• My last show.
• Got clearance from the purchasing department to buy a new phone.
• 'Rebooting' portions of my online identity.
• Giving up Facebook.
  

• Spent the day working on Drupal site. Not sure if I have made any progress
  

• FCKeditor isn't working
• Can't upload Podcasts
• Can't edit theme
  
• looks like permission problems

• Trying to do some python scripting.
• Had a great time at Mike's house this weekend.
• Up to my ears in noodles.
  
  

•     Acquired a new server.
•     Solved my Skype audio problems on Linux.

•  Re-posting all podcast on Amateur Skeptics
•  The Printer still survived crashed
•  The Car is getting totaled
  

March 17 2010.

Art "Hungry Like The Wolf" Hollingsworth, Mike "Radar Love" Scott, Mike "Simply Irresistible" Taylor

Mike T, 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.

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This week we'll be talking about an article on gawker which talks about the delusions of Google's leaders.

What's Going on?

Art — Still messing around with jabber.

Mike T -

- Setup a pfSense IPSec VPN.

- Work... Converting a VB6 application to C# 4.0.

Mike S -

- Kegged my first beer!

- Bottled my Stout, it came out to 6.8% ABV.

Computer History

March 17 1988 - Apple sues Microsoft for copyright infringement.
March 22 1993 — Intel begins shipping the Pentium chip.

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

Fake Commercial
Longshot and Gamble - Thanks to SciFi Surplus.com

New and Interesting
- Portal 2 Confirmed - Mike S
- Hurt Locker wasn't that good. - Mike S.
- Really? Naked girls reading? - Mike S.

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo

- The Amber Treasure - Podiobooks - Author's Website

- Untrue Tales Book 1 - Podiobooks - Author's Website

The Segmentish Type Thing
6 delusions of Google's Arrogant Leaders

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 

Show 088
January 27 2010

Hi, I'm Mike "Hannibal" Scott, and my co-hosts today are Bryan "Howling Mad " Hineser and Art "Faceman" Hollingsworth.

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

• Spent the day at the zoo, shopping, and eating.
• Playing with Reaper and Virtual Audio Cables to route audio all over the place.
• Colts going to the superbowl!
  

Mike 

• Celebrated my youngest son's birthday.
• Looking for kegging equipment
  

Bryan

• Working on websites
  
• Got a mixing board and new mic
  

Computer History
January 30 1925 – Douglas Engelbart is born.

February 1 1991 – Sun Microsystems starts Java Technology.

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

Fake Commercial
Xandus Commemorotavie Plate - Thanks to SciFi Surplus!

New and Interesting

- Casey's rendition of one of the 100 geek quotes - Thanks Casey!

-Must-see: Steve Ballmer spotted autographing Apple’s MacBook – and enjoying it- Bryan

- Quarter Share will be available in Book form! (link)- Mike

- IPv4 Free Pool Drops Below 10%, 1.0.0.0/8 Allocated- Bryan

- How to get free Linux Tech Support - Mike

- An updated Google Voice extensions lets you make calls directly in Chrome - Bryan

- NASA Twitter accounts. @NASA_Astronauts and others. - Art

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
Axiom Man - Podiobooks - Author's website

Dark Age - Podiobooks - Author's Website

VPN update - Bryan

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

• Wish I saw Avatar!

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

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

• Getting Ready for Christmas
  

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo

Galactic Projection Clock

Sky Watcher 8 Inch Dobsonian Telescope S11700

Star Trek Phasers

Sheeva Plug

Giant Swiss Army Knife

The 12 Days of Zombie Christmas - Mike

Blizzard has an account for Diablo and Starcraft on Twitter - Mike

Scott Sigler may be coming to Denver again - Bryan

Two circulating beams bring first collisions in the LHC - Bryan

Black Friday 2009 - Bryan

New Evidence of Life On Mars - Art

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
7th Son Descent Reboot - J.C. Hutchins
The Round Red Stone - Jeff Burton

