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.

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

1. Powershell Part 3
2. The Old Switcheroo
3. Saving Apple From Certain Doom
4. 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.

News
Spam King Kills his Wife, toddler, then himself.

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.

Microsoft Officially Sponsors the Apache Foundation
"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."


Microsoft's Mojave Experiment
CNET's Article

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

This Week in Computer History
This Wednesday on August 3rd, 1977, Radio Shack announces the TRS-80

This Thursday on August 4th, 1988, Computers shut down the space shuttle because of a safety issue.

VMWare makes ESXI Server Free
Maybe in Response to Hyper-V?

Buzz Aldrin blames Sci-Fi, at least partially, for the death of the space program

JCL at Geeks are Sexy


Mike's Topic
Twitter
Service for updating your status to your friends. Works terrific for questions and short conversations.
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?

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.

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Windows Linux GPSVisualizer Podcasts Hyper-V Microsoft Windows tech geek