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Computer History
June 25 1981 - Microsoft incorporated.
June 26 1997 - Communications Decency Act Declared Unconstitutional
June 27 1995 - Spyglass Goes Public
June 29 1992 - Silicon Graphics and MIPS Merge
June 30 1945 - First Draft of Report on EDVAC Published
The computer history segment is brought to you by The Computer history Museum, where computing history lives. Visit them at computerhistory.org .
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Blue Pill Company - Thanks to SciFi Surplus
New and Interesting
New Name for TGT?
VirtualBox 3.0 beta 1 released. - Art
Comcast embracing IPv6. - Art
Microsoft extends Windows XP life to 2011. - Art
Apple Fixes 46 flaws in iPhone OS update (Computerworld) - Mike
Google Agrees to delete unblurred German Street View Data (Computerworld) - Mike
Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
Dr. Jacks Soapbox Seminars - The Science behind Singularity
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The Gateway
The Segmentish Type Thing
Untangle Dedicated Server
Computer History
June 17 1997 - Hackers Decipher Data Encryption Standard
June 19 1623 - Blaise Pascal is Born
June 20 1950 - NBS Dedicates SEAC Machine.
June 21 1981 - IBM Retires Last "STRETCH" Supercomputer
June 23 1997 - Kodak and Motorola Aim to Develop New Digital Cameras
The computer history segment is brought to you by The Computer history Museum, where computing history lives. Visit them at computerhistory.org .
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New and Interesting
Twitpocalypse
Tweetvisor now expands short URL's.
Surprise: You can’t change your wallpaper in Starter Edition
Lightning strike brings down Amazon's cloud.
Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
Chasing the Bard
The Segmentish Type Thing
What a Certification Boot camp is like.
Computer History
June 10 1977 - Apple II Plus released.
June 11 1978 - TI Announced the Speak and Spell.
June 12 1997 - 3Com and U.S. Robotics Merge
June 16 1951 - U.S. Census Bureau Dedicates UNIVAC I Computer.
The computer history segment is brought to you by The Computer history Museum, where computing history lives. Visit them at computerhistory.org .
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New and Interesting
Spymaster
Bing goes live, some bloggers shocked to find porn
Don’t Watch This: Newest Twitter Worm “Best Video” Is Spreading
T-Mobile pwned?
Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
Arwen
The Segmentish Type Thing
Proxmox - What is the difference between this and ASSP? - Art
Computer History
June 3 1990 - Integrated Circuit Inventor Noyce Dies.
June 6 1995 - Vatican Library to be on the Web.
June 7 1954 - World War II Enigma Buster Alan Turing Commits Suicide
June 9 1986 - Supercomputer Center Supports Precursor to Internet
The computer history segment is brought to you by The Computer history Museum, where computing history lives. Visit them at computerhistory.org .
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New and Interesting
Google Wave creating quite a buzz. - http://wave.google.com/
Windows 7 Starter to ditch the three app limit. - http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/05/29/let-s-talk-about-windows-7-starter.aspx
Time-Warner dumping AOL. - http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/05/with-no-buyers-in-sight-time-warner-finally-to-spin-off-aol.ars
Microsoft Bing. - http://www.bing.com
Intel cajoles Microsoft to limit netbook screen size
- "V" Returns to ABC this fall. ABC
Mike's links, which you can ignore if you want
- Microsoft launching new search engine, "Bing". (All Things D). Evidently, the Woz is a big fan. The "Decision Engine" goes live on June 3rd.
Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
The Segmentish Type Thing
The rest of the Paul Scheiber Interview
Computer History
May 27th, 1959 MIT Shuts Down "Whirlwind" Computer
May 28th, 1959 Committee Forms to Develop New Language
May 30, 1996 AT&T Announces Video Phone Call System
May 31, 1926 BASIC Language Co-Inventor is Born
June 1, 1995 Maxis Goes Public
June 2, 1996 Netscape Creates Navio to Compete with Microsoft
The computer history segment is brought to you by The Computer history Museum, where computing history lives. Visit them at computerhistory.org .
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New and Interesting
- Microsoft Confirms IIS Bug - Computerworld
- Art - Pirated Windows 7 RC Builds Botnet - cNet
- Palm Pre, Broadband issues and how media is distributed & consumed.
Sorry I get it now. We'll move those to next week.
- High School graduates class who may have up to 26 certifications. Certmag
- "V" Returns to ABC this fall. ABC
Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
Anatomy of Fear
Murder at Avedon Hill
The Segmentish Type Thing
- Interview / chat with Paul Schreiber - Co-Host of the Dorkcast Podcast, you can also find him at 1000 Monkeys.
- Tell us about your podcast
- Lessons from podcasting
- Background with computers
Show 057: Let's Give Paul A Call will be a few hours late this week. Monday we had pretty bad thunderstorms around here, and my power and internet connection were going up and down all day, so no real work was accomplished on that day. Then on Tuesday my wife and myself received some great news, and I was trying to put the show together in the middle of making lots of calls and making plans dealing with the news. Maybe I'll tell all of you about that next week.
Computer History
May 21 1952 - IBM Announces Model 701, "Defense Calculator."
May 22 1973 - Xerox Researcher Proposes "Ethernet."
May 23 1994 - Java development begins in earnest
May 24 1961 - MIT's Clark Begins Work on LINC Computer
May 25 1994 - First International World Wide Web Conference
May 26 1995 - Gates Declares Internet "Most Important Single Development"
The computer history segment is brought to you by The Computer history Museum, where computing history lives. Visit them at computerhistory.org .
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New and Interesting
- Opt in for the Starcraft 2 Beta which should happen in the coming months (Starcraft 2 site)
- EU Slaps Intel
- Microsoft Breaks their own responsible disclosure practices.
