Show 078: Tech Talk, With A Baked Potato On The Side

Posted Thu, 11/12/2009 - 13:20 by Art
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Art "The only good spider is a dead spider" Hollingsworth
Mike "Smash 'em all and let the Orkin man sort 'em out" Scott
Bryan "I can out-freak and eight-legged freak any time" Hineser

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What's Going on?
- Art

  • Dumped Kubuntu 9.10, back to Fedora 11.
  • Grilled two times this weekend.

 

- Bryan

 

  • Building Photo Gallery in Drupal
  • Getting Bowling ball
  • Recorded from Ubuntu for the time

 

- Mike

 

  • Raking those leaves up
  • Made my Apfelwein
  • Got a wave invite

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 .

Fake Commercial
Sequential Insurance - Thanks to Sci fi Surplus.com

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