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Show 096 - Happy Birthday Mr. Insomnia!

No segmentish type thing this week. Tech news, and we wish Mike T. a happy birthday.

Show 096 - Happy Birthday Mr. Insomnia!

March 31st, 2010



Hi, I'm Mike "Mr. Dremel" Scott, and with me tonight are Bryan "The Printer survived the crash" Hineser and Art "Meat Dealer" Hollingsworth.



Art's how can they get a hold of us: On Twitter you can find Mike S here, Art here Bryan here, Mike T here, and GeeksonTech We'd love for you to follow us. You can find us at http://GeeksonTech.com, send us a email at feedback AT GeeksonTech.com, or leave Voicemail or TXT (719) 357-5678 (Standard carrier rates apply).



Geeks on Tech is a proud member of Tech Podcast Network. You can find us, and lots of other great shows at www.techpodcasts.com . We'd also like to thank Mevio for hosting our files, they save us a ton of money.



Also, if you like the show, please head over to our iTunes page, and fill out a review. If you don't like us, it's probably not worth your time, go make a sandwich for yourself instead. Geeks on Tech is hosted by Bluehost, for more info, see http://GeeksonTech.com/hosting.



No segmentish type thing this week.



What's Going on?

Art -

  •     Acquired a new server.
  •     Solved my Skype audio problems on Linux.



Bryan -

  •  Re-posting all podcast on Amateur Skeptics
  •  The Printer still survived crashed
  •  The Car is getting totaled



Mike S. -

- Worked on the Pinewood Derby Cars today

- I think a Wii purchase is imminent

- Planning a Double Brew Weekend next weekend.



Computer History

April 2 1980 - Microsoft Announces "SoftCard"

April 4 1994 - Marc Andreesen Founds Netscape with Jim Clark

April 6 1992 - Microsoft Releases Windows 3.1



The computer history segment is brought to you by The Computer history Museum, where computing history lives. Visit them at  computerhistory.org .



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New and Interesting

- Pay to play Halo with a Girl? - Gamecrush - Playdates start at $6.60 for 10 minutes! - Mike S

http://xboxlive.ign.com/articles/107/1079073p1.html

- Sigler started "The Starter"! - Mike S.

- Nexus One isn't selling? - Mike S.

- Apple exhausts supply of iPads for pre-order - Bryan

- Zeus malware takes aim at tax season - Bryan



Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo

- Lost and Not Found - Podiobooks - Author's Website

- Republic: A Novel of America's Future - Podiobooks

Show 094 - I can haz user privacy

Is Google misguided? That and other questions are pondered on another exciting episode of Geeks on Tech.

Show 094 - I can haz user privacy

 

March 17 2010.

 

Art "Hungry Like The Wolf" Hollingsworth, Mike "Radar Love" Scott, Mike "Simply Irresistible" Taylor

Mike T, how can they get a hold of us: On Twitter you can find Mike S here, Art here Bryan here, Mike T here, and GeeksonTech We'd love for you to follow us. You can find us at http://GeeksonTech.com, send us a email at feedback AT GeeksonTech.com, or leave Voicemail or TXT (719) 357-5678 (Standard carrier rates apply).

Geeks on Tech is a proud member of Tech Podcast Network. You can find us, and lots of other great shows at www.techpodcasts.com . We'd also like to thank Mevio for hosting our files, they save us a ton of money.

Also, if you like the show, please head over to our iTunes page, and fill out a review. If you don't like us, it's probably not worth your time, go make a sandwich for yourself instead. Geeks on Tech is hosted by Bluehost, for more info, see http://GeeksonTech.com/hosting.

This week we'll be talking about an article on gawker which talks about the delusions of Google's leaders.

What's Going on?

Art — Still messing around with jabber.


Mike T -

- Setup a pfSense IPSec VPN.

- Work... Converting a VB6 application to C# 4.0.


Mike S -

- Kegged my first beer!

- Bottled my Stout, it came out to 6.8% ABV.


Computer History

March 17 1988 - Apple sues Microsoft for copyright infringement.
March 22 1993 — Intel begins shipping the Pentium chip.

