Show 093
Show for March 10th, 2009

Hi I'm Mike "Square Knot" Scott, and with me tonight is Bryan "Half Hitch" Hineser and Art "Sheet Bend" Hollingsworth.

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On our segmentish type thing, Art's going to fill us in on his experience with Jabber.

What's Going on?
Art
- Set up a jabber server.
- Beginning Security+.

Bryan
- Played with PF firewalls
- Removed pulseaudio from ubuntu
- Learning about chroot jails

Mike -
- Dead Wireless on my DSL Modem - Bryan Recommends Linksys wrt120n.
- Camping with the Cub Scouts
- Started tweeting a bit on Twitter

Computer History
March 10 1997 - Netscape Announces Third Generation Browser
March 13 1986 - Microsoft Goes Public
Narch 16 1990 - Internet Extends Beyond U.S. to Europe

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

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New and Interesting
- World PSN Meltdown, older PS3 consoles paralyzed - Mike S
- What works, what sucks and what's coming for 11 horror movie remakes. - Mike S
- Obama re-directing billions of dollars from moon mission to new rocket research. (VASIMR Rockets) - Mike S
- At Last -- The Full Story Of How Facebook Was Founded - Bryan
- Ubisoft DRM Authentication Servers Go Down - Bryan
- Taking aim at Microsoft: Google buys DocVerse - Bryan

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
The House of Grey - Podiobooks - Author's Website
Beautiful Red - Podiobooks - Author's Website

The Segmentish Type Thing
Art Jibber Jabbers about JabberJabber stuff.
ejabberd

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

This week in Computer History
20 August - 26 August

August 20th, 1995 - NY Time Article on the need to preserve obsolete hardware and software.
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/index.php?seldate=8,20,1995

August 22nd, 1955 - The First Computer User Group is Founded. SHARE was founded by users of the IBM Model 704.
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/index.php?seldate=8,22,1955

August 24th, 1995 - Microsoft ships Windows 95
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/index.php?seldate=8,24,1995

August 25th, 1996 - Netscape announces the creation of NAVIO, a company who partnered with some big names for create a new Operating system to compete with Windows.
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/index.php?seldate=8,25,1996

August 26th, 1984 - Miss Manner Addresses Computer Correspondence
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/index.php?seldate=8,26,1984

More Navio Info
Press Release:
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/26412&EDATE=
Looks like control was handed over to Oracle in May of 1997.
- http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=6&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbronline.com%2Farticle_cg.asp%3Fguid%3DD7BA7A2E-B226-4DAD-8D39-48BB476542AB&ei=K9KoSJvICIOEiAHvwtnwDA&usg=AFQjCNH7GwfFRy3PGqw1UX2XFOsH79Sd9A&sig2=fvcdqhR0lIJZL9abTY4mXg
- http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/17048/oracles-nci-and-netscapes-navio-to-merge.html

At that point, Oracle Merged it with NCI (Network Computer Inc) a Oracle Subsidiary.

In October of 1999, the Oracle created a new "Network Computer Inc", which only shared the name with the previous company.

I didn't find much after that. The goal was to create a network based computer that would cost under $200.

In the News
Netflix has a shipping problem that stops them from shipping movies for 3 days. The give customers affected a 15% credit.
http://www.startribune.com/science/27022014.html?elr=KArks:DCiUo3PD:3D_V_qD3L:c7cQKUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU

Microsoft to Unveil Windows 7 Features next month? It's slated to be released in late 2009, or early 2010.
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/38914/140/
Is the OS after 7 going to be code named Midori? Midori is the Japanese word for Green.
Does this meant that corporate customers should wait to deploy Vista? I wonder if XP will still be available until then?

Pandora is coming close to a "Pull the Plug kind of" decision because of new royalty fees proposed by a federal panel.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081503367_pf.html

Dell is planning on building a MP3 player with choice
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-10018148-17.html
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_34/b4097022701166.htm

One third of all new PC's still have Windows XP installed.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9112885

Podcast Promo
None this week.
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Mike's Segment
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vmcNetflix
http://myweb.cableone.net/eluttmann04/projects/vmcNetFlix/default.htm
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