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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

On Twitter you can find Mike S here, Art here Bryan here, Mike T here, and GeeksonTech We'd love for you to follow us. You can find us at http://GeeksonTech.com, send us a email at feedback AT GeeksonTech.com, or leave Voicemail or TXT (719) 357-5678 (Standard carrier rates apply).

Geeks on Tech is a proud member of Tech Podcast Network. You can find us, and lots of other great shows at www.techpodcasts.com . We'd also like to thank Mevio for hosting our files, they save us a ton of money.

Also, if you like the show, please head over to our iTunes page, and fill out a review. If you don't like us, it's probably not worth your time, go make a sandwich for yourself instead. Geeks on Tech is hosted by Bluehost, for more info, see http://GeeksonTech.com/hosting.

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
-
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

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

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

Art's how can they get a hold of us: On Twitter you can find Mike S here, Art here Bryan here, Mike T here, and TwoGuysTech We'd love for you to follow us. You can find us at http://GeeksonTech.com, send us a email at feedback AT GeeksonTech.com, or leave Voicemail or TXT (719) 357-5678.

Geeks on Tech is a proud member of Tech Podcast Network. You can find us, and lots of other great shows at www.techpodcasts.com . We'd also like to thank Mevio for hosting our files, they save us a ton of money.

Also, if you like the show, please head over to our iTunes page, and fill out a review. If you don't like us, it's probably not worth your time, go make a sandwich for yourself instead. Geeks on Tech is hosted by Bluehost, for more info, see http://GeeksonTech.com/hosting.

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

Show 077: The Bleeding Edge

Bryan If you don't give me candy them I'll eat a person Hineser
Mike Zombie run from me Scott
Art Zombies make good pets Hollingsworth

Art's how can they get a hold of us: On Twitter you can find Mike S here, Art here Bryan here, Mike T here, and Geeks on Tech We'd love for you to follow us. You can find us at http://GeeksonTech.com, send us a email at feedback AT GeeksonTech.com, or leave Voicemail or TXT (719) 357-5678.

Geeks on Tech is a proud member of Tech Podcast Network. You can find us, and lots of other great shows at www.techpodcasts.com . We'd also like to thank Mevio for hosting our files, they save us a ton of money.

Also, if you like the show, please head over to our iTunes page, and fill out a review. If you don't like us, it's probably not worth your time, go make a sandwich for yourself instead. Geeks on Tech is hosted by Bluehost, for more info, see http://GeeksonTech.com/hosting.

What's Going on?

Bryan

  • Watching "V"
  • Family Dollar truck Hit my building today
  • Did some trick or treating with the kids
  • Ate a lot of candy

Mike

  • Fighting with iTunes - Finally got it fixed
  • Trick or Treating with the Kids

Art

  • Using Kubuntu 9.10 for primary desktop now.
  • Getting ready to upgrade wireless network
  • New installation of Drupal is working fine. Now need to get web site set up on it.

Computer History
November 4 1952 - CBS News Uses UNIVAC Computer to Predict Election
November 6 1980 - Microsoft Signs Contract with IBM to Create Operating System
November 8 1923 - Integrated Circuit Co-Inventor Kilby is Born
November 9 2004 - Firefox 1.0 Introduced
November 10 1983 - Microsoft Introduces Windows.

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

Fake Commercial
Temporal Temps - Thanks SciFi Surplus.com

New and Interesting
- You can pre-order Left 4 Dead 2, save 10% and get a new Melee weapon You'll also get the Demo early - Mike S
- Mike's thinking about getting Borderlands Does anyone have anything to say about it? - Mike S
- Time Warner home routers still open to attack - Bryan

 

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo

The Sorcerer's Secret -

PodioBooks

-

Author's Website

Marvellous Hairy -

Podiobooks

-

Author's Website

Show 076: I Ain't Eatin' No Seaweed!

Hi I'm Mike! I'm joined by:
Art "I ain't gonna eat no seaweed" Hollingsworth
and Bryan "oily lane" Hiniser

Art's how can they get a hold of us: On Twitter you can find Mike S here, Art here Bryan here, Mike T here, and Geeks on Tech We'd love for you to follow us. You can find us at http://GeeksonTech.com, send us a email at feedback AT GeeksonTech.com, or leave Voicemail or TXT (719) 357-5678.

Geeks on Tech is a proud member of Tech Podcast Network. You can find us, and lots of other great shows at www.techpodcasts.com . We'd also like to thank Mevio for hosting our files, they save us a ton of money.

Also, if you like the show, please head over to our iTunes page, and fill out a review. If you don't like us, it's probably not worth your time, go make a sandwich for yourself instead. Geeks on Tech is hosted by Bluehost, for more info, see http://GeeksonTech.com/hosting.

