Computer History
August 27 1993 - Compaq Introduces Presario
August 28 1991 - First E-mail From Space Is Sent Today

Aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis (mission STS-43), an AppleLink, running on a Macintosh Portable is used to send the first email from space. Astronauts Shannon Lucid and James C. Adamson send the message, “Hello Earth! Greetings from the STS-43 Crew. This is the first AppleLink from space. Having a GREAT time, wish you were here,…send cryo and RCS! Hasta la vista, baby,…we’ll be back!” to Marcia Ivins, a shuttle communicator at the Johnson Space Center. AppleLink was interfaced to NASA’s communication system to allow the Shuttle to call up GEIS’ network from space. The Shuttle’s e-mail address is a secret, but exposed to GEIS’ email network as any other AppleLink address would be. To avoid a deluge of incoming mail generated by the media publicity surrounding the event, Apple set up a number of obvious “honeypot” addresses, such as STS43@AppleLink, to draw unwanted mail. - (From The Great Geek Manual)

August 30 1907 - Computer pioneers John Mauchly and Gordon Brown are born

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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Kessel Run Speedway - Thanks Sci-Fi Surplus!

New and Interesting

- EU's exploding-iPhone investigation heats up

- Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo fight Google Books - (CNN)
- Twitter may start charging for Premium Services (CNN)
- Linux Kernel Multiple Vulnerabilities
- Serious Linux Kernel Vulnerability For ALL 2.4 & 2.6 Kernels

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
Goz's Grumpy World
The Leviathan Chronicles

The Segmentish Type Thing
- Blizzcon 2009! (The Telegraph)
Diablo III Won't be out until 2011 (2012 in Blizzard Years)?
Starcraft 2 out before Christmas (maybe)?
New Expansion for the Cash Cow, World of Warcraft.

What are you waiting for?
Why does Art hate Blizzard

Computer History
February 18, 1987 - Computers Scan FBI Files of Pilots
February 19, 1946 - Alan Turing Presents the “Proposal for the Development in the Mathematics Division of an Automatic Computing Engine (ACE).”
February 19, 1971 - The First Warrant is Issued to Search a Computer Storage
February 20, 1947 - Alan Turing Suggests Testing Artificial Intelligence with the Game of Chess
February 21, 1996 - Cox Enterprises Buys Into Digital Domain
February 22, 1928 - BASIC co-inventor Thomas Kurtz is born
February 23, 1905 - Prime Number Theorist Derrick Lehmer is Born.
February 24, 1955 - Apple Co-Founder Steve Jobs is Born

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

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SciFi Surplus - The Kepler Brotherhood

New and Interesting
Scott Sigler is going to Self Publish the Rookie
Adamo by Dell? http://www.adamobydell.com/us
Kindle News?
Intel Investing $7 billion in factory upgrades - Heard from @CSTechCast
Microsoft offers a $250,000 reward for the creator of the Downadup / Conficker virus - BBC - Thanks to @mercurialgeek for pointing it out.
"Ten things IT Professionals Should know about Windows 7 " - Technet
Windows 7 Feature Walkthroughs - Videos
Microsoft going retail. - cnet
Registering with postmaster@aol.com - tweeting with Walkin99
Escape from City 17: Part 1 - YouTube - Fan video from the Purchase Brothers
Browncoats Redemption - http://www.browncoatsredemption.com/ - SciFi Surplus interviewed them here.

Promo
Antithesis Book 1: "Predestination and Other Games of Chance" by J.D. Sawyer - Web Site

The Segmentish Type Thing
Ustream - First impressions. Of course, this week was our first attempt at recording our podcast on UStream.TV. You'll find the videos of future shows here, as well as the audio only versions on our web cast.

Computer History
- January 29, 1957 - SRI and GE Meet to Choose a Place for ERMA's MICR Encoding
- January 30, 1925 - Douglas Engelbart is Born
- February 1, 1991 - Sun Microsystems Starts JavaTM Technology
- February 3, 1986 - "Vaporware" Announced"

PCMacSmackDown Promo

News / Interesting Things
Casey over at Sci-Fi Surplus has made a whole slew of their funny Commercials available Free to Podcasters. Here's Round 1, which includes 17 Commercials in all.
President Obama Gets to keep his Blackberry.
Microsoft Layoffs!?!? (MSNBC - CNET)
Drop the Zune?