The Segmentish Type Thing
Top 6 apps you need to do your job


Mike:
- The command prompt
- Microsoft Management Console
- a Internet browser
- Outlook
- RDP / Terminal Services Client
- OneNote

Bryan:
- Xterm or Terminal
- RDP
- ThinkAnywhere Client
- ThunderBird
- VirtualBox with XP VM
- POS Client

Art:
- TrueCrypt
- Firefox
- Virtualbox
- PortableApps
- Thunderbird
- eGroupware

• Bought processor and power supply for new machine today. Hopefully they're good.
• Avatar looks good. As does Planet 51.
  

• Configuring a new Sonicwall Firewall
• Need to research a new PCI Express Video card for my wife, and get some RAM for my machine.
• L4D2 System Requirements
  

October 28, 1955 - Bill Gates, cofounder and CEO of Microsoft Corporation, was born

October 28, 1937 - Microprocessor Co-Inventor Hoff is Born

November 1, 2009 - Software Glitch Halts Tokyo Stock Exchange

November 2, 1815 - Logician Boole is Born

LSE drops Windows for Linux - Bryan

New Rocket, but Future of Program Is Unclear - Bryan

LawCrunch: Some (More) Ideas On Why Nokia Sued Apple - Bryan

Windows 7 Wopper available in Japan for a limited time! - Mike

• Desktop

• Web Server
• Database server
• Email Server
• Network Monitor
• Business Software
• Art Software
• Video Software
• Audio Software
• Animation Software

- Strange Dwarf Planet Has Red Spot - (Bryan)

- How to build a Hackintosh Leopard SP1 (SnowLeopard), Start to Finish - (Bryan)

- Installing Leopard SP1 on you Hackintosk PC, No hacking Required - (Bryan)

- Bank has Gmail user's account shut down. - (Art)

- Judge orders Google to deactivate user’s Gmail account, but wait, there’s more… - (Bryan)

- Left 4 Dead 2 Boycott? Game should be released November 17th. (Mike)

- Someone got some help with How to find out who has files open in Server 2008

- Do our users want Forums?

The Future of NASA (Bryan)

- Satan and the Lord Movie Reviews Podcast

- Heroic Pose Podcast

The Segmentish Type Thing

- Skype for Asterisk Debuts  (Bryan)

Skype Trojan Can Log VoIP Conversations

Virtual Desktop on Windows:

VirtuaWin

Microsoft Powertoys

Windows Sysinternals Desktop v1.0

MultiDesk

IBS -Courtesy of our friends at SciFi Surplus.com

The iPhone Gets Easier to Dislike - Bryan

Google Helps Military members with priority Google Voice Accounts - TechRepublic - Mike

GMail Flaw Show the Value of strong passwords - PCTipsBox - Mike

Enable QuickLaunch in Windows 7 - PaulSpoerry.com - Mike

Add on Campaigns for Left 4 Dead - Back to School was my favorite, Night Terror was pretty good too, and I also liked Black City, except for a bug in the final map. There are many, many others at l4dMaps.

Podio Books

Adobe users face week of exploit angst - Bryan

Winer Responds to Podcasting Patent - Bryan

Suse Studio hit 1.0. - Art

Down from ten

Qattus

Brains matter podcast

German Web Censorship Law Passed

Google Voice

Untangle Dedicated Server

Supernatural Existence

Surprise: You can’t change your wallpaper in Starter Edition

Lightning strike brings down Amazon's cloud.

Google to map hiking trails

The Plitone Revisionist

Star Keeper

Intel cajoles Microsoft to limit netbook screen size

Those who do get a Linux-based netbook are four times more likely to return it to the store than those who get a device running Windows.

I think the return rate for the Eee PCs are low but I believe the Linux and Windows have similar return rates.

I enjoy listening to your show, and I appreciate your concern, but sanity is overrated and should only be taken in moderation :)

Besides that, there can be a lot of benefits to speeding up podcasts.