The computer history segment is brought to you by The Computer history Museum, where computing history lives. Visit them at  computerhistory.org

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New and Interesting
- Portal 2 Confirmed - Mike S
- Hurt Locker wasn't that good. - Mike S.
- Really? Naked girls reading? - Mike S.

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo

- The Amber Treasure - Podiobooks - Author's Website

- Untrue Tales Book 1 - Podiobooks - Author's Website

The Segmentish Type Thing
6 delusions of Google's Arrogant Leaders

 

Show 091 - The Dribble Glass

Tech news, Compter history, mindless chatter, and 10 tech tasks you should be able to do in your sleep.

Show - 091
February 23rd, 2010

Bryan what time is it Hineser
With me tonight is Mike behind the times Scott
And Art Rocking and Rolling Hollingsworth

On Twitter you can find Mike S here, Art here Bryan here, Mike T here, and GeeksonTech We'd love for you to follow us. You can find us at http://GeeksonTech.com, send us a email at feedback AT GeeksonTech.com, or leave Voicemail or TXT (719) 357-5678 (Standard carrier rates apply).

Geeks on Tech is a proud member of Tech Podcast Network. You can find us, and lots of other great shows at www.techpodcasts.com . We'd also like to thank Mevio for hosting our files, they save us a ton of money.

Also, if you like the show, please head over to our iTunes page, and fill out a review. If you don't like us, it's probably not worth your time, go make a sandwich for yourself instead. Geeks on Tech is hosted by Bluehost, for more info, see http://GeeksonTech.com/hosting.

In this week's segmentish type thing, we'll be talking about some Tech Tasks you should be able to do in your sleep.

What's Going on?
Art

- Writing ffmpeg script.
- Finally broke down and bought L4D2. (Did your old R2 unit have a bad motivator?) 
- Favorite coffee mug broken. :(

Bryan
- Setup Festival on unbuntu VM
-
Went to a Mile High Skeptics event to pimp some podcasts
- Playing with Google alerts

Mike
- Slowly getting rid of my newsletter subscriptions
- Had our Pack's Blue and Gold Dinner on Saturday.
- Listening to Fried Green Zombies
- Learned that there's a 2nd and third play through.

Computer History
February 24 1955 - Steve Jobs is born.
February 26 1996 - SGI buys Cray Research.
February 27 1976 - National Security Agency’s Harvest Computer Retires

The computer history segment is brought to you by The Computer history Museum, where computing history lives. Visit them at  computerhistory.org.

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Toupe Planet - Thanks to SciFi Surplus.com

New and Interesting

Google Goes Social with Google Buzz - Bryan

Google planning gigabit fiber to the home for 50k to 500k households. - Art

StarCraft 2 beta to launch this month. - Art (It Launched on 2/18 - Mike)

 

The Dark side of Geo - PleaseRobMe.com- Mike S

Civ V arriving Fall of 2010! - (seen on RPS) - Mike S

 

Tell a programmer - Bryan

 

Student says school webcam spied on him at home - Bryan (Update - Art) (And another - Art)

 

 

 

 

 

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo 

Self Made - Podiobooks - Author's Website
Paraffin Winter - Podiobooks

Segmentish Type Thing
10 Tech Tasks you should be able to do in your Sleep

Show 087: It's not just me, computer history really is that funny!

Welcome show 87 for the January 20th, I am Bryan I will find a way to record this podcast Hineser.  I am joined my Art I know how to use virtual Audio cables Hollingsworth, and Mike its your job to record, I'm using a mac Taylor.

Art's how can they get a hold of us: On Twitter you can find Mike S here, Art here Bryan here, Mike T here, and GeeksonTech We'd love for you to follow us. You can find us at http://GeeksonTech.com, send us a email at feedback AT GeeksonTech.com, or leave Voicemail or TXT (719) 357-5678 (Standard carrier rates apply).

Geeks on Tech is a proud member of Tech Podcast Network. You can find us, and lots of other great shows at www.techpodcasts.com . We'd also like to thank Mevio for hosting our files, they save us a ton of money.

