Telugu Bytes

Chat about how and why Ravi built his new desktop, and memories of our first computers.

• Why did Ravi need a new computer?
• When did we buy our first computers?
  • "Assembled" computers and pirated software
  • Famous computers at BITS - Russell's media machine
• How to pick parts for a modern-day desktop
  • CPU and motherboard
  • RAM and SSD
  • Monitors
• Economics of buying a branded computer vs. building it
• How long does it take to research and build one
• Breakdown of the cost
• Our current work and home setups

This week we have our first special guest, Sri Atluru (SPIDY), who joins us to discuss about the iPhone event, Apple Pay and where Apple is going in general. We end this episode with a 20 minute long Tollywood ramble about new and upcoming releases. (Disclaimer: All the comments in the end about actors/directors are made in a lighter vein, please don't consider them as personal attacks on anyone.)

• Dhruv buys iPhone 6 and his initial views on the device

• Spidy follows up with his views on iPhone and Apple

• iPhone controversies post release

• • iPhone 6+ Bendgate controversy

  • • How Apple handled it versus Antenna gate and how it compared it with Jobs epic press conference after that?

• iOS 8.0.1 botched release?

• • A disgusting Businessweek article places a blame on a middle level QA manager.

  • Spidy and Gummadi debate on managerial styles of Jobs vs Cook.

• Apple Pay

• Spidy explains why he is longing for Apple Pay and how its going to fundamentally change the payment industry.

• Tollywood

• Spidy and Dhruv weigh on the latest Tollywood's disaster Aagadu and Sreenu Vytla

• Expectations on next week's release, Govindudu Andarivadele.

• • Crucial film for Krishna Vamsi's career

  • Bandla Ganesh's epic GAV audio release speech

Topics:

• iPhone 6 and iPhone 6+

• • Would Steve Jobs allowed this mutiple screen sizes?

  • Android Comparisons

  • • Galaxy Ad

    • Move from Apple to Android Guide

• Apple Pay

• • How is the authentication done?

  • How much difference does it make?

  • Does Paypal need to really fear this?

  • • Paypal ad

• Apple Watch

• • Some thoughts on the spectacular intro video

  • Thoughts on this new category and Apple's approach to it

• Aagadu

• • Expectations and some lackluster music by Thaman (as usual)

• Ai

• • Some thoughts on Shankar's next mega blockbuster

User feedback:

• Sound quality - We upgraded our equipment and made sure the sound is being picked up the correct microphones.

• • AT2020+ (Ravi's Microphone)

  • Blue Yeti (Dhruv's Microphone)

• Going to be more conscious about the cliches and stepping over each other. Also going to drift away more from the Q&A format and get into a more conversational style.

Links

• Apple Keynote

• Bendict Evans about iWatch

• A watch enthusiast's review about iWatch

• iPhone 6 review by Walt Mossberg

In the fourth and the first episode since the beta launch, we thank the audience for their support and clarify couple of questions/concerns from the audience.

• iPhone 6 Release

• • Coming Tuesday the rumour mill is ripe that Apple is going to release their next version of iPhone and iWatch

  • Dhruv discusses some of the features which Apple is rumored to release in this release.

• iCloud Celebrity Photo Hack

• • Last week, an infamous celebrity photo hack has been the point of discussion by both mainstream media and technology circles

  • Ravi offers some insights into what multifactor authentication is and why that would have prevented this hack.

  • Dhruv offers some other alternatives like 1Password which would eliminate the need of remembering the passwords.

  • Dhruv goes over some basic precautions you can take to prevent this happening to you (in case you become famous ;-)

Links discussed in the show:

• Celebrity photo hack, an overview and how can you prevent them from happening to your photos: http://gigaom.com/2014/09/07/prevent-icloud-hack/

• Multi factor authentication Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-factor_authentication

• The American Life podcast founder starts a new startup: Hear Startup http://hearstartup.com/https://twitter.com/podcaststartup

• Saavn, the Spotify for Indian music that Ravi has great things to say about.
• Owning vs. Streaming music - What do we prefer? Where are we heading?

• What is virtualization? How does this relate to cloud computing?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of virtualization?
• A brief history of virtualization
• Major players in server virtualization - ESX, Hyper-V, RHEV and Xen
• An intro to storage virtualization and network virtualization
• Top three providers of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS
• Downsides of cloud
• Future of cloud

In this episode, Ravi and Dhruv discuss the buzzword-ridden and often confusing term 'Cloud Computing'.

• What is cloud? Why is everybody talking about it?
• Watch this guy explain "Cloud CDs" and what happens to them when it rains.
• Isn't my home computer good enough? How about a server? Why do I need cloud?
• Is the cloud model good or bad for small consumers?
• What is the difference between public cloud and private cloud?
• What is IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service), PaaS (platform-aaS), SaaS (software)?
• Why did Everpix, running on AWS, go out of business?

Next week, we'll talk about virtualization, different cloud providers and the future.

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In the first episode, Dhruv and Ravi kick things off by introducing themselves and talk about podcasting - their favorite podcasts and why they started this one. The discussion turns to Kickstarter, LeBron's move to Cleveland and American sports in general.

Links from the podcast:

• Telugu Tharanga, a podcast we found.
• Kickstarter, a site that lets you raise money for your products
• Hanselminutes, a podcast that we love.
• LeBron's move to his old team, Cleveland Cavaliers.

You can find us on Twitter at @gummadi and @dhruvtv.

Q. What is the theme music that plays at the beginning and the end of the podcast?

A. It is Krish Ashok's awesome Game of Thrones (Kuthu Remix), published under a Creative Commons license.