01.10.11
Gemini version available ♊︎TechBytes Episode 24: Android, Microsoft’s President Departure, and Privacy
Direct download as Ogg (1:51:18, 43.3 MB) | Direct download as MP3 (51.0 MB)
Summary: Tim, Gordon, and Roy struggle with coughs and connection difficulties and yet manage to produce another episode filled with news and discussion
TODAY’S show covers many topics including the new Linux release, Android, Microsoft’s latest departures and failures, and of course Wikileaks. This is the first episode in about a week due to lack of time for the three of us to regroup and record. Our new IRC channel and new official Web site will be announced quite soon. [Update: the show notes are up]
Today’s show ends with the special track for TechBytes, courtesy of Marti who can be reached via this Web page. We hope you will join us for future shows and consider subscribing to the show via the RSS feed. You can also visit our archives for past shows. If you have an Identi.ca account, consider subscribing to TechBytes in order to keep up to date. █
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Our past shows:
November 2010
December 2010
| Show overview | Show title | Date recorded |
| Episode 16: No guests | TechBytes Episode 16: Bribes for Reviews, GNU/Linux News, and Wikileaks Opinions | 3/12/2010 |
| Episode 17: No guests | TechBytes Episode 17: Chrome OS Imminent, Wikileaks Spreads to Mirrors, ‘Open’ Microsoft | 5/12/2010 |
| Episode 18: No guests | TechBytes Episode 18: Chrome OS, Sharing, Freedom, and Wikileaks | 11/12/2010 |
| Episode 19: No guests | TechBytes Episode 19: GNU/Linux Market Share on Desktop at 4%, Microsoft Declining, and ChromeOS is Coming | 16/12/2010 |
| Episode 20: No guests | TechBytes Episode 20: GNU/Linux Gamers Pay More for Games, Other Discussions | 18/12/2010 |
| Episode 21: No guests | TechBytes Episode 21: Copyright Abuses, Agitators and Trolls, Starting a New Site | 20/12/2010 |
| Episode 22: No special guests | TechBytes Episode 22: Freedom Debate and Picks of the Year | 27/12/2010 |
January 2011
| Show overview | Show title | Date recorded |
| Episode 23: Tim, Gordon, and Roy | TechBytes Episode 23: Failuresfest and 2011 Predictions | 2/1/2011 |
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wimwauters said,
January 15, 2011 at 7:02 am
I’ve always had niggling problems with downloading the audio files from this domain, but retrying a second or third time would sort it.
The download for episode 24 seem to be an exception to this: Firefox can not complete the download, it fails between 19 and 30MB. Also, your server does not seem to support a download restart, i.e. Firefox keeps having to start from scratch. I suspect a bit of tinkering with enabling restarting, or dealing with partial downloads, might save you a lot of bandwidth
I’m just trying with wget, and it’s having exactly the same problem: the first download was interrupted at 33MB for some unknown reason, and then it restarts from scratch
I can download reliably from many other sites with much bigger files, so it ain’t me
Cheers,
Wim
P.S. I like this show a lot, keep up the good work
wimwauters said,
January 15, 2011 at 7:28 am
wget is more consistent it failed at:
2011-01-15 11:55:03 (54.5 KB/s) – Read error at byte 33483250/45448649 (Connection reset by peer). Retrying.
2011-01-15 12:05:07 (54.3 KB/s) – Read error at byte 33483250/45448649 (Connection reset by peer). Retrying.
2011-01-15 12:15:11 (54.7 KB/s) – Read error at byte 33636748/45448649 (Connection reset by peer). Retrying.
Have fun digging into this
Cheers,
Wim
P.S. and +1 for having embedded media with HTML5. The death of Flash is imminent
wimwauters said,
January 15, 2011 at 7:31 am
I just noticed the wget error messages are exactly 10 minutes and 4 seconds apart. So look for a 600 second limit in your server settings somewhere.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz Reply:
January 15th, 2011 at 9:00 am
Thanks. Someone brought it up right after the first few shows and we checked with the host. The main issue we have is the use of Varnish, which overrides some server settings. We’ll try sorting this out again using the information you gave.
wimwauters Reply:
January 15th, 2011 at 10:51 am
Excellent, thanks, I hope they find the 600 second bug
wimwauters Reply:
January 19th, 2011 at 7:47 am
Yep, the 600 second limit is still there.
I’ve now managed to download this ogg-cast over a slightly faster connection (8000kbps in stead of 5000-ish kps) in 9 minutes and 47 seconds: yep, that was a close one
Dr. Roy Schestowitz Reply:
January 19th, 2011 at 8:32 am
We’re setting up a subsite to dodge the issue caused by Varnish timeout settings.