Also, if you like the show, please head over to our iTunes page, and fill out a review. If you don't like us, it's probably not worth your time, go make a sandwich for yourself instead. Geeks on Tech is hosted by Bluehost, for more info, see http://GeeksonTech.com/hosting.

What's Going on?
Art 

  - Cut my dog's hair last night. Never doing that again.

 

Mike T.
  - Repaired a friend's parent's computer, repairing the in-law's computer
  - Picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue
  - Trying out Apple's new Magic Mouse
 
Bryan

  - Recording say what?

 

  - Working on RSS feeds

 

  - Building IPSec VPN PFSense

Computer History
January 20 1988 - IBM's PS/2 Technology to be Cloned
January 21 1888 - Babbage's Analytical Engine Passes the First Test
January 22 1984 - Apple Computer Launches the Macintosh
January 23 1959 - Robert Noyce Conceives the Idea for a Practical Integrated Circuit
January 25 1979 - Robot Kills Auto Worker

The computer history segment is brought to you by The Computer history Museum, where computing history lives. Visit them at  computerhistory.org .

Fake Commercial
Sci Fi Surplus.com

New and Interesting
Google attacked in China - Maybe closing operations there? - Mike S
Behind the China attacks on Google (FAQ) - Mike S
Microsoft Brings Kid Developer Tool to the PC - Mike S

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
I will do this in post

The Segmentish Type Thing

IPSec VPN Tunneling with two PFSense firewalls

Show 086: Who is supporting that?

Art "Dyna-Guy" Hollingsworth
Mike "Frozone" Scott
Bryan "Gazerbeam" Hineser

Art's how can they get a hold of us: On Twitter you can find Mike S here, Art here Bryan here, Mike T here, and GeeksonTech We'd love for you to follow us. You can find us at http://GeeksonTech.com, send us a email at feedback AT GeeksonTech.com, or leave Voicemail or TXT (719) 357-5678 (Standard carrier rates apply).

Geeks on Tech is a proud member of Tech Podcast Network. You can find us, and lots of other great shows at www.techpodcasts.com . We'd also like to thank Mevio for hosting our files, they save us a ton of money.

Also, if you like the show, please head over to our iTunes page, and fill out a review. If you don't like us, it's probably not worth your time, go make a sandwich for yourself instead. Geeks on Tech is hosted by Bluehost, for more info, see http://GeeksonTech.com/hosting.

What's Going on?
Art
- Saw Inglourious Basterds.

Bryan
- Build A tv Stand
- Worked Drupal web pages

Mike -
- Bought a freezer for my keezer project
- Brewed a stout
- Cub Scout Space Derby
- Tried a Lambic

Computer History
January 15, 1986 - The National Science Foundation Opens the National Center for Supercomputer Applications (NCSA).
January 16, 1956 - SAGE is Disclosed to the Public
January 17, 1996 - Computer is Used in the Discovery of New Planets.
January 19, 1983 - Apple Introduces Lisa Computer.

The computer history segment is brought to you by The Computer history Museum, where computing history lives. Visit them at  computerhistory.org .

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UCC Holographic TV Conversion - Thanks Sci Fi Surplus.com

New and Interesting
- Linus Torvalds in Scott Sigler's Crypt - Mike S
- 100 Quotes every geek should know - Mike S
- Wired's sexiest geeks of 2009 - Mike S
- 'Google' beats 'Blog' as word of the decade (PDF Press Release) - Mike S

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
Blood Witness - Podiobooks - Author's Web Site
Cheating Death - Podiobooks - Author's Website

Show 085: Emergency Vets, Pickled Ginger, and Avatar

Greetings, I'm Bryan I saved my clients server and it only took all weekend Hineser. I am joined my colleagues Art still looking for my woodshed Hollingsworth, and Mike master of IPv6 Taylor. 
 

Art, how can they get a hold of us: On Twitter you can find Mike S here, Art here Bryan here, Mike T here, and GeeksonTech We'd love for you to follow us. You can find us at http://GeeksonTech.com, send us a email at feedback AT GeeksonTech.com, or leave Voicemail or TXT (719) 357-5678 (Standard carrier rates apply).

