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Show 098 - Mac Users have enough problems already.mp3

Our hosts try to keep the anti-mac sentiment at bay. Shaun joins us, and we talk a little bit about Malware and how to prevent it.

Show 098 - Mac Users have enough problems already
Wednesday April 14th, 2010

I am your host Bryan I'm cooking meat lots of meat Hineser
With me tonight is Mike leaky spigot Scott
And Shawn I'm no distinguished gentleman Smith-Ford


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, Shaddow_knyght, 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 our Segmentish type thing we'll be talking about some Malware removal tips.

What's Going on?
Bryan -
- Get a new battery
- Cooking Art's meat
- Working over time
- Did my duty as an American

Mike S -
- I just realized I never published Show 097!
- Brewed a Bavarian HefeWeizen today
- Had my keg fixed
- Inherited a lot of Cub Scout stuff, including a Pinewood Derby Track

Shawn- proving that applied physics can destroy paper in yet another way


Computer History
- April 14, 1995 - Chinese Government Works to Purge Its Agencies of Illegal Software
- April 15, 1977 - First West Coast Computer Faire Begins
- April 16, 1959 - "LISP" Language Unveiled
- April 18, 1986 - IBM First to Use Megabit 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
Everyone misses Mike T
7,500 shoppers unknowingly sold their souls -
Bryan & Shawn
Why Responsible Vulnerability Disclosure Is Painful and Inefficient - Bryan
Astronauts remove ammonia tank on space station - Bryan
Carnivorous Robots Eat Meat For Power -Shawn
EATR Robot NOT Designed To Eat Dead Bodies, Or, How A Company Backpedals -Shawn

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo

Electricity - Podiobooks - Author's Website
Dead Hunt - Podiobooks - Author's Website - Kenn on Twitter

The Segmentish Type Thing

Malware Removal Tips

Show 097 - Dr Who?

First impressions of the new Dr. Who, and stories about Bryan's long Journey all the way donw to Colorado Springs.

Show 097 - Dr. Who?
April 7 2010

Art "Shred your own damn pork" Hollingsworth, Mike "I'm still trying to get people to drink this pumpkin beer" Scott, Bryan "Ya'll can some on up to my place" Hineser

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 discussing the new Doctor Who.

What's Going on?
Art -

  • Trying to do some python scripting.
  • Had a great time at Mike's house this weekend.
  • Up to my ears in noodles.

Bryan -
 - The Jeep is gone
 - Went up to mike's Saturday
 - Made bread with mike's spent grain

Mike S -
- Listening to Coyote Rising.
- Brewed 10 Gallons of delicious beer. Had a bunch of Jerks over.
- I'm catching up on Warehouse 13

Computer History
April 7 1964 - IBM Announces "System 360" Computer Family
April 8 1991 - Java development begins in earnest
April 10 1943 - ENIAC project underway.

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
- Need some help making the iPad decision? - Mike S
- A further note about SCO v. Novell - Bryan
- Beta of Linux Intergration Services for Hyper-V is released - (Tweeted by CSTechCast) - Mike S

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
The Starter - Scott Sigler - Buy it now!
A Brief Conversation With My Hair - Podiobooks - Author's Website

The Segmentish Type Thing
- The eleventh Doctor: first impressions - Bryan

Show 093 - Jibber Jabber

Besides the normal chit chat, Art fills us in on Jabber

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).

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.

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 .

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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

Show 092 - The Shop o cheese

Brian talks a little bit about Open BSD, and of course we talk about tech news, computer history, and other chatter.

Show 092
March 3rd, 2010

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.

On Tonight's segmentish type thing, we'll be talking about open BSD.

What's Going on?
Bryan:
- Went down to Cheese Importers in Longmont
- Installed OpenBSD

Art:
- Passed the Network+ exam Saturday.
- Network trouble.

Mike:
- Played a bunch of video games today

Computer History
March 4 1956 - An Wang sells core memory patent to IBM.
March 6 1992 - Michaelangelo Virus Strikes
March 9 1993 - PowerOpen Association Formed

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
- BlockBuster posts $435 Million Loss - Mike
- J. C. Hutchins quitting podcast fiction? - Art
- Johhnny Cash song Nets man $10,000 gift card - Mike
- Apple: Underage Workers May Have Built Your iPhone - Bryan
- Developing a Vandalism Detector For Wikipedia - Bryan.
- Youtube pulled the original Rickroll video. - Art

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
Deadly Codes - Podiobooks - Author's Website
Time Crystal 2 - Podiobooks - Author's Website

The Segmentish Type Thing

Bryan: First impressions
OpenBSD not as quicky
 - A look at installing OpenBSD
OpenBSD 101
OpenBSD main page

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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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 088 - By the light of the moon

The geeks talk about Tech news, Computer history, what they have been up to, and other fun stuff.

Show 088
January 27 2010

Hi, I'm Mike "Hannibal" Scott, and my co-hosts today are Bryan "Howling Mad " Hineser and Art "Faceman" 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.

What's Going on?
Art

  • Spent the day at the zoo, shopping, and eating.
  • Playing with Reaper and Virtual Audio Cables to route audio all over the place.
  • Colts going to the superbowl!

Mike 

 

  • Celebrated my youngest son's birthday.
  • Looking for kegging equipment

 

 

Bryan

 

  • Working on websites
  • Got a mixing board and new mic

 

 

Computer History
January 30 1925 – Douglas Engelbart is born.

February 1 1991 – Sun Microsystems starts Java Technology.

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

- Casey's rendition of one of the 100 geek quotes - Thanks Casey!

-Must-see: Steve Ballmer spotted autographing Apple’s MacBook – and enjoying it- Bryan

 

- Quarter Share will be available in Book form! (link)- Mike

 

- IPv4 Free Pool Drops Below 10%, 1.0.0.0/8 Allocated- Bryan

- How to get free Linux Tech Support - Mike

- An updated Google Voice extensions lets you make calls directly in Chrome - Bryan

- NASA Twitter accounts. @NASA_Astronauts and others. - Art

 

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
Axiom Man - Podiobooks - Author's website

Dark Age - Podiobooks - Author's Website

 

VPN update - Bryan

 

 

 

 

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 .

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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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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

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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 .

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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

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