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 .

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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

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

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

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 .

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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

Computer History

October 28, 1955 - Bill Gates, cofounder and CEO of Microsoft Corporation, was born

October 28, 1937 - Microprocessor Co-Inventor Hoff is Born

November 1, 2009 - Software Glitch Halts Tokyo Stock Exchange

November 2, 1815 - Logician Boole 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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QuantumMax Teleporters - Thanks to

SciFi Surplus

!

New and Interesting

LSE drops Windows for Linux - Bryan

London Stock Exchange Drops Windows System

- Bryan

New Rocket, but Future of Program Is Unclear - Bryan

LawCrunch: Some (More) Ideas On Why Nokia Sued Apple - Bryan

Windows 7 Wopper available in Japan for a limited time! - Mike

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
7th Son by J.C. Hutchins
Call of the Herald

The Segmentish Type Thing - Windows 7 Released

- Apple's Add campaign - Is Microsoft finally going to start marketing?

Family Pack of Windows 7 Home Premium -

3 Licenses for $149
Microsoft's Big Week: All Windows 7, All the Time