Port Forward Podcast (mp3)

http://portforwardpodcast.com/show-35-what-computers-cant-do Play We’re back! It’s been over a year and Ben and Sam catch up. In 1997 Garry Kasparov lost to the chess playing computer: Deep Blue. The book is called Behind Deep Blue. Sam also mentions a book What Computers Can’t Do which discusses the RAMAC. CD-ROMs use forward error correction called Reed Solomon [...]

http://portforwardpodcast.com/show-34-glazed-conf-and-kyle-ellicot Play Interview with Kyle Ellicott, Founder of the Stained Glass Labs Incubator Kyle is an acomplished entreprenuer and jokingly says all he had to do to start his incubator was: “sign a piece of paper, call a few people and boom it happened!”. Everybody in the SF Area check out the GLAZED conference happening [...]

http://portforwardpodcast.com/show-33b-why-you-no-ship Ben and Sam Catch up in this week’s BONUS episode which was recorded moments after the end of show 33. We talk about Bitcoin and more. Also, Mike Shaw gives us epic feedback regarding Jump List parser code he’s posted. Play http://www.bitcoinx.com/profit/ http://windowsir.blogspot.com/2011/12/jump-list-parser-code-posted.html https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/traktor-dj-for-iphone/id625335999?mt=8 Download Podcast #33B WHY YOU NO SHIP?

http://portforwardpodcast.com/show-33-snodens-rouge-drone/ Ben David and Merrick catch up for a normal format podcast! Play http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/14/spiri-kickstarter/ http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/914887915/spiri http://rubygems.org/gems/turbolinks http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/53493/computer-vs-heater-coil-comparison http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/29/bug-in-apples-coretext-allows-specific-string-of-characters-to-crash-ios-6-os-x-10-8-apps/ http://www.amazon.com/ASICMiner-Block-Erupter-330MH-Sapphire/dp/B00CUJT7TO http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMOS http://hadonejob.com http://youhadonejob.org https://codepub.org/ http://www.opscode.com/chef/ https://puppetlabs.com/ http://www.meteor.com/ http://expressjs.com/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/teenager-hit-by-his-remote-control-helicopter-in-nyc-park-dies-from-severe-head-injury/2013/09/05/4cabf3d4-1694-11e3-961c-f22d3aaf19ab_story.html https://github.com/runekaagaard/snowscript Download Podcast #33 Snowden’s Rogue Drone

http://portforwardpodcast.com/show-32-meteor-js-hackathon/ Coverage of Meteor.js Hackathon hash tag: #meteorhack. Ben and David go to a Hackathon and are Victorious! We take home a Meteor AR Drone 2.0 as a prize! Play Checkout metoer.js the best framework ever! Tumblr where Ben has at least 3 epic quotes. including “y = mx + b bitch!” Hackathon info Quadcopter [...]

http://portforwardpodcast.com/show-31-bitcoin-2013/ Coverage of Bitoin 2013 conference hash tag: #bitcoin2013. Play Photo Gallery from the show BitCoin ATM Video of Ben using the atm Conference talk – YouTube is Broken by Adam B Levine – Bitcoin Famous reporter / Bitcoin celebrity twitter.com/@KashHill @KashHill’s Forbes story, living on bitcoin for a week These two awesome guys donated [...]

http://portforwardpodcast.com/show-30-asic-powered-floating-island/ Special guest David Sykora! This week we talk hardware, BitCoin, LiteCoin, Asic Miners, Routers, Peace Corps and more! FeedBack: Eric Nantz – Check his podcast www.r-podcast.org SnakeDoc Russel Folk Neal Harrington David Sykora’s Github or twitter @david_sykora ASIC mining is taking off, network hashrate(measure of total compute power of all miners) has doubled in [...]

Show Notes: http://portforwardpodcast.com/show-29-glitches-in-sams-homeless-matrix This week we talk BitCoin, QuadCopters, Tech Company subpoena woes, and good office culture. Also there is a major glitch in Sam’s Matrix: Humble indie bundle Indie Game the Movie Sim City 5 Zero Punctuation Video Humble android bundle -anomaly korea -bladeslinger -contre jour -metalslug 3 -plants vs zombies -the room Companies [...]

Long lost audio documenting a study session between Sam and Ben. The book is called “Windows Forensic Analysis DVD Toolkit, Second Edition”. If you are not ready to bend your mind, this show might not be the best for you. Warning: this show has some unclear areas, if you do not enjoy just wait till [...]

We bring you the latest buzz surrounding node.js and some history. Also the WebStorm editor which works great with node! Special thanks to David Sykora for redesigning our site! Tool: http://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/ also get the node.js plugin. Ben hacks objective c iOS display code for iPhone 5 Sam recomends Battery Case: http://www.lenmar.com/Uploads/File/landing-pages/index.html Node.js Ben recording with [...]

