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Show 085: Emergency Vets, Pickled Ginger, and Avatar

Posted Thu, 01/07/2010 - 11:38 by Art
http://m.podshow.com/media/17695/episodes/206689/2guystech-206689-01-07-2010.mp3

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. 
 

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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

Fake Commercial

 Xandus Commemorative Plate - Thanks to SciFi Surplus.com

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 038: No apocalypse for you! Sorry!

Posted Wed, 01/07/2009 - 03:57 by Art
http://m.podshow.com/media/17695/episodes/138660/2guystech-138660-01-07-2009.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.

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What's going on?
- Whew. 2009 didn't trigger the apocalypse either. Zombie, nuclear or anything else.
- Mike is still playing too much Fallout 3
- Two Guys Tech hopes that The Evil Queen feels better
- Art and Mike may be on the CSTechCast on the 12th. We're at least going to visit. CSTechCast is another Podcast here in Colorado Springs. Here's the promo.
- Art is listening to more Scott Sigler.

This day in Computer History
January 8, 1889 - Herman Hollerith Receives a Patent for the Hollerith Tabulating Machine
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
January 13, 1874 - The U.S. Patent Office issues a patent for the Spalding Adding Machine.

News / Topics

- Mike's kids got Lego Batman for Christmas - It's pretty cool, you can play in two different stories, either as Batman and Robin, or as the villains.
- Contagious' sales figures - It's down to #11 in horror. It was #3 when I looked on release day.
- Speaking of Scott Sigler, we're going to the book signing on the 13th.
- Modem Init Strings - UAC isn't always so intuitive.
- Don't scare your hard drives
- Debunked PC Power Saving Myths
- MD5 SSL Certificate Authority Exploit
Used 200 Sony Playstations? - ComputerWorld
- The Windows Defender Post has been helping out some people.

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In Deep Trouble on Wallpaper Tuesday

Posted Tue, 12/30/2008 - 05:46 by Mike

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Back in November I posted a wallpaper from Fallout 3, and mentioned how I was going to have to wait a bit to get it. Well, evidently I’ve been a good boy, because Santa gave it to me for Christmas.

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Steam Holiday Sale

Posted Mon, 12/29/2008 - 22:16 by Mike

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Steam is selling lots of great games at some pretty sweet discounts. So if Santa didn’t bring you what you wanted, then check out this sale.

One thing I really like about Steam is that you don’t need a CD for the games that you buy, and you can install from the internet.

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Thinking of StarCraft 2 on Wallpaper Tuesday

Posted Tue, 12/09/2008 - 12:07 by Mike

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This wallpaper is titled “Marine”, and is available on the StarCraft 2 Wallpaper Page.

Even though I’ve been totally wrapped up with wiping the undead horde off of the earth (Left 4 Dead), I can still look to the stars for my next mission.

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Looking for my thumb on Wallpaper Tuesday

Posted Tue, 11/25/2008 - 13:10 by Mike

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(Clicking on the picture above brings you to the forum post which has this wallpaper, and another, in various sizes) Thanks to Brotkruemel who posted this on the Left 4 Dead Forums Web site.

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Surviving on Wallpaper Tuesday

Posted Tue, 11/18/2008 - 06:52 by Mike

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Yes, I’m going to stop posting about left 4 dead today. Well, eventually. :-)

Since the game is released today, I figured it’s only fitting to use one of their wallpapers for my desktop.

If you go to the Left 4 Dead Media page, you’ll see 4 wallpapers on the bottom right. The one I chose is titled “Survivors”.

Hope you guys enjoy it, and make sure to watch your back.

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Left 4 Dead is Live, but the Demo is Dead

Posted Tue, 11/18/2008 - 06:43 by Mike

Well, it looks like I was right about the demo, mine says “pre-load complete” now, and when I double click on it, I receive the message that “a locked copy for Left 4 Dead has already been installed on your computer. Purchase it now and start playing immediately”. Oh well.

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Left 4 Dead, 1st impressions

Posted Fri, 11/14/2008 - 13:26 by Mike

 

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