Two Guys Tech Podcast

Show 033: Happy Thanksgiving!

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:25:10 -0800

Show 032: Zombies were people too.

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:30:00 -0800

Computer History
November 20th, 1955 - Ray Ozzie is Born
November 21st, 1969 - First Arpanet Link put into Service
November 22nd, 1985 - Apple Shares Mac Interface with Microsoft
November 23rd, 1992 - Business Week Predicts Computer Industry "On the Skids"
November 25th, 1997 - Pixar's "A Bug's Life" and "Geri's Game" is released.

News
Spam plummets by 40% (ComputerWorld) (Techdirt)
Intel Launches the Core i7 (ZDNet)
Left 4 dead - Comes out Dec 18th.

Interesting
Earl Commercial

This week's Topic / Our segments

Mike - Server 2008 Migration Woes?
Mike Loves RoboCopy
Know your FSMO roles - Understanding FSMO Roles
Some good links at the bottom, let's you know how to tell who has the roles, and how to seize them.

Show 031: The frugal dork.

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:15:50 -0800

This week in 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 17, 1929 - Herman Hollerith Dies
November 18, 1970 - Bill Gates Starts Programming

News
- Get a free trial of Microsoft Home Server
- Obama plans for a CTO for the federal government. - ComputerWorld. Hmmm... Best in class technology, share best practices. Novel idea. The current rumor says Eric Schmidt, or Steve Balmer, or maybe Bill Joy.
Obama wants to take the masses of government data, and move much of it to universally accessible formats.
- Hotmail users don't like the new interface - ComputerWorld At least Google's not the only one who has a bad redesign.
- Windows 7 expected Mid-2009 - Daily Tech
- Amazon Introduces Frustration Free Packaging on Select items - (Tekh) - Here's hoping that this catches on!
- Yahoo! says "Buy Me", Microsoft says "Sorry, you had your chance. No." - Several links from Slashdot. Epic fail.

Interesting Links
- Dork's Guide for fun in an Economic Downturn - (All Things Dork) - Some good common sense stuff to help you save money, and still have fun.
- Have Windows TechNet? There's some new courses out there. (TechNet Blog) -
Course 6698: Fundamentals of Implementing Network Load balancing and Virtualization
Course 6694: Fundamentals of Administering Windows Server 2008
Course 6690: Exploring the Fundamentals of Network Infrastructure in Windows Server 2008

Topic
Gift giving ideas for Geeks
Give a list to your loved one, make it easy on them. Fill it up with stuff, and you'll still be surprised.
- Video Games - All sorts of stuff at Amazon.com, and Game Stop. Both sites have Wish Lists you can set up.
- One of our favorite sites is Think Geek.
Awesome external USB SATA Drive Dock
Stand Alone Car Cassette MP3 Player - Accepts SD Cards, let's your stereo play them, or you can listen with headphones.
Zombie Protest Shirt - Hey, Zombies were people too.
- GeekLabel has great stuff too - I just wish they still had a podcast.
- 7th Son T-Shirts
My favorites:
Griffin Hale Campaign Shirt
Who is John Alpha
- Mur Lafferty Shirts
Clever Jack, Doodad, or Keepsie Insignia

If you still like paper, some other favorite sites are:
Levenger - Circa notebooks are awesome. But save some money, buy a paper punch too.
Laptop Lapdesk
Also, love Franklin Covey's planners.

Show 030: Rewriting history.

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 03:50:41 -0800

News
- Trojan steals 500k bank info records
- Fallout 3 is out, and it sounds like it's really good!
- Mac users can watch instantly on Netflix now.
- Google may walk away from Yahoo! deal.

Promo
Sigler Book tour
Oh yea! Sigler is coming to Denver! Let me know if you're going, I know I am.

Topic
Azure and Windows 7

Azure - Windows Cloud
- Microsoft Unleashes the cloud - "Azure Cloud Brings Uncertaintity for the Admin"
Cloud computing isn't all azure skies
Ray Ozzie Has His Head in The Clouds

Windows 7
Windows 7 Preview - Part 2 - Part 3 -
Some enhancements
- New Taskbar
- JumpLists
- New notification rules
- Re-vamped explorer

Windows 7's best secret feature

Show 029: Keyboard chum for lunch.

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:37:29 -0700

Computer History
October 30 1907 - John Mauchly, co-builder of ENIAC, is born in Cincinnatti, Ohio. He also participated in the EDVAC, BINAC, and UNIVAC I programs.
November 2 1815 - Logician George Boole is born in England.
November 4 1952 - CBS used the new UNIVAC computer to predict the 1952 presidential election. It correctly picked Eisenhower.

