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Our “Dr. Bill – The Computer Curmudgeon” Audio Netcasts!
Dr. Bill Podcast – 46 – (07/22/06)
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Boggled… at so many things! What is Podcasting? by “The Ninja,” from “Ask a Ninja!” Microsoft buys Winternals and Sysinternals. A Good “Primer” on Net Neutrality. Does Your Vacation Help Spammers? Late news, but better late than never! Ewido Anti-Spyware is Now Part of Grisoft! Does Science Fiction Predict Technology? An article in eWeek by David Gerrold, who wrote the Star Trek episode, “The Trouble with Tribbles.” So… You Think Your Cell Phone Services Stinks NOW?!? A “stinky” phone from Nokia… well, a contest finalist, anyway! Better “boggled” than clueless!
Dr. Bill Podcast – 45 – (07/15/06)
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Geeky goodness for you this week: DJ Rappin’ Ted sings about the Internet being a series of techno-tubes! Geek t-shirts, and hats about a “Series of Tubes.” Other songs about the Senator… sigh! Help stop those that are trying to destroy the Internet! Go to “www.savetheinternet.com” and help save the Internet! How e-mail relaying works. Use a web-based email client to avoid the whole issue. Use Squirrelmail if you have a Linux server as your e-mail host. Firefox Web Browser usage in the U.S. passed 15% for the first time! Five critical security flaws in Microsoft software! Microsoft find by the European Union for breaking their laws. Media Player wars! Internet user survey finds that most podcast listeners are Mac-users or, are Trekkers! I will cop to that, I guess! Geek Software of the Week: TidyUI! A User Interface for the WC3’s HTMLtidy! Clean up and speed up your HTML Code! Microsoft admits a Zero-Day exploit for PowerPoint! A new feature of the website, Geek Projects! Our project is: How to Make your PC look more like a Mac! Very cool software called “RK_Launcher!” Well, that’s it for this week! Keep your Tubes CLEAR!
Thanks to the Bold-Headed Broadcast for a great song that is a mashup of Sen. Ted Stevens explanation of the Internet! The Bold-Headed Broadcast!
Dr. Bill Podcast – 44 – (07/08/06)
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An alliterative introduction – Podcast Number 44 – Dr. Bill discovers it is no longer 19**, but it is 2006! OK. Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska is a dummy. (My opinion.) We hear the Senator explains why he voted against Net Neutrality… his staff sent him an entire Internet and it took a whole day to get to his inbox! Net Neutrality, is it an issue from “the left” or “the right?” Judge Wells tosses out most of evil SCO’s anti-Linux lawsuit against IBM. Microsoft hosted Office “Live” on a Linux/Apache server! Academics “break” the Great Firewall of China! Geek Software of the Week: Ykill, which allows you to kill “bad” Windows apps! How to add Adsense advertising to a WordPress blog. FreeDOS is not dead! A free, Open Source DOS operating system approaches it’s 1.0 release! Sophos, a large security firm, recommends that because of malware home users should switch to Macs! (You could also go to Linux!) Microsoft will support the OpenDocument format after all! A guy releases a bug for the major web browsers, one per day! He is calling it “MoBB” (Month of Browser Bugs)… this kind of help we don’t need! Apple has 70% of the personal digital media market so Microsoft is preparing to release an “Ipod Killer!” The Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary now lists “google” as a verb! Cool!
Dr. Bill Podcast – 43 – (07/01/06)
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This is the “Hi, I’ve Been on Vacation and I Can’t Find Anything Funny This Week” Edition of Dr. Bill – The Computer Curmudgeon! Dr. Bill and the “Ask a Ninja” guy explain Net Neutrality! Microsoft delays Microsoft Office 2007… why not upgrade to OpenOffice? AOL is evil… it is hard to leave AOL and there is a tape on-line that proves it! 10 Ways to Tweak Your Tech Resume! 2nd Richest Man Gives Away His Fortune! OK… so this has been a really short podcast… but then, I have been on vacation, dewd!
