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Dr. Bill Podcast – 66 – (12/09/06)
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We have “computery things” to do this week! TWO Geek Culture entries this week! Wow! Net Neutrality and the forces at work to destroy the vast wasteland that is the Internet! A RETRO Internet! A RETRO filmstrip-style video… watch it here:

The Internet of Tomorrow

Weird video of a guy called “The Computer Man” that is selling Mac tech over PC tech… made over 10 years ago. He told his boss that if it made the front page of Digg he would eat his milkman hat that he wears in the video. Check out the video here:

“The Computer Man” Video

MS-Paint as a web application. Amazing web version that is almost “pixel-perfect” in it’s replication of look and feel of the RETRO paint software! Christopher Clay used HTML, CSS, and Javascript to write this. An e-mail to the Doctor asking for a higher end version of MS-Paint. Richard wants to know if there is something that is like Paint but has better features… and of course, yes, there is! It is called Paint.NET! Check out Paint.NET HERE:

Get Paint.NET

The beta of Version 3.0 of Paint.NET rocks! Microsoft reports a Zero Day exploit of Microsoft Word… and says, get this: “Don’t use Word!” Wow! There are currently NO patches available to fix this! SCO is evil, and their lawsuit against Linux is DYING! Novell may have the last word! Good is triumphing over evil! James Kim and his family and the story of what happened over the past few weeks. They found his body this past week and though his family was rescued, but he didn’t make it. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family. Geek Software of the Week: a-Squared Free to find trojans and worms. Free, excellent, and a great addition to your arsenal against malware! Last item of the week: Microsoft has 6 security bulletins for Patch Tuesday this coming week! There will also be a patch to fix a problem with Visual Studio! Use OpenOffice.org! The Doctor is outta here!

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 65 – (12/02/06)
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Your weekly prescription of tech news and tech goodness! Listen to all the podcasts of the Techpodcasts Network! Lot’s of great e-mails! The “Expedia” “.COMMM!” done for the Doctor! No matter where you get the podcast… you need to visit the Blog! Our Geek Culture for the week… a parody song about Vista being a year late! Me and Vista down by the Schoolyard?? Based on the Paul Simon song, “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard.” “Vees-ta” or “Viss-ta?” Microsofties make up your mind! Baily, Bailee, Bayley… but really it is “Bailey!” Web sales and “Black Friday!” Late Christmas shoppers make the last Saturday before Christmas the biggest shopping day! How to compile the CentOS Linux kernel! The Doctor hints at a secret! What could it have to do with the new release of the Democracy Player? Hummmmmm…. The new version of the Democracy Player uses less RAM and is very cool! Open Source coolness in the Democracy Player and the Broadcast Machine:

Player:
https://www.getdemocracy.com/watch/
Server:
https://www.getdemocracy.com/broadcast/

“Cranky Geeks” and DL.TV and something else?!?! Linux for Christians!?! What Ichthux Linux is… and where to get it. E-Sword.net and a free Windows Bible search tool and Strong’s Concordance, and more! All FREE! On Linux there is Bibletime. The Evil SCO legal case and how it is dying out! Hooray! SCO is a bunch of turkeys! Geek Software of the Week! The Doctor can’t find the GSotW Drumroll! The Doctor will get it together! Wildfire Instant Messaging Server and the Spark IM Client! Recording all the activity from e-mail and IMs… yuukkk! The end of another exciting Dr. Bill Podcast! Write me: DrBill AT TheComputerCurmudgeon.com DOT COMMMMMM! Send your questions!

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 64 – (11/25/06)
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Our Post-Thanksgiving Podcast! Wild and Wooly… and here for your listening pleasure. Better audio this week… and a promo for the Techpodcast Network! The Doctor turns 51… we think. Wikis in the Enterprise. Wikipedia not Wackypedia! Yeeesh! Wikis where I work? We’ll see. Corporate command and control! Are wikis anarchy? And so it begins! FUD as peanut butter! Microsoft fear, uncertainty and doubt about Linux! Seattle is near Redmond (what a revelation!) Microsoft is STOOPID! (Surprise!) What has Steve Ballmer been smokin’? The Microsoft Office Switch o’ Death! Get the excellent OpenOffice.org office suite! M$ verifies a legal copy… what if it fails? (As it has been shown to do on occasion.) Infinite Mario Bros.! A Java based web version of Mario for your pleasure! The Doctor is not a gamer. (But you knew that.) The Geek Software of the Week! A user sent us a drumroll! We’ll add the cymbal later… WAMPserver! What LAMP is, and what WAMP is. A letter with a question from a user… what about the Grisoft AVG 4.1 to 4.5 “upgrade?” Here’s how to do it! “Repairing” is “upgrading.” The Doctor’s recommendation for doing a backup on your systems. Backing up from one system to another, or to a USB or Firewire external hard drive using DeltaCopy. If you are nuked, this won’t help. How important is YOUR data! Thanks to Scott Redmon for the new Christmas header! No Geek Culture this week… except for a little Weird Al and “What About the Pentiums!” The Doctor rocks out of the show!