News
- Google buys a fighter jet.
- Twittering terrorists.
- Happy Halloween Eveyone!Next Year, we should all do the Zombie Walk together. Here's some video for Detroit's Zombie Walk.
- Found some neat pumpkin patterns for Obama supporters. Here's a McCain one if you want it.
- Demand that Scott Sigler comes to your city - Goto Eventful, or go to his web site and click the banner on the right side.
- Left 4 Dead comes out on November 18th, and Fallout 3 comes out on October 28th. They are both available through Steam.

This weeks topic:
Server and desktop best and worst practices.

- Swap File - It's a good idea to put your swap file on a separate drive. No advantage if it's a different logical drive on the same physical hard drive. You can argue about fragmentation, butfor goodness sake, don't compress it.
- Speaking of compression, don't compress your entire data and system drives.
- Have the floppy or CD as the first item in your bios' boot menu.
- Leave the default passwords intact.
- Don't back your server up.
- Don't test your backups
- Don't ever check out the logs for your backups
- Don't make sure that you have a backup agent for exchange / sql server / big application

Show 028: 3... 2... 1... Record!

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:59:56 -0700

Computer History

October 22, 1941 - Microprocessor co-inventor Stanley Mazor is born in Chicago, Illinois.
October 24, 1922 - Werner Buchholz, co-designer of the IBM Model 701 and Stretch computers, and who originally coined the term "byte", is born.
October 27, 1980 - The first major network crash, a four-hour collapse of ARPANET, occurred.
October 28, 1937 - Microprocessor co-inventor Dr. Ted Hoff is born in Rochester, New York.
October 28, 1955 - Bill Gates, co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft corporation, is born in Seattle, Washington.

News
- Happy Birthday to Sci-Fi Surplus! They celebrated their 1 year anniversary last week on the 14th.
- Starcraft is going to be released as a trio of games - Daily Tech

Web host pulls a record label's web site because they were hosting their own music there.
People hate the new iGoogle layout. - This script makes it collapsible.

This weeks topic:
Art's and Mike's favorite web sites.

Mike's favorite sites:
- Search for domain names with Internic.net
- Test your domain's MX record at MXToolbox.
- TechNet - Lots of great information there! Including the Script Center, the Script Center Repository
- Lots of great Images, free to use. Free Range Stock.
- The Jeep Forum - with a 24 year old Jeep, this site can be a real life saver.
- I search the Internet Movie Database for all sorts of Movie and TV Show info.
- PodioBooks.com - Keeps my ears full of good stories.

Show 027: Patch Tuesday is THIS week.

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:18:02 -0700

Computer History
October 15th, 1956 - First Fortran Reference Manual is Released.
October 17th, 1994 - IBM Cuts back personal Computer line. Was 9 models, they cut it back to 4.
October 21st, 1949 -An Wang files patent for ferrite core memory.

News
- Portal Prelude is out - a free, unofficial prelude to portal.
- Big Patch Tuesday coming up on the 14th. Computerworld
- Google enters into Game advertising DailyTech CNET
- Get Rewards for using Microsoft Live Search?
I received a email from MS.
Registration Deadline is December 31, 2008 Up to 25 Tickets a day.

Promo
PowerScripting Podcast

This weeks topic:
Windows 7 and Windows Cloud

Windows 7 Features
- More evolved Kernel
- Virtualization?
- Sensors - What to me sound like WMI or SNMP counters. They provide information that other programs can poll. The example that's going around is a sensor that tells "where" the computer is. Programs can poll it, and if for example your in Siberia, offer to find the closest coat factory. Of course, opt in due to privacy concerns.
- Better adjustments for User Account Control
- Changes to Explorer
- Built in "Accelerators", kind of like a universal, right click menu option. Like "Define" or "Find on a Map". Works across every application.
- No more sidebar. Gadgets will still work, but they float.
- Built in powershell
Lots and lots more. Check out Win SuperSite's FAQ, or the Windows 7 Center.
- This is not Windows Cloud. Not much is known about Windows Cloud,
- The new Cloud Windows? Code Name, Red Dog. (Heard it first on CSTechCast ) CNet

Show 026: What day is this?

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:43:17 -0700

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)

Promo
Selling Geek

This weeks topic:
All things Google.

Show 025: Somebody hand me the duct tape!

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:47:11 -0700

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 024: The two and a half year hiking spree.

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:30:50 -0700

What's Up?
Watched a Star Wars Clone Wars Series pre-release Thanks to House Party.
Art repairs one computer, but not another one.