This week Ben and Merrick interview Michael Dominic and ask him all the hard questions. Dominics new job http://edufii.com/ Self taught vs formally educated programmers What’s wrong with the CS Education in this country, State of? ARC (Automated Resourcing Countint) in Objective-c Objectice-c blocks vs delegates source code samples at interviews Ramiro Gómez – Venn [...]

This week Ben and Merrick hit the town for a Beef Jerky and Water fueled night! Tune in to catch our random tech musings. Drupal http://www.scaleengine.com/ Beef Jerky Paleo diet Databases Download Podcast #25

Download Podcast #24 This week Ben, Merrick and all of you awesome people out there rock out at the JoynMe Launch party! If you have an iPhone, download the app! JoynMe.com Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) http://aws.amazon.com/rds/

Download Podcast #23 This week Ben and “The Original Chris” go to the Google Dart Hackathon!  #DartHack Dart Language Technical Overview Dart API Dart on Github Highcharts, interactive js charts Seth Ladd’s Blog WebGL 3d animation of water Redis Dart (DartHack winner’s GitHub)

Download Podcast #22 Ben and Sam take the portable recorder to a database conference all about SkySql and MaraiDB. Check out the SkySQL website, or the schedule for the day. Topics covered: ScaleDB Sphinx Tungsten Replicator Varnish Cache Proxy

Download Podcast #21 Ben and Merrick take the portable recorder with them on their trip to Vegas!! This trip and podcast was powered by betable.com’s new API. Please check them out: Topics covered: Betable.com has a new API blog and API Login for their awesome gambling platform. Check it out! We cover second dinner and [...]

Download Podcast #20 Next in our interview series, we speak with special guest Josh Gillies (@JoshGillies). Feedback: Mixes by @e_knudsen: Soundcloud.com/dj-e-ray @keeganjacobson you guys are awesome! He runs ubuntu 11.10 has a nexus and test drives CM9 Topics: Arch Linux ‘yaourt’ – (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Yaourt) && (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR) history of linux, linux distribution timeline: http://futurist.se/gldt/ Suicide Linux http://qntm.org/suicide [...]

Download Podcast #19 In this titillating episode we cover pretty much everything you dreamed about last night. Wait, what!? Not that dream you freak! You need professional help! On another note we had our fan Mike call into the show! We discussed the Carrier IQ disaster alongside other technological tidbits. Our special guest, Mike, has prepared a [...]

Download MP3: Stop Chewing on My Electric Sam’s new service: http://sendnao.com/ & why we need it ATM side-channel attack contributed by our favorite listener Neal: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/08/thermal-imaging-camera-can-read-your-atm-pin/ Catch-up on our life doings, Merrick: Drupal 7, Sam: Motion Graphics, Ben: JavaBeans & JSP (Java Server Pages). Merrick was confused about the Das Keyboard being able to switch layouts & [...]

Download MP3: Coded Hard & Put Away Wet (& numb) We finally did another show! Sorry for the break we hope to record bi-monthly from now on! In this fantabulous episode we achieve both an ADD & distraction depth. Ben hacking under ice-water! Thanks again Peter for the awesome donation! http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=93c9614b0b5471f03869d13f936859c6 http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/04/ispy-software-can-read-texts-and-steal-passwords-with-its-little/ http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/10/researchers-can-keylog-your-pc-using-your-iphones-accelerometer.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/10/researchers-hack-crypto-on-rfid-smart-cards-used-for-keyless-entry-and-transit-pass.ars http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45263325/ns/technology_and_science-security/#.TsAJOUOXunB Sam needs [...]

Download MP3: NoSqlCamp UnConference The gang goes to the NoSqlCamp 2011, and we meet … a girl! http://www.nosqlcamp.org/ http://cassandra.apache.org/ http://couchdb.apache.org/ http://www.datastax.com/ https://mongolab.com/home/  

Download MP3: Is it time to start(up)? In this (long overdue) show we cover the many conferences we’ve attended. Also Ben’s winning streak and the future of the Port Forward Podcast! Conferences We’ve Recently Attended: Cloud.e 2011 techcrunch hackathon/Disrupt twiliocon – web crawler, Dropbox API html5 hackathon Eric Ries Lean Startup book signing & fireside [...]