What's Going on?

Bryan

  • Fighting with home network
  • Change Motorola cable modem (It has been dying for a while now) 

Mike:

  • Went to the Colorado Springs Zombie Crawl

Art:

  • Still working on the web site.
  • Not having seaweed and bean soup.

Computer History

October 28, 1955 - Bill Gates, cofounder and CEO of Microsoft Corporation, was born

October 28, 1937 - Microprocessor Co-Inventor Hoff is Born

November 1, 2009 - Software Glitch Halts Tokyo Stock Exchange

November 2, 1815 - Logician Boole is Born

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

computerhistory.org

.

Fake Commercial

QuantumMax Teleporters - Thanks to

SciFi Surplus

!

New and Interesting

LSE drops Windows for Linux - Bryan

London Stock Exchange Drops Windows System

- Bryan

New Rocket, but Future of Program Is Unclear - Bryan

LawCrunch: Some (More) Ideas On Why Nokia Sued Apple - Bryan

Windows 7 Wopper available in Japan for a limited time! - Mike

 

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
7th Son by J.C. Hutchins
Call of the Herald

The Segmentish Type Thing - Windows 7 Released

- Apple's Add campaign - Is Microsoft finally going to start marketing?

Family Pack of Windows 7 Home Premium -

3 Licenses for $149
Microsoft's Big Week: All Windows 7, All the Time

It's alive! IT'S ALLLIIIVVVVVE!

Mike "If I don't mention beer at least once, it's not a good show" Scott
Bryan "I throw by balls down the alley for fun" Hineser
Art "Mr. Drupal (Not)" Hollingsworth

Art's how can they get a hold of us: On Twitter you can find Mike S here, Art here Bryan here, Mike T here, and TwoGuysTech We'd love for you to follow us. You can find us at http://GeeksonTech.com, send us a email at feedback AT GeeksonTech.com, or leave Voicemail or TXT (719) 357-5678.

Geeks on Tech is a proud member of Tech Podcast Network. You can find us, and lots of other great shows at www.techpodcasts.com . We'd also like to thank Mevio for hosting our files, they save us a ton of money.

Also, if you like the show, please head over to our iTunes page, and fill out a review. If you don't like us, it's probably not worth your time, go make a sandwich for yourself instead. Geeks on Tech Tech is hosted by Bluehost, for more info, see http://GeeksonTech.com/hosting.

What's Going on?
Art - Got a Google Wave invite. Thanks Rachel Baker!
        Been working on the site redesign. We're now Geeks On Tech.

Bryan
 - Moved from Fedora to Mint on laptop
 - Working Drupal - Total crashed my site and not sure how.
 - Got a new to me Bowling Ball
 - When back to PFSense on firewall

Mike
- Messing with my Apfelwein
- Watched the Broncos triumph over the Patriots today.

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.

Show 073: Hatin' On The Mac

Two Guys Tech for September 30th, 2009
Hi, I'm Mike, and joining me tonight is:
- Bottler of sinus juice, Mr. Ragweed - Bryan Hinser
- Teaching the blind sign language - Art Hollingsworth

Art's how can they get a hold of us: On Twitter you can find Mike S here, Art here Bryan here, Mike T here, and TwoGuysTech We'd love for you to follow us. You can find us at http://twoguystech.com, send us a email at feedback AT Twoguystech.com, or leave Voicemail or TXT (719) 357-5678.

Two Guys Tech is a proud member of Tech Podcast Network. You can find us, and lots of other great shows at www.techpodcasts.com . We'd also like to thank Mevio for hosting our files, they save us a ton of money.http://scifisurplus.com

Also, if you like the show, please head over to our iTunes page, and fill out a review. If you don't like us, it's probably not worth your time, go make a sandwich for yourself instead. Two Guys Tech is hosted by Bluehost, for more info, see http://TwoGuysTech.com/hosting.

What's Going on?
Bryan
- Painting the house
- Bowling tournament late week end
- Playing with Haiku
- Did CentOS 5.3 net install
- Made Beer cheese Soup

Mike
- Getting my butt kicked in Civ4.
- Selling Boy Scout Popcorn

Art
- Nothing.
- Back to Windows.
- Loud insects.