Computer History
24th 30th

- September 24th, 1986 - Computer Maker Honeywell seeks a partner.
- September 25th, 1989 - IBM Announces "Micro Channel Architecture".
- September 27th, 1996 - Hacker Kevin Mitnick indicted on Charges.
- September 28th, 1925 - Supercomputer Pioneer Seymour Cray is Born.
- September 29th, 1994 - HotJava Demonstrated at Sun Microsystems

News
New Microsoft Commercials - Seinfeld part 2 and "I'm a PC".
Lego Batman is coming on September 23rd!
Star Wars Clone Wars series starts on Oct 3
Wrath of the Lich King release data announced. November 13th, 2008. Next installment of World of Warcraft.
EA addresses players concerns about the game.

MS drops Seinfeld ads.

Promo
The Nut Gallery - Movie Reviews
http://thenutgallery.com/

This Weeks Topic: Backup strategies for the home and office.

For the home:

For the office:

BackupPC

Backup Servers vs Agents
Disk to tape
disk to disk
disk to disk to tape.

Show 023: 3 going on 11.

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:38:22 -0700

Computer History
September 17th, 1971 - RCA Withdraws from the computer market.
September 18th, 1926 - James Cooley is born. Developer of the fast Fourier transform.
September 19th, 1989 - Y2K Bug found ahead of time.
September 20th, 1954 - The First FORTRAN Program Runs
September 22nd, 1986 - Federal Judge Rules that computer code can be copyrighted.
September 23rd, 1785 - Difference Engine Scheutz is born.

News
- Lego Batman to be released on September 23rd! - Mike's so happy that it's still being released for the PS2.
- HP developing it's Own OS? They may be looking at a more user friendly version of Linux to replace Vista.
- Spore sales look like they are really good. There aren't any hard numbers, but it retailers are under the impression that it's selling really well in it's first week of release. Not Grand Theft Auto, but still good. Mike actually saw a spore commercial.
- Google might be facing anti-trust litigation? The DOJ has brought in a big time litigator, and they are considering the case. The case may not be just about the Yahoo / Google Deal either.
- iTunes 8 is out. Looks like "Genius" is the new feature.

Promo
CS Tech Cast

Mike's Segment
The New Microsoft Certifications

Show 022: Made in Malaysia.

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:11:01 -0700

This week in computer history
Sep 10 - 16

September 11, 1940 - The First Remote Computation was demonstrated.
September 12th, 1958 - Successful test of the first integrated circuit.
September 13th, 1983 - Osborne Computer declares Bankruptcy.
September 15th, 1947 - The Association for Computing Machinery is founded
September 16th, 1997 - Microsoft unveils improved Web TV.
http://www.computerhistory.org/

Happy Anniversary Mike and Trish!

September 7 is one year Grace has been in America!

News
Dell to sell it's factories.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122058183649202581.html

Google Chrome
What we think

Google Chrome sends all of your address bar keystrokes back to google
Teckh's thoughts.

Seinfeld / Microsoft Commercial
CNet says people don't like it.

Spore's out

Promo
Scott Sigler's Infected Novel.
Now Scott, we love you work, but what's up with the promos? They're kind of cheesy. Do you do this on purpose?

Mike's Segment

Mike is going to grill Art with some linux questions.
1. Can you tell me what many of the folders in the root are?
2. Where do packages install?

Show 021: My wheel just flew right off!

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:36:36 -0700

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.

Promo

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

Show 020: It's on time!

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:10:28 -0700

This week in computer history
August 27 - September 2nd

August 27, 1993 - Compaq Introduces the Presario line of personal computers.
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/index.php?seldate=8,27,1993

August 28th, 1991 - The first email from space is sent
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/index.php?seldate=8,28,1991

September 1st 1994 - The library of Congress Announces the Virtual Library Project
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/index.php?seldate=9,1,1994

News
Hi, I'm a Mac, and I'm Jerry Seinfeld - Launching the "Windows Not Walls" campaign?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121928939429159525.html?mod=hpp_us_whats_news
Mary Jo has some thoughts about it: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1548

Mike isn't part of the major Twitter Demographics
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1834131,00.html
Gen X? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen_x

Newegg tells the state of New York to go suck one (en egg, that is).
http://techdirt.com/articles/20080822/1715502071.shtml

Podcast Promo
Space Casey by Christiana Ellis
http://www.spacecasey.com/

Also available on Podiobooks
http://www.podiobooks.com/title/space-casey

Mike's Segment
A Tip - Isolated FTP Server
The base share should be named the same as the domain that the user accounts belong to. If the accounts only exist on the local machine, then the folder name should be "localhost". Under those, place the user named folders.

