Dr. Bill Reminisces! A New Podcast! #23
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Dr. Bill Podcast – 23 – (02/11/06)
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2006 and reminisces of 2001 – A Space Odyssey, the 21st Century with Walter Cronkite, “Off” week for blogging, until late in the week, “off” week in the tech world, Printing Bacon?, New Battery Technology with nanotube structures for ultra-capacitors, Freeware and Shareware daily web site link, send me freeware, shareware, and Open Source finds!, the Doctor’s take on “toolbars” and browser “freebies”, Warning on Google Desktop from the EFF, the Doctor doesn’t get viruses due to “safe computing”, Geek Software of the Week: Express Burn, burn ISOs to CDs for FREE!, Nero Burning ROM is too bloated!, other freebies come with “Express Burn,” like “Switch,” that “translates” audio files from one format to another, EVERYONE needs to try Linux!, reminiscing on Xwindows and Digital Computers… the VAXman, OpenVMS systems, and more! How Xwindows works, and the NEW NX protocol, NoMachine and FreeNX, the Podcast runs over by a few minutes!!!
Nothing wrong with Google Desktop as long as you don’t use the new version. The toolbar bit in the podcast has no relevance on the desktop part since Google toolbar and desktop are two different things. The new version 2 actually DOES say that it stores it temporarily on Google servers. Read this:
http://desktop.google.com/features.html#searchremote
You also have to enable the “Search Across Computers” feature. It’s not on by default.
It’s kind of a “paranoia” attack over the Net about it.
Probably so… however, I still don’t like, or trust, such things… must be the curmudgeon in me! I tend to be a “purist!” But, different strokes!