Show 093
Show for March 10th, 2009

Hi I'm Mike "Square Knot" Scott, and with me tonight is Bryan "Half Hitch" Hineser and Art "Sheet Bend" Hollingsworth.

Bryan how can they get a hold of us: On Twitter you can find Mike S here, Art here Bryan here, Mike T here, and GeeksonTech We'd love for you to follow us. You can find us at http://GeeksonTech.com, send us a email at feedback AT GeeksonTech.com, or leave Voicemail or TXT (719) 357-5678 (Standard carrier rates apply).

Geeks on Tech is a proud member of Tech Podcast Network. You can find us, and lots of other great shows at www.techpodcasts.com . We'd also like to thank Mevio for hosting our files, they save us a ton of money.

Also, if you like the show, please head over to our iTunes page, and fill out a review. If you don't like us, it's probably not worth your time, go make a sandwich for yourself instead. Geeks on Tech is hosted by Bluehost, for more info, see http://GeeksonTech.com/hosting.

On our segmentish type thing, Art's going to fill us in on his experience with Jabber.

What's Going on?
Art
- Set up a jabber server.
- Beginning Security+.

Bryan
- Played with PF firewalls
- Removed pulseaudio from ubuntu
- Learning about chroot jails

Mike -
- Dead Wireless on my DSL Modem - Bryan Recommends Linksys wrt120n.
- Camping with the Cub Scouts
- Started tweeting a bit on Twitter

Computer History
March 10 1997 - Netscape Announces Third Generation Browser
March 13 1986 - Microsoft Goes Public
Narch 16 1990 - Internet Extends Beyond U.S. to Europe

The computer history segment is brought to you by The Computer history Museum, where computing history lives. Visit them at  computerhistory.org .

Fake Commercial
Learning other Languages - Thanks to SciFi Surplus!

New and Interesting
- World PSN Meltdown, older PS3 consoles paralyzed - Mike S
- What works, what sucks and what's coming for 11 horror movie remakes. - Mike S
- Obama re-directing billions of dollars from moon mission to new rocket research. (VASIMR Rockets) - Mike S
- At Last -- The Full Story Of How Facebook Was Founded - Bryan
- Ubisoft DRM Authentication Servers Go Down - Bryan
- Taking aim at Microsoft: Google buys DocVerse - Bryan

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
The House of Grey - Podiobooks - Author's Website
Beautiful Red - Podiobooks - Author's Website

The Segmentish Type Thing
Art Jibber Jabbers about JabberJabber stuff.
ejabberd

Google Goes Social with Google Buzz - Bryan

Google planning gigabit fiber to the home for 50k to 500k households. - Art

StarCraft 2 beta to launch this month. - Art (It Launched on 2/18 - Mike)

The Dark side of Geo - PleaseRobMe.com- Mike S

Civ V arriving Fall of 2010! - (seen on RPS) - Mike S

Tell a programmer - Bryan

Student says school webcam spied on him at home - Bryan (Update - Art) (And another - Art)

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo 

Self Made - Podiobooks - Author's Website
Paraffin Winter - Podiobooks

Segmentish Type Thing
10 Tech Tasks you should be able to do in your Sleep

Show 089
February 3rd, 2010

Hi, I'm Mike "Fix It" Taylor and I'm joined this week by Mike "Brews It" Scott.

On Twitter you can find Mike S here, Art here Bryan here, Mike T here, and GeeksonTech We'd love for you to follow us. You can find us at http://GeeksonTech.com, send us a email at feedback AT GeeksonTech.com, or leave Voicemail or TXT (719) 357-5678 (Standard carrier rates apply).

Geeks on Tech is a proud member of Tech Podcast Network. You can find us, and lots of other great shows at www.techpodcasts.com . We'd also like to thank Mevio for hosting our files, they save us a ton of money.

Also, if you like the show, please head over to our iTunes page, and fill out a review. If you don't like us, it's probably not worth your time, go make a sandwich for yourself instead. Geeks on Tech is hosted by Bluehost, for more info, see http://GeeksonTech.com/hosting.

