Category: Dr. Bill Audio Netcasts

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 76 – (02/17/07)
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No video netcast this week! Geek Culture from Weird Al! Why send all those e-mails about virus alerts?!? Just DON’T DO IT! A Techpodcast member promo! The Geek Software of the Week: AutoHotKey – a scripting utility for Windows! The Windows key… finally a use for it! A new CPU chip announced from Intel that is a teraflop in processing power! WOW! A teraflop = a terrified pancake?!?! Gamers need MORE POWER! Nostalgic for OLD TV? They are coming to YouTube. Ever thought about the term “bated breath?” The VLC Player and how cool it is! The Doctor plays with Xubuntu and enjoys VLC Player on it! The Doctor continues to answer questions from listeners… Puppy Linux, Vector Linux and how cool they are! Stick a pin in the Doctor’s Frappr map! The Open Source community thing! Answering a message from a guy in my church that is having a Word problem. The document.dot file. A funny e-mail from Phil about Microsoft cars! How the Doctor finds Geek Culture. Thanks for the clean language… can you make Juice Receiver “grab” only one type of file by extension? No… but a filter should be coming! Don’t use anyone else’s restore CD to fix your computer. Use Knoppix for data recovery. A weird podcast comes to a close!

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 75 – (02/10/07)
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Audio Podcast:
Geek Software of the Week: CrossLoop! The bad guys almost brought down the Internet… but they failed! Linspire and Ubuntu join forces – Ubuntu gets CNR – Linspire gets a Ubuntu as a base for their distro! Google knows “The Answer” to “Life, the Universe, and Everything!” A parody on the Mac ads that includes Linux! Dr. Bill answers questions from listeners!

Video Netcast:
Geek Culture – “Numa Numa” misunderstood with English “translation.” A Microsoft technician follows up with phonemail that is “translated” as well. Odd, but funny!

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 74 – (02/03/07)
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Geek Culture – “You’re Pitiful!” by Weird Al. The full, final Version 3.0 of Paint.NET is out! Geek Software of the Week: VLC Viewer! Intel re-invents the transistor with huge implications! How to make Firefox look just like Internet Explorer (Well, IE V6.0!) Ubuntu – is it the “Real” Vista upgrade?

Video Netcast:
A new headset. Playing with my new tech toys… a GEEK OUT! Dragon Naturally Speaking Preferred Mobile Edition. Kubuntu with Beryl as a replacement for Vista? Actual video of Beryl in action! Join us for the audio Podcast, it IS different this week!

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 73 – (01/27/07)
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The Netcast and Chroma-keying! Some tech resolved, some to be resolved. How to Install and use Virtualbox on Ubuntu. Geek Software of the Week: Super, a Video and Audio Converter. Densest chip ever made, best prices on Vista, installing network tools on Ubuntu, a New Zero Day attack on MS-Word!

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 72 – (01/20/07)
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Geek Culture on MP3s and the RIAA! Geek Software of the Week: VirtualBox… good news, bad news for Microsoft on IE7, The new Knoppix is prettier, and works great! “Storm Worm” attacks the Net! Microsoft “patches” a patch?! The rumor is true – Google is coming to NC!

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 71 – (01/13/07)
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“It’s All About the Pentiums,” by Weird Al Yankovik, our Geek Culture for the Week! How To: “Ghost4Linux Backup and Restore,” Props to Henry L. Ratliff for a BIG, new feature for DirCaster, also, a tour of the DirCaster web site, also, a new feature to Dr. Bill.TV! My son, Ben’s first submission to YouTube, and how he did it! Geek Project, how to do a VODcast! The Top 10 Nastiest Malware Trends!

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 70 – (01/06/07)
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Our very first VODcast! Introduction to our new VODcast (Video On Demand!) Who says that Linux doesn’t DO games? Weird Zune ads from Microsoft! The Million Dollar Homepage has SOLD OUT! Whoa! Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos has funded the creation of a spacecraft to pioneer commercial space tourism. Move to OpenOffice.org 2.1 NOW! Think about this headline: “Internet Explorer Unsafe for 284 Days in 2006!” My opinion piece on the current state of IPTV! Our Geek Project for this week: setting up Dircaster! The new Blog Theme and the new VODcast!

