Say Goodbye to TechTV

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TechTV.com RIP

TechTV.com RIP 05/31/2004 02:30 AM

TechTV to Lay Off 285

TechTV to Lay Off 285 05/08/2004 05:06 AM
The technology news outlet says it is eliminating all 285 positions in its San Francisco office as a result of its proposed merger with Comcast's G4 gaming network. By Amit Asaravala.

In memory of TechTV...

In memory of TechTV... 06/29/2004 12:00 PM
I think it would be appropriate at this time, what with the G4TechTV merger/takeover and resulting shake up and backlash, to remember how it was in its humble beginnings. Noel Green, former operator of the Mac icon supersite, IconPlanet.com, has given me the go ahead to re-release a vintage set of icons depicting the personalities that greeted viewers in the earlier days of tech television--ZDTV.

Download and remember (not just ZDTV, but System 7)

TechTV To Merge With G4

TechTV To Merge With G4 04/09/2004 04:00 PM

Inside TechTV/G4

Inside TechTV/G4 01/01/2005 03:01 PM

TechTV Staff Fired

TechTV Staff Fired 05/07/2004 03:29 AM
The ever popular or maybe not so popular TechTV staff was given pink slips. Comcast has dropped the hatchet. [Cnet]...

mv wil /home /SanFrancisco/techTV/

mv wil /home /SanFrancisco/techTV/ 04/21/2004 07:40 AM
Hey you guys!

(Was it Sloth, or Electric Company? I quote, you decide.)

I'm going to San Francisco tomorrow morning to tape an episode of Call For Help, and also to appear on The Screen Savers.

So if you're interested in seeing my double chin in all its glory, check your local listings and do your thing.

TechTV Fans Mad as Hell

TechTV Fans Mad as Hell 06/17/2004 05:27 AM
TechTV viewers aren't going to take the network's merger lying down, complaining long and loud across the Net about cancellations, the G4 invasion and botched cable deals. By Staci D. Kramer.

TechTV lays off San Francisco staff

TechTV lays off San Francisco staff 05/06/2004 09:41 PM
CNET May 7 2004 2:23AM GMT

Comcast Fires TechTV Staff

Comcast Fires TechTV Staff 05/07/2004 12:43 AM

Comcast Lays off the TechTV Staff

Comcast Lays off the TechTV Staff 05/07/2004 04:50 AM

TechTV To Be Gutted, Employees Sacked

TechTV To Be Gutted, Employees Sacked 05/07/2004 07:51 AM
Whoa, it looks like Comcast might be putting the entire staff of TechTV off the job, according to this update at Ars Technica. While Comcast had stated their intentions to roll TechTV into the G4 gaming network, it wasn't clear they were going to gut the network to do it--a...

"Chris Pirillo will be back on TechTV"

"Chris Pirillo will be back on TechTV" 04/11/2004 08:58 PM

the bl0g of TechTV host Leo Laporte

the bl0g of TechTV host Leo Laporte 05/08/2004 03:46 AM
fired the entire staff of Tech TV .. Comcast is destroying TechTV .. All of them

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"TechTV lays off San Francisco staff"

"TechTV lays off San Francisco staff" 05/08/2004 09:06 AM

Comcast completes acquisition of TechTV

Comcast completes acquisition of TechTV 05/14/2004 12:05 AM

ComCast Fires Entire TechTV Staff

ComCast Fires Entire TechTV Staff 05/07/2004 03:42 AM
Techfocus May 7 2004 8:09AM GMT

TechTV | Windows Tip: Change Start
Button in XP

TechTV | Windows Tip: Change Start
Button in XP 04/09/2004 03:57 PM
http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/windowstips/story/0,24330,3361674,0 0.html .............Make it say anything you want.

TechTV | The Linux Operator Guide to
Women

TechTV | The Linux Operator Guide to
Women 04/09/2004 03:57 PM
http://www.techtv.com/nerdnation/features/story/0,24330,3651128,00.htm l Learn how to maintain a woman distro. Includes secrets of flawless booting and file management, and solutions to frequently encountered errors.

Comcast fires the entire TechTV staff

Comcast fires the entire TechTV staff 05/06/2004 10:00 PM
The future of TechTV was uncertain, but hopeful. Now it appears that Comcast may be planning to gut the network, as they've given the entire staff their mandatory 60-days notice in compliance with the WARN act.

