Archive for ‘TechBytes’

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Jun24

TechBytes Episode 78: Richard Stallman on the NSA

by Roy Schestowitz on June 24th, 2013 at 11:46 AM
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Richard Stallman on Snowden, NSA, etc. Direct download as Ogg (00:08:15, 5.9 MB) Summary: The first part of a series about privacy TODAY we officially begin a series of interviews with Dr. Richard Stallman, as [cref 69689 promised last week]. Stallman was proven to be right on the issues of privacy and freedom as more […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Nov07

Greedy Car Thieves (GCT) TechBytes

by Roy Schestowitz on November 7th, 2012 at 1:15 AM
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Direct download as Ogg (01:38:50, 21.6 MB) Summary: Interview with Greedy Car Thieves (GCT) developers Today’s show is primarily dedicated to a video/computer game called Greedy Car Thieves (GCT), which is similar to Grand Theft Auto (GTA) 2. We talked to two of the game’s developers. Tim has played the game and Roy tried to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Nov06

TechBytes Episode 76, First of Season Three

by Roy Schestowitz on November 6th, 2012 at 1:34 AM
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Direct download as Ogg (01:08:59, 15.0 MB) Summary: The 76th episode, the first of this season, kicks off with Tim and Roy Today’s show deals with Amazon in Ubuntu, Vista 8, Apple vs. Samsung, search engines, games including Valve, and a variety of other topics. At the end we added the track “Misery Loves Company” […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Nov02

TechBytes Goes On

by Roy Schestowitz on November 2nd, 2012 at 6:53 PM
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Direct download as Ogg (00:01:58, 0.9 MB) Summary: The first episode of the new season TechBytes’ message for the new season. 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, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Aug13

75th Episode of TechBytes

by Roy Schestowitz on August 13th, 2012 at 7:03 AM
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Direct download as Ogg (00:26:03, 10.5 MB) Summary: The 75th episode of this nearly two year old show This short episode speaks about the “Ogg only” policy we’ve adopted after suggestions from Richard Stallman (MP3 is a patent problem). I explain that Techrights came into existence/need because of the first software patents deal against GNU/Linux, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Aug06

OOXML and ODF in 2012

by Roy Schestowitz on August 6th, 2012 at 10:52 AM
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Direct download as Ogg (01:07:21, 14.6 MB) Summary: Charles-H. Schulz from LibreOffice/TDF and Mandriva joins us for this fun episode which covers important but long-forgotten issues TECHRIGHTS has been deeply involved in the ODF/OOXML controversy, peaking about 5 years ago. Back then, OpenOffice.org was powerful and LibreOffice did not exist just yet. In today’s show […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Aug03

TechBytes Episode 73: Richard Stallman Endorses the Green Party

by Roy Schestowitz on August 3rd, 2012 at 3:38 PM
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Direct download as Ogg (11:07,4.5 MB) Summary: The last part of our interviews series with Richard Stallman TODAY we cover some more political issues including matters of law. Secrets Dr. Roy Schestowitz: What is your take on the notion of “trade secret”? Dr. Richard Stallman: Well, since I think people have a right in general […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Jul31

RMS on Reliability of a News Sources, GPL, and Patents

by Roy Schestowitz on July 31st, 2012 at 6:43 AM
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Direct download as Ogg (12:12, 4.8 MB) Summary: The fourth part of our interviews series with Richard Stallman covers software patents opposition for the most part TODAY we turn our attention to software patents for the most part. Here is the transcript. Dr. Roy Schestowitz: How do you judge the reliability of a news source […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Jul26

Richard Stallman on Privacy

by Roy Schestowitz on July 26th, 2012 at 10:59 PM
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Direct download as Ogg (8:51, 3.5 MB) Summary: The third part of our interviews series with Richard Stallman covers privacy in communication In this third part we turn our attention to more political issues. I spoke to Richard Stallman about matters of privacy as he has in-depth knowledge of the facts. Here is the transcript. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Jul24

Richard Stallman on Privacy on the Web

by Roy Schestowitz on July 24th, 2012 at 6:10 AM
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Direct download as Ogg (0:10:19, 4.2 MB) Summary: The second part of our interview with Richard Stallman covers social networks and Web browsers FURTHER to this interview with Richard Stallman (about UEFI) I spoke to him about another area of technology which is less to do with software and more to do with civil rights. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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