Geeks on Tech is a proud member of Tech Podcast Network. You can find us, and lots of other great shows at www.techpodcasts.com . We'd also like to thank Mevio for hosting our files, they save us a ton of money.

Also, if you like the show, please head over to our iTunes page, and fill out a review. If you don't like us, it's probably not worth your time, go make a sandwich for yourself instead. Geeks on Tech is hosted by Bluehost, for more info, see http://GeeksonTech.com/hosting.

What's Going on?

Art -
Took the dog to the emergency vet.
Got Samba all configured with some shares for my Windows machines.
Now having a look at setting up a chroot jail for SSH users.
Replaced some capacitors on my fileserver motherboard.

Bryan -
Got my Clients server up and running
Went and saw Dances with wolves/Pocahontas (Avatar) in IMAX 3D
Bowled ABT on the 1st
Made pickled ginger
Made whip cream and butter with the kids
Setup Traffic Shaping

Mike T -
Saw Avatar (in 3D as Art required)

Built a not-so-new machine (Mostly thanks to Art)
Updated my pfSense box to version 1.2.3 (from 1.2.2)
Finished listening to 7th Son - Book 1 Descent

Computer History
January 7 1963 - Ivan Sutherland Introduces the Sketchpad
January 8 1940 - Bell Labs' Complex Computer makes the first run
January 10 1938 - Donald Knuth is Born
January 12 1997 - The Fictional HAL 9000 Computer Becomes Operational

Fake Commercial

 Xandus Commemorative Plate - Thanks to SciFi Surplus.com

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo

Free Will and other Compulsions

The Segmentish Type Thing

Board Lands review from PGL Lobby Cast

PreGameLobby

What Video games have we been playing?

Show 084 - A Christmas Horror

Greetings, I'm Mike "City Slicker" Scott, and my co-hosts today are Mic "Crocodile" Taylor and Art "Can of Yams" Hollingsworth. This week we talk about what the geeks got for Christmas, tech news, talk, and frivolity.

December 30th, 2009

Art's how can they get a hold of us: On Twitter you can find Mike S here, Art here Bryan here, Mike T here, and GeeksonTech We'd love for you to follow us. You can find us at http://GeeksonTech.com, send us a email at feedback AT GeeksonTech.com, or leave Voicemail or TXT (719) 357-5678 (Standard carrier rates apply).

Geeks on Tech is a proud member of Tech Podcast Network. You can find us, and lots of other great shows at www.techpodcasts.com . We'd also like to thank Mevio for hosting our files, they save us a ton of money.

Also, if you like the show, please head over to our iTunes page, and fill out a review. If you don't like us, it's probably not worth your time, go make a sandwich for yourself instead. Geeks on Tech is hosted by Bluehost, for more info, see http://GeeksonTech.com/hosting.

What's Going on?
Art -

  • Got my new computer up and running.
  • Saw Avatar

Mike T -

  • Wish I saw Avatar!

Mike S -

  • Washed a bunch of bottles
  • Brewed 10 Gallons of Beer all at once.
  • Cursing Google Wave

Computer History
December 30 1985 - Version 3.2 of the IBM PC-DOS operating system is announced (Also see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_computing_1980%E2%80%931989)
December 31 1976 - Microcomputer Pioneer CROMEMCO is Incorporated
January 2 1975 - Bill Gates and Paul Allen name "Micro-Soft"
January 3 1977 - Apple Computer Corporation is Incorporated

The computer history segment is brought to you by The Computer history Museum, where computing history lives. Visit them at  computerhistory.org .

Fake Commercial
Wildfire Labs - Thanks to SciFi Surplus.com

New and Interesting
- Google's phone? - Mike
- Did you see the iPhone on the island of lost toys commercial.
- Mozilla Exec urges users to ditch Google for Bing - Mike
- Do no evil Google

- 15 Sites that died in 2009 - Mike
- How fanboys see operating systems - Mike
- Cassini gets video of Saturn's moons. - Art
- Logo Contest?

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
The Leviathan Chronicles - Website

The Segmentish Type Thing
Geek Christmas Rundown - What we got

Show 083 - MySQL can beat up your Demoman

Show 083
December 16 2009

Getting ready for Christmas, we talk about some tech and gaming news.

