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
October 15 1956 - First FORTRAN Reference Manual is Released
October 16 1958 - CDC Introduces 1604 Computer
October 18 1993 - DEC Announces MicroVAX System
October 20 2004 - The First Ubuntu Linux Distribution Released

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

Fake Commercial
Palm Flower Cream - Thanks to SciFi Surplus

New and Interesting
- We've got a brand new web site! Thanks to Art!
- J. C. Hutchins playing our promo this month!
- Windows Server 2008 will now join, trust, and replicate a Samba-based active directory domain. - Art
- Hacked Web mail accounts used to send spam - Bryan
- Listener question.

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
The White Shadow Saga: The Stolen Moon of Londor By A.P. Stephens
Time Crystal by Wyken Seagrave

The Segmentish Type Thing
Top Computer Upgrades for your existing computer, and what to upgrade if you're buying a new computer.

Computer History
July 9 1982 - Disney releases the Tron movie
July 10 1962 - Telstar satellite launched
July 11 1976 - Last slide rule manufactured today
July 13 1992 - IBM, Toshiba and Siemens alliance to develop memory chips
July 14 1918 - Core memory inventor Jay Forrester is born
July 15 1928 - Enigma machine encodes first message

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

Fake Commercial
Prophecy Of Swords

New and Interesting
Internet Explorer market share falls below 60%. - Art
New iPhone 3GS heat issues, discoloration. - Mike
The Sony Walkman turns 30 - Bryan
Wife exposes chief spy's personal life on Facebook - Bryan

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
Sword of Blood
skepticality Podcast

The Segmentish Type Thing

SandboxIE

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

Computer History
- April 2nd, 2008 - Two Guys Tech launches!

This computer history segment was brought to you by our good friends Jon and Hal over at Powerscripting.net. Thanks guys for recording that!

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

Fake Commercial
Nephirias Illness Potion - Thanks SciFiSurplus.com

New and Interesting
- Need some Server 2008 Virtual Hard Drives? Check out this post on Virtual PC Guy's Blog - Thanks to @winobs
- Shuttle Discovery is back on Earth
- Obama answers some Internet submitted questions. "More that 90,000 people submitted more than 104,000 questions". - CNN
Questions were ranked by most popular, and he answered the top quesitons.
- The UK is going to start teaching kids about social networking
- Black Dawn is really darn good!
- Microsoft's new Ad

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
Mind of Root IT SurvivorMan - Formerly "A Couple of Admins Podcasting" - http://acoupleofadmins.com
Dark Worlds Trilogy

The Segmentish Type Thing
Anniversary stuff

Lots of congrats

Feedback

From GhodMode
Thanks to GhodMode (twitter)for pointing out a typo in our show notes. Unfortunatly it was in the template, so it's in all of the show notes. Glad to hear we're listened to way over in New Zealand. Greetings! He was also kind enough to leave us some nice feedback and a link to one of his posts about listening to podcasts that are sped up . Ghodmode said:

I enjoy listening to your show, and I appreciate your concern, but sanity is overrated and should only be taken in moderation :)

Besides that, there can be a lot of benefits to speeding up podcasts.

After hearing this episode, I wrote an article on my own blog about getting a little more out of podcasts by speeding them up:

Faster... for your listening pleasure

I usually listen to all of the podcasts I subscribe to at 60% more than normal speed.

Also...

Hmmm... Originally, I only clicked on the link to your show at the Tech
Podcast Network because it reminded me of the Two Guys
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Guys) department store I loved to
visit when I was a kid  :-D   I'm glad I did.  Your show is pretty
good.  I listen to a lot of podcasts and yours is one of the ones I
never skip.  Thanks for doing the podcast :-)

Thanks GhodMode! He even has a post on his blog congratulating us! What a guy.