What's Going on?
Mike T.
- Replaced the touchscreen on an iPhone for a guy at work
- Fixed a 50in. Plasma TV for another guy at work

Mike S -
- Brewed my first Lager
- Fixed my furnace

Computer History
- February 3, 1986 - "Vaporware" Announced
- February 8, 1945 - A Patent is Filed for the Harvard Mark I
- February 9, 1927 - David Wheeler, the Inventor of the Wheeler Jump is born

The computer history segment is brought to you by The Computer history Museum, where computing history lives. Visit them at  computerhistory.org .

Fake Commercial
UT&T - Thanks to Sci-fi Surplus

New and Interesting
- 8 things that suck about the iPad - Mike S
- Live streaming video from the ISS. - Art
- Nexus One for AT&T's 3G bands likely in the works - Mike T.

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
Fried Green Zombies - Podiobooks - Author's Website

Computer History
January 15, 1986 - The National Science Foundation Opens the National Center for Supercomputer Applications (NCSA).
January 16, 1956 - SAGE is Disclosed to the Public
January 17, 1996 - Computer is Used in the Discovery of New Planets.
January 19, 1983 - Apple Introduces Lisa Computer.

The computer history segment is brought to you by The Computer history Museum, where computing history lives. Visit them at  computerhistory.org .

Fake Commercial
UCC Holographic TV Conversion - Thanks Sci Fi Surplus.com

New and Interesting
- Linus Torvalds in Scott Sigler's Crypt - Mike S
- 100 Quotes every geek should know - Mike S
- Wired's sexiest geeks of 2009 - Mike S
- 'Google' beats 'Blog' as word of the decade (PDF Press Release) - Mike S

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
Blood Witness - Podiobooks - Author's Web Site
Cheating Death - Podiobooks - Author's Website

Show notes can also be found on Google Wave.

Art "I am the answer" Hollingsworth, Mike "Yes, but what was the question?" Scott, and Bryan "Where's my towel?" Hineser

Art's how can they get a hold of us: On Twitter you can find Mike S here, Art here Bryan here, Mike T here, and GeeksonTech We'd love for you to follow us. You can find us at http://GeeksonTech.com, send us a email at feedback AT GeeksonTech.com, or leave Voicemail or TXT (719) 357-5678 (Standard carrier rates apply).

Geeks on Tech is a proud member of Tech Podcast Network. You can find us, and lots of other great shows at www.techpodcasts.com . We'd also like to thank Mevio for hosting our files, they save us a ton of money.

Also, if you like the show, please head over to our iTunes page, and fill out a review. If you don't like us, it's probably not worth your time, go make a sandwich for yourself instead. Geeks on Tech is hosted by Bluehost, for more info, see http://GeeksonTech.com/hosting.

What's Going on?
Art

• Put up the Christmas Tree.
• Ordered the rest of the parts for my machine.
• DHCP/DNS server isn't working for some reason.
• Birthday

Mike

• Getting Ready for Christmas

Computer History
December 18 1991 - IBM and Siemens AG Announce 64M DRAM Chip Prototype
December 24 1791 - Charles Babbage is born
December 24 1906 - Fesseden Successfully Broadcasts Voice Program
December 25 1975 - The Gates Family Christmas Card Makes Merry with Micro Soft
December 26 1982 - TIME Names a Non-Human “Man of the Year”

The computer history segment is brought to you by The Computer history Museum, where computing history lives. Visit them at  computerhistory.org .

Fake Commercial
12 days of Clonemas - J.C. Hutchins - The 7th Son Novel Makes a great Christmas Gift!

New and Interesting
- Oracle Acquisition could hurt MySQL use - Mike (Monty Widenius, original developer of MySQL, is very worried about this. - Art)
- TF2 Comic released - background for next update - Mike
- Demoman vs Soldier Update - War status page - Mike
- Free Holiday music from Amazon, a song a day December 1st through Christmas - Mike
- Phobos and Deimos captured together by Mars Orbiter - Art

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
- Republic - Podiobooks

The Segmentish Type Thing
None this week - See you in 2 weeks, have a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!