Join Dr. Bill as he examines the wild and wacky world of the web, computers, and all things geeky! Hot Tech Tips, Tech News, and Geek Culture are examined… with plenty of good humor as well!
There are a lot of strange Flash based games on the web. This is one of them… make the cute widdle bunny jump from bell to bell, and get a high score. OK, weird.
Something to do when you are bored. (VERY, VERY bored!
Want to leave Windows, but still have a few programs you have to run on Windoze? Here’s exactly how to do it, and for FREE!!! This HowTo gives you all the steps, complete with pictures, on each step using free VMware tools.
Convert Physical Windows Systems Into Virtual Machines To Be Run On A Linux Desktop
“This article shows how you can convert a physical Windows system (XP, 2003, 2000, NT4 SP4+) into a VMware virtual machine with the free VMware Converter Starter. The resulting virtual machine can be run in the free VMware Player and VMware Server, and also in VMware Workstation and other VMware products. Vmware Converter comes in handy if you want to switch to a Linux desktop, but feel the need to run your old Windows desktop from time to time. By converting your Windows desktop into a virtual machine, you can run it under VMware Server/Player, etc. on your Linux desktop.”
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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!
Some time back I recommended VLC Player as the Geek Software of the Week. Now, some GSoTW’s are better than others… some are just interesting… but some actually quietly revolutionize your life. That is what has happened with VLC Player! I recently was “playing” with Xubuntu on a small, underpowered test box, and I was trying to see how useful it would be as an actual “web surfing” system to use to just surf the web, etc. I installed the Linux version of VLC Player by enabling the “universe” add-on in Synaptic and adding VLC using the Synaptic interface. It was smooth, and worked exactly the same as my Windows XP install of VLC… in terms of look and feel. It was fast, clean, and played anything I ran into on the net as I surfed. This was cool, simple, and actually AWESOME! No searching for various codecs, no special setups… it just plain worked.
I find myself using VLC Player for ALL my media on by Windows XP box too. Whether Divx, or Windows Media… whatever… VLC just plays in… fast, light… clean. I love it! It gets a HUGE “thumbs up” from me!
Here’s the link again to get it:
YouTube will start carrying old TV shows like “I Spy” and “Gumby” according to MarketWatch. Oh goody!
YouTube to post classic TV shows
Fire up that browser and get a “blast from the past!”
“A chip with 80 processing cores and capable of more than a trillion calculations per second (teraflop) has been unveiled by Intel. The Teraflop chip is not a commercial release but could point the way to more powerful processors, said the firm. The chip achieves performance on a piece of silicon no bigger than a fingernail that 11 years ago required a machine with 10,000 chips inside it. The challenge is to find a way to program the many cores simultaneously. Current desktop machines have up to four separate cores, while the Cell processor inside the PlayStation 3 has eight. Each core is effectively a programmable chip in its own right. But to take advantage of the extra processing power, programmers need to gives instructions to each core that work in parallel with one another.”
Teraflop chip hints at the future
A teraflop on one chip… NOW we’re talkin’! I want one in my laptop! I like the photo they show that the new chip has the same power on the size of a fingernail that used to take and entire, huge computer room full of mainframe systems!
This is one of those mind-bogglingly useful software doohickeys that will help you in so many ways!
“AutoHotkey is a free, open-source utility for Windows. With it, you can:
* Automate almost anything by sending keystrokes and mouse clicks. You can write a mouse or keyboard macro by hand or use the macro recorder.
* Create hotkeys for keyboard, joystick, and mouse. Virtually any key, button, or combination can become a hotkey.
* Expand abbreviations as you type them. For example, typing “btw” can automatically produce ‘by the way.’
* Create custom data-entry forms, user interfaces, and menu bars. See GUI for details.
Remap keys and buttons on your keyboard, joystick, and mouse.
* Respond to signals from hand-held remote controls via the WinLIRC client script.
* Run existing AutoIt v2 scripts and enhance them with new capabilities.
* Convert any script into an EXE file that can be run on computers that don’t have AutoHotkey installed.”
Note that it works with AutoIt scripts (another GSotW from way back!) And, they can be compiled! DEWD!
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Dr. Bill Podcast – 75 – (02/10/07)
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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!
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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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Geek Culture – “Numa Numa” misunderstood with English “translation.” A Microsoft technician follows up with phonemail that is “translated” as well. Odd, but funny!
It knows “The Answer!” What answer? THE Answer… to Life, the Universe, and EVERYTHING! Which, to those that don’t know, or have never read, Douglas Adam’s book, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” is 42!
Just go to Google, then type in (with no quotes) – “what is the answer to life the universe and everything” and you will have the answer… now if we could just work out the question!
How geeky is that?!?