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A Podcast from Network Administrators 95

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the it-customer-service-breeds-malcontent dept.
MakoStorm writes "The guys over at wehatetech.com have been working really hard on their Podcast. "After This Week in Tech", and others. It was time for a Podcast that others might enjoy. With a bit of ranting, whining, and over all dislike for the dreaded stuff we need to fix every day." The site also offers an open forum to dump your horror stories in an effort to prevent technophiles from going postal.
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A Podcast from Network Administrators

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  • So true. Seriously, why is slashdot advertising someone's podcast?

  • Rant rant stupid users (Score:5, Funny)

    by ReformedExCon ( 897248 ) <reformed.excon@gmail.com> on Monday August 22, 2005 @04:47AM (#13370247)
    Work is so tough.

    But I got time to make a podcast! ;-)

  • Shameless (Score:2, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Putting down another podcast while making a comment on one you like is just shameless advertising.


    • What follows is Troll fodder, not fit for human consumption.

      "Putting down another podcast while making a comment on one you like is just shameless advertising."

      ... or an honest critic. Shameless advertising would imply some sort of colusion for mutual gain. Often, as is the case here, the reader does not have the information required to differentiate. This type of qualatative comment has been given a special name, it's called an "opinion". Most people will judge an authour simply by comparing the au

  • Businesses Jumping into Podcasting (Score:5, Insightful)

    by dotslashdot ( 694478 ) on Monday August 22, 2005 @05:05AM (#13370285)
    Podcasting has really taken off. Many companies are trying to jump into podcasting to target consumers with ads, etc. What was once simply common folk making interesting podcasts will soon (if not already) become yet another communication medium saturated with advertisements and promotions, reducing its value.

    • Re:Businesses Jumping into Podcasting (Score:5, Interesting)

      by uprock_x ( 855650 ) on Monday August 22, 2005 @05:49AM (#13370375) Homepage Journal
      What was once simply common folk making interesting podcasts will soon (if not already) become yet another communication medium saturated with advertisements and promotions, reducing its value.

      Possibly, but I disagree, a few posts pack there is an article about independent net radio and similar media, someone brought up 9/11 Truth radio.

      There is an enormous appetite for this kind of stuff these days because it's simply not being delivered by the so called mainstream broadcasting at all. On those very rare occasions I switch on the TV, it's just one terrible slice of goverment press releases. It's unwatchable.

      When I discovered podcasting (which I'd long avoided as it seemed another shallow buzzword like blogs etc) I was really impressed at some of the content out there which I would call as good as if not better than any commerical mainstream outlet would produce. Even the crap podcasts are well...no more crap than the crap you would hear on the radio.

      Ads aren't neccesarily a crime. It really depends on context. Targeted ads (although I tend to block all web page ads) are at least better than generic stupid TV ads or worse still 'state broadcasting' and if it's a podcast rather than a stream you can always skip them of course.

      In a nutshell IMHO, if you have something to say ads are ok, if you don't then ads aren't gonna help you anyway.
    • you bet, but there is a HUGE difference. the media companies can not force the indy podcaster out of business or off the air like they do in FM or AM broadcasting.

      They can not shut up the little guy, which scares the hell out of them.

  • Someone has to get to it.... (Score:5, Funny)

    by djupedal ( 584558 ) on Monday August 22, 2005 @05:06AM (#13370289)
    BOFH podcasts....now that's a match made in digital heaven :)

    Or how about a website that reads other sites and podcasts them automatically? You supply a url and the 'bot stufs it where iTunes can grab it.
  • Why are you on slashdot? Burn your computer, especially if you are at work. Smash all of your appliances. Cut the power feed for your house. Throw that cell phone away. Sell your car for scrap. Hunt neighborhood cats and cook them over an open fire in the backyard. And then you will sit there crying all night wishing you could blog about this new liberating experience on myspace.
    • You mean you hadn't noticed yet that Slashdot is pretty much a hive of technology-fearing luddites? These people think RFID is the scariest thing since barcodes, and keep going on about how analog cameras will always be better than digital ones, and how they want a phone that JUST MAKES PHONECALLS!

  • Podcasting eh..? (Score:5, Funny)

    by hagem01 ( 909284 ) on Monday August 22, 2005 @05:15AM (#13370305)
    The minute the guy that repairs my bike started to babble about how podcasting was cool I knew it had no future. Bike-guy: "Did you know you can download music and radio stations from the interweb and play it whenever you want? LIVE!" Me: "Live? As in, the radio people wait for you to turn on your MP3 player and then start their show?" Bike-guy: "YES! Is that not fantastic?"

