Archive for October, 2008

It has been a long day. It all started yesterday when we began the process of moving a website to a different server so I could put up the new version of said site. All heck seemed to happen after that.

We’ll leave the water heater out of this story, let’s just say I have taken 3 cold showers in the last 3 days. YAY!

I have found I not only hit the limit on my website, I went WAYYYY past it. I had to remove 2/3rds of the podcasts just to get under quota. I am not sure what happened - but now I am on the hunt for a service to store the data. Once it finds a new home, I will make all adjustments. For now - Episodes 1-52 of the weekly podcast and the first 24 Quickcasts / 5 min show. are down.

So in momentus fashion, I offer this week’s Bitstrips to use part of an old favorite Edgar Allen Poe poem to create the scene and this week’s comic. Enjoy. (BTW - no Week in Tech History for the weekend due to the podcast space problem. Sorry).

Happy Halloween!!

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When I go out to find a new PC - Many Years from now. Will it be equipped with a floppy drive, 2 gigs of RAM and 1 gig WiFi. Can it process a Terrabyte of data or will it be real slow. Will it be a PC, Intel or AMD, and will it be 64 bit.

Windows 7 is just around the corner. It will have something like 20 versions of it. Most important, it will have 32 bit versions as well as 64 bit versions.

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Halloween is fast approaching. The office has moved around. Dan Tynan and Technology and Politics. Parts for Dell D600 - Win iTunes GC.

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It’s been a year and a few months since the first iPhone was sold. Since the release of the 3G model, I’ve been seeing people with iPhones I would have never expected have one. The iPhone has brought up a new way to use the internet, the phone and a computer.

Apple is under a lot of scrutiny: AT&T being the sole carrier, the Apps store program take downs and the 3G services being poor. Yet the iPhone still is the 2nd best selling phone behind the Motorola RAZR. Apple itself is set to continue through these tough times.

There has been a lot of good and bad said about the iPhone. I have seen a lot of Forum posts, even more twitters and more. I decided to go ahead and ask a small group of people over at Help A Reporter what their thoughts were. I asked to send me 1-2 paragraphs as to why you like, don’t like or are neutral about the iPhone. Here are the responses:

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This week we sit with Dan Tynan, a blogger for sites such as Computerworld and discuss how YouTube is affecting a candidate. We also delve into the mass amounts of user-made content is out there and how it can help or hurt a campaign. Finally, we talk a bit about Hulu, Saturday Night Live and the impact it has on parodying the election.

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To unveil the new look, we dressed up the studio with all the best Halloween gear and had a good ole fashioned party. We were going to bob for Apples, but I didn’t have any apples. Oh well.

We did talk about Stocks, Apple, CodeWeavers free software tomorrow and a lot more.

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This week we have a lot of great history, including the event on Oct. 28th, 1955. William Gates III came into this world. Of course we all know him as the funny man in those Seinfeld commercials. However, he ran a little ole company we like to call “Micro.. Micro..” Wait. What is that called again?

Interestingly enough 30 years later (1985), Bill Gates put Microsoft up for IPO. Other cool history notes - the DMCA is signed, the first Ball Point Pen becomes available and OpenSocial.

Today is the Roundtable, I will be presenting WordPress 2.7, the newest version of the Blog CMS that is in Beta at this point. We are also talking with Mobicip on Child Protection and TechForward on the CompUSA and Tiger Direct Buyback program.

We had another steller week. It all started on Monday with the LIVE Show, Jerri Ellsworth Showed up and talked about her game room. It was a great show and very unexpected.

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The TPN Roundtable will be in session Saturday, October 25 at 4:00 PM EDT.

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In the Weekend edition of Week in Tech History, the Federal Networking Council, along with the DoD, NSF, NASA and others, officially coin the word “Internet” on Oct 24th, 1995. The Resolution names TCP/IP and other IP related protocols to create “accessability to publicly or privaely high level services layered on the communications and related infrastructure”.

Other events include Mac OS 10.3 release, the Playstation 2 is released in the US, The Osborne Vixen and Encore computers are announced and Windows XP Home and Professional editions are released. This, along with the Colbert Facebook app hitting 1 million followers and a lot more make up the weekend edition of the Weekend in Tech History Podcast.

Comcast increased their Bandwidth again. The Internet giant has plans in Residential and Business Service from 12 to 50 MB per second. Prices range from $42.95 to $189.95 a month.

Unfortunately, if you are a residential user, the faster speeds don’t mean a larger cap. While it doesn’t mean to download more, you can get pages a lot faster.

So now we run into the same issue again. So why not in Bitstrips format?

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