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The Server Room of Horrors!
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Show #52: Behold! The RoboChuck 3000
* Projector Hack
* CD Server with linux
** Linux Journal
** Faqs.org
** Virtual CD Jukebox
* VMware Player
* Pinball machine made of Legos!
* Unix commands for Advanced Users
* Rubberband man Staples Commercials
* M.C. Escher Archives
* The second part to Chucks Robot Center Sound Seeing Tour
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Show # 52: Where is Sarah Conner?
* Accidental Invention Points to End of Light Bulbs.
* Auto convert RSS feeds to torrents
* Flock is out
* Vintage Computer Show
* Also via Slashdot | Minor Computer Flaw Frees State Prisoners
* R2-D2 Case Mod
* 168 Pixel GIF of Star Wars EP IV
* Ham operator corrects Disney railroad ride message
* Do you know the difference between DVD-R and DVD+R? Here’s a link to help:
http://www.answerbag.com/q_view.php/2279
* 35 Definitions about HDTV
* Free download: Astronomy Picture of the Day Dashboard Widget for Mac OS X
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With the OpenDocument format, OpenOffice.org 2.0 sounds like it’s going to finally give Microsoft Office suite a run for its money. I’m definitely going to be trying this out soon!
I tried it a couple years ago and it was pretty sad, time for another eval!
Show #50: It’s all Downhill from Here!
* Listener Feedback
* News about Gmail in the UK
* The prize drawing for show #50
* Trivia: What is the proper name for a “punch card”?
* The price of the Xray receptor at the dentist is $9000 USD
* Transparent Aluminum?
* Darth Vader and Yoda Sculpture with Butter!
* Kreg’s Video (With hacked Camera) of my ride on the Borg Assimilator! Requires Xvid Codec
* Game to teach you programming
* Listen to Albert Einstein
* Tips from a Project Manager
* Top ten Linux commands every Geek should know
* What is the Number 50 really?
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Remember Star Trek IV? Remember the scene with Scotty and the guy played by Stuart Pankin about the transparent aluminum? Looks like we can cross of another one of the Star Trek science fiction items and it becomes science-fact!
New Scientist Breaking News – Windscreen repels armour-piercing bullets
Now we need transporters! The price of gasoline is killing me!
A recent article in Ars Technica states that men still outearn women in IT. As of this month, this is no longer true in my house. My wife just surpassed my salary in IT at the same company as me.
How would you feel?
Show #49: X-Rays and Watercooling!
* FURL!
* Digital Dentist – see Chuck’s Head
* Frank Frank talks to us about his home made server cooling system
* What were the first cookie cutters made from?
* GPS Feedback: Jorge commented that TomTom GPS is pretty big in Belgium.
* Followup on Sharepoint
* iTunes 6 fixed the 64K encoding – thanks to our friend in tech Douglas E. Welch
* Samsung forced to pay $300MM due to price fixing of DRAM
* Digital Dentist – Chuck’s X-Rays (Get inside Chuck’s Head)
* What the Chuck!: Nigeria will make it illegal and fine $3500 for spammers in their country
* Kreg’s Rant: Patents Suck
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Show 48: Where in the World is Chuck San Diego?
* All About GPS
* Steve’s Unit
* Apple Video iPod: Stuff Magazine – Hot Stuff
* Apple – QuickTime – Tutorials – Creating Video for iPod
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Some friends of mine were discussing “beta” programs. Is it a cop-out to label your first public release of something as a beta release? (e.g. Yahoo’s podcasting, Gmail, Google everything else).
On the one side you’ve got the argument that “alpha” releases are normally tested internally, and “beta” releases are your first public release to a select group to let them find any remaining flaws or logic errors.
Lately it seems that that the beta groups are getting out of hand. It wasn’t too long ago that a beta release meant you were a SELECT group, some fraction of the whole, that got to test software. In some cases, like an operating system, you had to sign a non-disclosure agreement. Now you get something like Yahoo podcasting and it’s basically released to everyone with a label “Beta” at the top. Is this a cop-out to discredit any flaws or errors? “Hey, your software gave me an error right after it pulled up the wrong file!” “Well, that’s beta software for you!” C’mon, everyone knows that software today is going to be riddled with issues. Are we so naive that we think that Yahoo or Google hasn’t already done some beta testing before releasing things like this to the public?
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