After hearing this episode, I wrote an article on my own blog about getting a little more out of podcasts by speeding them up:

Faster... for your listening pleasure

I usually listen to all of the podcasts I subscribe to at 60% more than normal speed.

• Matrix
• Hick Trek
• Hackers
• Star Wars (Of Course)
• Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
  
• Serenity
• Anything Monty Python
• Gattica
• Transformers
• Back to the Future
• Office Space
• Independence Day
• Alien Movies
• Tron
  

• Windows Backup
• DeltaCopy
• SyncBack 
• Cobian Backup 
• DriveImage XML 
• Jungle Disk - Online from Amazon
  

• BackupPC
  

• Backup Servers vs Agents
• Disk to tape
• disk to disk
• disk to disk to tape.
  

1. Skype!
2. Begging for promos.
3. Up to my bumper.
   

1. Powershell Part 3
2. The Old Switcheroo
3. Saving Apple From Certain Doom
4. Whut?
   

Alternate Titles

It takes a lot of bits for More Echoes?

Google-Life Second-Google Furniture on the island

Stone Age Braveheart

I talked to one of the eggheads

I meant eggheads in the nicest of terms

My servers get thrashed.

The hard drive light never shut off.

Show Notes

We’ve had some new posts on the site this week:

Digital 3d Movies
Some Live Mesh Posts
Microsoft Hyper-V (My Friday Links Post)
Ubisoft steals Anti-DRM Crack

The Week in History:

- July 21st, 1975 - Xerox withdraws from the Computer Market (On Monday)
- July 22nd, 1997 - Apple Announces OS 8 (On Tuesday)
- July 23rd, 1930 - The writer of the first FORTRAN text book, Daniel McCracken was born. (On Wednesday)
- July 25th, 1990 - Microsoft's Revenues exceed $1 Billion. (On Friday)

Tech News

Google Launches Google Lively

Google's 3D World
Official Announcement
Google fends off adult rooms
Google lively installs Google updater, and then runs 3 instances of it?

E3 was last week
Microsoft announced a major update to the XBox 360 Dashboard.
With some tools coming up, anyone will be able to make a game and run it on a Xbox.

Netflix on the XBox 360
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Talks about the XBbox 360 Netflix Player
You need a XBox Gold Membership which is $50 a year.

Evidently, you can already stream it to a player if you have Vista home premium or ultimate, with some freeware.
Here's the guide on LifeHacker
It looks like the plugin is for Media center, so in theory it should work on my popcorn hour, I think.

Mike's Topic
Scifi Surplus is a great podcast!
High production quality, neat segments, really good banter. Highly Recommended.
I heard about Can’t stop the Serenity, and was really bummed out that I missed the local showing. I’ll have to make sure I go next year. All the proceeds go to a worthy cause.

Listening to Jack Palms 3 (Podiobooks) by Seth Harwood

Art's Topic
GPSVisualizer

The Techie Geek pointed out the Levelator in a recent post. Can’t wait to try it out.

Art liked Drillbit Taylor, and Vantage Point, but not 10,000 BC.

Mike Loves Digital 3D and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Brief discussion about how it works.

This day in Computer History
July 15th, 1928 - The Enigma Machine encodes it's first message.
July 16th, 1951 - Dan Bricklin, inventor of Visicalc, the first spreadsheet program, was born.
July 18th, 1968 - Intel was founded.

News

Mike was on the Techie Geek, episode 15. You should give his show a listen.

We are now in the TechPodcasts.com Directory, you can find us on iTunes, and if Podcast pickle ever gets around to us, we'll be there too.

Yahoo rejects another offer, this time from Microsoft and Carl Icahn
Cnet
(Thanks to Steve Wilson for the link )

Yahoo let's you Build Your Own Search Service (BOSS)
http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/
(Seen on ReadWriteWeb )

3G iPhone came out
Here's a review, and another.