    • I know you joke, but This Week in Tech [thisweekintech.com] will be doing a live broadcast sometime in the near future. TWiT is a conglomeration of old ZDNet / TechTV folks that discuss the latest technology news. I personally think that the production is one of the most professionally done by a group of "hobbyists" (I say "hobbyists" because the podcast is not a production of some company, but most of the people in the podcast have professional video/sound production experience). Having said that, the content gets a bit dull

  • Horror story. (Score:5, Funny)

    by Vo0k ( 760020 ) on Monday August 22, 2005 @05:18AM (#13370308) Journal
    So, I created this site, podcast, forums, submit your own horror story. Spare bandwidth of my company, not much, maybe 1000 hits a day, server working at leisure, no problem. And then some moron submitted the URL to Slashdot...

    First, the corporate site went down. Then I got a call from the ISP that we're taking up 99% of their bandwidth and their customers are complaining. Manager called and told me to stop it at once or I get fired. So I shut the server down, but it didn't help, hordes requesting documents, storm of retry packets. The router began overheating and entered thermal shutdown mode, cutting off most of the LANs of the company. Boss showed up, just nodded watching as a glass of coffee I left on a tiny hub connecting the router with the main modem starts boiling, took his phone, called the CEO and said "Give them all a day off. We're slashdotted." and then looked at me and in terribly calm voice announced: "You. Fix that."

    • Re:Horror story. (Score:2, Insightful)

      by Jeff DeMaagd ( 2015 )
      In all seriousness, I think it's a good time to set up a denial of referrals from Slashdot. Hopefully it would slow them down a bit.
      • Only for those people that browse with referrers (sorry, that is "Referer:"s) turned on.

        I have Proxomitron turn those off for me. (Yeah, I know, some browsers can turn them off directly, but I do have to use other browsers from time to time.)

        • Very few people change their referer line though, and in this case, I don't think the Slashdot crowd as a whole bothers with it. I know I haven't, even though I know it can be done. For the most part, I haven't seen the need to do that. I could be wrong on all this though.
    • Is it really as bad as all that? I'm fairly certain my web servers would stand up admirably to a slashdotting. Does anyone have any real numbers on what sort of traffic a good slashdotting generates? Our average daily traffic is six million unique visitors...I can't imagine Slashdot could add that big a percentage of that.

      Now mind you, I'm fairly confident, but not certain. I'm not about to challenge the world to "do their worst" against my boxes, so no URL for you!

      (Though an intuitive googler could pro

  • I hate podcasts (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22, 2005 @05:31AM (#13370334)
    Is it just me, or are 99% of the podcasts out there completely braindead. I couldn't listen to more than 10 minutes of this one. If you took all of the actual things said in this thing and put it together, you'd end up with 5 minutes of content. Do people actually listen to this junk?

    • Re:I hate podcasts (Score:5, Insightful)

      by Saven Marek ( 739395 ) on Monday August 22, 2005 @05:59AM (#13370401)
      I'm disappointed in many of them. It seems to be a great way to give broadcasting to the masses, so just anyone can make a radio show as easily as a large commercial radio station.

      Unfortunately as the old cliche goes, this means that just anyone IS making their own radio shows. I'm finding the same stats as you, about 99% are trash, and the ones I've kept listening to are commercial/professional stations who just put their existing radio shows online.

      We need a good freely accessible ratings service for podcasts in different categories. help people sort the chaff from the soap.

    • Re:I hate podcasts (Score:3, Insightful)

      by bhima ( 46039 )
      I listen to about 1 to 1 1/2 hours daily... you just have to find some you like. And, in the words of the Beatles it's getting better all the time!

    • Re:I hate podcasts (Score:2, Interesting)

      by Rude Turnip ( 49495 )

      "Is it just me, or are 99% of the podcasts out there completely braindead."

      Tell me about it...I logged into iTunes yesterday and now George W. Bush's weekly radio address is now available as a podcast! I had to subscribe out of morbid curiousity.

      Seriously though...there is a lot of crap to filter through, but there are some good ones. My two favorite podcasts are The Word Nerds [thewordnerds.org] and Catholic Insider. [catholicinsider.com] The Word Nerds are these three DC-area high school teachers that talk about the history and meanings

    • People hate books too. (Score:4, Insightful)

      by crovira ( 10242 ) on Monday August 22, 2005 @09:31AM (#13370818) Homepage
      99.99% of ANYTHING is crap. But that .01% of the total content of the universe makes it all worthwhile.

      I listen to a podcast on wine tasting. If I didn't like wine, the entire thing would be an utter waste. Even then, most of it is only of passing interest, and then only to the people who had fun gathering the material, and to me.

      Right now 99.99% of podcasts suck with their repellent production values. They have none. That will change as the geek factor diminishes and the abhorent contents kick in.

      A lot of this is eminently forgetable. Some of it, like Slacker Astronomy is good (if you're into astrinomy...)
    • And how exactly is this different from what's on the radio?

    • Re:I hate podcasts (Score:3, Insightful)

      by slim ( 1652 )
      Is it just me, or are 99% of the podcasts out there completely braindead

      You're slamming the medium when your real beef is with the content. Saying "I hate podcasts" because 99% of them are rubbish is like saying "I hate MP3s" because 99% of those are rubbish.