Otherwise you'll get:
"530 User %username% cannot log in, home directory inaccessible."
"Login Failed"

File Server Migration Wizard
http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/49595/how-do-i-use-the-microsoft-file-server-migration-toolkit-fsmt.html
Uses

Art's Segment
Encrypting your USB thumb drive with TrueCrypt and installing PortableApps

Show 019: Title Not Available

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:46:59 -0700

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.
If you want to have your podcast or podiobook advertised here, for free. Email feedback@twoguystech.com

Mike's Segment
Play Netflix on your XBox 360
vmcNetflix
http://myweb.cableone.net/eluttmann04/projects/vmcNetFlix/default.htm
Stream Watch Now or Watch Instantly Netflix Movies to your Television, or download them to your hard drive to watch later.

Show 018: Have you been drinking? v2

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:21:03 -0700

This is just an update to show 18 posted yesterday. Seems I forgot to add the computer history segment. Doh!

Show 018: Have you been drinking?

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:28:29 -0700

Show 018: Have you been drinking?
Show for August 13th, 2008

What have you been up to?

Mike goes camping and offroading. Art does nothing once again, but gets a fancy-schmancy new mic.

Alternate Titles

Skype!
Begging for promos.
Up to my bumper.

The Slow Week in Computer History
8/13 - 8/19

August 13th, 1973 - The Institute for Certification of Computing Professionals (ICCP) was founded
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/index.php?seldate=8,13,1973

August 15th, 1994 - Programmer Suggests Bundling Internet Explorer in Windows 95
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/index.php?seldate=8,15,1994

August 18th, 1947 - Hewlett Packard is incorporated
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/index.php?seldate=8,18,1947

Podcast Promo
Scott Sigler's Nocturnal
http://www.scottsigler.com/nocturnal

Available on Podiobooks
http://www.podiobooks.com/title/nocturnal

News
VIA getting out of the motherboard chipset business.
http://www.custompc.co.uk/news/604608/via-quits-motherboard-chipset-business.html

Sci-Fi Channel announces Battlestar Galactica Prequel, Caprica
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=2&id=35773

It sound like it's going to show the origins of the cylons, taking place 50 years before the current BattleStar Galactica series.

I heard about it on Sci-Fi Surplus Show 062:
http://scifisurplus.com/2008/08/08/scifi-surplus-podcast-062/#more-406

Mike's Topic
Some Domain Hosting Tools

My IP Neighbors
http://www.myipneighbors.com/

Who Is Hosting this?
http://www.whoishostingthis.com/

Art's Topic: Fun Stuff
Clippy parody program.
http://www.rjlsoftware.com/software/entertainment/clippy/default.shtml

Office Poltergeist.
http://officepoltergeist.com/

Errmess.
http://www.errmess.com/

DVD Releases This Week

Show 017: Late Again

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:04:21 -0700

Show 017
Show for August 6th, 2008: Late Again

Talking about
In the news Sneaky Apple / having patching problems, more powershell resources, Ubuntu Studio

What's going on?
- Making the segments a little more defined
- Went to great expense to install a tech history desk, and hire a full time correspondant.
- Introducing a podcast promo segment.
- Let us know what you think

What have you been up to?
Thanks to Sci Fi Surplus (http://scifisurplus.com/) for the Plug in Show 60. I loved the bit about the Galactic Olympics.
- I started listening to GeekaZine (http://www.geekazine.com/), and realized that he does a This week in Computer history too. For the record, we started that before we ever listened to the podcast.

Alternate Titles

Powershell Part 3
The Old Switcheroo
Saving Apple From Certain Doom
Whut?

This Week in Computer History

We've moved our tech history over to our new tech history desk with Grace.

Looking at stuff that happened between 8/6 and 8/12
8/6/1997 - Microsoft Buys $150M of Apple Stock

8/8/1995 - Netscape Communications Goes Public

8/11/1950 - Steve Wozniak is born. Happy Birthday Steve! 58 isn't that old.

8/12/1981 - IBM introduces its personal computer. IBM model 5150.

Podcast Promo
We're looking to help promote your podcast / audio book. Every week we would like to play a promo for someone. Get in touch with us if you would like us to play your promo.

This weeks first promo
Playing for Keeps Podcast Novel, on sale in print on August 25th.

News
Apple Sneaks MobileMe in with iTunes. They didn't ask me.

People think that the install of Safarai was sneaky, but there's no check box this time.

Here's how you can uninstall it

Apple tried to patch the DNS Flaw, but security researchers says it didn't work.

FCC Rules against Comcast throttling Peer to Peer Traffic

Creative Commons add in for Office 2007 - Embed licenses directly into office apps.