Show notes can also be found on Google Wave.

Art "I am the answer" Hollingsworth, Mike "Yes, but what was the question?" Scott, and Bryan "Where's my towel?" Hineser

Art's how can they get a hold of us: On Twitter you can find Mike S here, Art here Bryan here, Mike T here, and GeeksonTech We'd love for you to follow us. You can find us at http://GeeksonTech.com, send us a email at feedback AT GeeksonTech.com, or leave Voicemail or TXT (719) 357-5678 (Standard carrier rates apply).

Geeks on Tech is a proud member of Tech Podcast Network. You can find us, and lots of other great shows at www.techpodcasts.com . We'd also like to thank Mevio for hosting our files, they save us a ton of money.

Also, if you like the show, please head over to our iTunes page, and fill out a review. If you don't like us, it's probably not worth your time, go make a sandwich for yourself instead. Geeks on Tech is hosted by Bluehost, for more info, see http://GeeksonTech.com/hosting.

What's Going on?
Art

  • Put up the Christmas Tree.
  • Ordered the rest of the parts for my machine.
  • DHCP/DNS server isn't working for some reason.
  • Birthday

Mike

  • Getting Ready for Christmas

Computer History
December 18 1991 - IBM and Siemens AG Announce 64M DRAM Chip Prototype
December 24 1791 - Charles Babbage is born
December 24 1906 - Fesseden Successfully Broadcasts Voice Program
December 25 1975 - The Gates Family Christmas Card Makes Merry with Micro Soft
December 26 1982 - TIME Names a Non-Human “Man of the Year”

The computer history segment is brought to you by The Computer history Museum, where computing history lives. Visit them at  computerhistory.org .

Fake Commercial
12 days of Clonemas - J.C. Hutchins - The 7th Son Novel Makes a great Christmas Gift!

New and Interesting
- Oracle Acquisition could hurt MySQL use - Mike (Monty Widenius, original developer of MySQL, is very worried about this. - Art)
- TF2 Comic released - background for next update - Mike
- Demoman vs Soldier Update - War status page - Mike
- Free Holiday music from Amazon, a song a day December 1st through Christmas - Mike
- Phobos and Deimos captured together by Mars Orbiter - Art

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
- Republic - Podiobooks

The Segmentish Type Thing
None this week - See you in 2 weeks, have a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Show 081: Stargazing

Hi, I'm Art "Mercury, Messenger Of The Gods" Hollingsworth, and my co-host tonight is Mike "Neptune, God Of The Sea" Scott, and Bryan "Mars, God Of War" Hineser.

On Twitter you can find Mike S here, Art here Bryan here, Mike T here, and Geeks on Tech We'd love for you to follow us. You can find us at http://GeeksonTech.com, send us a email at feedback AT GeeksonTech.com, or leave Voicemail or TXT (719) 357-5678 (Standard carrier rates apply).

Geeks on Tech is a proud member of Tech Podcast Network. You can find us, and lots of other great shows at www.techpodcasts.com . We'd also like to thank Mevio for hosting our files, they save us a ton of money.

Also, if you like the show, please head over to our iTunes page, and fill out a review. If you don't like us, it's probably not worth your time, go make a sandwich for yourself instead. Geeks on Tech is hosted by Bluehost, for more info, see http://GeeksonTech.com/hosting.

What's Going on?
Bryan
- Went to a backyard star party at S&S Optika
- to night went out and looked

Art
- Daughter's desk almost complete. Next project is a set of bar clamps.

Mike
- Sister in Law is here visiting
- Put up my Christmas lights
- Visited Great Divide brewing for the second time. Tried a Berliner Weisse

 

Computer History
- December 2, 1954 - US Navy dedicates NORC Machine
- December 4, 1985 - Cray X-MP Supercomputer Begins Operation
- December 6, 1907 - Mathematical Logician Rosser is Born
- December 7, 1928 - Mathematical Linguist Chomsky is Born

The computer history segment is brought to you by The Computer history Museum, where computing history lives. Visit them at  computerhistory.org .

