We take a slice of real life and mix it up with some road-based podcasting. Talking about taking backups for other people and being so good at it, that you forget to do your own. A story about lost data, website hacking, Virtual machine imaging and heroic recovery ! With great music provided by the…
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In front of a black background I try to find the words to spill onto the inter webs. The sounds around me are blocked out by comfortably sitting in ear headphones, who, with their ergonomic cushions form an airtight seal. My head is filled with the sounds of Hans Zimmers soundtrack for the Da Vinci…
The great thing about listening to podcasts is that you can learn a lot from your peers. People speak from experience and suggest new ways of solving old problems and so forth. The downside of thisequation is that people are not always right. This week I was listening to the listener feedback episode 83 of…
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By the powers of the fan-o-sphere ( Some great and loyal listeners) I was able to get a Google Voice invice and setup a Google Voice account for the Knightwise.Com podcast. So all of you non-European, Asian, Russian, Australian, New-Zealandanian and Non Martian listeners ( Ok , the "American ones") you can now CALL the…
For Haloween we “Dig up” an archived episode with a spooky edge. Knightwise is missing and the machines have taken over. Stand by for a thrilled ride and an interesting topic. This episode originaly aired in 2006. “Dive down with us into the realm of the obscure as we see how to hack technology into your…
I’m not one for silly quizes or forwards. But a comment posted by BRIE on my Facebook page, did inspire me to take up her offer. Post a text to your profile where you ask people to describe you in one word. I must say 🙂 The results came as quite a shock. If you…
If there is one thing I hate from the core of my very existence, then its the phenomenon called "hyping". Hyping is rounding up a few thousand enthusiasts ,adding just a pinch of factual information, scoop out all other ingredients like : Scepticism, common sense, rationality and replacing all of those with pure and utter…
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The Dvd had been lying around my office for a few days. Lurking at me with its silver coated surface. Sending a gentle vibe towards my subconscious whispering " Try me Try me". I had played around with its older brother, a release candidate version freely distributed over the interwebs and was pleasantly surprised that…
I love getting listener feedback and comments on the blog. Cause sometimes there are some really good idea’s in there. For one, I got the question if it would not be possible to have the podcast available on MIRO. For those of you who don’t know, Miro is a cross-platform media player/aggregator that…
If you had to believe the people that tried to sell you Vista, you would have to take up an offer on IBM’s “Deep Blue supercomputer” in order to run it. Whenever a new operating system comes around its like you have to buy a new computer. Do you really have to ? We take…
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About a year ago I remember a post that I wrote about constant connectivity. I was at that point JUST about to get my Blackberry and was wondering what the impact of this ‘enhanced connectivity would be on my life. Coming from a world where connectivity was mostly acquired by broadband at work and at…
A not so obvious show from a Linux enthousiast as I rant about what it wrong with Linux and the Linux community. We take a sceptical look at the way Linux is developed, the structure and culture of the community and how that could be improved for a better penetration of Linux in the computer…
It’s lunchtime and I have some time to kill, so the perfect moment has arrived to field-test my brand new toy : The Hp TC1100 Tablet pc. "New?" I hear you ponder ? And you are indeed correct in your assumptions that the term "new" might be slightly overrated. Sure its new to me, but…
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Its been quite a busy week this week with quite a bit going on, so I’ll just try to list up whats going down. Triple dose of Knightwise.com Coincidentally (or via devine intervention) those who would like to get their dose of Knightwise every week, might find out that they can OVERDOSE this week. Recently…
Why not hop in the car with me and join me on a drive through the country as we chat about a little bit of everything. After a morning fuel-up ( and a quick chat to a “total stranger” (in Dutch), we buzz away and talk about my Issues with Windows Vista. After i’m done…
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Today I would like to share a wonderfull story with you from the audo podcast "Escape Pod". Escape pod features a weekly short-sci-fi story from various authors read by a variety of people. Some of you may remember the story about the "masks" I linked to a couple of days ago, because it was so…
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For some the command line interface is a dreadful place. It is a large black box that stares at them, forming some kind of singularity iside there computer screen. A black hole that sucks up their confidence and renders there mouse pointer obsolete and spews fountains of doubt. When you think of the people who…
Just a quick roundup of some nice links I spotted in my Feedreader the last few days. Some of you might find an interesting item among them. 14 great Cheat Sheets For common apps. LINK Aside from being almost unpronouncable these 14 Cheat Sheets help you out when you quickly need to reference functionality in…
A Few days ago I got an email from a listener of the show about implementing a server / network setup for his local church. Because it touches on the balance of "letting technology work for you" instead of the other way around I decided to share the mail (and my reply) with you. Thanx…
No no, don’t worry. I’m not going to jabber away about Leo Laporte’s podcast and how I think it is the longest, most ego-bloated audio-file in existence. I’ll leave that up to another post. But in the spirit of " blogging about daily life and mixing it in with technology " I thought it would…
Hey ! For those of you who thought I was dead and buried, well you are wrong (luckily) I’m still here, it just took me a while to finally find the time (and the inspiration) to post another entry on the website. Its a disgrace actually , me slacking of like this in posting new…
