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Show 083 - MySQL can beat up your Demoman

Posted Thu, 12/17/2009 - 21:19 by Mike
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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 057: Let's Give Paul A Call

Posted Wed, 05/27/2009 - 14:43 by Art
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Welcome to the Two Guy's Tech Podcast!

On Twitter you can find Mike here, Art here and Bryan here. TwoGuysTech We'd love for you to follow us.

Two Guys 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. Two Guys Tech is hosted by Bluehost, for more info, see http://TwoGuysTech.com/hosting.

Special Guest this week is Paul Schreiber!

What's Going on?
Art -
Mike -
- Mike's getting a GPS!
- Had a S'more
- Broadcast Storm
Bryan -
- Getting salmon ready to smoke tomorrow.
- Installing Star Wars Galactic BattleGrounds
- Watching Constantine
Paul -

Computer History
May 27th, 1959 MIT Shuts Down "Whirlwind" Computer
May 28th, 1959 Committee Forms to Develop New Language
May 30, 1996 AT&T Announces Video Phone Call System
May 31, 1926 BASIC Language Co-Inventor is Born
June 1, 1995 Maxis Goes Public
June 2, 1996 Netscape Creates Navio to Compete with Microsoft

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

Fake Commercial
Ultimate Space Fighting from our friends at Sci-Fi Surplus

New and Interesting
- Microsoft Confirms IIS Bug - Computerworld
- Art - Pirated Windows 7 RC Builds Botnet - cNet
- Palm Pre, Broadband issues and how media is distributed & consumed.

Sorry I get it now. We'll move those to next week.
- High School graduates class who may have up to 26 certifications. Certmag
- "V" Returns to ABC this fall. ABC

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
Anatomy of Fear
Murder at Avedon Hill

The Segmentish Type Thing
- Interview / chat with Paul Schreiber - Co-Host of the Dorkcast Podcast, you can also find him at 1000 Monkeys.
- Tell us about your podcast
- Lessons from podcasting
- Background with computers

Show 054: Art's Feeling Generous

Posted Wed, 04/29/2009 - 03:15 by Art
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Welcome to this week's episode of the Two Guys Tech Podcast! If you're a new listener, we're glad you found us! If you're a returning listener, thanks for coming back. Art, how can they get a hold of us:

Art's how can they get a hold of us: On Twitter you can find Mike here, and find Art here. TwoGuysTech We'd love for you to follow us.

Two Guys 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. Two Guys Tech is hosted by Bluehost, for more info, see http://TwoGuysTech.com/hosting.

What's Going on?
Art:
- Finally bought Left 4 Dead.
- Scheduled my A+ test. May 16.
- Changed my oil today.

Mike:
- Finished "Taken Liberty" by Steven H. Wilson - Great Story.
- Worked all weekend on Pinewood Derby cars.
- My Cold just won't go away.
- Mike's been busy! I've been meaning to record a bit about my favorite TV Sci-Fi character, but I haven't done so.

Computer History
May 1 1964 - Dartmouth Professors Launch "Timesharing" system
May 2 1983 - Microsoft Introduces 2-button Mouse
May 3 1997 - IBM's Deep Blue Beats World's Best Chess Player
May 4 1995 - Commodore Bought By German Company

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

Fake Commercial
RedShirt Professional Union - Thanks to SciFi Surplus

New and Interesting
- Two Guys Tech's International Apeal  - First we had GhodMode from New Zealand, now a neighbor from the north is listening too, @James1115.
- Exchange 2010? (Microsoft)
- Oracle buying Sun.
- New Gameplay Mode for "Left for Dead". Released on 4/21/09
- GeoCities shut down. - PCWorld
- Windows 7 to include Windows XP? - Winsupersite
- Ubuntu 9.04 released. - Ubuntu

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
- "Quarter Share" by Nathan Lowell
- "Heaven" Season One by Mur Lafferty

Feedback

Hi Guys... I've been listening for a few shows now. I write alot of the
fake commercials Casey runs on SciFi Surplus.

In your last show, you commented on Netbooks and their return rates. I've
been looking at Netbooks for a while now, and what I keep coming back to is
that it seems the ones with better specs come with XP by default. So, when
we think about return rates, I'm wondering how many people are buying
Netbooks with a Microsoft OS, nuking it, and installing Ubuntu or something
like that?

The reason I don't already have a Netbook is because the price gap between
a mid-level Netbook and a low end laptop isn't much at all, and I can't
decide which would be the better purchase. I wonder if you or your
listeners have had any experiences with Netbooks that really makes them
stand out versus a cheap laptop?

Keep up the good work guys!

-Bob

 

Show 051: A Bucket Of Beer

Posted Wed, 04/08/2009 - 03:27 by Art
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Art's how can they get a hold of us:

Two Guys 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. Two Guys Tech is hosted by Bluehost, for more info, see http://TwoGuysTech.com/hosting.