TechTV | RIAA Launches New Legal Attack

TechTV | RIAA Launches New Legal Attack 01/22/2004 02:11 AM
http://www.techtv.com/news/culture/story/0,24195,3597593,00.html In the latest on "Your Data vs Their Plastic" war: When the Verizon ruling was announced, the RIAA immediately went back on the offensive, saying the court's decision merely meant the recording industry would cease sending subpoenas and first file lawsuits. That's exactly what the RIAA has now done in filing the 532 new suits Wednesday. In a statement released by the RIAA, the recording industry says...

Wired News: TechTV Fans Mad as Hell

Wired News: TechTV Fans Mad as Hell 06/18/2004 06:40 AM
how TechTV is going down the toliet .. TechTV Fans Mad as Hell .. just doesn't get it

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DOOM 3 SDK Info, High Quality TechTV
Video

DOOM 3 SDK Info, High Quality TechTV
Video 07/19/2004 06:45 PM

The Laporte Report: Comcast Fires TechTV
Staff

The Laporte Report: Comcast Fires TechTV
Staff 05/07/2004 09:04 AM
In preparation for the G4-TechTV merger, Comcast gives notice to all TechTV staff .. Leo Laporte's blog .. firedeveryone .. Quote Source

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TechTV lays off San Francisco staff |
CNET News.com

TechTV lays off San Francisco staff |
CNET News.com 05/08/2004 02:04 AM
TechTV lays off San Francisco staff

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PowerBook G3 DVD/Airport-Owned by former
TechTV staffer, Laura Burstein

PowerBook G3 DVD/Airport-Owned by former
TechTV staffer, Laura Burstein 04/26/2004 12:41 AM
Laura Burstein, journalist, former TechTV on-air personality and current moblog goddess has her PowerBook G3 up on the eBay auction block. It is the same 500MHz Bronze keyboard PowerBook that she used to write portions of Leo Laporte's TechTV 2003 Technology Almanac.

Bid now and own a piece of geek history.

"Leo Laporte reports that Comcast has
fired the entire TechTV staff."

"Leo Laporte reports that Comcast has
fired the entire TechTV staff." 05/07/2004 09:23 AM

Goodbye, Bob ...

Goodbye, Bob ... 04/30/2004 05:01 AM
A glowing tribute honoring Bob Edwards on his final day as anchor at NPR's "Morning Edition" ... from the bastards people who fired reassigned him in the first place. (Sorry to start your Friday on a downer.)

Goodbye 747?

Goodbye 747? 08/15/2004 11:20 AM

Is this old bird about to get its wings clipped?: The venerable 747 is finding itself less and less popular these days.

...airlines don't like the 747's fuel bills. It burns about 3,200 gallons of fuel per flight hour, about one-third more than the Boeing 777 [...] Air carriers also have a hard time finding 400-plus paying passengers to fill flights.

This is too bad, as the 747 is a majestic plane. I still remember having to walk underneath one of them to get to a customs shuttle when returned from New Zealand once — it was just breathtaking how big the thing was.

Sadly, The popularity stats are sobering.

...airlines fly 635 of the jumbos in passenger service, down 21% from the peak year of 1997...

The number of U.S. carriers flying the bulbous-nosed giant has fallen to two: United and Northwest. There were eight as recently as 1990. The number of daily domestic flights on the 747 has dropped to just 10, down from a peak of 102 a quarter of a century ago, Back says.

While the cargo version remains popular, airlines haven't ordered a passenger version of the 747 since November 2002.

And what does this mean for the future of the Airb us A3XX? That plane is designed to seat 555 people. Singapore Airlines ju st ordered 16 of them.

While the A3XX is massive, the thing that made the 747 look big was the "hump" over the front of the plane. (I remember an old joke about why the hump was there: because the pilots had to sit on their wallets — it was funny when I was seven.) But if you look closely at the A3XX, it is a true two-story plane all the way down the fuselage, while the 747 just had an upperdeck towards the front, under the hump.

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Hello GDS, Goodbye YDS

Hello GDS, Goodbye YDS 03/14/2005 05:02 PM
Finally there's a desktop search product that's actually useful to me: Google Desktop. I had tried the previous version of GDS a bit, as well as the company dog food (Yahoo Desktop Search or YDS). But both lacked the ability to search the most important asset on my computer: my e-mail archive. Being one who does not use Outlook, that meant I was on my own until now. The latest GDS release has the ability to index Thunderbird mailboxes....