Mike's Topic

More PowerShell Resources
Free OpenSource PowerShell GUI

PowerShell Community

PowerShell Code Repository

Free PowerShell Courseware / eBooks

Free powershell stickers

Free Open Source Disk Defragmenter
Also includes a portable version.

Art's Topic
Ubuntustudio, Ardour, and JACK.

Show 016 - Isn't that cuil?

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:12:29 -0700

News
Spam King Kills his Wife, toddler, then himself.
http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/25923259.html

Microsoft Issues another advisory about the DNS Flaw. No patch, just a warning.
I was under the impressions that for this flaw, you would have to use a man in the middle attack to poison a cache.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/956187.mspx

Microsoft Officially Sponsors the Apache Foundation
http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=209601103
"Microsoft is contributing a patch to ADOdb". This is a data access layer for PHP, and adds support for SQL Server. "This is our first code contribution to PHP community projects but will not be the last."

PowerGUI - Open Source GUI and Script Editor for PowerShell
http://powergui.org/index.jspa
New version released.
http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/powergui-151-rtms/

Microsoft's Mojave Experiment
http://www.mojaveexperiment.com/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-9998336-56.html

New Google competitor: Cuil.com
Pronounced "cool", it seems ok, but I'll keep googling, not cuiling.
http://www.cuil.com

This Week in Computer History
This Wednesday on August 3rd, 1977, Radio Shack announces the TRS-80
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/index.php?seldate=8,3,1977

This Thursday on August 4th, 1988, Computers shut down the space shuttle because of a safety issue.
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/index.php?seldate=8,4,1988

VMWare makes ESXI Server Free
Maybe in Response to Hyper-V?
http://twoguystech.com/node/82

Buzz Aldrin blames Sci-Fi, at least partially, for the death of the space program
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?id=57491

JCL at Geeks are Sexy
http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/07/25/the-ascent-of-scripting-languages/

Mike's Topic
Twitter
Service for updating your status to your friends. Works terrific for questions and short conversations.
http://twitter.com
You can follow Mike at http://twitter.com/Port16

I've been able to meet some good friends on Twitter, including Halr9000, who has a great web site, and does a powerscript Podcast. Not to mention some old friends too.

Mike Really likes Twhirl at http://www.twhirl.org/

I still use Pownce, but I just don't get the response. You can find my Pownce page at http://pownce.com/Mike_Scott/

Server Naming Schemes
Mike needs an idea of what to name his servers.
BSG?

Show 015 - You’ve actually seen Windows 2?

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:56:06 -0700

for July 23rd, 2008

Alternate Titles

It takes a lot of bits for More Echoes?

Google-Life Second-Google Furniture on the island

Stone Age Braveheart

I talked to one of the eggheads

I meant eggheads in the nicest of terms

My servers get thrashed.

The hard drive light never shut off.

Show Notes

We’ve had some new posts on the site this week:

Digital 3d Movies
Some Live Mesh Posts
Microsoft Hyper-V (My Friday Links Post)
Ubisoft steals Anti-DRM Crack

The Week in History:

- July 21st, 1975 - Xerox withdraws from the Computer Market (On Monday)
- July 22nd, 1997 - Apple Announces OS 8 (On Tuesday)
- July 23rd, 1930 - The writer of the first FORTRAN text book, Daniel McCracken was born. (On Wednesday)
- July 25th, 1990 - Microsoft's Revenues exceed $1 Billion. (On Friday)

Tech News

Google Launches Google Lively

Google's 3D World
Official Announcement
Google fends off adult rooms
Google lively installs Google updater, and then runs 3 instances of it?

E3 was last week
Microsoft announced a major update to the XBox 360 Dashboard.
With some tools coming up, anyone will be able to make a game and run it on a Xbox.

Netflix on the XBox 360
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Talks about the XBbox 360 Netflix Player
You need a XBox Gold Membership which is $50 a year.

Evidently, you can already stream it to a player if you have Vista home premium or ultimate, with some freeware.
Here's the guide on LifeHacker
It looks like the plugin is for Media center, so in theory it should work on my popcorn hour, I think.

Mike's Topic
Scifi Surplus is a great podcast!
High production quality, neat segments, really good banter. Highly Recommended.
I heard about Can’t stop the Serenity, and was really bummed out that I missed the local showing. I’ll have to make sure I go next year. All the proceeds go to a worthy cause.

Listening to Jack Palms 3 (Podiobooks) by Seth Harwood

Art's Topic
GPSVisualizer

The Techie Geek pointed out the Levelator in a recent post. Can’t wait to try it out.

