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After seeing an article over at PCMag.com about using network-manager with Breezy, I thought I’ve give it a try. It looks sweet and all, but I ran into one big snag.

El Problemo: because of my network config at work and at home the local DNS caching issue / bind9 dependancy was a deal-breaker for me. That is untill I ran across WildBill’s Blog entry. He repackaged network-manager without the bind9 dependancy and Wa-hoo! it works now!

Thanks WildBill.

I attended the Utah Geek Dinner last night and it was really a great event. Dr. Windley’s presentation was food for thought and I got a chance to meet a few geeks in person. I sat across from Pete Ashdown the head honcho at Xmission (and who is running for State Senate against Sen. Hatch — good luck Pete!) and right next to Erik Anderson of Busybox and uClibc fame.

After the meeting, while I was driving home, I came up with a new idea. Ok - so it isn’t really new… just putting some ideas together to form something new: Social Podcasting (spodcasting?)

Brief Summary: The podcast topics and questions will be submitted and voted upon before hand (think digg.com) This podcast will have a website where you can submit topics to discuss or people to interview and then underneath that topic/interview you can submit specific questions to be discussed or asked. All these elements can be voted on and the most popular topics/interviews will be picked for the next podcast with the most popular specific questions to be discussed or asked.