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

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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
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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.

Fake Commercial
Toupe Planet - Thanks to SciFi Surplus.com

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