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Show 053: Does Oprah Use Tweetvisor?

Posted Wed, 04/22/2009 - 01:34 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: 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. Two Guys Tech is hosted by Bluehost, for more info, see http://TwoGuysTech.com/hosting.

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?

Show 052: What About That Weather?

Posted Thu, 04/16/2009 - 03:01 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 listerner, thanks for coming back. Art, 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. 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
- Reloaded my computer.

Mike
- Finally caught up with "Antithesis" by J.D. Sawyer, started  "Taken Liberty " by Steven H. Wilson.
- Started Downloading "Toothless " by J.P. Moore, "Kronos" by Jeremy Robinson, and "How to Succeed in Evil" by Patrick E. McLean
- Moved my beer to the secondary fermenter. Just one more week until I bottle, and then two more weeks until it's ready.

Computer History

April 15 1977 - First West Coast Computer Faire Begins
April 16 1959 - "LISP" Language Unveiled
April 18 1986 - IBM First to Use Megabit Chip
April 19 1957 - First FORTRAN Program Runs
April 20 1951 - MIT "Whirlwind" Computer Seen on Television

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

Fake Commercial
Palm Flower Cream - Thanks to Sci-Fi Surplus

New and Interesting
- FeedFlix - How much is your subscription costing you per movie
- Windows Dominates the Netbook Market - We all thought Linux could get to the consumer this way, 96% of Netbooks ship with Windows.

Those who do get a Linux-based netbook are four times more likely to return it to the store than those who get a device running Windows.

Consider the source. It's a Windows blog. ASUS CEO Jerry Shen evidently doesn't read it.

I think the return rate for the Eee PCs are low but I believe the Linux and Windows have similar return rates.

- 44% of Windows 7 Beta Testers are "Very Satisfied" with it (computerworld via @4sysops ) - Vista's rating was only at 10% during the same time frame of beta testing.
- Lots of free courses over at Microsoft's learning Site. Here's the list of freebies.
- China denies that they are behind  U.S. Powergrid Hacking - Bruce Schneier's take on it.
- Monster patch Tuesday yesterday?
- Microsoft and Yahoo revive talks. Guardian
- Two worms hit Twitter in two days. Mashable
- Captain Richard Phillips rescued from Somali pirates. Fox

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
- "Taken Liberty " by Steven H. Wilson.
- "Kronos" by Jeremy Robinson

The Segmentish Type Thing
Various good tips.

- How to disable Browser Helper Objects and Toolbars in Internet Explorer 7 and 8
Tools - Manage Add Ons

- Compatibility view in Internet Explorer

- Open Multiple instances of Excel (so you can have multiple windows) by holding down ctrl when you click on the second instance. One caveat is that copy / paste might act funny. The main thing I saw with copy paste is that if I copied a cell with a formula in it, it would paste the value of the cell rather than the formula. You can get around this particular issue by selecting the formula in the formula bar, and copy that rather than the cell itself. I saw the tip in the comments on this post, thanks to Knox for leaving it!

PDF Creator?

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Find who has files open in Windows Server 2008

Posted Mon, 02/09/2009 - 12:56 by Mike

I’m sure that I’m not the only one who has become accustomed to opening up Computer Management on a server, and looking in the shared folders in order to find out who has a file open. Well, that was Windows Server 2003. Now that we have Windows Server 2008, it’s just a little bit different.

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Here’s how you do it.

In Server Manager, expand Roles, then expand File Services, and click on “Share and Storage Management”.

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Forcing Windows 7 Adoption

Posted Tue, 02/03/2009 - 21:01 by Mike

image I downloaded the Windows 7 beta pretty shortly after it was available. I quickly took advantage of some free disk space on my drive, shrunk my partition, and set up dual boot with Windows Vista.

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How to Resize (Shrink) your Partition in Vista

Posted Thu, 01/15/2009 - 17:52 by Mike

Let me guess, you’ve downloaded your copy of Windows 7, and you want to dual boot. Maybe you’ve heard that you can re-claim unused space on your hard drive, and you want to know how. Heck, maybe you want to see what the big deal is with Windows 64 bit.Well never fear, here’s a quick guide on how to reclaim some unused space to use for a shiny new partition.