The VODcast is at: www.DrBill.TV

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 69 – (12/30/06)
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Almost live via a podcast to celebrate the close of 2006! Big, hairy hints about 2007 coming soon! Techpodcasts promo, of course! Podcast number 69! 70 is coming… and it will be cool! Dr. Bill is having a good coding day! Hoo-ray! The cosmic flow of the coding is working today! And now, a Geek Culture retrospective… yay! Every OS Sucks by Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie! Hearkening back to the 1970’s with that song! The “Switch to Linux” Fake Ad in an homage to the Mac “switch” ads! Open Source…Linux… gotta love it! Go to the web site… thecomputercurmudgeon.COM! A “cur” is a bad dog, rolling around in the “mud” on the Planet “Geon.” The Numa Numa song! The Llama Song! A frenetic song! Let’s all retire and become ducks in 2007! Why Did Shipping Vista Turn Out to be So Hard? And yet, there are still issues with it! The Computer Man! The Night Santa Went Crazy! Poor quality audio… but still funny! And that ties up our year for Geek Culture… even with a second of the Bunnies from Star Wars! Please Digg the Doctor (The Doctor grovels!) PLEASE! Do so and goodness will expand throughout the galaxy and the stars will align! There is already an update to the DirCaster project! Many great fixes to DirCaster… thanks to Henry! More code coming on DirCaster! A new Paint.NET update is out! I used it just last night to create a new Streaming MP3 “badge” for the web site. Stop those pesky Wi-Fi’ers! An “Open Source” hardware project that is illegal! An RF jammer! The FCC is NOT excited about this… so don’t actually build it! The “Cult of the Dead Cow” strikes again! The Phoenix electric powered truck! 95% charged in 10 minutes! Driving away making no noise… how spooky is that?! Sa-lute! The new look for the blog! A new theme, and new features! Blog posting articles on the calendar in the sidebar! The Audio Flash Player didn’t work so I fixed it with streaming audio for MP3’s using the “M3U” format. Link to the M3U file to play your MP3! All 69 podcasts listed on ONE page! It is a “static” HTML page using a plugin for WordPress that allows “calling” static HTML pages! You can do popups entirely with CSS! With no javascript at all! Really! Here’s the link, just for you:

CSS Popup Windows!

Microsoft sent cool notebooks with Vista to bloggers to get good press… it kinda backfired. And one guy decided to auction it off on eBay and give the proceeds to the EFF! Microsoft now wants them back! And, that’s it for this week! See you next week! (A quick secret hint in the exit music!)

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 68 – (12/23/06)
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Our Christmas show! Candy canes and sugar plums, and other stuff! It’s Christmas Eve-Eve as we record the Podcast! Techpodcast promo… if it’s tech it is here! Geek Culture out the wazoo! Weird Al Yankovik’s “The Night that Santa Went Crazy!” Give Santa Christmas Pizza! Here’s the link to the flash video:

The Night Santa Went Crazy

Merry Christmas – Happy Holidays – Happy Hanukkah! Podcast number 68… it’s a number! Our URL: www.drbill.tv where you can get the podcasts back into antiquity. A friend of mine and his boss listened to ALL the podcasts! Wow! If you listen to them all your brain might explode! New Digg.com features! The good stuff rises to the top! They now have “Podcasts” as a section on Digg. Digg the Doctor on Digg! Enjoy the Diggness! Get down with da ‘Doc! Microsoft Zune will now work with Microsoft Vista… and it only took a firmware update! You guys! OpenOffice.org 2.1 is out! Rock on! A new “Save the Internet” video! Sa-lute to the “Save the Internet!” folks! Here’s a link to the video:

Save the Internet!

Dr. Bill’s new project… to continue the DirCaster Project… and his reasons! The RSS (Really Simple Syndication) must be iTunes compliant! “Dir” for “directory” and “Caster” for broad”casting.” The nooks and crannies of the Internet have my current URL for my RSS feed. DirCaster is automatic! Badda Bing Badda Boom! Very cool! BUT… DirCaster appeared to be dead! What is a “GUID”? Check out the new DirCaster Website… and a sa-lute to Ryan King! Calling all PHP hackers! Help perfect DirCaster! Belinda will help me fix it! Two major points to fix: the “blank title” issue, and the “weird character” problem… like ampersands in the title. Streaming audio code and FTP upload tool that will be available soon! And another cool feature idea for DirCaster… the ability to limit the number of broadcasted files. 25 weeks for instance… half a year-ish in time! Belinda thinks I’m crazy to take on yet another project! Sigh! Hopefully Santa won’t go crazy at your house! The Doctor is out for this week!

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 67 – (12/16/06)
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Recording the Podcast late on a Saturday night! Dr. Bill works with a slow brain as he records the show! The 67th podcast… a boring number, but an exciting podcast! Dr. Bill does sound effects with the talent of his own voice… with no tech help! (And, without a net!) A promo for Bwana.org Radio… and we play the TV Theme for “George of the Jungle” to celebrate his podcast! Bwana has it going on! Dr. Bill is odd. (We knew that.) Geek Culture of the Week… a Jonathan Coulton song called Chiron Beta Prime. Merry Christmas from a faraway asteroid! Watch out for those robot overlords with glowing red eyes! Meandering down the road of podcasting: Yet another Microsoft Word “Zero Day” exploit! If we can’t open Word documents with Microsoft Word, we should use OpenOffice.org. The 25 Greatest All Time “Killer Apps!” Going down memory lane with the “Killer Apps.” The “LXP Project” – making Linux look like Windows XP. Strange, but kinda cool… especially for the mind-numbed Microsoft masses. Whoa… a “Start Button.” Microsoft’s big major “screw-up!” Vista is not compatible with Microsoft SQL Server! Ouch! That’s bad! Last item… Yo Momma likes Ubuntu Linux! Salute! It’s time to slide on out… since we ran over time… Dr. Bill’s brain fizzles out! Z-z-z-z-z!