Art liked Drillbit Taylor, and Vantage Point, but not 10,000 BC.

Mike Loves Digital 3D and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Brief discussion about how it works.

Show 014 – I was alone. I was all by myself.

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:07:00 -0700

Show notes

This day in Computer History
July 15th, 1928 - The Enigma Machine encodes it's first message.
July 16th, 1951 - Dan Bricklin, inventor of Visicalc, the first spreadsheet program, was born.
July 18th, 1968 - Intel was founded.

News

Mike was on the Techie Geek, episode 15. You should give his show a listen.

We are now in the TechPodcasts.com Directory, you can find us on iTunes, and if Podcast pickle ever gets around to us, we'll be there too.

Yahoo rejects another offer, this time from Microsoft and Carl Icahn
Cnet
(Thanks to Steve Wilson for the link )

Yahoo let's you Build Your Own Search Service (BOSS)
http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/
(Seen on ReadWriteWeb )

3G iPhone came out
Here's a review, and another.

Microsoft Update breaks Internet connections with Zone Alarm
Microsoft KB

WSUS Patch may not have fixed anything. The patch has to be installed manually if you're using WSUS 3.0 SP1 on Server 2008
ComputerWorld

Death of the newsgroups
CNET, ArsTechnica

CAPTCHA - Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart
ComputerWorld

XBox Price Drop - While Supplies Last
ITWorld

My policy towards changing a story

Show 013 – I just didn’t see it

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:00:00 -0700

Show Notes

Show 13 for July 2nd, 2008

Mike made a silly video of his rats, some discussion about Bill Gates leaving Microsoft. Mike explains why he disagrees with at least part of Art’s post.

Mike thinks that Microsoft has changed a lot over the last couple of years, and points out Channel 9, and Port25. Also, TechNet Live events are the best!

ICANN is making some changes to top level domain (TLD) availability, allowing people top buy their own TLD. Also, they are thinking about charging some form of a fee for returning a domain in the grace period to stop domain tasting. Read all about it here.

Mike and Art kick around some ideas for a series of articles, and reminisce about a couple of regular features that aren’t regular features anymore.

Mike and Art are giving some thought to testing out talkshoe, or even ustream, while we are recording our podcast. If you have any thoughts, let us know. If we do decide to do something like that, we’ll post about it before we do.

Tags:

BillGates Movies ICANN TLD Domains DomainTasting Tips Tricks Help Howto Tech Podcast

Show 012 - Echo!

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:18:53 -0700

Mike bought and built a new trailer to haul stuff around in, so Art produced the podcast this week.

We talk a little about the FireFox download weekend.

We talk about The Air I Breathe and The Bucket List. Art really liked both of them.

Mike gets excited about the G.I. Joe Movie.

We talk abut the Four Hour Work Week and romanticise about the expat life.

Show 011 - Flaming Fireball

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:08:13 -0700

Possible Titles

Easily removable bushing

Save it for the Show

Teaser

Show Date June 17th, 2008

Bandwidth provided by Mevio (Formerly Podshow)

We've got iPhone News, talk about DIYPlanner, and other various sundry topics.

Show Notes

Show Date June 17th, 2008

Mike received a manly / geeky father's day present, that's right, he's got a Dremel. Look out!

The 3G iPhone is here! Gizmodo has a great FAQ, as well as a "real price" comparison based upon what you would pay after 2 years with the old iPhone, and with the new iPhone. Guess what? 3G is cheaper.

Mike Loves the Fujitsu Tablet, and he loves Vista's tablet features. Offline File Folders work so much better than in XP.

Coming out on DVD, welcome home Be Kind Rewind (Yay!), so does Roscoe Jenkins!

Netflix has a streaming set top movie player.

Mike mentioned that he prints everything off for his planner, and wants to say how great DIY Planner is. They have free printable organizer templates.

Podshow is not Mevio, looks like they are going in some new commercial direction.

Art mentions a computer problem that he's having, don't fear, after the podcast was recorder, Art found a solution.

Show 010 - (Un)Perfect 10

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:07:46 -0700

Show Notes

Show 010 for June 11th, 2008

You can find us at Two Guys Tech.com, and at our Podshow Page. A big thank you to Podshow for hosting our podcast files.

Other Possible Titles

Double Digit Midget
(Un)Perfect 10
TGT-X
Computer Wary
Computer Weary
Just go to my blog
Did her head explode?
The frog won't do anything

Tech News

Amazon goes down a couple of times. Could it have been a DDOS attack?

Check out Microsoft Group Shot, it can merge two group pictures into one. Looks really handy if you have your eyes closed in one of them.

