The Techie Geek Podcast

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Texas Linux Fest, April 10, 2010 Austin, TX
South East Linux Fest, June 12-13, 2101 Spartanburg, SC
Ohio Linux Fest, September 10-12, 2010 Columbus, OH
FrostBite Sytems Desktops and Notebooks pre-installed with Linux and optimized for blind and low vision users
SuperAntiSpyware Portable Edition
Malwarebytes
123ComputerRepair.com
Podnutz Daily
High Tech Redneck Computer Services
Opera Unite
Opera Web Browser
National Motor Vehicle Title System VIN search
Verbatim TUFF-’N'-TINY™ USB Drive
Corsair Voyager USB Drives
Boxee and the Boxee Box
Moovida
Microsoft Security Essentials
Free AVG
Free Avira
Google Maps Street View
Bing Maps Bird’s Eye View
My hand held GPD is a Garmin 60 CSx
My car GPS is a TomTom One 130
OpenStreetMap project
Linux Carzy Podcast
Core Python Study Group Wiki and irc.freenode.net #pythongroup
Core Python by Wesley Chun
Half.com
Learning Python
Learning Bash
Bash Cookbook
Philadelphia Linux User Group
WebMonkey Blog post on the EFF
Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF Test your web track-ability
StartPage.com allows you search and surf anonymously
TOR project
The DistoWatch Weekly Podcast

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Texas Linux Fest, April 10, 2010 Austin, TX
South East Linux Fest, June 12-13, 2101 Spartanburg, SC
Ohio Linux Fest, September 10-12, 2010 Columbus, OH
Klaatu’s Linux Multi-Media Sprint
The Bad Apples.info Podcast
Hacker Pubic Radio Podcast
Registry hack that might fix the WLAN won’t start issue in Vista
SuperAntiSpyware stand-alone portable scanner
MalwareBytes
ComboFix
Using Chkdsk
Buy your replacement laptop screens from dvdsuper999
ClickFree is the easiest backup for the most basic users
SnycBack allows network backups and FTP backups
DropBox is cross-platform and gives you 2GB of free space that syncs your files across all your computers
How to get the Gnome Panel Bar when it has gone away
62-in-1 SIM card reader
USB 3.0 to SATA adapter
CitizenEngineer.com hardware hack videos
Windows 7 Licensing
ZDnet article on god-mode
Full list of god-mode strings
Ubuntu JeOS Server tuned for running with a VM
The Linux Link Tech Show
MacHead movie on Hulu
CrashPlan is a cross-platform backup to the cloud
CyrstalDiskMark is a GUI to benchmark drive transfer rates
CrystalDiskInfo is a free app for diagnose drive issue
NiNite makes installing all your commonly used Windows apps after a fresh install
DriverPacks.net allows you to easily get all the drivers you need for Windows
Trinity Rescue Disk to rescue broken Windows systems
Podnutz Daily episode 213 Door-to-Door-Geek explains how he uses Trinity Rescue Disk
Haiti Relief
The DistroWatch Weekly Podcast is looking for some additional hosts

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Texas Linux Fest, April 10, 2010 Austin, TX
South East Linux Fest, June 12-13, 2101 Spartanburg, SC
Ohio Linux Fest, September 10-12, 2010 Columbus, OH
The Linux Link Tech Show
Lotta-Linux-Links Podcast
Verbal’s Linux Trivia Podcast
WeCanFixYourComputer.com
Sansa Clip portable audio player
Miro video-cast and podcast client
ChannelSurfing.net
Comcast bandwidth caps
My favorite broadband speed checker
ZipIt
OpenZipIt
Hak5
ClickFree backup devices
Tech-Vets podcast
Video4Fuze
Fujitsu portable scanners
CherryPal
Ubuntu’s Paste Bin
PasteBin.com
CuriousInventor.com
Portable Ubuntu Remix
dfont Splitter
Error message I was getting when attempting to read a 5 1/4″ floppy in an Windows 2000 box
LastPass
MintCast podcast
Google Chrome for Linux
Google Chrome Add-ons
KeePass portable
KeePassX for Linux
Portable Apps

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Google DNS servers are at 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
OpenDNS servers are at 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220
MyDefrag was formerly known as JKDefrag
Ars Technica, GigaOM, and Wired are great sites for Tech News
Free AVIRA won the top rating for Anti-Virus and Anti-Malware from this Ars Technica article
Untangle open source network gateway
ClearOS is an integrated software distribution that includes everything for a small IT environment
Some command line tips for ‘grep’, ‘find’, and ‘locate’ here and here
DefCon17 audio feed, slides feed, and video with slides feed
I had a great time at the Holiday Geeknic at the Pinball Parluor and The Perk
It was great to meet with Steve Cherubino and Steve D’Amico from the Nutz at Night podcast

