We finally got our act together and recorded episode 22. Unfortunately Bol got stuck in traffic, so it was just Red Ironfist and myself. As always we ran a bit long (nearly an hour show folks, sorry about that). It is the first episode that is hosted by Red and he did a great job.

We discuss the game Neverwinter Nights 2. We talk about the classes, races and a bit about the game play. We go into the Dungeons & Dragons rule set, and compare it to other games.

Hope you enjoy the show.

This week we're joined once more by Red Ironfist. Bol grabbed some random news topics and threw then=m at us and we all had a chat about it. We discuss some issues relating to the upcoming Vista, Transgaming's Cedega, Dell and a few other things.

Hope you enjoy.

This week revisit the "random banter" casts we used to do. We're joined by Veldrin and just sit and talk about random stuff for about an hour.

Hope you enjoy!

We're joined once again by Red Ironfist as we discuss digital photography. From what to look for in your camera, to how to line up shots and take pictures.

Hope you enjoy!

Episode 18 is released finally!

We managed to pull our act together and recorded episode 18. We are joined by Red Iron Fist as we discuss deleting data.

Most people will think tha emptying the recycle box in windows is enoough to delete ata. We discuss why it's not enough and what you can do to remove your data properly.

I'll add a few links to this post later w=once I got my notes sorted :)

Hope the episode was worth the wait.

This week Red Iron Fist joined us as we resurrected the "random banter" type episodes. We discussed a wide range of topics and had a little more than an hour worht of audio.

This morning I sat down to edit ti only to find out that my audio had been recorded double. Causing a funky reverb type thing. Completely useless :s

So unfortunalty we won't have a show this week either....

We recorded our episode as always last Friday and it was a good show. Too bad the audio is so shagged I can't make anything form it. So unfortunatly there won't be a show this week either... Hopefully next weeek the podcast gods will be more favourable to the show...

Unfortunatly we need to inform you of another week of no show. This week Bol needed to go to England for most of the week. He will be back tomorrow (Saturday) but as it's my gf's birthday, I won't be around to record a show. We might be able to squeeze one in on Monday/Tuesday but so far we have no plans to do this, so assume the next show will be next Friday's one.

I know how annoyig it is if a podcast you listen too keeps being canceled. And rest assured we'll try and cut these no-shows down in future. to keep  you all informed I'll tell you some of the shows we have planned in the near future:

1. More in the "Creating webistes series". Unfortunatly for these there is no time frame due to Red Iron Fist's busy schedule
2. The security series. 3 show's we have definately planned in this series will be:
   
1. Phishing: what is it? How do is recognize it? etc.
   
2. Passwords: ebtter password policies. Suggestions on how to use/thnk of passwords
3. Deleting data securely: these days people trade old harddisks, cellphones etc on Ebay. This show will explain how to securely remvoe the data of such devices so that "the bad guys" don't get your data
3. Switching to Mac. The (currently) last episode in our switching too series.
4. Digital Photography: Another episode with Red, so unfortunatly no time on this one
5. Gadget Mania: an episode on some well kow gadgets and how/why we got addicted to them

I hope these topics draw your interst. If not... send us an email at lowleveltech@lowleveltech.net for suggestions/requests.

thanx

Belnarlo

This week we start the first of a multi part series on building websites. Unfortunatly Boletje was cut of the net by some workman, but Red Iron Fist joins us as this weeks expert.

We run slightly long and get only have the planned info across but I think it was a good show. We discuss what you need to get started on your own little bit of the web.
Basic Computer Skills
A PC/Mac
Space to publish (eg. ISP, google pages, .Mac)
Editor (notepad, Notepad++, Dreamweaver, Vim, Hot Dog, etc)

There where several more links dropped i the show and I'm waiting for Red's input into the shownotes. So if you are interested in the other links etc keep an eye on this space :)

Red's Forums

Hope you enjoy the show

Belnarlo

Due to a few things we can't record the show this week. Bol's plans and my work prevent us from having the time to sit down and record.

This weeks topic (get into podcasting) will move back a few weeks. Next week we have Red Iron Fist coming back to join us, so we can't just move everything back one week.

We promise to let you know the revised schedule soon :)

Sorry for the week off folks..

Belnarlo

In this episode we discuss MP3s. What are they? Why should we use them? How do we create them? And all that good stuff. We discuss how to play MP3s on the move and at home), and basically tell yo uall to get started with them

Hope you enjoy

In this episode we discuss wireless networks once more (see episode 4 for the first discussion on the subject). This time we talk about how to improve the signal, by changing the antenna or changing the channel settings for your network.

We then go on to talk about add-ons for your network. We discuss SAN storage, print servers and media.

Links discussed in the show:
Wireless Pro
SAN storage

Hope you enjoy the second episode with the new format.

In this Episode we discuss switching to Mozilla Thunderbird.  We changed the format of the show and this time around we had Belnarlo as the interviewer and Bolletje  as the 'expert'.

Topics discussed include:

We managed to get the show to record this week and so today we can finally reslease Episode 13. This is the second  in our Switching to series. This week we discuss switching to Open Office. We discuss the main differences between Microsoft Office and Open Office. Some of the pros and cons of both, and our reasons for switching...

