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What's a machine with 2TB of RAM look like?

Posted Wed, 10/08/2008 - 11:08 by Mike

On our last podcast, I mentioned seeing a screen shot of the Task Manager for a system with 2TB of RAM. I told Art that I would have to send the link to him, but I figured that this is something that many of our readers and listeners would appreciate.

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2TBTaskManager

Show 026: What day is this?

Posted Wed, 10/08/2008 - 01:08 by Art
http://m.podshow.com/media/17695/episodes/127945/2guystech-127945-10-08-2008.mp3

Show 026: What day is this?
October 8th, 2008

Alternate Titles:

  1. Robots in your nightmares.
  2. It's all about the Gooooog.

What's Up?
Mike is looking at updating stuff around the office.
Art is looking for a new trouble-ticket system for the office.

Computer History
8th - 14
October 8, 1996 - Special U.S. Stamp Commemorates ENIAC
October 10, 1995 - "A Day in the Life of Cyberspace" Published
October 12, 1988 - Steve Jobs Introduces NeXTComputer

News
- China spying on Skype users?
- Microsoft Releases Bare Metal Version of Hyper-V Not only is it a standalone solution, meaning no Windows Server 2008 required, but it's free.
- Windows Cloud?
- Man Recruits Decoys for robbery on Craig's list.
- Patch Tuesday was yesterday. (Not really)

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Selling Geek

This weeks topic:
All things Google.

Show 025: Somebody hand me the duct tape!

Posted Wed, 10/01/2008 - 01:29 by Art
http://m.podshow.com/media/17695/episodes/127269/2guystech-127269-10-01-2008.mp3

Show 025: Somebody hand me the duct tape!
October 1st, 2008

Alternate Titles:

  1. May I have a Lotus Development please? With peanut sprinkles on top.
  2. So, a blonde, a blonde, and a blonde walk in to a bar...

What's Up?
Mike attempts a migration to Windows Server 2008, but, but winds up rolling back to 2003.
Art does nothing. Again.

Computer History
October 1, 1954 - IBM Announces Model 705 Computer
October 2, 1955 - ENIAC Computer Retired
October 3, 1950 - Transistor Inventors Receive Patent
October 5, 1996 - Supercomputer Pioneer Cray Dies in Auto Accident
October 6, 1983 - Lotus Development Goes Public
October 7, 1988 - The Computer Bowl Begins

News
- Apple's Patching is a Mess - ComputerWorld
- Apple Finally Patches that pesky DNS Exploit - NY Times
Yes, we're a little late to report this, but I just heard about it. Yes, everyone else patched their systems like 4 months ago. To be fair, Apple did release a patch at the end of July, only 3 months after everyone else, of course it didn't work.
Wal-Mart Ends DRM Support

This weeks topic: Fourteen Geek Movies you must see (In no particular order)

  • Matrix
  • Hick Trek
  • Hackers
  • Star Wars (Of Course)
  • Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
  • Serenity
  • Anything Monty Python
  • Gattica
  • Transformers
  • Back to the Future
  • Office Space
  • Independence Day
  • Alien Movies
  • Tron

 

Show 021: My wheel just flew right off!

Posted Thu, 09/04/2008 - 01:09 by Art
http://m.podshow.com/media/17695/episodes/124778/2guystech-124778-09-04-2008.mp3

Show 021: My wheel just flew right off!
September 3, 2008

Art has an encounter with a bear and loses an XD card.

Mike loses a wheel.

Mike finally finished Cryptonomicon.

Alternate Titles

  • A bear in my parking space.
  • Mmmmmm. Cheesecake!
  • Did I actually say "Deers"?

This week in Computer History
September 5th, 1980 - The last IBM "Stretch" Computer is decommisioned.
September 6th, 1997 - The U.S. Navy commissions the U.S.S Grace Murray Hopper
September 7th, 1981 - The ILLIAC IV Supercomputer is shut down.
September 9th, 1945 - The First Computer Bug is found by Grace Murray Hopper.

News

Google launching an Open Source Browser
Rafe Needleman's Blog at CNET PCMag

Evidently, they meant to wait until Tuesday, but accidentally let it slip early.

The home page is at this URL, but it has been re-directing to Google.com. It's to be announced at a press conference at 11:00 AM yesterday (September 2nd).

There's even a 38 page comic about Chrome you can read here.

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7th Son Obsidian

Mike's Segment
Domain Hosting

Art's Segment
SIIG USB Soundwave 7.1 Pro
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829270004
http://siig.com/ViewProduct.aspx?pn=CE-S00022-S1

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Clickety clack!

Posted Sat, 07/05/2008 - 13:23 by Art

If you've listened to the TGT podcast, you may have heard my keyboard in the background as I type away going to web sites we're talking about, taking notes, or doing whatever. You may have also noticed it's quite loud.

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