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I was a guest on The Great Tech Debate Episode 14
ThinDownload.com free portable apps
Skype Call Recorder for Linux
Fresh Ubuntu Podcast
The Geeknic.org Holiday gathering on 12/12/09 will be at The Pinball Parlour
You can now download Windows 7 as an .iso file
Download Express is a free download manager that brings in download 7 times faster
JavaRa and PureRa are awesome free stand-alone apps for Windows
CloneZilla LiveCD is a free disk imaging app
The Going Linux Podcast on CloneZilla
CrystalDiskInfo is a free Windows app that gives you all your hard disk info
The Tech Vets Podcast
The Computer America Show also has an awesome free software section
USB Hard Drive Adapter for IDE and SATA drives
My Hard Drive Died Podcast and presentations by Scott Moulton and his YouTube videos
Monoprice.com has great prices on cables of all types and more
AllMyApps.com allows for easy one click installation of all your favorite Ubuntu apps
Billing Manager by Intuit offers free online invoicing
Billing Boss is another free online invoicing manager
eSata Flash drive by OCZ
Super Anti-Spyware Online Safe Scan is a stand-alone portable app
My 2GB write protect-able USB flash drive by RiData
OCRterminal.com is an awesome free online OCR service
HardInfo is a great free gui app for Linux that displays all your hardware info
SIW is a free app for Windows that is similar to HardInfo
Free and fun online typing Tutor called Dance Mat Typing
Turn WordPress into a CMS
How to Give Linux a Try
All the audio for the 2009 Ohio Linux Fest
An excellent talk on BSD for Linux Users by Dru Lavigne

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Windows 7 Home Premium for Students and Teachers deal through Digital River, you must have a valid .edu email address
How to create a .iso file from .box files and HERE
sbackup in Ubuntu
Going Linux podcast shows on Linux backup solutions episodes 29 and 31
Mike Tech Show podcast
CDLinux is a light weight Linux LiveCD that can be used like Knoppix
Awesome list of Linux Live CD’s
FileZilla
Core BTS sponsored the half day security conference where the keynote speaker was  Frank Abagnale
The movie “Catch Me if you Can” was based on the life of Frank Abagnale, check out his publications
Watch Frank Abagnale’s talk about his life
Linux Journal Issue 1 from 1994
Retro-Computing and The Retrobits Podcast
Hamachi VPN from LogMeIn
What’s the deal with Pre-Black-Friday sales?
TrendMicro Housecall online virus and spyware scanner
Sansa Clip Plus and HERE
Sansa Fuze
Compare portable audio players
John Maddog Hall
IrfanView is my favorite photo editor for Windows
Photoscape is a freeware photo editor for Windows that has some unique features such as easy collage creation
Web site to help deal with rouge virus scanners
SQLbuddy.com is a simple GUI for admin mySQL
Browsershots.org makes checking your web site in different browsers easy
BestBookBuys.com is and excellent web site for finding the best prices on books
BigWords.com is an excellent site for finding the best price on text books
Wigle.net will help you find wireless access
plain-text.info helps you crack password hashes
IronGeek videos from this year’s Louisville Infosec 2009 conference
NTRconnect is a free service that allows you gui control of remote Linux boxes
Microsoft is awarded a patent for sudo technology. Here’s the write-up on Groklaw and here’s the actual patent

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Three Geek Round-Table with David Abbott, Edward Kirk, and myself
Asterisk, the Open Source PBX
Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala
Xubuntu 9.10
Debian Lenny GNU/Linux
Setting a static IP in Debian and Ubuntu
Wubi Installer allows you to install (and uninstall) any Ubuntu variant like it was any other Windows application
Gentoo Live DVD 10.1
What is a “Rolling Release”?
Portage package manager
Gentoo Ebuild guide
Knoppix is a Live CD Linux distro that easily mounts the host computer’s physical drives which is handy for recovery data from corrupted Windows disks
Fedora 12
Pulse Audio
Alsa audio
OSS audio
Pulse Audio for Windows
A bash one-liner for stopping and restating Pulse Audio
VirtualBox
LogMeIn is free remote desktop control for Windows, there is beta Linux plugin that works most of the time
Webmin helps admin a Linux box without being an expert on the command line