Microsoft Update breaks Internet connections with Zone Alarm
Microsoft KB

WSUS Patch may not have fixed anything. The patch has to be installed manually if you're using WSUS 3.0 SP1 on Server 2008
ComputerWorld

Death of the newsgroups
CNET, ArsTechnica

CAPTCHA - Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart
ComputerWorld

XBox Price Drop - While Supplies Last
ITWorld

My policy towards changing a story

Show 13 for July 2nd, 2008

Mike made a silly video of his rats, some discussion about Bill Gates leaving Microsoft. Mike explains why he disagrees with at least part of Art’s post.

Mike thinks that Microsoft has changed a lot over the last couple of years, and points out Channel 9, and Port25. Also, TechNet Live events are the best!

ICANN is making some changes to top level domain (TLD) availability, allowing people top buy their own TLD. Also, they are thinking about charging some form of a fee for returning a domain in the grace period to stop domain tasting. Read all about it here.

Mike and Art kick around some ideas for a series of articles, and reminisce about a couple of regular features that aren’t regular features anymore.

Mike and Art are giving some thought to testing out talkshoe, or even ustream, while we are recording our podcast. If you have any thoughts, let us know. If we do decide to do something like that, we’ll post about it before we do.

Tags:

BillGates Movies ICANN TLD Domains DomainTasting Tips Tricks Help Howto Tech Podcast

Easily removable bushing

Save it for the Show

Teaser

Show Date June 17th, 2008

Bandwidth provided by Mevio (Formerly Podshow)

We've got iPhone News, talk about DIYPlanner, and other various sundry topics.

Show Notes

Show Date June 17th, 2008

Mike received a manly / geeky father's day present, that's right, he's got a Dremel. Look out!

The 3G iPhone is here! Gizmodo has a great FAQ, as well as a "real price" comparison based upon what you would pay after 2 years with the old iPhone, and with the new iPhone. Guess what? 3G is cheaper.

Mike Loves the Fujitsu Tablet, and he loves Vista's tablet features. Offline File Folders work so much better than in XP.

Coming out on DVD, welcome home Be Kind Rewind (Yay!), so does Roscoe Jenkins!

Netflix has a streaming set top movie player.

Mike mentioned that he prints everything off for his planner, and wants to say how great DIY Planner is. They have free printable organizer templates.

Podshow is not Mevio, looks like they are going in some new commercial direction.

Art mentions a computer problem that he's having, don't fear, after the podcast was recorder, Art found a solution.

Show 010 for June 11th, 2008

You can find us at Two Guys Tech.com, and at our Podshow Page. A big thank you to Podshow for hosting our podcast files.

Other Possible Titles

• Double Digit Midget
• (Un)Perfect 10
• TGT-X
• Computer Wary
• Computer Weary
• Just go to my blog
• Did her head explode?
• The frog won't do anything

Tech News

Amazon goes down a couple of times. Could it have been a DDOS attack?

Check out Microsoft Group Shot, it can merge two group pictures into one. Looks really handy if you have your eyes closed in one of them.

We talked a little bit about this funny pothole pictures post, but you have to see this GI-Joe post.

Microsoft Launches Office Live Workspace. Looks like collaboration for Microsoft Office, like Google Docs offers.

Mike's got a new camera, and loves it. Now, if he could just get his wife to review it.

Mike talks about some online personal productivity tools, Stikkit, Remember the Milk, I Want Sandy, and Jott.

Art uses the Lightning Extension in Thunderbird, and loves finding public calendars on iCalShare.

Mike finally got to watch Cloverfield, Art watched The Eye with Jessica Alba

Here's the Warner Brothers singing frog, the famous chest bursting scene was spoofed in Spaceballs. We also talk about the Rock's character in Be Cool. Here's one clip of the Rock in it, and another clip that has a bit of his video in it.

Tags

Amazon Outages DDOS Microsoft GroupShot Live OfficeLive Google GoogleDocs Mesh Thunderbird GoogleCalendar Funny rockets Movies JessicaAlba SingingFrog

Alternate Titles

Art can't catch a break

The Bad Bush Joke

Didn't we already use that for a title?

