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Two Guys Tech Podcast Show 054 - Art's Feeling Generous

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Apr 29, 2009 Show 054 - Art's Feeling Generous

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 .

Fake Commercial
RedShirt Professional Union - Thanks to SciFi Surplus

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
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