Computer History
September 30 1998 - IBM announces shipment of 3 millionth PS/2 personal computer
October 1 1954 - IBM Announces Model 705 Computer
October 2 1955 - ENIAC Computer Retired
October 5 1996 - Supercomputer Pioneer Cray Dies in Auto Accident

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

Fake Commercial
OrgEnhance from our friends as SciFiSurplus

New and Interesting
- Microsoft's Open Source Efforts to Go Mainstream - E-Week (Mike)

- Strange Dwarf Planet Has Red Spot - (Bryan)

- How to build a Hackintosh Leopard SP1 (SnowLeopard), Start to Finish - (Bryan)

- Installing Leopard SP1 on you Hackintosk PC, No hacking Required - (Bryan)

- Bank has Gmail user's account shut down. - (Art)

- Judge orders Google to deactivate user’s Gmail account, but wait, there’s more… - (Bryan)

- Left 4 Dead 2 Boycott? Game should be released November 17th. (Mike)

- Someone got some help with How to find out who has files open in Server 2008

- Do our users want Forums?

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
Thanks to the Satan and the Lord Movie Reviews Podcast for playing our promo! Thanks for the feedback from John Walz!
Geekazine
Midnight Muse Podcast
Heroic Pose Podcast

The Segmentish Type Thing

Face tagging with Google Picasa.

http://picasa.google.com/features-nametags.html

http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=14605

Show 072: Fashionably Late

Hey that's me you frag-en Bryan

Mr. one shoe one kill Mike

Mr. Get out of the way I have a Grenade Art

Art's how can they get a hold of us: On Twitter you can find Mike S here, Art here Bryan here, Mike T here, and TwoGuysTech We'd love for you to follow us. You can find us at http://twoguystech.com, send us a email at feedback AT Twoguystech.com, or leave Voicemail or TXT (719) 357-5678.

Two Guys Tech is a proud member of Tech Podcast Network. You can find us, and lots of other great shows at www.techpodcasts.com . We'd also like to thank Mevio for hosting our files, they save us a ton of money.

Also, if you like the show, please head over to our iTunes page, and fill out a review. If you don't like us, it's probably not worth your time, go make a sandwich for yourself instead. Two Guys Tech is hosted by Bluehost, for more info, see http://TwoGuysTech.com/hosting.

What's Going on?
Art - Spending more time in Linux lately. Playing with NoMachine NX. Grinding my own coffee. More car troubles.

Bryan
- Coffee grinder died
- Took a drive in the mountains
- Replaced head light in mom card
-

Mike
- Went to Great Divide Brewing and caught a show at Impulse Theater, which is in the Wynkoop Brewery. Awesome show, food, and beer!
- Also started some Apfelwein (Wikipedia)

 

Computer History
Computer history web site down again?

http://www.computerhope.com

The first search engine Archie, written by Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan, and Mike Parker at McGill University in Montreal Canada is released on September 10, 1990
On September 12, 2005 eBay acquired Skype for approximately  $2.6billion.
Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 4.0 in September of 1997
Google is founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page September 7, 1998.
AMR is released September 9, 1998
Hewlett Packard announces plans to buy Compaq on September sixth

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

Fake Commercial
Old Rebellion Ale - Thanks Sci-Fi Surplus!

New and Interesting
Microsoft Warns of New Windows Bug, Advises Users to Take Precautions (Mike)

The Future of NASA (Bryan)

802.11n finally approved. (Art)
Steve's Back! New IPod Nano, and a New iTunes. Oh yea, and a Bryan says a new service pack for the OS. (Mike)

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
- Got some feedback from the Pink and Blue XBox 360 podcast, they said "Loved your podcast by the way, made us chuckle loads and was very interesting."

- Satan and the Lord Movie Reviews Podcast

- Heroic Pose Podcast

The Segmentish Type Thing

SharpEnvironment

Screen shots - http://www.sharpe-shell.org/e107_plugins/autogallery/autogallery.php

Show 071: Welcome!

Art's how can they get a hold of us: On Twitter you can find Mike S here, Art here Bryan here, Mike T here, and TwoGuysTech We'd love for you to follow us. You can find us at http://twoguystech.com, send us a email at feedback AT Twoguystech.com, or leave Voicemail or TXT (719) 357-5678.

Two Guys Tech is a proud member of Tech Podcast Network. You can find us, and lots of other great shows at www.techpodcasts.com . We'd also like to thank Mevio for hosting our files, they save us a ton of money.

Also, if you like the show, please head over to our iTunes page, and fill out a review. If you don't like us, it's probably not worth your time, go make a sandwich for yourself instead. Two Guys Tech is hosted by Bluehost, for more info, see http://TwoGuysTech.com/hosting.

What's Going on?
Art - Enjoyed Mike's beer.

Bryan -
- Daughter has been sick this weekend. Got her to the doctor
- Cooked a duck this weekend

Mike -
- I built a Mashing Lauter Tun! Yea! All Grain here I come.
- Finally got to launch some rockets this week.