Dr. Bill Podcast – 42 – (06/24/06)
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The ANSWER Podcast! Dr. Bill shares a recording of the revelation of THE ANSWER from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy! It is… 42! And, amazingly, this is the 42nd Podcast of Dr. Bill – The Computer Curmudgeon! Enjoy! More Geek Culture from Hitchhikers, the video of Marvin, The Paranoid Android! Here’s the link to the video:
Tech News: 86% of E-mail is Spam! Using Photoshop to get rid of those unslightly blemishes! A great tutorial! Will the last person leaving Microsoft turn off the lights? Great gag on the net! A Dell Laptop explodes! Check out the link in the Blog for photos! How to stop telemarketer’s predictive dialers! A neat tech tip to defeat the evil telemarketers! More Hitchhikers Geek Culture! Vote Zaphod Beeblebrox as President of the Galaxy… a video! Here’s the link to the video:
Dr. Bill Podcast – 41 – (06/17/06)
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Techpodcasts.com promo… check them out! Thanks to Scott Redmon for the header celebrating our Blog’s Anniversary! Geek Software of the Week: rcFTP! An FTP client for the typical “user” (a four letter word, I know) with installation instructions… FTP is now available for even the “user!” Dr. Bill explains what makes a “user” such a challenge! Microsoft as “Big Brother!” Microsoft has software on your computer that “phones home” with real data every single day! Fun with Microsoft Notepad to demonstrate the “lameness” of Microsoft software to those that have taken the oath and drunk the Koolaid! Bill Gates to retire. Enjoy, Bill! And no, the aliens haven’t replaced me! Help protect the Internet… preserve Net Neutrality! Dr. Bill plays the song by the “Broad Band” called “God Save the Internet!” Our Geek Culture of the Week for this week! Microsoft confirms that a Zero-Day attack is underway using Excel to confound a specific company! Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has an article that posits that Bill Gate’s retirement may be an opportunity to move forward with Linux!
Dr. Bill Podcast – 40 – (06/10/06)
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One year of Blogging! 40 episodes of Podcasting… and Dr. Bill dares to be “stoopid” in the process! Lot’s of corrections, but as long as we are daring to be stupid, it is OK!
Geek Software of the Week is Kaxy: A Web Proxy to “anonymize” your Web time! Dr. Bill PLEADS for contributions of Geek Software of Week nominees and Geek Culture, a Bill in Congress that if is passed this week will take away our “fair use” rights to listen to music! Discussion of MythTV and a comparison with Beyond TV for Windows by Snapstream… very cool stuff! Another feature that we were waiting for in Vista bites the dust! What WILL we finally get in Vista? Ethereal changes its name to “Wireshark.” Remember, DARE TO BE STOOPID!!!
Dr. Bill Podcast – 39 – (06/03/06)
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Intro, eWeek has an article comparing Vista with OpenSUSE 10.1!, Internet2 Gets Gigafast-er! Would you believe 800 GIGAbytes per second!?!?!, Microsoft Officially Launches it’s “Live OneCare” Service, now they can charge us for THEIR problems, What is YOUR Level of HTML Knowledge?, The First StarOffice/OpenOffice Virus!, A “Notebook” for the Geek Who Has Everything! The Dell XPS M2010, Geek Culture from “Weird Al” Yankovik, a takeoff on a song by Bob Dylan, he made the video to look just like Bob Dylan’s video, but the whole parody song is done in palindromes! Wild!
Dr. Bill Podcast – 38 – (05/27/06)
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Happy Memorial Day! A “mod” of a PC case that looks like a “Bond-type” A-Bomb! Very cool, ya gotta see the photo! Microsoft recommends using MS Word in safe mode due to the exploit that makes Word dangerous! The 25 ABSOLUTE WORST tech ideas/software/devices of all time! OF ALL TIME! And what is number one? Why, AOL, of course! Another REALLY good reason to ditch Symantec Norton Anti-Virus! Use Grisoft AVG instead! Very cool “Techie Tip” on how to do backups on Linux with Rsync! Kinda lame Geek Software of the Week… but here it is! WinRoll. OK, folks, send me Geek Software of the Week candidates, pleeeese! Weird Al Yankovic’s cool parody song: “All About the Pentiums!” Here’s a link to the video, check it out!
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It’s All About The Pentiums
by Al Yankovic
It’s all about the Pentiums, baby
Uhh, uh-huh, yeah
Uhh, uh-huh, yeah
It’s all about the Pentiums, baby
It’s all about the Pentiums, baby
It’s all about the Pentiums! (It’s all about the Pentiums, baby)
It’s all about the Pentiums! (It’s all about the Pentiums, baby)
Yeah
What y’all wanna do?
Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers
Wastin’ time with all the chatroom yakkers?
9 to 5, chillin’ at Hewlett Packard?
Workin’ at a desk with a dumb little placard?
Yeah, payin’ the bills with my mad programming skills
Defraggin’ my hard drive for thrills
I got me a hundred gigabytes of RAM
I never feed trolls and I don’t read spam
Installed a T1 line in my house
Always at my PC, double-clickin’ on my mizouse
Upgrade my system at least twice a day
I’m strictly plug-and-play, I ain’t afraid of Y2K
I’m down with Bill Gates, I call him “Money” for short
I phone him up at home and I make him do my tech support
It’s all about the Pentiums, what?
You’ve gotta be the dumbest newbie I’ve ever seen
You’ve got white-out all over your screen
You think your Commodore 64 is really neato
What kinda chip you got in there, a Dorito?
You’re usin’ a 286? Don’t make me laugh
Your Windows boots up in what, a day and a half?
You could back up your whole hard drive on a floppy diskette
You’re the biggest joke on the Internet
Your database is a disaster
You’re waxin’ your modem, tryin’ to make it go faster
Hey fella, I bet you’re still livin’ in your parents’ cellar
Downloadin’ pictures of Sarah Michelle Gellar
And postin’ “Me too!” like some brain-dead AOL-er
I should do the world a favor and cap you like Old Yeller
You’re just about as useless as jpegs to Hellen Keller
It’s all about the Pentiums! (It’s all about the Pentiums, baby)
It’s all about the Pentiums! (It’s all about the Pentiums, baby)
It’s all about the Pentiums! (It’s all about the Pentiums, baby)
It’s all about the Pentiums! (It’s all about the Pentiums, baby)
Now, what y’all wanna do?
Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers
Wastin’ time with all the chatroom yakkers?
9 to 5, chillin’ at Hewlett Packard?
Uh, uh, loggin’ in now
Wanna run wit my crew, hah?
Rule cyberspace and crunch numbers like I do?
They call me the king of the spreadsheets
Got ’em printed out on my bedsheets
My new computer’s got the clocks, it rocks
But it was obsolete before I opened the box
You say you’ve had your desktop for over a week?
Throw that junk away, man, it’s an antique
Your laptop is a month old? Well that’s great
If you could use a nice, heavy paperweight
My digital media is write-protected
Every file inspected, no viruses detected
I beta tested every operating system
Gave props to some, and others? I dissed ’em
While your computer’s crashin’, mine’s multitaskin’
It does all my work without me even askin’
Got a flat-screen monitor forty inches wide
I believe that yours says “Etch-A-Sketch” on the side
In a 32-bit world, you’re a 2-bit user
You’ve got your own newsgroup, “alt.total-loser”
Your motherboard melts when you try to send a fax
Where’d you get your CPU, in a box of Cracker Jacks?
Play me online? Well, you know that I’ll beat you
If I ever meet you I’ll control-alt-delete you
What? What? What? What? What?
It’s all about the Pentiums! (It’s all about the Pentiums, baby)
It’s all about the Pentiums! (It’s all about the Pentiums, baby)
It’s all about the Pentiums! (It’s all about the Pentiums, baby)
It’s all about the Pentiums! (It’s all about the Pentiums, baby)
Now, what y’all wanna do?
Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers
Wastin’ time with all the chatroom yakkers?
9 to 5, chillin’ at Hewlett Packard?
What??
Dr. Bill Podcast – 37 – (05/21/06)
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Intro, running a day late… Fuel from water?!? I share audio from a video I have on the site. Is it real? Maybe… I sure hope so! Geek Software of the Week: Notepad++! A very cool simple text editor with tons of features! Are we close to Star Trek “Impulse Engines”… neat! Query: Would You Let a Robot Operate On You? Not me! Minumum requirements for Vista… wow! I hope you have a monster machine ready! “Zero Day�? Attack Using Microsoft Word… ouch!!! Microsoft Says Open Source is Not Reliable or Dependable… RIGHT!!! Geek Culture from Weird Al!!!