- Google struck with major outages . - Reminds everyone how much the depend on Google.
- WolframAlpha ? New Search Engine? They describe it as "the ultimate computational knowledge engine"
- Coldplay releases a free downloadable album
- U.S. Trustee Moves to Convert SCO Bankruptcy to Chapter 7
- Blocked Ads, Clean Conscience
- FTC finally cracking down on the car warranty robocalls after Senator Schumer received one.
Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
The Failed Cities Monolouges by Matt Wallace
Sigularity by Bill DeSmedt
The Segmentish Type Thing
Stellarium
"Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go." from http://www.stellarium.org/
Also see CalSky.
Computer History
May 13 1986 - Network General Corporation Founded
May 14 1992 - Texas Instruments Announces Its Own 486 Microprocessor Chip
May 16 1938 - Birthday of Ivan Sutherland, Inventor and Developer of Interactive Computer Graphics
May 17 1943 - U.S. Army and University of Pennsylvania Sign Contract to Develop ENIAC
May 18 1998 - United States Justice Department Files Antitrust Against Microsoft
The computer history segment is brought to you by The Computer history Museum, where computing history lives. Visit them at computerhistory.org .
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- Rich Quick from our good friends over at Sci-Fi Surplus.com
New and Interesting
- @James1115 invited us to stay with him if we're ever in Winnipeg
- 7th Son optioned by Warned Brothers
- Personal effects Dark Arts comes out June 9th (Bryan)
- Cyber Security bill for the Electric Grid in the works - ComputerWorld
- Bryan pointed out that you can download the Arbiter series at http://prometheus.libsyn.com/
- Microsoft doesn't want you to do an in place upgrade from Windows 7 Beta to the RC , but you can if you tweak a file .
- Windows 7 RC rush crashes Microsoft servers.
Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
Iron Dragons - Derek P. Gilbert
The Trolls of Lake Maebiewahnapoopie by Jack White
What's Going on?
Art:
- Finally bought Left 4 Dead.
- Scheduled my A+ test. May 16.
- Changed my oil today.
Mike:
- Finished "Taken Liberty" by Steven H. Wilson - Great Story.
- Worked all weekend on Pinewood Derby cars.
- My Cold just won't go away.
- Mike's been busy! I've been meaning to record a bit about my favorite TV Sci-Fi character, but I haven't done so.
Computer History
May 1 1964 - Dartmouth Professors Launch "Timesharing" system
May 2 1983 - Microsoft Introduces 2-button Mouse
May 3 1997 - IBM's Deep Blue Beats World's Best Chess Player
May 4 1995 - Commodore Bought By German Company
The computer history segment is brought to you by The Computer history Museum, where computing history lives. Visit them at computerhistory.org .
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New and Interesting
- Two Guys Tech's International Apeal - First we had GhodMode from New Zealand, now a neighbor from the north is listening too, @James1115.
- Exchange 2010? (Microsoft)
- Oracle buying Sun.
- New Gameplay Mode for "Left for Dead". Released on 4/21/09
- GeoCities shut down. - PCWorld
- Windows 7 to include Windows XP? - Winsupersite
- Ubuntu 9.04 released. - Ubuntu
Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
- "Quarter Share" by Nathan Lowell
- "Heaven" Season One by Mur Lafferty
Feedback
Hi Guys... I've been listening for a few shows now. I write alot of the
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fake commercials Casey runs on SciFi Surplus.
In your last show, you commented on Netbooks and their return rates. I've
been looking at Netbooks for a while now, and what I keep coming back to is
that it seems the ones with better specs come with XP by default. So, when
we think about return rates, I'm wondering how many people are buying
Netbooks with a Microsoft OS, nuking it, and installing Ubuntu or something
like that?
The reason I don't already have a Netbook is because the price gap between
a mid-level Netbook and a low end laptop isn't much at all, and I can't
decide which would be the better purchase. I wonder if you or your
listeners have had any experiences with Netbooks that really makes them
stand out versus a cheap laptop?
Keep up the good work guys!
-Bob
What's Going on?
Art - Signed back up to Netflix after about a year. Helped a buddy install more network jacks in his house.
Mike
- Sick sick sick
- Bottled my beer
- Wrestled some with a Intuit Customer Manager Issue. Trying to get it to sync with Outlook.
Computer History
April 22 1592 - Mechanical Calculator Designer Schikard Is Born
April 23 1964 - SEAC Computer Retired
April 24 1981 - Apple IIc Introduced
April 25 1961 - Robert Noyce Awarded Patent for "Integrated Circuit"
April 26 1960 - IBM Announces "STRETCH" Supercomputer Plans
The computer history segment is brought to you by The Computer history Museum, where computing history lives. Visit them at computerhistory.org.
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New and Interesting
- DHS looking for "ethical hackers" - Yahoo
- Microsoft leaks Windows 7 RC release date. - Computerworld
- Oprah is on Twitter? - Cnet OMG! She has like 349k followers. You can literally refresh the page over and over and it's climbing by the hundreds at a time.
- The Pirate Bay is Illegal ?!?! - Really? (CNET ) Confirmed by Swedish Court. Each defendant got 1 year in jail and $3.6 Million US to copyright holders. It still could be years before it makes it to the Swedish supreme court.
Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
- "7th Son" - Awesome classic by J.C. Hutchins , and "Jack Wakes up " by Seth Harwood
The Segmentish Type Thing
Nelu Lazar from Tweetvisor , a very good web-based Twitter client.
1. Tell us a little about yourself.
2. How and why did you get started with Twitter?
3. There are a lot of Twitter clients out there. What inspired you to develop Tweetvisor?
4. What's in the future for Tweetvisor?
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