The Techie Geek Podcast

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Ohio Linux Fest, September 10-12, 2010 Columbus, OH

Olympus LS-10 portable recorder
Acer Aspire Revo AR1600-U910H Mini Desktop PC
Good picture of the Acer Revo 1600 guts
KnoppMyth
MythTV
TiVo
Roku
Adesso 2.4GHz RF Wireless Mini USB Keyboard
Belkin F5D7050 Wireless G USB Adapter
SuperAntiSpyware Portable
Microsoft Security Essentials

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Ohio Linux Fest, September 10-12, 2010 Columbus, OH
Cisco ASA-5505 with other pics here and a Cisco command cheat sheet
Pictures of my toasted Cisco ASA-5505 main board here, here, and here
The email I received from Cisco about my died Cisco ASA-5505
APC Uninterrupted Power Supplies
Open Hardware and more links here
SmoothWall
Hak5 episode 718 on building your own firewall using SmoothWall
SheevaPlug wall wart server
FitPC palm size PC
OpenBlockS-600 micro server
Egnyte is like DropBox for the enterprise
Wuala is similar to DropBox and is crossplatform (Use this Promo Code to get 2 free GB of space PMH53KF77GJ3BB7FG5JK )
BackBlaze.com lets you have unlimited storage for $5 per month!
Reballing laptop motherboards by http://www.cheaptofix.co.uk/ with more videos here
LiberKey suite of portable apps
Fiverr.com is a place where you can get just about any job done for five bucks
WOT (Web of Trust) is a must-have browser plugin for Firefox and Chrome
101FreeTechBooks.com (Listener Adam did not have a good experience)
“Linux Basix” podcast
“Linux for the Rest of Us” podcast

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South East Linux Fest, June 12-13, 2010 Spartanburg, SC
Ohio Linux Fest, September 10-12, 2010 Columbus, OH
My portable recorder is the Olympus LS-10
Zoom H1 Handy Recorder captures 24-bit, 96 kHz stereo for $99
Nutz at Night podcast
Hitman Pro cloud Virus and Malware scanning
Jotti online virus scanner
VirusTotal.com online virus scanner
XP Quick Fix Plus fixes the annoying things malware disables
7 Sites With Laptop Teardown Guides and Other Laptop Repair Resources
Adesso 2.4GHz RF Wireless Mini USB Keyboard
Miro Video Converter converts to .vp8 and other popular formats
HunterDavis.com for ZipIt hacks and more
Microsoft Windows Live now offers free use of Office 2010 Word, Excel, Power Point, and One Note online
Dell comes right out and says “Ubuntu is safer than Microsoft Windows”
Awesome 7-minute video tour of the International Space Station
Tech Republic video article on “Five Linux rescue tools for recovering Windows, Mac, or Linux machines”
FLOSS Weekly episode 121 with Jonathan Simpson on Freenode and more (JonathanD in irc)
Geeknic.org to find or plan a Geek outing
FOSSevents.org to find FOSS events worldwide
DVDsuper999 is my recommended eBay seller for replacement laptop screen

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FreeLinuxBox.org helps your un-needed Linux box find a needy home

South East Linux Fest, June 12-13, 2010 Spartanburg, SC
Ohio Linux Fest, September 10-12, 2010 Columbus, OH

“Working in the Open” podcast
Jotti free online virus scanner
Screenshot of virus that Jotti caught but Norton and ClamWin missed
The Ultimate Boot CD
The Ultimate Boot CD for Windows
MemTest86 for testing RAM
Podnutz podcast network
“My Hard Drive Died” podcast with Scott Moulton
Scott Moulton’s web site
Scott Moulton’s YouTube channel
Scott Moulton on TekZilla
Victoria for hard drive diagnostics and recovery
MHDD is Scott Moulton’s favorite free tool for hard drive diagnostics and recovery
101FreeTechBooks.com
SARDU AntiVirus Rescue Disk
Kaspersky Rescue Disk
AVG Rescue Disk
Allway Sync free Windows backup software
Moving email from any platform to Gmail or Google Apps
Set up Dropbox on a GUI-less Linux server
Avidemux is a free full featured cross platform application for video editing
Roku is an awesome device for watching streaming Internet content on your TV
DVDsuper999 is my recommended eBay seller for replacement laptop screens

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FreeLinuxBox.org helps your un-needed Linux box find a needy home

South East Linux Fest, June 12-13, 2010 Spartanburg, SC
Ohio Linux Fest, September 10-12, 2010 Columbus, OH