Computer History
September 9 1945 - First instance of actual computer bug being found.
September 11 1940 - The first remote computation is demonstrated.
September 12 1958 - Successful test of the first integrated circuit.
September 13 1983 - Osborne Computer declares bankruptcy.
September 15 1947 - The Association for Computing Machinery is founded.

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

Fake Commercial
Nephirias Illness potion - Thanks to Sci-Fi Surplus.com!

New and Interesting
- 11 Apache Technologies that have changed computing in the last 10 years.

- Skype for Asterisk Debuts  (Bryan)

- Tron Legacy Release date set - December 17, 2010. (Sci-Fi Surplus) - The Smurfs?
- SCO wins Unix copyright appeal. Trouble for Linux? (Bryan)

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo

A Long Way From Disney - Part 1 - Seth Harwood
Pink and Blue Xbox 360 Podcast

The Segmentish Type Thing
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ubuntu-help/93828-podnova-start.html

Show 070: Imminently Proud And Cultured

On Twitter you can find Mike S here, Art here Bryan here, Mike T here, and TwoGuysTech We'd love for you to follow us. You can find us at http://twoguystech.com, send us a email at feedback AT Twoguystech.com, or leave Voicemail or TXT (719) 357-5678.

Two Guys Tech is a proud member of Tech Podcast Network. You can find us, and lots of other great shows at www.techpodcasts.com . We'd also like to thank Mevio for hosting our files, they save us a ton of money.

Also, if you like the show, please head over to our iTunes page, and fill out a review. If you don't like us, it's probably not worth your time, go make a sandwich for yourself instead. Two Guys Tech is hosted by Bluehost, for more info, see http://TwoGuysTech.com/hosting.

What's Going on?
Art - Nothing but car trouble this weekend. Mangled my toe.

Mike S.
- Brewed my Pumpkin beer on Thursday.
- Visited some friends out of town.
- Washed 120 bottles today because the weather didn't cooperate with me.
- Reinstalled Ubuntu
- Cleaned up my Twitter

Bryan
- My beer is tasting better this week
- Installed KDE 4.3 on windows
- Got some Colorado peaches. Soaked them in rum and grilled
- Griled some lemons as well

Fake Commercial
Kraks Artificial Intelligence - Thanks to SciFi Surplus!

New and Interesting

Skype Trojan Can Log VoIP Conversations

Hi-tech antennas bring new research opportunity to Fort Hays
Can Bill Gates Stop Hurricanes? - Mike S
Ban on Robo Calls takes effect on Tuesday (yesterday)

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
The Takeover
The Byron Chronicles

The Segmentish Type Thing

Virtual Desktop on Windows:

 

VirtuaWin

 

Microsoft Powertoys

 

Windows Sysinternals Desktop v1.0


MultiDesk

Show 068: Scheduling Conflict

On Twitter you can find Mike S here, Art here Bryan here, Mike T here, and TwoGuysTech We'd love for you to follow us.

Two Guys Tech is a proud member of Tech Podcast Network. You can find us, and lots of other great shows at www.techpodcasts.com . We'd also like to thank Mevio for hosting our files, they save us a ton of money.

Also, if you like the show, please head over to our iTunes page, and fill out a review. If you don't like us, it's probably not worth your time, and Bryan's Deck needs a powerwash. Two Guys Tech is hosted by Bluehost, for more info, see http://TwoGuysTech.com/hosting.

What's Going on?
Bryan
- Installed Fedora 11 W/KDE
- Installed Virtualbox 3.04 on CentOS 5.3
- Ran SUSE Studio under Virualbox
- Start reading Using Drupal

Mike
- Getting Spun up on Cub Scouts - Not much Tech stuff
- Brewed some more beer. Yea!
- Found out Jon Walz from Powerscripting.net is a Geocacher too.

 

Computer History
August 19, 1934 - Computer pioneer Bell is born
August 21, 1888 - Burroughs Receives Patent for Calculating Machine
August 22, 1955 - The first computer User Group is founded
August 23, 1993 - Nintendo Agrees to Use Silicon Graphics Technology
August 24, 1995 - Microsoft ships Windows 95
The computer history segment is brought to you by The Computer history Museum, where computing history lives. Visit them at computerhistory.org .

Fake Commercial
Kepler Brotherhood - Thanks to our friends at SciFi Surplus!

New and Interesting
- Killing Support for IE 6 is "Not an Option" - From Computerworld, found by Mike S
- Played yet another Left 4 Dead add on map, Death Aboard. Absolutely terrific map!
- Apple keyboard gets hacked like a ripe papaya, perp caught on video
- FCC Investigates App Store Policies, Google Voice Rejection

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
Collapse at Hidden Verse 332
The Indie Travel Podcast - Thanks Craig!

The Segmentish Type Thing
SUSE Studio

 

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