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FLOSS Weekly podcast
Plugins, The WordPress Plugins Podcast with Angelo Mandato who also the Lead Developer at RawVoice.com
Angelo Mandato developed the Blubrry PowerPress plugin which is the player I use on TheTechieGeek.com
Google XML Site Maps WordPress plugin
Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin
All-in-One-SEO WordPress plugin
Akismet anti Spam WordPress plugin
Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam WordPress plugin
Blogworld Expo
PodPress is the another, less frequently updated audio player for WordPress
Super OS (formerly Super Ubuntu)
The Linux Link Tech Show
Scott Sigler “Contagious” is also available as a free audio book, read by the author on PodioBooks.com
My 2008 Ohio Linux Fest pictures
System76 Ratel Value Desktop and Pangolin Laptop
Zareason computers come pre-installed with Linux
Emperor Linux computers come pre-installed with Linux
PulseAudio
LottaLinuxLinks Podcast
Debian GNU/Linux
Talks from The Ohio Linux Fest 2009 are on Archive.org
The Wedding from The Ohio Linux Fest on The Source by Aaron Newcomb
My Gentoo update list of commands
In Episode 41 of Linux Crazy Podcast David Abbott updates my Gentoo box
I often hang out in #linuxcrazy on irc.freenode.net
apt-get update
yum update
Gentoo Live DVD 10.1
FreeConfrenceCall.com
vi Lovers home page
Google Docs adds mathematical notation
OpenOffice.org Math
Mathcad
2GB Sansa Clip for under $20 with free shipping
1GB Sansa Clip for under $15 with free shipping
TiVOgrab php script for transferring shows and re-encoding for portable players such as the Nokia N800 or N810
HFS Http File Server is a free stand-alone exe file server for Windows
10 Essential Plugins for WordPress
Setting a static IP on a Debian based distro
AVG Ant-Virus 9
AVG Link Scanner
Mike Tech Show podcast
Tech Vets podcast
F-Secure free online scanner
SQLzoo.net for SQL learning aids
Austrian police recommend Linux for online banking
Awesome Astronomy Pictures here and here
Galileo Scope Telescope project
Kompozer update for Ubuntu to get the more stable pre-release version
Humorous interview by Conan O’Brien of the co-inventor of the USB port
Free Program Books on StackOverflow.com
OpenBookProject.net
AllAboutCircuits.com
An app for killing all un-needed Windows processes
Technibble.com for all your Repair Tech resources

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My Pictures from the 2009 Ohio Linux Fest
This episode was entirely recorded on my Olympus LS-10
Klaatu from The Bad Apples and Linux Cranks podcast got my old server
FREE GEEK Columbus got most of the stuff I brought to the OLF swap meet
We stopped at the Cabela’s in Wheeling West Virginia on the way to OLF
We stayed at the Hyatt in Columbus Ohio
Last we we stayed at the Drury Hotel in Columbus Ohio
I borrowed a friend’s Verizon UM175 Cellular modem so I had Internet while at the Hyatt
Portable Ubuntu Remix for Windows
Talks from 2009 OLF
Open Street Map
Blender is a cross platform, free open source 3D content creation suite
Friday night we ate dinner at the BD Mongolian Grill in Columbus
Barley’s Micro Brewery is where the Friday night pre-party was held
The opening keynote was by Shawn Powers of Linux Journal Magazine, he also one of the Asus EeePC’s
40 years of UNIX
Doug McIlroy gave away the bride at the Podcasters and Listeners Unite session
Sine Nomine are not your average technology consultants, they are definitely able to get Old School when they need to
Peter Salus gave my favorite talk “The Importance of 1969“. He is also the author of “The Daemon, the GNU & the Penguin”
Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie worked under Doug McIlroy at Bell Labs
Linus Torvalds was born in 1969
Woodstock happened in 1969
Apollo 11 landed the first men on the moon in 1969
Bdale Garbee is the Open Source and Linux Chief Technologist at HP and has been a contributor to Debian since 1995
What is Steampunk?
Dual Core nerdcore rap music
Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Kuala is now in Beta
Compiz or landscape-client is giving me some trouble on my work Ubuntu 9.10 Beta desktop

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Richard Querin’s screencast on Inkscape
Olympus LS-10 portable recorder
Acronis Universal Restore
GParted
Clonezilla
Ultimate Boot CD for Windows with Fix-HDC
MyBrainRunsLinux.com
LinuxPlanet.org Blogs and Podcasts
Linux Mint
Podnutz episode about Micro Center
NewEgg, Fry’s Electronics, TigerDirect, Geeks.com, CyberGuys, Buy.com
Geek News Central Podcast
Tracy Holz YouTube Ubuntu Tutorials
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
The Podcast Patent
Sansa Clip
Sansa Fuze
What’s the difference between MTP and MSC modes?
Updating the Sansa Firmware
Handbrake to copy DVDs
Acidrip DVD ripping for Linux
How to choose a DLNA Media Server for Windows, Mac OS X or Linux
System 76 computers come pre-loaded with Ubuntu
Linux in Easy Steps by Mike McGrath
Free courses at Berkley
AcetoneISO
Podbean for your mobile phone
LoCode.com can send email or text GPS coordinates
RoadNav project
MyHardDriveDied podcast
GSmartControl is a graphical user interface for smartctl for all OS’s
HDDScan is a freeware utility for storage devices diagnostics
SkyDrive from Microsoft gives your free 25 GB of online storage
A-Drive gives you free 50 GB of online storage
Windows Shortcut Key Cheat Sheets
AutoHotkeys makes custom hotkeys in Windows easy
Opinion: The unspoken truth about managing geeks
Bell Labs History of UNIX
O’Reilly complete list of Linux Commands
TechNet video Mark Russinovich on Advanced Malware Cleaning
Process Explorer
Silverlight
Moonlight
SysInternals
World’s oldest working computer to be rebooted
RefurbUPS.com

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