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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 31 recorded on December 26th, 2007. While the other podcasters are slacking off over the holidays, we're hard at work in the studio.
First off; how was everyone's holiday? Rich - how did the festivities go at your house?
Chit-Chat - What's going on with you?
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Housekeeping Items
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- Christmas was kind [RICH]
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- Apple Forces Shutdown Of Think Secret Web Site [STEVE]
-"Apple sued Ciarelli, who was 19 years old at the time and a Harvard undergraduate, after he revealed details about the Mac Mini computer and other Apple products"
-"Apple accused Ciarelli, who was also an editor at the Harvard Crimson, of "inducing" company employees to break their confidentiality agreements with the company by disclosing trade secrets."
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- Microsoft Opens Workgroup protocols [KEITH]
- The agreement will "allow Samba to create, use and distribute implementations of all the protocols" to allow so- called workgroup servers to connect with Windows, Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft said in a statement Thursday.
-SAMBA team pays one-time license fee for 10,000 Euros
-Mandated disclosure following a 2004 European Union Ruling
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PolyMon is an open source system monitoring solution that can be used to generate email alerts and analyze historical trends of monitor counters and monitor statuses. It is based on the .NET 2.0 framework and SQL Server 2005.
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- Is your kid a l33t haxor? [KEITH]
-From 2001 and I'm not sure if it is intended as humor or real. But, either way, I got a kick out of it.
-Some quotes
-"Most American families use trusted and responsible Internet Service Providers, such as AOL"
-"A few titles to be on the lookout for are: "Snow Crash" and "Cryptonomicon" by Neal Stephenson; "Neuromancer" by William Gibson; "Programming with Perl" by Timothy O'Reilly; "Geeks" by Jon Katz; "The Hacker Crackdown" by Bruce Sterling; "Microserfs" by Douglas Coupland; "Hackers" by Steven Levy; and "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" by Eric S. Raymond."
-"Quake is an online virtual reality used by hackers." Wow. Second Life would make this guys head explode
-"They may also be used to break into people's stereos to steal their music, using the "mp3" program."
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YouTube? video of Leo Laporte covering this on an episode of The Screen Savers
-There are a number of debates on the web as to whether
PowerShell is a scripting language or a shell.
-It is both. Similar to Bash, the Korn shell, and other Unix style shells, even Windows cmd.exe. While PS has some features that make it great for scripting, it is a replacement for cmd.exe. Most (if not all) of your command line tools (including all the fun stuff from Sysinternals) works from the
PowerShell prompt.
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PowerShell shell history allows you to pull your recent commands and create a script easily.
-get-history | % {add-content -Path .\yourscriptname.ps1 $_.commandline}; notepad yourscriptname.ps1
- AT&T still has default setup for WIFI set to use WEP [RICH]
-I was working with my wife's Aunt as she got high speed internet setup.
-Sheasked me to have a look at the setup of her WIFI as she lives near a WIFI hotspot.
-AT&T's setup directions had her setting up her AP using WEP even though the AP supported WPA and
WPA2?
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-Final release not expected until sometime in first half of 2008...meaning could be as late as June.
-Approx. 336MB but expected to be around 70MB in final release
-Loaded on my system to test. Results?
-On first reboot, it was slow and I had a DOS window pop up and it scrolled through a bunch of 'Access Denied' messages. Didn't look like my login script, so not sure what it was. No other oddities. I rebooted again and seems pretty zippy.
-I've been a member of LOPSA for a little over a year now (about 16 months). I first joined because I thought $50 per year towards this fledgling organization was a small price, and I liked the idea behind it.
-After joining, I found out that membership has some nice benefits, including discounts on equipment and books.
-I recently re-read the Why Join? page and it really resonated with me, especially after our discussion back on Episode 13 (Ethics).
-LOPSA also has some local chapters starting, including one in my area. I've always had a reason not to go, but I will make it there (it's about an hour and a half drive to the location). Even if there is not a group in your area, there is an online community, including blogs and an IRC channel.
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Listener Feedback
From listener....Jordan from Wasilla Alaska who posted a pin on the Frappr map and noted to "Keep up the good work!"
From Listener....Mr. B4D? who wrote in
Would you ever consider having an "open podcast" on skype were you make a
skypecast and allow listeners to join in and listen or talk? Which i guess would make a live podcast.
MR.B4D?
[KEITH] I have considered this. It takes a bit of planning, which Rich and Steve can attest to me being horrible with. Otherwise, we use Skype, so I don't see why not. I think it would be fun. What do you guys think?
Website Picks
Rich - http://www.onecoldhand.com/
Steve - http://connect.microsoft.com
Keith - http://www.riverfold.com/software/wiitransfer/ Browse your iTunes library from your Wii
Last Call
Anyone....Anyone....Buehler.....Buehler....
Closing
All right, well that is it for the show. For listener feedback; you can email us at Feedback [at] acoupleofadmins.com or post a comment on the main site at ACoupleOfAdmins.com. If you use iTunes, you could write a review. If you just want to show us your listening, drop a pin on the Frappr map...there's a link on the show site.
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