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Server 2008: The Installer has insufficient Privileges to modify this file

Posted Mon, 01/05/2009 - 22:01 by Mike

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Sometimes the easiest things can be so difficult. I was just trying to install a simple update package, "Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1" to be exact. The installer returns the error "The Installer has insufficient privileges to modify this file: C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\RelNotes.htm".

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How to Change your modem's init strings in Windows Vista

Posted Mon, 12/29/2008 - 16:52 by Mike

imageI'm going to get a little old school on you here today. Remember those crazy modem init strings? I bet you thought we were all done with those. Well, with Smart Phones that act like blue tooth modems, everything old is new again.

The problem that I ran into was that I had to specify my access point in the init string. Looking at the properties of the modem, the box where you enter the init string isn't available. Well, here's how you change it.

Step 1:

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The necessary services are disabled or unavailable. Error 0x80246007

Posted Mon, 12/22/2008 - 15:56 by Mike

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There are two errors associated with this:

"The necessary services are disabled or unavailable. Error 0x80246007"

"The necessary services are disabled or unavailable. Error 0x80246008"

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Documentation? What good is that?

Posted Mon, 11/17/2008 - 13:29 by Mike

OldBooksGood documentation is really nice to have. I did a Server Migration, or transition this last Friday (the 14th). We went from Server 2003 to Server 2008, and now I'm realizing that my documentation was a little out of date.

Show 031: The frugal dork.

Posted Wed, 11/12/2008 - 02:41 by Art
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Show 031: The frugal dork.
November 12th, 2008

You're listening to the Two Guys Tech Podcast. Each week we talk about various geek and tech topics.

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

What's going on?
Mike
Steaks, Steaks and more steaks

Art
Been replaying Half Life 2 for the third or fourth time.

This week in 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 17, 1929 - Herman Hollerith Dies
November 18, 1970 - Bill Gates Starts Programming

News
- Get a free trial of Microsoft Home Server
- Obama plans for a CTO for the federal government. - ComputerWorld. Hmmm... Best in class technology, share best practices. Novel idea. The current rumor says Eric Schmidt, or Steve Balmer, or maybe Bill Joy.
Obama wants to take the masses of government data, and move much of it to universally accessible formats.
- Hotmail users don't like the new interface - ComputerWorld At least Google's not the only one who has a bad redesign.
- Windows 7 expected Mid-2009 - Daily Tech
- Amazon Introduces Frustration Free Packaging on Select items - (Tekh) - Here's hoping that this catches on!
- Yahoo! says "Buy Me", Microsoft says "Sorry, you had your chance. No." - Several links from Slashdot. Epic fail.

Interesting Links
- Dork's Guide for fun in an Economic Downturn - (All Things Dork) - Some good common sense stuff to help you save money, and still have fun.
- Have Windows TechNet? There's some new courses out there. (TechNet Blog) -
Course 6698: Fundamentals of Implementing Network Load balancing and Virtualization
Course 6694: Fundamentals of Administering Windows Server 2008
Course 6690: Exploring the Fundamentals of Network Infrastructure in Windows Server 2008

Topic
Gift giving ideas for Geeks
Give a list to your loved one, make it easy on them. Fill it up with stuff, and you'll still be surprised.
- Video Games - All sorts of stuff at Amazon.com, and Game Stop. Both sites have Wish Lists you can set up.
- One of our favorite sites is Think Geek.
Awesome external USB SATA Drive Dock
Stand Alone Car Cassette MP3 Player - Accepts SD Cards, let's your stereo play them, or you can listen with headphones.
Zombie Protest Shirt - Hey, Zombies were people too.
- GeekLabel has great stuff too - I just wish they still had a podcast.
- 7th Son T-Shirts
My favorites:
Griffin Hale Campaign Shirt
Who is John Alpha
- Mur Lafferty Shirts
Clever Jack, Doodad, or Keepsie Insignia

If you still like paper, some other favorite sites are:
Levenger - Circa notebooks are awesome. But save some money, buy a paper punch too.
Laptop Lapdesk
Also, love Franklin Covey's planners.

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