Extra show links:
Neo Office
VoIP Info

Hope you enjoy the episode :)

I went to edit the audio today and found that the recording is corrupt. I tried fixing it but it's severly screwed. Needless to say I'm hacked off with this and can't be bothered re-recording the show today and then editing the new audio.

So no show this week folks. Next week we'll be back. Not sure if we'll re-record this weeks topic or of we skip ahead to episode 15 and call Episode 14 the lost episode...

We are joined this week by RedIronFist as we discuss switching your internet browser to <a href="http://www.getfirefox.com/">Mozilla Firefox</a>. We discuss the steps needed to switch (from download, past install, by initial setup, to daily use). We touch on the reasons Mozilla states to switch, and we explain our our reasons for switching. We also discuss our favorite add ons to the browser, and some of the drawbacks of switching away from Internet Explorer.

Unfortunatly we lost some of the audio as the connection died mid way through. So certain bits might sound a bit funny where I connected the two sound files.

<a href="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=0&t=193"><img border="0" alt="Upgrade to Firefox 1.5!" title="Upgrade to Firefox 1.5!" src="http://sfx-images.mozilla.org/affiliates/products/firefox/upgrade_1_5_120x600r.jpg"/></a>

Discussed extensions
<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/10/">AdBlock</a>
<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1801/">Clear Cache Button</a>
<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/271/">ColorZilla</a>
<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1569/"Cookie Crumbler</a>
<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2104/">CSS Viewer</a>
<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1806/">DOM Inspector</a>
<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1843/">FireBug</a>
<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/684/">FireFTP</a>
<a href="http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/index.html">Google addons</a>
<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/684/">Foxmarks Bookmark Syncronizer</a>
<a href="http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/">Live HTTP Headers</a>
<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/539/">MeasureIt</a>
<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/539/">Professor X</a>
<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2036/">Server Spy</a>
<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/59/">User Agent Switcher</a>
<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/697/">View Formatted Source</a>
<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/60/">Web Developer</a>
<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1802/">X-Ray</a>

Other links
<a href="http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox/">Portable Firefox</a>
<a href="http://www.flock.com/">Flock</a>

This is the third episode in the OS series, rounding it of with Mac OS X. We touch on the pros, cons and some of our views on how things can be ;)

Another random banter episode. this time we didn't manage to hook up with any guests, and as such we tried something new. We discuss the game of World of Warcraft  as we play it. It might not be the best show ever, but it was an experiment we wanted to try. There is some good info on starting in WoW in here, but it is in basis a random banter episode...

We use the Avenue Q song "The Internet is for Porn" as our closing theme. Look at YourTube for the movie made from this with WoW characters.

In this episode we discuss hardware. We try to make a little sense of the processor market, tying it into the different socket types. We then briefly discuss Mainboards/Motherboards. We discuss RAM, hard disks and removable storage and try to make some sense of the video cards.

In this episode we discuss IRC. We discuss what it is and how to connect to an IRC network. What you need to use IRC and how to make your first steps in the wonderfull, but addictive world of Internet Relay Chat.

Last night we noticed some odd behavior on the site, I grabbed a quick backup and then had to head to bed. This mornign I was greated by a site destroyed :(

Not quite sure what is wrong, but as my personal blog suffered a same fate I am guessing we had a not so nice visitor...

Anyways until I can fix the site I've redirected the domain here, so you can all still get the podcast and read how things areg going with the fixing....

Hope to have the main site back soon, but the next week is a busy one so not sure if I can get it sorted before my break...

Belnarlo

In this show we are joined by Will. We discuss Linux basics. What is Linux, Who Uses linux etc.

Hope you enjoy it....

This show we discuss Windows. We dip into the timeline of Windows (from MS-DOS to XP), take a look at Vista. ANd give a few basic tipsfor making Windows a little more secure...

Episode 5, a long one with audio that could be better... Just an hour and a bit of us randomly touching on any subject we think up as we go along.

We discuss the basics of networking (and the OSI model), and move to wireless soon after...

Episode 3: VoIP

We discuss several different VoIP related things.
Gizmo Project http://gizmoproject.com
Skype http://skype.com
Teamspeak http://www.goteamspeak.com
Ventrillo http://ventrillo.com
Rodger Wilco http://rogerwilco.gamespy.com/
Free World Dial http://freeworlddialup.com
VoIP User http://voipuser.net
Asterisk http://asterisk.org

Episode 2: Future Games

We discuss some of the games we're waiting for. Check the links

Spore: http://spore.com
Gods and Heroes: http://www.godsandheroes.com/
Star Trek Online: http://www.startrek.perpetual.com/
Old Sierra/Lucasarts Games: http://www.agamesroom.com/page/list/sierra

Just a quick post to get the feed listed on Odeo

<a href="http://odeo.com/claim/feed/94e9bd2c8c717525">My Odeo Channel</a> (odeo/94e9bd2c8c717525)

 Episode 1: Network packet sniffing

Right for those of you who got led here by iTunes...we do have our own url. We use libsyn as they are a great company for letting us host our podcasts, but we figured we wanted full control of our site, so we set up http://lowleveltech.net

come visit us there if you want