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 - Go to 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

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/