Category: Dr. Bill Audio Netcasts

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 86 – (04/28/07)
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Second try on recording the podcast! Sigh! A slow blogging week… I’ve busy at work. More “greenage” = better equipment! Geek Software of the Week: WordPress Theme Generator. Googlefight. “Longhorn” beta released. Ninja and Mythbusters!

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 85 – (04/22/07)
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Ubuntu 7.04 released! Microsoft to resell fuel cells under their own brand. Don’t use Microsoft DNS! Thunderbird V2.0 is out! Geek Software of the Week: DVD Flick! The Gamemaster! A cool geek song from Jonathan Coulton, “A Laptop Like You!”

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 84 – (04/15/07)
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Dr. Bill has a new intro by Scott Redmon… he has a new Mac. Geek Culture from “Infinite Solutions!” Tech News of the Week! Geek Software of the Week: Avidemux. Another update to DirCaster! Comment spam test! iTunes subscriptions? Google buys DoubleClick! The Gamemaster segment: GO!

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 83 – (04/07/07)
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Geek Culture with “Mend My PC.” Microsoft releases emergency fix. Geek Software of the Week: Tag&Rename! A DirCaster Update. Dr. Bill gets a computer virus! WEP is dead! long live WPA! YouTube launches “CitizenTube.” Our Gamemaster segment!

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Very cool Geek Culture in the form of “Kiwi!” a video off of YouTube! As promised, here’s the YouTube video code: sdUUx5FdySs Also Dr. Bill grumps and grouses about actually… gulp.. getting a virus at work!

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 82 – (03/31/07)
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Big things – including a new sponsor – GoToMyPC! Virtual Headphones from Microsoft?!? Vista E-mail security problem! Geek Culture: “Hi, I’m Linux!” New Techpodcasts Web Site! New DirCaster with great new features! Is Apple TV the cheapest Mac Mini? Geek Software of the Week: CPU-Z! Gamemaster Segment: Two Reviews and a tip!

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A video demo: Installing Freespire Linux, and and introduction to Freespire. The demo was running under VMware on Windows XP, and recorded via CAMstudio Open Source. Unfortunately, some problems with overhead on the system created a few audio problems.

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 81 – (03/25/07)
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The audio is a little weird on this one… I had to re-re-record over the original… it is a LONG story! Better audio next time… sigh! So, the “Silly Noises” Edition of the Podcast! Sort of Geek Culture – Weird actual court transcripts! So funny! Microsoft is now offering to pay businesses through service or training credits if they get their employees to use its Live Search product at work. Check out our listener map and stick a pin in our map on Frappr! Geek Software of the Week: IntelliAdmin – fixes DST on NT and Windows 2000! KompoZer replaces Nvu with fixes! Problems with comments now fixed! Avery Brooks did a commercial for IBM about Linux – so Captain Sisko loves Linux! The GameMaster reviews “City of Heroes!”

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 80 – (03/18/07)
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The “GameMaster Edition” of the Podcast! We now have an additional URL (the old one will, of course, still work!) You can go to: https://www.drbill.tv Is Microsoft SO arrogant, SO sure of its market share, that they don’t really care about customer needs? You can actually by a Commodore gaming PC again, and they aren’t bad! Cisco is paying $2.9 BILLION for WebEx! Our Geek Software of the Week: Recuva, a file deletion recover utility. A totally clueless person posts on the ZDnet forum about how he doesn’t believe that Linux will run without Windows! My son, Ben, the GameMaster, talks about his views on gaming and other things… almost a podcast within a podcast!

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 79 – (03/10/07)
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Lot’s of STUFF this week! Geek ninja from Doogtoons! Yet another MP3 and WMA to Ogg Vorbis converter! Oh my! WordPress was hacked on their own site and bad code was introduced into their files! Update your OS for the crazy, early Daylight Savings Time. Yes, you CAN use WiMP (Windows Media Player) with patent-free media! An open letter to Mark Shuttleworth encouraging him to sell Ubuntu hardware. Backup and restore Ubuntu systems using Sbackup. March Madness from Microsoft: No Security updates this month! Microsoft customers are ticked off over Daylight Savings Time woes! How to install Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) on Ubuntu.

There is also a new video Netcast!

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 78 – (03/03/07)
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Dr. Bill does another podcast too soon! So… some re-tread Geek Culture! Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie with “How to Buy a Computer!” A promo for Bwana.org Radio! Scott sends me a new graphic header for the Blog! Remember that Ogg is not a caveman! Ogg Vorbis – a totally open and free audio format… which will probably replace MP3! Download the VLC Player! The Geek Software of the Week = winLAME! Not Windows is lame… but winLAME! Not much else going on… so there you go! Time travel paradoxes and such… The Bunny Game… the Gamemaster spanked me on the high score! Somebody sent me an e-mail… Dr. Bill does an e-mail search… David in the U.K. writes me! Dr. Bill converts someone to Ubuntu Linux! I’m outta here!

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 77 – (03/01/07)
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How to convert physical Windows systems into virtual machines to be run on a Linux desktop! Weird Flash game – make the cute widdle bunny jump from bell to bell, and get a high score. OK, weird. Microsoft slapped with $1.52 billion payout in MP3 suit brought by Alcatel-Lucent. Do we move to Ogg Vorbis? What IS Ogg Vorbis? Vorbis is an open source, lossy audio codec project headed by the Xiph.Org Foundation and intended to serve as a replacement for MP3. The Democracy Player version 0.9.5.2 is out! I moved the web site to LightTPD – security, speed, compliance, and flexibility – all of these describe LightTPD which is rapidly redefining efficiency of a web server; as it is designed and optimized for high performance environments. More Ogg to come! (Note: I am “retrofitting” the older episodes to have Ogg versions as well!)