On Twitter you can find Mike here, and find Art here. TwoGuysTech We'd love for you to follow us.

What's Going on?
Art

Mike
- My Beer's a brewing
- Getting another SANs device at work soon.

Computer History
 April 8 1991: Java development begins in earnest.
April 9 1919: ENIAC Designer Presper Eckert Is Born.
April 10 1943: "ENIAC" Project Underway.
April 12 1981: HP-41 calculator used in space.
April 14 1995: Chinese Government Works to Purge Its Agencies of Illegal Software.

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

Fake Commercial
Old Rebellion Ale - Thanks to Sci-Fi Surplus

New and Interesting
- Congratultions to Dana over at CSTechCast, from Friend Feed:
“A little announcement for the fans. After we wrapped this week's episode, our co-host Dana went into labor and she welcomed little baby boy Jaden at about 4:30 AM the next morning. She, the baby, and her whole family are doing very well.”

- Feedback from James Van Gerwen and Rachael Baker
- Gang of Villagers chase away the google car - CNN
- That's not the Oasis guy outside of that pub - CNN
- Take a Glimpse at the Server Running Google's Data Center - ZDNET

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
The Take Over
The Zombie Chronicles: Escape

The Segmentish Type Thing
Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 SP2 coming soon - First half of 2009
- The Windows Super Site
Notable Changes in
Microsoft's informational page
Some Frequently Asked Questions (Microsoft)

Show 039: The Blog Post Heard Around the World

Posted Wed, 01/14/2009 - 05:05 by Art
http://m.podshow.com/media/17695/episodes/139436/2guystech-139436-01-14-2009.mp3

Two Guys 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.

Two Guys Tech is hosted by Bluehost, for more info, see http://TwoGuysTech.com/hosting.

What's Going On?
- Mike's listening to the Black Star Passes
- Have you had a bunch of new Twitter Followers?
- Two Guys Tech's Appearance on CS Tech Cast - We told you that we were going to be at the recording, well, as it turns out, they needed an interview, and we were happy to oblige. The Episode should be available on their site since about Monday.

This Day in 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 18, 1938 - J.W. Bryce outlines the Harvard Mark I
- January 19, 1983 - Apple Introduces Lisa Computer
- January 20, 1988 - IBM's PS/2 Technology to be Cloned

News / Topics
- The Post Heard around the world - Installing Windows 7 Beta on Sun's Virtual Box.
- Contagious makes the New York Times Best Seller List! Yes! Read more about it on Scott Sigler.com
- A report from a Mac switcher - The saving graces for Mac is that lots of stuff is on the web, and Macs can run Windows.
- Apple announces new pricing structure (Mashable ). They raised prices, the songs are only compatible with iPods, and I have to pay to remove DRM (Mashable )? I'll just keep getting the music from Amazon.
- Desktop Tower Defense http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/Game.asp
- There's going to be a "Land of the Lost" movie! Wil Ferrel is starring. IMDB, Reelzchannel

Segmentish thing
- Windows 7 thoughts and experiences.
- Teckh has some Windows 7 Beta Impressions

- Mike Reviews "The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead" by Max Brooks http://www.amazon.com/Zombie-Survival-Guide-Complete-Protection/dp/14000...

It was pretty good, but it was almost too instructional. The best part is the "Recorded Attacks" section at the end. I hope to have a full review of it up by the end of the week.

DVD New Releases

- My Bloody Valentine - I believe that J.C. Hutchins pitched the idea for one of the death scenes in it. I wanted to see it in 3-D
- Mirrors with Keifer Sutherland?
- Tokyo Gore Police looks, well, um, interesting.
- Stargate - The Ark of Truth -
- Ghost in the Shell Vol 2: Innocence

Extra stuff, time permitting
- Giving out too much information.

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Installing Windows 7 Beta in Sun's VirtualBox

Posted Sun, 01/11/2009 - 05:01 by Art

Update 1/16/09: Wow! We've gotten an overwhelming response to this post and it has quickly become our most popular ever. Thanks to all!

But in particular I'd like to thank a few web sites that have linked to this article:

http://www.version2.dk/artikel/9596-med-windows-7-i-sandkassen

Art's picture

Don't scream at your hard drives...

Posted Fri, 01/02/2009 - 12:15 by Art

…you might frighten them.

 

 

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Did Microsoft and Sun Team Up?

Posted Thu, 12/18/2008 - 12:22 by Mike

This is not an April Fools post.

The other day I was installing a Java Update, and I found it a little strange to see this ad for the MSN Toolbar, with the option to install it.

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Aren't Microsoft and Sun mortal enemies? Much like He-Man and Skelator, Gi-Joe and Cobra, Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny? What sort of alternate dimension am I in when these two team up?

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