Show 029: Keyboard chum for lunch.

Posted Wed, 10/29/2008 - 03:04 by Art
http://m.podshow.com/media/17695/episodes/130843/2guystech-130843-10-29-2008.mp3

Show 029: Keyboard chum for lunch.
October 29th, 2008

Alternate Titles:

  1. Brought to you by the number 4.
  2. Mike sits in a chair and breaks it.

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What's Up?
Art has been getting in to Twitter a lot more lately. Starting to get back in to trying to learn something about C++.
Mike cleaned out his worm bin. Also, he may have ruined his Cannon Digital Camera. He also has been playing with the views and panels of drupal, but we need to upgrade our site.
With the help of Casey from Sci-Fi Surplus, Mike figured out how to record his Skype calls. Thanks Casey! This was the first podcast that we have used the process with, so hopefully it works out.

Computer History
October 30 1907 - John Mauchly, co-builder of ENIAC, is born in Cincinnatti, Ohio. He also participated in the EDVAC, BINAC, and UNIVAC I programs.
November 2 1815 - Logician George Boole is born in England.
November 4 1952 - CBS used the new UNIVAC computer to predict the 1952 presidential election. It correctly picked Eisenhower.

News
- Google buys a fighter jet.
- Twittering terrorists.
- Happy Halloween Eveyone! Next Year, we should all do the Zombie Walk together. Here's some video for Detroit's Zombie Walk.
- Found some neat pumpkin patterns for Obama supporters. Here's a McCain one if you want it.
- Demand that Scott Sigler comes to your city - Go to Eventful, or go to his web site and click the banner on the right side.
- Left 4 Dead comes out on November 18th, and Fallout 3 comes out on October 28th. They are both available through Steam.

This weeks topic:
 Server and desktop best and worst practices.

- Swap File - It's a good idea to put your swap file on a separate drive. No advantage if it's a different logical drive on the same physical hard drive. You can argue about fragmentation, butfor goodness sake, don't compress it.
- Speaking of compression, don't compress your entire data and system drives.
- Have the floppy or CD as the first item in your bios' boot menu.
- Leave the default passwords intact.
- Don't back your server up.
- Don't test your backups
- Don't ever check out the logs for your backups
- Don't make sure that you have a backup agent for exchange / sql server / big application