We talked a little bit about this funny pothole pictures post, but you have to see this GI-Joe post.

Microsoft Launches Office Live Workspace. Looks like collaboration for Microsoft Office, like Google Docs offers.

Mike's got a new camera, and loves it. Now, if he could just get his wife to review it.

Mike talks about some online personal productivity tools, Stikkit, Remember the Milk, I Want Sandy, and Jott.

Art uses the Lightning Extension in Thunderbird, and loves finding public calendars on iCalShare.

Mike finally got to watch Cloverfield, Art watched The Eye with Jessica Alba

Here's the Warner Brothers singing frog, the famous chest bursting scene was spoofed in Spaceballs. We also talk about the Rock's character in Be Cool. Here's one clip of the Rock in it, and another clip that has a bit of his video in it.

Tags

Amazon Outages DDOS Microsoft GroupShot Live OfficeLive Google GoogleDocs Mesh Thunderbird GoogleCalendar Funny rockets Movies JessicaAlba SingingFrog

Show 009 - I got nothin!

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:37:23 -0700

Show Date June 4th, 2008

Alternate Titles

Art can't catch a break

The Bad Bush Joke

Didn't we already use that for a title?

Art's Lamentations

Blow By

I meant to hit Mute

Exert some self control

Those numbers are a little skewed

Hooked in there

She's probably getting sick of it

I wish they would call me

Somebody that matters

Chit Chat

We made a reference to the wonderful show "Car Talk" on NPR. Give it a listen if you have the time, the hosts are very funny.

Big fire in a Texas Data Center drops 9000 servers, reports Texas Startup Blog, and Slashdot.

Mike liked Fantastic Four, rise of the Silver Surfer.

Microsoft Urges Windows Users to Shun Safari

Mike was wrong about the backdoor in the Compiler. What actually happened was that Ken Thompson demonstrated how it could be done. You can read a little about it here, and Ken Thompson talks about it in his Turing Award Lecture. Mike is going to have to find some examples of Unix / Linux Vulnerabilities.

Track Mania Nations is free on Steam!

LEGO Indiana Jones comes out on June 3rd. So by the time you see this, you should have already bought it. If it's half as good as the Lego StarWars then it's gonna be worth it.

New Civilization game coming out. Official Site, it will be available for the Playstation 3, Nintendo DS, and XBox 360 on July 8.

Mike's topic was a bit lame, but he wanted to give a resounding recommendation for the TWIT podcast Network. Mike's favorite shows are This Week in Tech, and Security Now with Steve Gibson, Windows Weekly with Paul Thurrott, and now you can watch the shows recorded live on Twit Live.

Show 008 - The General Public doesn't care.

Wed, 28 May 2008 20:42:09 -0700

Show Date: May 28th, 2008

Alternate Titles

It's a stationary craft.

There's a forest on Mars.

You've got to pay for some protection here.

Show Notes:

Happy Belated Memorial day everyone! Big thanks go out to the Men and Women who are out there serving our country.

Come visit us at Two Guys Tech. We're still looking for feedback, send email to feedback AT twoguystech.com.

The Phoenix has landed! The landing was broadcast live, Art watched it, but Mike missed it. You can find the Phoenix lander here at NASA, as well as a picture of the Phoenix as captured by the Mars Orbiter.

Billy Bob Thornton wasn't in Mission to Mars or in Red Planet.

Mike launched real rockets this weekend! Well Estes Rockets. Now available at Target.

Art is still having car problems.

Check out the library for Automotive information. The Colorado Local libraries have a wealth of free information online.

Free podcast hosting at The Internet Archive! Lots of other great stuff, including the way back machine.

Mike's horrific old Web Site. The Internet archive didn't delete it's copy of it, Mike forgot the URL. Here's what they have.

Find old versions of software at Old Version. Mike is really glad that Art mentioned it, now I can delete Gigabytes of saved downloads off of his hard drive.

AVG Free edition won't be available after the end of the week - Or is it? If it isn't, try Avast! It's free for home use.

Problem with Team Fortress 2 crashing with an error, not enough OS memory? Check out the URL, it could be because of AVG or Symantec..

Art likes Spirited Away. It's pretty trippy, and Art thinks kids would like it. Don't trust Netflix's age specific recommendations. Mike started watching a movie rated for 5 to 7 year olds, which ended up being a PG-13 movie. Lemony Snicket's was pretty good. The subtitling of the baby was a really good touch.

Tags:

Mars Lander Anti-Virus InternetArchive

Show 007 - 6 in a row!

Wed, 21 May 2008 01:00:00 -0700

Show for May 21st, 2008.