Sam’s obsession with CDRWs This show we take it deep into QR Code territory. Topics include: - Our first ever bitcoin donation! - Manually checking your iDevice *.IPA files for malware. - Sam’s obsession w/ CDRW’s - Really bad jokes in QR Codes - Old school CD technology - Please check out Krayon’s blog - [...]

iOSDevCamp coverage, recorded July 25, 2011 Official Website: http://www.iphonedevcamp.org/ - 4Sight: http://seriousapps.com/4sight - Real Money Slots: http://t.co/TGZvHDM - Mashboard http://mikhailxu.github.com/ - RMS used http://glyphish.com/ for icons - Google+ and why it’s so much better than Facebook Bitcoin Cents: - Neal mentions: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/weaknesses. The attacks we covered last week are “Probably not a problem” according to [...]

Bitcoin Extravaganza, recorded July 12, 2011: For starters, all knowledge comes from the original Bitcoin Whitepaper: http://www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf - What is currency vs fiat currency.  Why does it matter if currency is rare? Brief history of bartering, banking, fractional reserve banking - What is Bitcoin? Creator: Satoshi Nakamoto - Why do Bitcoins have value? - Describe btc client, what [...]

We have our first listener call-in over Skype to discuss VMWare ESXi in this weeks episode: - What is the Cryptographic function hash()  ? - What is the Mathematical operator mod()  ? - Listener Feedback:  Antonio, Neal, Mike Shaw - PSExec and features: + Scripting an exe to always open w/ a set affinity + Files [...]

- Go Daddy is the reason the last show has a decimal point (9.1) - Known Chrome/Wikipedia bug; multi-threaded race condition  http://tinyurl.com/3jlse84 - Sam tries release handles to a hard drive after backing up. Using process explorer failed - NETBUS sucks, sub7 has more features came later    ohrlly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub7 YA RLLY! - Sam’s epic guide http://tinyurl.com/6gt4vsf - Old [...]

We have Merrick back on the show for a Keyboard filled episode!  This week: - Listener feedback - Using a catch-all email to prevent spam - Duke Nukem Forever! http://venturebeat.com/2011/06/13/duke-nukem-forever-sucks/ - Our stories about the day we first learned alt+tab - Das Keyboard (blank keys) - Sony security / PR debacle http://hassonybeenhackedthisweek.com/ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/07/lulzsec-sony-and-the-rise_n_872814.html - Follow-up to [...]

We bring back Merrick for coverage of the TechRaising event in Santa Cruz, CA.  Also: - Ben’s Tech War Story about a server getting hacked / root kit installed. - IP Firewall on iOS! - Steve Gibson’s upgraded password scheme: https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm - Merrick’s review of TechRaising, highlighting speakers, ideas & 48 hours of geekery. http://techraising.com/ - [...]

In this episode we discuss a Javascript x86 emulator.  This VM has a Linux kernel which is fully bootable! You have shell access and can run normal Linux commands.  It even has a compiler!! (TCC, not GCC.) This is epic and deserves attention! - Making a DNS server from scratch! Also using Webmin to control it [...]

Introducing our biggest fan Benji! - Perfect Time Machine Server! - Benji’s Windows Phone 7 - PHP Templates -> Error where Apache runs out of memory - http://www.ajaxload.info/ Beach-ballin! - Microsoft Compielrs vs XCode and Pick-Whips! - How we hate flash! - How ethical is it to base your website design off of other sites? Is [...]

Introducing a new podcaster, the all around powerhouse, Merrick! This Show: - Check hash of .ipa files for viruses - A bit about version control - Being family tech support guy - samba \sharing issues, and “nblookup” http://paradisj.blogspot.com/2008/11/how-to-query-wins-server.html - MobileMe to track a lost iPhone story - Symbolic links on Linux and Windows. - Sata 2 [...]

We have a name!  If you have any feedback, please Contact Us! Discussion of port forwarding a bit (router) Inbound and outbound ports, NAT Vista Home 2011 virus, MSE & MS Safety not able to detect Office 2010 the movie, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUawhjxLS2I Emacs has tetris built in, so does uTorrent http://www.orangeinks.com/tips-n-tricks/hidden-tetris-game-in-utorrent/ Scrolling penetrating into OSX + [...]

In show three we pick it up a notch and propose ways to dominate storage in the cloud. IE 8, repeated clicking sound in bing >O< “We’ve reached the point of diminishing returns” – Win7 searching I have a f-ing VIDEO of showing the search feature in 7 failing. Yes. I documented the whole f-ing [...]

In this second round, we introduce tenacious podcaster Sam.  Topics include: Skydrive, Amazon Cloud Drive Amazon Cloud Player review: http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-20048416-12.html SMS / MMS for Internet Bryan Lunduke’s Approach to no cellphone: http://lunduke.com/?p=1359 Virus with sound only advertisement on boot! 90’s CW/RW Acronis backups Windows Volume Shadow Copy MacBook / Apple Mouse with tiiiiny holes Imitation [...]