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 63 – (11/18/06)
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Audio quality is poor this week… I didn’t have my usual mic and headset… sigh! It will be better on the next show! It has been a slightly frustrating program to make… everyone was out to correct me, and I am grumpy! (Just kidding… a little!) Sean writes from Indonesia to correct my grammar… and offer a poem! Sean wins this week’s “Brownie Point!” A famous quote from my Dad! Techpodcast.com Network promos! This is your brain on Linux! Geek Culture video from “We Are the Web.” Here’s the link I promised to the video:

https://wearetheweb.org/videos.html

Notes from the Blog (Dr. Bill – The Computer Curmudgeon, of course!) “Feisty Fawn” Ubuntu report – what’s coming from Ubuntu! NO misquoting Mark Shuttleworth! A tip from the Doctor to Mark… lose the brown! Sun releases Java to Open Source! The “G” in Gnu is silent. More mistakes from the Doctor this week! An “Air Guitar” shirt! Dr. Bill drops a tiny hint about a secret! Microsoft is mega-huge and doesn’t know what some other areas of the company are doing! Info about my family: wife, Belinda, and son, Ben! About Ben’s BBS-based games… wild! Zune in the Microsoft sense. Zune and Vista, not compatible. Geek Software of the Week! Vibe Streamer! You can share your MP3s over your network to other machines via a special web page! Don’t call the RIAA! The MP3s CAN be restricted! Russian Spam! Monty Python fans UNTIE! Speeling misteaks from colleagues! (Misspellings intentional!) Dr. Bill sings the Spam song! Air is air-ish! About botnets and Spam! How to be safe on the Internet:

https://www.drbillbailey.net/safe.html

Let be safe out there! Dr. Bill gets an e-mail! Scott interrupts the Podcast! He sends two redundant e-mails! And… why! Scott doesn’t spam… and his graphics truly rock! Do turkeys really drown in the rain when they look up? Russians dewds… we don’t your spam! 10 minutes, 55 seconds over time! The Doctor is out!

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 62 – (11/12/06)
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The podcast was delayed… and why. The Techpodcasts Network has info about this show and others. The Geek Software of Week: Sandboxie! A weird and lame name, but a cool tool. What a “sandbox” is in “geek terms.” “Sandboxie” comes via the “Security Now!” podcast… that’s where the doctor found out about it. “Netcast,” “podcast,” “broadcast…” which to use?!? An e-mail from Robert. Send us questions! Answering Elio’s question on Spyware Eliminators and Windows “Safe Mode.” Darkmoon straightens me out AGAIN! Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) the problems… maybe some day! Microsoft Office 2007 goes gold… and the Doctor doesn’t care. Office is no longer “lean and fast.” Just use OpenOffice.org. ‘Nuff Said! The universal peace brought by Open Source! IBM’s cool “little kid” Linux commercial. “His name is… Linux.” Microsoft pays Novell “big bucks!” $348 MILLION!?!?! What’s up with that?! Open Source is like air… it is free! Red Hat and others are like selling compressed air in cylinders… they have to add a service. A guy got the “Windows Tax” refund from Dell! Whoa! The server war is over and Linux has won! The definition of “bumfuzzled.” IBM study shows Linux won over Windows on servers. Vista has gone “gold” too! And, again, the Doctor doesn’t care! The podcast is done, so it is no longer late… weird, huh?

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 61 – (11/04/06)
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Coming to you with bells on! This week we bring you lot’s more stuff! Episode number 61! Proud members of the Techpodcasts Network – a promo for the Rootsmart Podcast! Geek Culture, “My Cubicle,” here are the lyrics:

“My Cubicle”
Lyrics by: Morning Sidekick
Performed by: Jym Britton
Parody on “You’re Beautiful” by James Blunt

My job is stupid my day’s a bore,
Inside this office from eight to four
Nothin’ ever happens my life is pretty bland,
Pretending that I’m working, pray I don’t get canned.

My cubicle, my cubicle
It’s one of sixty two
It’s my small space in a crowded place
Just a six-by-six foot booth
And I hate it, that’s the truth

Well, I give a sigh as the boss walks by,
no one ever talks to me or looks me in the eye.
And I really should work but instead I just sit here and surf the Internet.

In my cubicle, my cubicle
It doesn’t have a view.
It’ my small space in a crowded place
I sit in solitude.
And sometimes I sit here nude.

DeltaCopy for Windows – our Geek Software of the Week – an rsync for Windows! OpenBSD 4.0 has been released! Dr. Bill finds a mistake in the Blog! But he fixed it! OpenBDS indeed! Sigh. Windows Media Player 11 is out! The Thanksgiving Blog header provided by Scott Redmon, our Guilford County Webmaster! Microsoft and Novell announce that they are working together to make Linux and Windows work better together. Are Digg.com users mostly liberal? Dr. Bill tries an experiment on Digg! Get out an vote on Tuesday!