Art's Lamentations

Blow By

I meant to hit Mute

Exert some self control

Those numbers are a little skewed

Hooked in there

She's probably getting sick of it

I wish they would call me

Somebody that matters

We made a reference to the wonderful show "Car Talk" on NPR. Give it a listen if you have the time, the hosts are very funny.

Big fire in a Texas Data Center drops 9000 servers, reports Texas Startup Blog, and Slashdot.

Mike liked Fantastic Four, rise of the Silver Surfer.

Microsoft Urges Windows Users to Shun Safari

Mike was wrong about the backdoor in the Compiler. What actually happened was that Ken Thompson demonstrated how it could be done. You can read a little about it here, and Ken Thompson talks about it in his Turing Award Lecture. Mike is going to have to find some examples of Unix / Linux Vulnerabilities.

Track Mania Nations is free on Steam!

LEGO Indiana Jones comes out on June 3rd. So by the time you see this, you should have already bought it. If it's half as good as the Lego StarWars then it's gonna be worth it.

New Civilization game coming out. Official Site, it will be available for the Playstation 3, Nintendo DS, and XBox 360 on July 8.

Mike's topic was a bit lame, but he wanted to give a resounding recommendation for the TWIT podcast Network. Mike's favorite shows are This Week in Tech, and Security Now with Steve Gibson, Windows Weekly with Paul Thurrott, and now you can watch the shows recorded live on Twit Live.

Alternate Titles

It's a stationary craft.

There's a forest on Mars.

You've got to pay for some protection here.

Show Notes:

Happy Belated Memorial day everyone! Big thanks go out to the Men and Women who are out there serving our country.

Come visit us at Two Guys Tech. We're still looking for feedback, send email to feedback AT twoguystech.com.

The Phoenix has landed! The landing was broadcast live, Art watched it, but Mike missed it. You can find the Phoenix lander here at NASA, as well as a picture of the Phoenix as captured by the Mars Orbiter.

Billy Bob Thornton wasn't in Mission to Mars or in Red Planet.

Mike launched real rockets this weekend! Well Estes Rockets. Now available at Target.

Art is still having car problems.

Check out the library for Automotive information. The Colorado Local libraries have a wealth of free information online.

Free podcast hosting at The Internet Archive! Lots of other great stuff, including the way back machine.

Mike's horrific old Web Site. The Internet archive didn't delete it's copy of it, Mike forgot the URL. Here's what they have.

Find old versions of software at Old Version. Mike is really glad that Art mentioned it, now I can delete Gigabytes of saved downloads off of his hard drive.

AVG Free edition won't be available after the end of the week - Or is it? If it isn't, try Avast! It's free for home use.

Problem with Team Fortress 2 crashing with an error, not enough OS memory? Check out the URL, it could be because of AVG or Symantec..

Art likes Spirited Away. It's pretty trippy, and Art thinks kids would like it. Don't trust Netflix's age specific recommendations. Mike started watching a movie rated for 5 to 7 year olds, which ended up being a PG-13 movie. Lemony Snicket's was pretty good. The subtitling of the baby was a really good touch.

Tags:

Mars Lander Anti-Virus InternetArchive

Show Notes

Thanks to Podshow for hosting our files! You can find our show's site on Podshow, at 2GuysTech.Podshow.com . You can send feedback to feedback AT twoguystech.com. Let us know what you think. Sorry for missing last week's episode. Technical and scheduling difficulties prevented us from recording it.

Art fixed the web site! Yay! He found work! Yay! His car is acting up! Boo!

Mike just got 7Mb DSL, now they want to bump him up to 12Mb! Sign me up!

Tech News

A little talk about the Yahoo Microsoft Non-Deal, it may be a deal now after all .

Data has been recovered from a hard drive that was on the Space Shuttle Columbia .

Mike talks a little more about Mesh . Mike doesn't think that Microsoft would have thought that Mesh is perfect for synching Portable Apps across machines.