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Sloan's Clones - Thanks to SciFi Surplus!

New and Interesting
Send us your Geek Gift suggestions / wishlist - Mike
World War 7 Phase 2 - Mike
12 Days of CRYPTness - Mike

The 12 Days of Zombie Christmas - Mike

Blizzard has an account for Diablo and Starcraft on Twitter - Mike

Scott Sigler may be coming to Denver again - Bryan

Two circulating beams bring first collisions in the LHC - Bryan

Black Friday 2009 - Bryan

 

New Evidence of Life On Mars - Art

 

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
7th Son Descent Reboot - J.C. Hutchins
The Round Red Stone

- Jeff Burton

The Segmentish Type Thing

Top 6 apps you need to do your job

Mike:

- The command prompt

- Microsoft Management Console

- a Internet browser

- Outlook

- RDP / Terminal Services Client

- OneNote

Bryan:

- Xterm or Terminal

- RDP

- ThinkAnywhere Client

- ThunderBird

- VirtualBox with XP VM

- POS Client

Art:

- TrueCrypt

- Firefox

- Virtualbox

- PortableApps

- Thunderbird

- eGroupware

Show 078: Tech Talk, With A Baked Potato On The Side

Art "The only good spider is a dead spider" Hollingsworth
Mike "Smash 'em all and let the Orkin man sort 'em out" Scott
Bryan "I can out-freak and eight-legged freak any time" Hineser

Art's how can they get a hold of us: On Twitter you can find Mike S here, Art here Bryan here, Mike T here, and TwoGuysTech We'd love for you to follow us. You can find us at http://GeeksonTech.com, send us a email at feedback AT GeeksonTech.com, or leave Voicemail or TXT (719) 357-5678.

Geeks on Tech is a proud member of Tech Podcast Network. You can find us, and lots of other great shows at www.techpodcasts.com . We'd also like to thank Mevio for hosting our files, they save us a ton of money.

Also, if you like the show, please head over to our iTunes page, and fill out a review. If you don't like us, it's probably not worth your time, go make a sandwich for yourself instead. Geeks on Tech is hosted by Bluehost, for more info, see http://GeeksonTech.com/hosting.

What's Going on?
- Art

  • Dumped Kubuntu 9.10, back to Fedora 11.
  • Grilled two times this weekend.

 

- Bryan

 

  • Building Photo Gallery in Drupal
  • Getting Bowling ball
  • Recorded from Ubuntu for the time

 

- Mike

 

  • Raking those leaves up
  • Made my Apfelwein
  • Got a wave invite

Computer History
November 12 1937 - Alan Turing Defines the Universal Machine.
November 13 1983 - MIT's TX-O Computer Turned On for Last Time
November 14 1943 - Software Publisher and Author Peter Norton is born
November 15 1971 - First Advertisement for Microprocessor Appears
November 17 1929 - Herman Hollerith Dies

The computer history segment is brought to you by The Computer history Museum, where computing history lives. Visit them at  computerhistory.org .

Fake Commercial
Sequential Insurance - Thanks to Sci fi Surplus.com

New and Interesting
- Vulnerability in SSL? - Mike
- Google gives some control over your private data - Google Dashboard - Mike
- L4D2 Demo is out - l4d2 has a lot of changes - Mike
    5 Campaigns, new monsters, graphics, weapons. Mike is going to buy it after all. Nice reveiw here.
- Windows 7 sold 234% more copies in it's first week than Vista - Mike
- Nvidia CEO says 'no' to Intel-compatible chip - Nvidia out of the ChipSet Business- Bryan
- Massive Power Outages In Brazil Caused By Hackers - Bryan
- Reframe It Claims Google Sidewiki Emulates Its Web Annotation Service - Bryan
- Seattle gets World Zombie Record - Mike

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
The Gear Heart - Podiobooks -Author's Web Site
Harvey - Podiobooks - Author's Web Site - Sorry Phil, we wanted to play it, but there's bad words in the promo.
Dreaming of Deliverance - Podiobooks - Author's Website

The Segmentish Type Thing
Ideas -
Why I hate Wikis - Mike

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