Show Notes

Thanks to Podshow for hosting our files! You can find our show's site on Podshow, at 2GuysTech.Podshow.com . You can send feedback to feedback AT twoguystech.com. Let us know what you think. Sorry for missing last week's episode. Technical and scheduling difficulties prevented us from recording it.

Art fixed the web site! Yay! He found work! Yay! His car is acting up! Boo!

Mike just got 7Mb DSL, now they want to bump him up to 12Mb! Sign me up!

Tech News

A little talk about the Yahoo Microsoft Non-Deal, it may be a deal now after all .

Data has been recovered from a hard drive that was on the Space Shuttle Columbia .

Mike talks a little more about Mesh . Mike doesn't think that Microsoft would have thought that Mesh is perfect for synching Portable Apps across machines.

Mike shows that he isn't that up to date on the new Digital TV conversion. It turns out Mike is right though. From DTV.Gov :

Digital broadcast television includes Standard Definition (SD) and High Definition (HD) formats.

Art talks about his Parted Magic , Mike discusses some Free development Tools with Visual Studio Express .

Come visit us at Two Guys Tech .

Show 006 - Whatcha gonna do?

Wed, 07 May 2008 20:37:15 -0700

Show Notes

Show number 6 for May 8th, 2008 (or maybe May 7th, if Mike can crank it out in one night).

Art talks about a great tool for recovering a deleted partition, and Mike talks about some programs that you can use to download fine podcasts.

Thanks for downloading and listening to the podcast, and thanks to Podshow for hosting our files! You can find our podshow site at 2guystech.podshow.com

Alternate Titles -

Hooray for Abacus Day!

Abaci in your eye

Abacus vs the Slide Ruler death match!

Opportunity Cost

Drums all the way around

Art the Wanderer

Who is M.A.S.K.?

Big Dummy Head

It's nothing like UAC

Clean the peanut butter off of it

Critical Ammo

Whatcha gonna do?

We've received our first piece of feedback! Not only that, but it was positive! Yippee! Don't be left out, you can send your feedback to feedback AT twoguystech.com

The Web Site is still broken, but it's getting closer!

Some Tech news we discuss

Microsoft walks away from Yahoo! deal

Yahoo! shares fall nearly 17%

May 10th is National Abacus day in Japan

Iron Man Movie Ticket Sales - $100.8 Million in the first weekend

Grand Theft Auto Sales - Cost $100 Million to make, projected to make $400 Million in it's first week.

Stuff in Tech History

First BASIC program run on May 1, 1964 - The article doesn't mention what the program was. Mike thinks it was "Hello World".

Network General was founded on May 13th 1986 - Have you heard of a Network Sniffer? They made the original.

Other Stuff

MASK was an animated series that Mike evidently never say. Evidently it was a mix between GI-Joe and Transformers. VENOM was the name of the bad guy's organization.

Lego Star Wars is available for just about every platform.

Lego Indiana Jones is now available for pre-order for almost every platform.

Great Shirts over at 80s Tees.com

Mike relates some half baked story about the Apollo Guidance System.

Mike's been playing with Kubuntu, so far so good. Makes a Joke about UAC that no one else would get.

Team fortress 2 has a new update, lots of stuff for medics, and a reduced price! Only $19.99.

Art's Tip

Use Testdisk to recover a deleted partition.

Mike's Tip

If you email Mike, mike answers! This show's question was from Keith in Spokane.

Podcasts are generally just MP3 files, so no matter what you use to download them, you can just copy it over to any MP3 player that you have.

You can use iTunes to download them, or even Winamp. Mike has had some success with Doppler too.

Show 005 - Stifle a Giggle

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:16:40 -0700

April 30th, 2008.

Alternate Titles for Today's Show

That Bridge is a Slaughterfest

The Blending is imminent.

Notes

Art formatted his machine, Mike confesses to being a reformed reload-aholic. We chit chat a little about disk imaging, Team Fortress Two, Mesh, Ubuntu's new release, Kubuntu, and compression utilities including 7-Zip.

As always, you can reach us at Two Guys Tech.

Yahoo no Deal - Will Microsoft go Hostile, or just walk away?

Status report on Art's sister's Kubuntu conversion.

Unlike Leo Laporte and Kevin Rose, Mike thinks Microsoft Mesh looks really cool.

Kubuntu 8.04 released yesterday (4/24) with the nifty new Wubi installer. Art gives a great overview of the new release, and how to install it with the Wubi installer.
Mike talks about file compression, Winzip, the free 7zip, and NTFS compression.

We talk a little bit about Syncback and File Hamster.