Mike shows that he isn't that up to date on the new Digital TV conversion. It turns out Mike is right though. From DTV.Gov :

Digital broadcast television includes Standard Definition (SD) and High Definition (HD) formats.

Art talks about his Parted Magic , Mike discusses some Free development Tools with Visual Studio Express .

Come visit us at Two Guys Tech .

Show number 6 for May 8th, 2008 (or maybe May 7th, if Mike can crank it out in one night).

Art talks about a great tool for recovering a deleted partition, and Mike talks about some programs that you can use to download fine podcasts.

Thanks for downloading and listening to the podcast, and thanks to Podshow for hosting our files! You can find our podshow site at 2guystech.podshow.com

Alternate Titles -

Hooray for Abacus Day!

Abaci in your eye

Abacus vs the Slide Ruler death match!

Opportunity Cost

Drums all the way around

Art the Wanderer

Who is M.A.S.K.?

Big Dummy Head

It's nothing like UAC

Clean the peanut butter off of it

Critical Ammo

Whatcha gonna do?

We've received our first piece of feedback! Not only that, but it was positive! Yippee! Don't be left out, you can send your feedback to feedback AT twoguystech.com

The Web Site is still broken, but it's getting closer!

Some Tech news we discuss

Microsoft walks away from Yahoo! deal

Yahoo! shares fall nearly 17%

May 10th is National Abacus day in Japan

Iron Man Movie Ticket Sales - $100.8 Million in the first weekend

Grand Theft Auto Sales - Cost $100 Million to make, projected to make $400 Million in it's first week.

Stuff in Tech History

First BASIC program run on May 1, 1964 - The article doesn't mention what the program was. Mike thinks it was "Hello World".

Network General was founded on May 13th 1986 - Have you heard of a Network Sniffer? They made the original.

Other Stuff

MASK was an animated series that Mike evidently never say. Evidently it was a mix between GI-Joe and Transformers. VENOM was the name of the bad guy's organization.

Lego Star Wars is available for just about every platform.

Lego Indiana Jones is now available for pre-order for almost every platform.

Great Shirts over at 80s Tees.com

Mike relates some half baked story about the Apollo Guidance System.

Mike's been playing with Kubuntu, so far so good. Makes a Joke about UAC that no one else would get.

Team fortress 2 has a new update, lots of stuff for medics, and a reduced price! Only $19.99.

Art's Tip

Use Testdisk to recover a deleted partition.

Mike's Tip

If you email Mike, mike answers! This show's question was from Keith in Spokane.

Podcasts are generally just MP3 files, so no matter what you use to download them, you can just copy it over to any MP3 player that you have.

You can use iTunes to download them, or even Winamp. Mike has had some success with Doppler too.

Alternate Titles for Today's Show

That Bridge is a Slaughterfest

The Blending is imminent.

Art formatted his machine, Mike confesses to being a reformed reload-aholic. We chit chat a little about disk imaging, Team Fortress Two, Mesh, Ubuntu's new release, Kubuntu, and compression utilities including 7-Zip.

As always, you can reach us at Two Guys Tech.

Yahoo no Deal - Will Microsoft go Hostile, or just walk away?

Status report on Art's sister's Kubuntu conversion.

Unlike Leo Laporte and Kevin Rose, Mike thinks Microsoft Mesh looks really cool.

Kubuntu 8.04 released yesterday (4/24) with the nifty new Wubi installer. Art gives a great overview of the new release, and how to install it with the Wubi installer.
Mike talks about file compression, Winzip, the free 7zip, and NTFS compression.

We talk a little bit about Syncback and File Hamster.

Other ideas for show titles:

Planet Google

PATA cake PATA cake SATA man.

Tough interview questions.

Let us know what you think so far. Send any feedback to feedback AT twoguystech.com.

Mike and Art talk about some great DNS services that are free, Hard drive Specs, upcoming movie releases, and some Tech news.