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 60 – (10/28/06)
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Dr. Bill’s Podcast Number 60! Props to Alfredo Romo, who wrote the pod production software we use- PodProducer! Available at: https://www.podproducer.net “On a Podcast!” by Cruisebox! To celebrate our 60th podcast we play “On A Podcast!” by Cruisebox! YOU are part of the Revolution! The Techpodcast Network Sounder! Dr. Bill digresses again! We check out the items in the Blog, Dr. Bill – The Computer Curmudgeon! Happy Birthday to the iPod! It has 73% of the MP3 Player market! Wow! Weird Al Yankovik also had a birthday… he’s 47. Ubuntu Linux passes the Mac on Google Trends. Firefox 2.0 and IE 7.0 are out… check them out! Features Dr. Bill likes about Firefox 2.0! The Tab Browser Closer and Spell Check… two great, new features! The Minimo Windows Mobile Web Browser. Darkmoon keeps the Doctor straight! Go from Linux “Noob” to Linux “Dewd!” Stephen J. Vaughn-Nichols recommendations for Linux newbies, check them out! Ubuntu “The Edgy Eft” is out! Check it out! You will like it! It has cool enhancements! How to you pronounce all the “…buntus” Like “Ubuntu”, “Kubuntu”, “Xubuntu”, and “Edubuntu.” DEWD! (An expression of excitement!) Geek Software of the Week: µTorrent! The advantages of µTorrent over Azureus as a BitTorrent client. My wife, Belinda, says in post as I write these show notes that the “doohickey” is an “upsilon”… she’s SO smart! The coolness of controlling uTorrent via a web browser! RSS feeds under IE 7.0 and Firefox 2.0! Firefox 2.0 wins in handling RSS feeds! Check it out yourself. You will see! We are over time! Gotta go! See ya next week!

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 59 – (10/20/06)
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“The Extended Edition – The Redux” Dr. Bill has problems with his software! So much to talk about! Tons of “geeky goodness” just for YOU! Weird mistakes and a “Mystery Science Theatre 3000” style commentary of Dr. Bill by himself! (How weird is THAT?!?) Geek Culture with Weird Al Yankovik’s “Amish Paradise!” This week the Blog is way more graphical! And, we start with a new “photoshopped” (with the GIMP) photo of Dr. Bill! The top three reasons to use KDE! Mark Shuttleworth, the first Patron of KDE! An invisible forcefield for tanks? Well, not really… but it IS interesting! Geek Software of the Week: CamStudio! (This software REALLY, REALLY rocks!) The Neoware Notebook Windows Terminal! Check it out! Is it more secure!?! Well, it’s official! Internet Explorer 7 is out! And, what the doctor thinks of it! Also, a new version of AVG Free Antivirus is out! The story of my new Web Server upgrade! Astrology dissed by Bill Nye, the Science Guy! A new adapter lets any car use Ethanol! And why Dr. Bill thinks that’s cool! Very cool! This is a VERY, VERY strange podcast, indeed!

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 58 – (10/14/06)
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Zimbra Collaboration Suite is awesome! Don’t believe it? Check out the Flash Demo at the link in the Blog! Wow! Why it’s time to lose the “snide IT attitude!” Google is buying YouTube for $1.6 BILLION! Now all the “Numa Numa” and Weird Al videos will be Google’s! If you manage a large network of PCs, you may want to roll IE7 out in a more controlled manner. Here’s info on a neat tool that will help you! 20 things that most users don’t know about Windows XP! Check them out! Goodbye Eudora, hello Thunderbird! Qualcomm is retiring the Eudora E-Mail Client! A special Mozilla Thunderbird client called “Penelope” to help Eudora users move to Thunderbird. An unusual Geek Software of the Week: A MEGA HOSTS File! I take time to discuss what this HOSTS file does, and what it blocks!

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 57 – (10/07/06)
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Dr. Bill learns to pronounce “curmudgeon!” Yeah. Tech news for you any time that you need it! The One Minute Tip promo, as a member of the Techpodcast Network! Official Weird Al Geek Culture called, “Bedrock Anthem.” And ol’ Fred woulda probably used e-mail, huh? E-mail it seems is for ol’ geezers! Kids are saying it is so “last millenium!” But e-mail is still beneficial… IMHO! VMware rocks! They now have a new “P2V” Converter beta available for free! The new version of Crossover Office for Linux will allow you to play World of Warcraft, Half Life 2, and Counterstrike! Pretty cool! Splash pages on websites… so dumb! How you can convince someone that they are so un-cool! Darkmoon gives me a hard time over Star Trek teleportation! Chill, Darkmoon! I just meant that teleportation as a science was advancing… yeeesh! (Grin!) Ubuntu Linux may be profitable in two years! Rock on! Props to my buddy Scott Redmon, Guilford County Webmaster… who is crazy, but fun! He da man when it comes to computer graphics! Many, many props to da man, Scott! No Geek Software of the Week this week! Your e-mails are cool! The Doctor is out!