Show 093
Show for March 10th, 2009

Hi I'm Mike "Square Knot" Scott, and with me tonight is Bryan "Half Hitch" Hineser and Art "Sheet Bend" Hollingsworth.

Bryan 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).

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On our segmentish type thing, Art's going to fill us in on his experience with Jabber.

What's Going on?
Art
- Set up a jabber server.
- Beginning Security+.

Bryan
- Played with PF firewalls
- Removed pulseaudio from ubuntu
- Learning about chroot jails

Mike -
- Dead Wireless on my DSL Modem - Bryan Recommends Linksys wrt120n.
- Camping with the Cub Scouts
- Started tweeting a bit on Twitter

Computer History
March 10 1997 - Netscape Announces Third Generation Browser
March 13 1986 - Microsoft Goes Public
Narch 16 1990 - Internet Extends Beyond U.S. to Europe

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

Fake Commercial
Learning other Languages - Thanks to SciFi Surplus!

New and Interesting
- World PSN Meltdown, older PS3 consoles paralyzed - Mike S
- What works, what sucks and what's coming for 11 horror movie remakes. - Mike S
- Obama re-directing billions of dollars from moon mission to new rocket research. (VASIMR Rockets) - Mike S
- At Last -- The Full Story Of How Facebook Was Founded - Bryan
- Ubisoft DRM Authentication Servers Go Down - Bryan
- Taking aim at Microsoft: Google buys DocVerse - Bryan

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
The House of Grey - Podiobooks - Author's Website
Beautiful Red - Podiobooks - Author's Website

The Segmentish Type Thing
Art Jibber Jabbers about JabberJabber stuff.
ejabberd

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

What's Going on?
Art - Signed back up to Netflix after about a year. Helped a buddy install more network jacks in his house.

Mike
- Sick sick sick
- Bottled my beer
- Wrestled some with a Intuit Customer Manager Issue. Trying to get it to sync with Outlook.

Computer History
April 22 1592 - Mechanical Calculator Designer Schikard Is Born
April 23 1964 - SEAC Computer Retired
April 24 1981 - Apple IIc Introduced
April 25 1961 - Robert Noyce Awarded Patent for "Integrated Circuit"
April 26 1960 - IBM Announces "STRETCH" Supercomputer Plans

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

Fake Commercial
"Quantum Max" Courtesy of Sci-Fi Surplus.

New and Interesting
- DHS looking for "ethical hackers" - Yahoo
- Microsoft leaks Windows 7 RC release date. - Computerworld
- Oprah is on Twitter? - Cnet OMG! She has like 349k followers. You can literally refresh the page over and over and it's climbing by the hundreds at a time.
- The Pirate Bay is Illegal ?!?! - Really? (CNET ) Confirmed by Swedish Court. Each defendant got 1 year in jail and $3.6 Million US to copyright holders. It still could be years before it makes it to the Swedish supreme court.

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
- "7th Son" - Awesome classic by J.C. Hutchins ,  and "Jack Wakes up " by Seth Harwood

The Segmentish Type Thing

Nelu Lazar from Tweetvisor , a very good web-based Twitter client.

1. Tell us a little about yourself.

2. How and why did you get started with Twitter?

3. There are a lot of Twitter clients out there. What inspired you to develop Tweetvisor?

4. What's in the future for Tweetvisor?