Sci Fi Surplus Commercial

The Segmentish Type thing - BattleStar Galactica

Battlestar Galactica

The 5th Cylon - Bummer
http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Humanoid_Cylon
Number 1 - Brother Cavil
Number 2 - Leoben Conoy
Number 3 - Lucy Lawless - The Reporter
Number 4 - Doctor Named Simon
Number 5 - Aaron Doral - Tour of the Battlestar
Number 6 - The blonde
Number 8 - Sharon / Boomer

Final 5 -
Chief
Samuel Anders (Starbuck's Husband)
Colonel Tigh -
Ellen Tigh (The final Cylon)
Tory Foster (The President's Aid)

Thanks to J.C. Hutchins, author of the 7th son Trilogy, for his Cylon Jokes.

A Summary of feedback from Jon Walz from the Power Scripting Podcast. If you're into powershell, or if you want to learn powershell, then you have to check them out.

This Day in Computer History
- January 15, 1986 - The National Science Foundation Opens the National Center for Supercomputer Applications (NCSA)
- January 16, 1956 - SAGE is Disclosed to the Public
- January 17, 1996 - Computer is Used in the Discovery of New Planets
- January 18, 1938 - J.W. Bryce outlines the Harvard Mark I
- January 19, 1983 - Apple Introduces Lisa Computer
- January 20, 1988 - IBM's PS/2 Technology to be Cloned

News / Topics
- The Post Heard around the world - Installing Windows 7 Beta on Sun's Virtual Box.
- Contagious makes the New York Times Best Seller List! Yes! Read more about it on Scott Sigler.com
- A report from a Mac switcher - The saving graces for Mac is that lots of stuff is on the web, and Macs can run Windows.
- Apple announces new pricing structure (Mashable ). They raised prices, the songs are only compatible with iPods, and I have to pay to remove DRM (Mashable )? I'll just keep getting the music from Amazon.
- Desktop Tower Defense http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/Game.asp
- There's going to be a "Land of the Lost" movie! Wil Ferrel is starring. IMDB, Reelzchannel

Segmentish thing
- Windows 7 thoughts and experiences.
- Teckh has some Windows 7 Beta Impressions

- Mike Reviews "The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead" by Max Brooks http://www.amazon.com/Zombie-Survival-Guide-Complete-Protection/dp/14000...

It was pretty good, but it was almost too instructional. The best part is the "Recorded Attacks" section at the end. I hope to have a full review of it up by the end of the week.

DVD New Releases

- My Bloody Valentine - I believe that J.C. Hutchins pitched the idea for one of the death scenes in it. I wanted to see it in 3-D
- Mirrors with Keifer Sutherland?
- Tokyo Gore Police looks, well, um, interesting.
- Stargate - The Ark of Truth -
- Ghost in the Shell Vol 2: Innocence

Extra stuff, time permitting
- Giving out too much information.

What's going on?
- Whew. 2009 didn't trigger the apocalypse either. Zombie, nuclear or anything else.
- Mike is still playing too much Fallout 3
- Two Guys Tech hopes that The Evil Queen feels better
- Art and Mike may be on the CSTechCast on the 12th. We're at least going to visit. CSTechCast is another Podcast here in Colorado Springs. Here's the promo.
- Art is listening to more Scott Sigler.

This day in Computer History
January 8, 1889 - Herman Hollerith Receives a Patent for the Hollerith Tabulating Machine
January 8, 1940 - Bell Labs' Complex Computer makes the first run
January 10, 1938 - Donald Knuth is Born
January 12, 1997 - The Fictional HAL 9000 Computer Becomes Operational
January 13, 1874 - The U.S. Patent Office issues a patent for the Spalding Adding Machine.

News / Topics

- Mike's kids got Lego Batman for Christmas - It's pretty cool, you can play in two different stories, either as Batman and Robin, or as the villains.
- Contagious' sales figures - It's down to #11 in horror. It was #3 when I looked on release day.
- Speaking of Scott Sigler, we're going to the book signing on the 13th.
- Modem Init Strings - UAC isn't always so intuitive.
- Don't scare your hard drives
- Debunked PC Power Saving Myths
- MD5 SSL Certificate Authority Exploit
Used 200 Sony Playstations? - ComputerWorld
- The Windows Defender Post has been helping out some people.