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Show 049: Send Us Some Feedback! Please!

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What's Going on?
Art - Looking for some free network diagramming and inventory software. Spiceworks CADE Set up a bunch of Blackberries at work. Went to have family pictures done last night.

Computer History
March 26 1996 - Hewlett-Packard Co-Founder David Packard Dies
March 28 1986 - Computers Enter The AIDS Research Arena
March 29 1989 - Pixar Wins Academy Award for "Tin Toy"
March 30 1951 - Census Bureau Receives UNIVAC I Computer
March 31 1939 - Harvard and IBM Agree to Build The Mark I "Giant Brain"

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

Fake Commercial
Kessel Run Speedway - Thanks SciFi Surplus

New and Interesting
- Casey over at Sci-Fi Surplus is going to launch a podcast following the project upcoming Movie "Brown Coats Redemption" - Check their blog
- Twit Pwr - I knew someone was going to do this sooner or later.
- Amazon Sued by the Discovery Channel
- Safari Exploited in Seconds at Pwn2Own contest - ArsTechnica
- Portableapps rolls out truckloads of updates recently.
- New worm targeting DSL modems and routers. Thanks to Paul Foty @pfoty. OS Attack DroneBL

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
Dear Editor - Goz's Grumpy World

The Segmentish Type Thing - Web Serials

Web Serials
Main Site

The Black Dawn
There's a whole bunch of back story for the characters on You Tube, as if they were real people.
You can Purchase New Episodes, or wait until they are released each Saturday.

Mike's picture

A Free, portable Anti-Virus

imageToday I wanted to talk about one of the really handy portable applications that is available from Portable Apps.

Have you ever worked on a computer, not yours of course, that you suspect of having been taken over by a pesky virus or today's most popular spyware? Trust me, I've seen my fair share of infected computers.

Show 020: It's on time!

Show 020: It's on time!
August 27th, 2008

Mike's all gaga over the heavy upgrades for TF2. Art's burned out on it. Mike has a sandvich.

Art has a new book, but Mike is still working on Cryptonomicon. Poor guy.

Art gets a new DVD drive. Make and Art observe a moment of slience. Or try to, anyway.

Alternate Titles

  1. Mike has a sandvich.
  2. A moment of silence.
  3. Grace's cover is blown

This week in computer history
August 27 - September 2nd

August 27, 1993 - Compaq Introduces the Presario line of personal computers.
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/index.php?seldate=8,27,1993

August 28th, 1991 - The first email from space is sent
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/index.php?seldate=8,28,1991

September 1st 1994 - The library of Congress Announces the Virtual Library Project
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/index.php?seldate=9,1,1994

News
Hi, I'm a Mac, and I'm Jerry Seinfeld - Launching the "Windows Not Walls" campaign?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121928939429159525.html?mod=hpp_us_whats_news
Mary Jo has some thoughts about it: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1548

Mike isn't part of the major Twitter Demographics
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1834131,00.html
Gen X? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen_x

Newegg tells the state of New York to go suck one (en egg, that is).
http://techdirt.com/articles/20080822/1715502071.shtml

Podcast Promo

Space Casey by Christiana Ellis
http://www.spacecasey.com/

Also available on Podiobooks
http://www.podiobooks.com/title/space-casey

Mike's Segment
A Tip - Isolated FTP Server
The base share should be named the same as the domain that the user accounts belong to. If the accounts only exist on the local machine, then the folder name should be "localhost". Under those, place the user named folders.

Otherwise you'll get:
"530 User %username% cannot log in, home directory inaccessible."
"Login Failed"

File Server Migration Wizard
http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/49595/how-do-i-use-the-microsoft-file-server-migration-toolkit-fsmt.html
Uses


Art's Segment
Encrypting your USB thumb drive with TrueCrypt and installing PortableApps
http://www.twoguystech.com/blog/art/setting-portableapps-and-truecrypt-y...

 

Art's picture

Setting up PortableApps and TrueCrypt on your USB drive: Part One - Preparation

EDIT 8/23/08: After further testing, it looks like formatting your USB thumb drive with NTFS introduces a significant performance hit. Your drive will become very slow if you do this, so I apologize that I did not thoroughly test this before I wrote this post.

So, please skip the entire first portion of this post, Format With NTFS, and start with the second portion, Giving Your USB Drive A Drive Letter.

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