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[Keith] Welcome to A Couple Of Admins Podcasting. I'm Keith Albright

[Rich] and I'm Rich Niemeier.

[Steve] and I'm Steve Murawski.

[Keith] This is Episode 30 recorded on December 18th, 2007.

Chit-Chat - What's going on with you?

[Steve]

[Rich]

  • My favorite podcast officially ends. Thanks Kevin Devin and George Starcher

[Keith]

Housekeeping Items

[Rich]

[Steve]

  • MoreAllLess? - Sorry I missed you in the chat room, I was out of the office for a bit. Thanks for stopping by, it looks like I missed an interesting conversation.

[Keith]

  • Blog and wiki SPAM - all comments moderated.
  • Picture

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Things you wish they made that you wish you found in your Christmas stocking:

KEITH

  • Apple iPod Touch with 160GB hard drive
-Why not? I don't care if it is a little fatter, make it capable of holding my whole collection. Especially video with that screen!
-I talked about this before. I see this converging. I want it to converge now though.
  • Portable USB/Firewire HDD enclosure w/RAID
-Small enclosure with two 2.5"HDD in RAID 1. By their portable nature, these things take abuse. This would give you some peace of mind.

RICH

  • I want a cell phone that fits in my hand nicely but I still find useful to browse the internet with. Maybe projecting images against a flat service or something. It would also be great if it could communicate with and be my source of credit payment.

STEVE

  • IP TV
-Everything on demand, anywhere you can get broadband internet. I really want to be able to watch what I want, when, and where I want on any device I choose.

Things you can buy now that you wish you found in your Chrismas stocking:

KEITH

  • iMac 23"
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  • Firewire to IDE Cable/converter
-Need this to get an external burner working for the iBooks.

RICH

  • XO Laptop
-Is this a surprise?
- Link:http://www.menshealth.com/techguide/computers_peripherals/XO_Laptop.html
  • New Digital SLR Camera, I like Nikon but would like to read consumer reports fist to the pro and cons.
  • Digital Picture Frame. One that can accept various types of media cards.

STEVE

-I would love to have a Mac, I just don't want to spend the money
  • Technet Subscription
-I love the access to additional software and licenses

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  • Cisco opening up IOS [STEVE]

By Jim Duffy, Network World, 12/12/07

-"Cisco's plan to open up its venerable IOS routing software to customers and third-party developers is a bold move designed to further the company's push to make the network the epicenter of the virtual data center."
-I'm eager to see what they do, but there is no timeline published.
-Could this mean PowerShell Cmdlets to manage IOS? :)
-Link: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/121207-cisco-ios.html
December 13, 2007 12:48 PM PST
Posted by Ina Fried '''
-Not to Microsoft Bash - But this is a fact
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-Link: http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9833623-56.html?tag=nefd.pulse
-Open Source ticketing system written in ASP.NET and C#
-Allows for creation of tickets via email (required for me), web, and there is a limited API for third party integration.
-Cool add-on screen-shot program
-MS SQL backend, so it's familiar territory for me.
-Customizable via CSS and some configuration options.
-Link: http://www.ifdefined.com/bugtrackernet.html
  • '''Police Blotter: Can Circuit City techs legally peruse files?

After retailer allegedly discovers contraband on man's PC, he asks judges to say results of search can't be used as evidence.''' [RICH]

By Declan McCullagh?
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Published: December 14, 2007, 4:48 AM PST'''
- Bad for criminals, Good or bad for IT?
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-Link: http://www.news.com/Police-Blotter-Can-Circuit-City-techs-legally-peruse-files/2100-7348_3-6222794.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
  • Mini-rant [STEVE]
-I agreed to a attend a webinar on a product that I had some interest in last Thursday. The webinar was to be today. Between Thursday afternoon and today, I received no fewer than 10 emails, including five reminders, about the webcast.
-They sent me an appointment. That should be enough, plus at least five other marketing emails toward a product that I was going to be seeing an advertisement for was excessive. Are they trying to drive away customers?
-I've attended other product demos via webcasts, and they have not been so annoying, and most don't even email me anymore, if I decided to go with another product.
-By David Meyer, ZDNet? (UK)
-Published on ZDNet? News: Dec 17, 2007 8:18:00 AM
-WOW
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-Link: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6223102.html

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Listener Feedback

From listener....Mr. B4D? from Kenosha, Wisconsin who posted a pin on the Frappr map.

From Listener Paul Sylvester Hey guys, 

  Just wanted to let you know I've tried adding to my contact list the skype name:

a.couple.of.admins.podcasting

and it comes back it doesn't exist. it does however can call it. if it isn't able to add as a contact list you should make a link on your website using the skypeme link. :a.couple.of.admins.podcasting

If you have skype installed(you should if you were going to leave a message) it will automatically launch skype and call the number!! Just thought you would like to know!!

Paul Sylvester

P.s. You might want to add a personal message to the skype voice mail, it would help users feel they used the right skype name!!

Website Picks

Rich - http://www.jibjab.com/

Steve - http://www.codeplex.com/PowerShellCX

Keith - http://www.foundstone.com/us/resources-free-tools.asp

Last Call

Anyone....Anyone....Buehler.....Buehler....

Closing

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