Hello Kitty, Goodbye God

Hello Kitty, Goodbye God 02/01/2005 09:01 PM
"Cats are not advisable as pets or companions for Christians ... While the animal itself may be unaware of this tragic condition, it serves only its true master -- Satan."

Circuits: The Last Goodbye

Circuits: The Last Goodbye 03/24/2005 02:53 PM

I had intended to write some short note about the passing of the New York Times' Circuits section, now set to be dismantled and set to work throughout the paper like nerdy orphans. I was going to write about my sadness at its departure, so quickly after a crowed-about redesign, but before it had a chance to grow into the accessible but technical resource it had the potential to become.

Instead, here is a picture of David Pogue crawling through his backyard in a fur cap from an indeterminate animal source. If that was good enough for his last piece in the Circuits section, then it's good enough for my last mention of them. If you need a shoulder to cry on, Circuits writers, I'm here for you, hatless.

Th e Last Circuits [NYTimes]

Firefox - Say Goodbye (again) to Pop-Ups

Firefox - Say Goodbye (again) to Pop-Ups 04/06/2005 11:47 AM
A lot of people have been reporting a new breed of pop-ups on the web. This increasing menace is rooted in the pop-up capabilities of plug-ins like flash and Java. If you're seeing pop-ups and pop-unders, you're probably visiting sites that have flash or other plug-ins and those plug-ins are being exploited by advertisers to abuse you with annoying pop-ups and pop-unders.

Firefox has the capability to disable these pop-ups but it wasn't enabled by default in Firefox 1.0 because we had concerns about websites that rely on plug-in triggered pop-ups for legitimate functionality. Give that these pop-ups and pop-unders have really started to spread on the web, we're testing a quick patch that enables the Firefox pref to block them.

News source: Asa Dotzler's (Mozilla Developer) Blog

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Goodbye to Privacy

Goodbye to Privacy 04/09/2005 08:54 PM
In the past five years, what most of us only recently thought of as "nobody's business" has become the big business of everybody's business.

Say goodbye to being single

Say goodbye to being single 06/22/2005 01:54 AM
Reports were circulating last week that Apple declared an "end-of-life" to the 1.8 GHz Power Mac in late April when it reconstructed its Power Mac G5 line to include 2.0 to 2.7 GHz dual processors. Back in April the company said it would continue selling the single-processor 1.8 GHz Power Mac, but on Wednesday, the model was quietly removed from Apple's online store. Apple provided a statement to CNET News.com on Monday confirming that it has discontinued its single-processor Power Mac G5 system in favor of an all dual-chip lineup. "The 1.8 GHz Power Mac G5 is no longer available at the online Apple Store but is available in other channels while supplies last. The Power Mac G5 line is now all dual processor and delivers the ultimate in performance for our most advanced customers." Apple also noted that consumers looking for a single-chip machine, should look at "the new iMac G5" as it "is a very popular solution." Apple's iMac G5 is presently the top-selling product through the company store and is available in models up to 2.0 GHz.

Goodbye, Tucker

Goodbye, Tucker 01/05/2005 10:06 PM
It has been a depressing week for Democrats. Shirley Chisholm and Bob Matsui died over the weekend. A slew of new Republican lawmakers were sworn in Tuesday. John Kerry announced Wednesday that he won't participate in any formal protests against the presidential voting by electors from Ohio. Alberto Gonzales will begin his road to confirmation as attorney general Thursday. And if all that's not enough, Trent Lott has announced that a singer from "The Lawrence Welk Show" will perform John Ashcroft's "Let the Eagle Soar" at George W. Bush's inauguration.

Goodbye Safari

Goodbye Safari 12/31/2004 01:24 AM

That Mac users are also switching to Firefox says something very good about the experience it offers. By Johnathon Williams

Goodbye San Mateo

Goodbye San Mateo 12/24/2004 01:10 PM
Six Apart moved into our new offices today, and though he doesn't blog often, he gets it right when he does: Ben covers my thoughts exactly. I'll be spending the next week with family and friends, but today I want to say happy hoildays to all my friends at Six...

Goodbye Romania

Goodbye Romania 09/17/2004 11:42 PM
Warning - by visiting this site, you will destroy it. Each visit will remove one pixel from these photographs. However, we will tell you a story. It's a story about Romania, which is to say, it's a story about change.
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