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

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.
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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.

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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