Show 096 - Happy Birthday Mr. Insomnia!

March 31st, 2010



Hi, I'm Mike "Mr. Dremel" Scott, and with me tonight are Bryan "The Printer survived the crash" Hineser and Art "Meat Dealer" Hollingsworth.



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No segmentish type thing this week.



What's Going on?

Art -

•     Acquired a new server.
•     Solved my Skype audio problems on Linux.

Bryan -

•  Re-posting all podcast on Amateur Skeptics
•  The Printer still survived crashed
•  The Car is getting totaled
  

Mike S. -

- Worked on the Pinewood Derby Cars today

- I think a Wii purchase is imminent

- Planning a Double Brew Weekend next weekend.



Computer History

April 2 1980 - Microsoft Announces "SoftCard"

April 4 1994 - Marc Andreesen Founds Netscape with Jim Clark

April 6 1992 - Microsoft Releases Windows 3.1



The computer history segment is brought to you by The Computer history Museum, where computing history lives. Visit them at  computerhistory.org .



Fake Commercial

- Shady's Supercenter - Thanks to SciFi Surplus.com!



New and Interesting

- Pay to play Halo with a Girl? - Gamecrush - Playdates start at $6.60 for 10 minutes! - Mike S

http://xboxlive.ign.com/articles/107/1079073p1.html

- Sigler started "The Starter"! - Mike S.

- Nexus One isn't selling? - Mike S.

- Apple exhausts supply of iPads for pre-order - Bryan

- Zeus malware takes aim at tax season - Bryan



Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo

- Lost and Not Found - Podiobooks - Author's Website

- Republic: A Novel of America's Future - Podiobooks

Computer History
May 27th, 1959 MIT Shuts Down "Whirlwind" Computer
May 28th, 1959 Committee Forms to Develop New Language
May 30, 1996 AT&T Announces Video Phone Call System
May 31, 1926 BASIC Language Co-Inventor is Born
June 1, 1995 Maxis Goes Public
June 2, 1996 Netscape Creates Navio to Compete with Microsoft

The computer history segment is brought to you by The Computer history Museum, where computing history lives. Visit them at  computerhistory.org .

Fake Commercial
Ultimate Space Fighting from our friends at Sci-Fi Surplus

New and Interesting
- Microsoft Confirms IIS Bug - Computerworld
- Art - Pirated Windows 7 RC Builds Botnet - cNet
- Palm Pre, Broadband issues and how media is distributed & consumed.

Sorry I get it now. We'll move those to next week.
- High School graduates class who may have up to 26 certifications. Certmag
- "V" Returns to ABC this fall. ABC

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
Anatomy of Fear
Murder at Avedon Hill

The Segmentish Type Thing
- Interview / chat with Paul Schreiber - Co-Host of the Dorkcast Podcast, you can also find him at 1000 Monkeys.
- Tell us about your podcast
- Lessons from podcasting
- Background with computers

What's going on?
- Making the segments a little more defined
- Went to great expense to install a tech history desk, and hire a full time correspondant.
- Introducing a podcast promo segment.
- Let us know what you think

What have you been up to?
Thanks to Sci Fi Surplus (http://scifisurplus.com/) for the Plug in Show 60. I loved the bit about the Galactic Olympics.
- I started listening to GeekaZine (http://www.geekazine.com/), and realized that he does a This week in Computer history too. For the record, we started that before we ever listened to the podcast.

Alternate Titles

1. Powershell Part 3
2. The Old Switcheroo
3. Saving Apple From Certain Doom
4. Whut?
   

This Week in Computer History

We've moved our tech history over to our new tech history desk with Grace.

Looking at stuff that happened between 8/6 and 8/12
8/6/1997 - Microsoft Buys $150M of Apple Stock

8/8/1995 - Netscape Communications Goes Public

8/11/1950 - Steve Wozniak is born. Happy Birthday Steve! 58 isn't that old.

8/12/1981 - IBM introduces its personal computer. IBM model 5150.

Podcast Promo
We're looking to help promote your podcast / audio book. Every week we would like to play a promo for someone. Get in touch with us if you would like us to play your promo.

This weeks first promo
Playing for Keeps Podcast Novel, on sale in print on August 25th.

News
Apple Sneaks MobileMe in with iTunes. They didn't ask me.

People think that the install of Safarai was sneaky, but there's no check box this time.

Here's how you can uninstall it

Apple tried to patch the DNS Flaw, but security researchers says it didn't work.

FCC Rules against Comcast throttling Peer to Peer Traffic

Creative Commons add in for Office 2007 - Embed licenses directly into office apps.

Mike's Topic

More PowerShell Resources
Free OpenSource PowerShell GUI

PowerShell Community

PowerShell Code Repository

Free PowerShell Courseware / eBooks

Free powershell stickers


Free Open Source Disk Defragmenter
Also includes a portable version.

Art's Topic
Ubuntustudio, Ardour, and JACK.