      On any medium, there's a lot of dross around. Buy a CD at random, and the chances are you won't like it. Go to a random web page, it's likely to be dross.

      This was the problem with the old mp3.com -- I'm sure there was great stuff on there, but it was d

    • Re:I hate podcasts (Score:3, Informative)

      by slapout ( 93640 )
      You have to weed thru them to find the good ones. Try http://itconversations.com/ [itconversations.com] and also http://www.thisweekintech.com/ [thisweekintech.com]
    • I'm not sure if this is any different from the frontier days of the "web". Everyone that had a computer and a dial-up connection was building a web page.

      The problem with most of these webpages was that people were building them simply to build them, not because they had content to distribute.

      Web pages are now passee, podcast are the new "thing. But, the content problem is even worse, as it is easier to ramble a podcast than to build a webpage.

      I'm skipping on the podcasts for now, until the bandwagon break
    • A friend and I recently started up a 'cast on role playing games that has a conversational, freeform tone. I realized at once from listening to the raw recording that there was a *lot* of editing to do.

      From 2.5 hours of general chatting, I pulled about 40 minutes of solid, usable material. And that was before I cleaned up all the "ummm"s and "errrr"s and "you know"s from the mix. Verbal static has just got to go.

      When I catch a 'cast, tune in to a radio show, listen to a lecture, or whatever, no matter wh
    • Is it just me, or are 99% of the podcasts out there completely braindead.

      Just like 99% of blogs. Podcasts are just audio blogs.
      Generic ramblings by 'that guy' you always avoid at parties or at work, because he never shuts up, AND has nothing to say.

  • So, geeks in space (Score:3, Insightful)

    by isorox ( 205688 ) on Monday August 22, 2005 @06:31AM (#13370467) Homepage Journal
    So it's basically geeks in space, with an RSS feed? Wow, isn't 2005 such an amazing year!

    When the world is full of metrosexual bloggers podcasting over a skinny latte with their blackberrys, you know there's no hope left.

  • Geeks in Space (Score:2, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward
    What I really want to see is a Geeks in Space [thesync.com] podcast. I think it's time to revive the show in some form, and Podcasting is an ideal way.
  • "With a bit of ranting, whining, and over all dislike for the dreaded stuff we need to fix every day." I browsed the forum for 2 minates, and the ONLY thing I could find was ranting, whining and genuine dislike to anything. Why is slashdot even posting about their forum when the story's about podcast? In short, their forum wasn't newsworthy (I'm not sure the podcast is either though)!
  • ... please feel free to change the /. tagline. This is hardly news for nerds, nor is it something that matters.

    This is indeed a sad day...
  • Guess what they're going to talk about for 20 minutes next week? \/\/007! We're famous! At least their site will get ./'d once. :p
  • slashdot is broken!

    long live slashdot!
  • Absolute horrible dreck. Just two guys that thinks cusswords and whining is interesting. If people want good quality tech rants, they should go read BOFH or the scary devil monastery instead.

  • Podcast (Score:2, Informative)

    by xerves ( 870929 )
    Yeah, I will admit the last podcast was not really that great. After the first 10 minutes it gets better. What can I say, I am sicker than a dog and we did it around 1 AM with a $10 Mic and a FREE encoding program. If you have any comments on how to make it better such as software and mics to use, let me know.
  • I don't get it. The Average Slashdotter sez:

    Freedom of Speech: YAY!
    Timeshifting media: YAY!
    Podcasting: BOO!

    Then why all these "podcasting sucks" comments?
  • Is ./ busted, or is it just me?
  • This is absolute shit. I listened to 5 of these damn things thinking 'hey, maybe they're just getting off to a slow start'. This guy and his friend are a couple of huge goobers that happen to be Microsoft zealots. They have trouble sqeeking out cognizant sentences and make up for their failure to produce a persuasive argument with stupid voices and cursing. I cannot believe this guy is a 23 year old MCSE.

    I got some choice quotes for you:
    On Avalanch: "Honestly, is there even a need for bittorrent even in
  • "someone is recording an audio file with some content on it, that they could have typed out, but hey, its more fun using your downpipe to listen to someone day 'erm, ok, so, thats what, now, uh, and' as well as other verbal ticks that make these things so annoying."

    That kind of story won't get published on slashdot.

    Call it a podcast tough... and through the magic of obscure jargon and hipe 'buzz' this story gets posted!

    Wooooooooow!

    Forget paying people to blog, lets all start recording audio, shit, I mean po
  • Seriously, how many people here subscribed to this podcast listened to an episode then unsubscribed?

    Just because they're Network Administrators doesn't mean they are any more interesting to listen to than a 14 year old drivelling on about his day at school.

    Allow me to summarise the latest episode for those who didn't listen in:
    • Hey we're sysadmins!
    • Another Windows virus! Oh, how very difficult our jobs are! Woe is us!
    • Don't use IE!
    • Don't use IE!
    • Don't use IE! (this continued for a while. Apparent

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