained to differentiate between high output devices and more benign, passive electronics. There is no training because currently there is no tested and approved standard.
So for now maybe you can follow the lead of Jonathan Coulton and enjoy your copy of Sky Mall in the first 10,000 feet of climb and last 10,000 feet of descent that are referred to as the sterile environment. Need a fake rock key holder anyone?
Respectfully,
Vic the Texas Rancher Pilot
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