December 30th, 2009

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What's Going on?
Art -

• Got my new computer up and running.
• Saw Avatar

Mike T -

• Wish I saw Avatar!

Mike S -

• Washed a bunch of bottles
• Brewed 10 Gallons of Beer all at once.
• Cursing Google Wave

Computer History
December 30 1985 - Version 3.2 of the IBM PC-DOS operating system is announced (Also see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_computing_1980%E2%80%931989)
December 31 1976 - Microcomputer Pioneer CROMEMCO is Incorporated
January 2 1975 - Bill Gates and Paul Allen name "Micro-Soft"
January 3 1977 - Apple Computer Corporation is Incorporated

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

Fake Commercial
Wildfire Labs - Thanks to SciFi Surplus.com

New and Interesting
- Google's phone? - Mike
- Did you see the iPhone on the island of lost toys commercial.
- Mozilla Exec urges users to ditch Google for Bing - Mike
- Do no evil Google

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.

Fake Commercial
"Quantum Max" Courtesy of Sci-Fi Surplus.

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?

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