Mike's going to try and figure out his UAC warning problem, without actually disabling the Windows Security Center.

Art put Kubuntu on his sister's computer. Bye bye spyware.

Mike finally received his Popcorn Hour!

Couple of items from this week in history.

April 25 1961 Robert Noyce awarded the patent for the "integrated circuit".

April 24th, 1981 - The Apple IIc was introduced.

New Movie Tuesday on the 22nd.

Yea! Cloverfield is out!

So is Charlie Wilson's War, but Mike doesn't care.

One Missed Call - Sure looks like it might be scary, but we haven't heard anything about it.

Tech News

Yahoo April 26th Deadline is 1 week away. 3 Days left!
The end of the Internet is near, according to AT&T.

Art's tips / web sites

There's a new Google Earth!

OpenDNS and DNS-O-Matic. Get faster DNS performance, and block lots of really bad sites, for free!

Mike's topic.

What is PATA / Hard Drive statistics

Here's something that I wrote, What is ESATA?

Seagate Spec Sheet

Tom's Hardware Hard Drive Benchmarks

Come visit us at http://twoguystech.com

You can find us at Two Guys Tech.com . Send your feedback to feedback at two guys tech.com.
We're recording this podcast at a different bitrate, so let us know how it sounds.

Some corrections from the last podcast.

1. 1. Art uses DriveIMage XML to image his hard drive, not ImgDrive
2. The last show, you could only hear Art's voice in one channel. That was completely Mike's fault. It won't happen again. Well, it might, but it'll be by accident again.
3. April 15th was tax day. Hope you made it.
4. Yahoo April 26th Deadline is 1 week away. 10 Days left!

Art's tip tutorial product

Give away of the day.com - Some great free stuff, but only for the day that it is announced.

Mike's tip tutorial product

Turning off UAC in Vista. Well, technically this is working around it, rather than turning it off.

Over at Teckh, Brandon Boyce posted a new and interesting way to work around UAC in Vista , which involves killing explorer and then restarting it as a Administrative process. I thought it was pretty neat. Personally, my favorite workaround for UAC is to change a local security policy.

Note: I don't think UAC is that bad, except for Admin and power users. The average user won't be bothered much by it. Anyway, here's my workaround.

• Start > Control Panel > Make sure Classic View is selected > Administrative Tools > Local Security Policy

• Expand Local Policies then click on Security Options
• Near the bottom you'll find options that start with "User Account Control" Find the one that reads "User Account Control: Behaviour of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode".
• Double Click on it, and change the selection to "Elevate without prompting".
• Click on OK, then close all of the Windows.
• Note: As long as your computer is a local Administrators group, this should do it.

Surprise Problem question - A new segment that I dropped on Art

What is virtual memory and why do we need it.

Even though I'm still going to do a tutorial on it, we talk about Virtual Memory, and the difference between Memory (RAM) and Storage (Hard Drive). This might answer your question Kellypea . (Starts somewhere around 23 minutes into the podcast).

We also discussed this problem that a user was having with a missing or corrupt ntoskrnl.exe. You can find that post here at Tech Guy.org .

Yahoo is looking to buy AOL - Reports ZDNet

David Cross from Microsoft admitted it . UAC is meant to annoy users .

Repair install question - According to Wiki Answers , the Windows XP repair install checks the windows files, and replaces them if they are corrupt. Also checks out the registry.

Who bought Go back? Go back has it's own Wikipedia entry! Go back was originally made by Wildfire, who was bought by Adaptec, spun off of Adaptec when Roxio was created, then finally sold to Symantec in April 2003.

We talk about the movie Shoot 'Em Up , Children of Men , the book " Make Room! Make Room! " and the movie " Soylent Green "

We at Two Guys Tech would like to apologize to Charlton Heston, a fine actor that we shouldn't make petty jokes about. We're really sorry.

Chris Pirillo never came by to comment. Darn it. Now I have to call Snopes , the Pirillo effect must be a urban legend.