SPECIAL THANKS to Tracy Holz for guest hosting for me this week!
http://www.hamtestonline.com/
http://www.hamsphere.com/
Windows SP1 no more XP downgrade License
Most Visited Websites – of the top 12 only 2 are not Google (youtube is owned by Google)
http://www.teefury.com/ - New shirt everyday - $9.00 & $2.00 shipping (like woot)
I do not have cable – this Youtube.com, Hulu, & below sites are
what I watch
http://www.mlb.tv
http://www.channelsurfing.net/
http://www.justin.tv/
http://pages.tvunetworks.com/
http://www.veetle.com/
http://www.doctorwho-episodes.com/
http://atdhe.net/
http://www.johnq.com/
http://www.viewmy.tv/
http://www.streamick.com/
All the Networks – NBC, CBS, Fox, Sci-fi, & the rest
Some of my video podcast that I watch
http://linuxjournal.blip.tv/rss/
http://revision3.com/ these are the 5 shows I watch
LabRats
Hak5
Sneeky Linux
Category5
Make Magazine
Wine Library TV
Imovies
http://docs.com/ - MS version of Google Docs– still in beta
In Linux - Liferea – all in one RSS reader – I use is for all RSS – blogs, audio, & video – backup the .liferea folder & that all you need to re-set it up
Canonical is looking to replace Mozilla’s Firefox with Google’s Chrome browser
Android 2.2 to include WIFI hotspot & tethering

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FreeLinuxBox.org helps your un-needed Linux box find a needy home

South East Linux Fest, June 12-13, 2010 Spartanburg, SC
Ohio Linux Fest, September 10-12, 2010 Columbus, OH

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Linc’s blog post about FreeLinuxBox.org
LinuxAgainstPoverty.org
FreeGeek.org
Gizmodo’s The Tale of Apple’s Next iPhone
Jon Stewart’s piece on the Apple iPhone fiasco
Netflix for catching up on TV series “House”, “Lost”, and “Heroes”
CBS News story on Copier Hard Drives
Dirak’s Boot and Nuke for scrubbing hard drives
“Linux Basix” podcast
“Retrobits” podcast
OldComputers.net
Old-Computers.com
Tandy 100 site
Tandy 102 web server hack
The Computer History Museum and their YouTube channel
EngineeringTV
Nirsoft NK2edit for exporting Outlook autocomplete
Nirsoft ProduKey and Magic Jelly Bean for retrieving product keys
10 Linux rescue tools for recovering Linux, Windows, or Mac machines
Microsoft FixIt Center Online
Jon ‘maddog’ Hall’s Picks for Today’s Six Best OSS Projects
Linux Journal Magazine
PageInventory.com to find other web sites on a shared host

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FreeLinuxBox.org helps your un-needed Linux box find a needy home

South East Linux Fest, June 12-13, 2010 Spartanburg, SC
Ohio Linux Fest, September 10-12, 2010 Columbus, OH

NiNite
FreeApp
SpamBayes
ShmooCon 2010
gpodder top 100 list
Shadow Copy
ShadowExplorer
Windows SteadyState
“My Hard Drive Died” podcast
drop.io
Maxthon
ZamZar.com
Free HQ Recorder
VLC
evri.com
MooO.com System Monitor
Conky
“LinuxBasix” podcast

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FreeLinuxBox.org helps your un-needed Linux box find a needy home

Texas Linux Fest, April 10, 2010 Austin, TX
South East Linux Fest, June 12-13, 2010 Spartanburg, SC
Ohio Linux Fest, September 10-12, 2010 Columbus, OH
Linc’s Birthday party was at the Tiki Bar
The BadApples.info oggcast
Hacker Public Radio
Linux Cranks OutKast
Kernel Panic Oggcast
Working in the Open podcast
Mandriva uses URPMI
apt
PClinuxOS
Averatec notebooks
wicd wireless network manager
Mandriva Server
Geek Talk with Mitch
Slackware
Knoppix
Corsair Voyager
Fix IE Utility v1.0
FreeNAS
OpenFiler
CentOS
Ubuntu
Debian
webmin
SecurityXploded
SystemLookup.com
Vipre Rescue
AVG Rescue CD and portable
Startup Delayer
mibbit.com
webchat.freenode.net
irssi IRC client
GNU Screen
WeeChat IRC client
compbeat.com for more online audio
Building the International Space Station
Jotti online virus scanner
Portable PDFTK Builder
more PDF apps
Portable JKDefrag
Amahi Home Application Server
FLOSS Weekly episode 112 on Amahi
Fedora 12 DVD
Calorie calculator on About.com Men’s and Women’s
Workout calorie calculator
Free Annual Credit Report

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FreeLinuxBox.org helps your un-needed Linux box find a needy home

Texas Linux Fest, April 10, 2010 Austin, TX
South East Linux Fest, June 12-13, 2010 Spartanburg, SC
Ohio Linux Fest, September 10-12, 2010 Columbus, OH
Interview with Kevin Wisher
AutoCad
SolidWorks
G-Code Programming
Paper Tape
Interactive White Board Projectors
Linux Mint
Moodle
Blackboard
Angel
Virtual Machines
Linux Terminal Server Project
Fedora Linux
Samba How-To tutorial by Kevin Wisher. Download it here
selinux
iptables
VirtualBox
Turbo Tax Online
Billing Manager is free online invoices from Intuit
Free online invoices from Billing Boss
Quicken Home and Business
OpenSSH
Free NX from NoMachine
Podnutz
SMD Computer
MediaMonkey

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FreeLinuxBox.org helps your un-needed Linux box find a needy home

Texas Linux Fest, April 10, 2010 Austin, TX
South East Linux Fest, June 12-13, 2010 Spartanburg, SC
Ohio Linux Fest, September 10-12, 2010 Columbus, OH
Interview with Tracy Holz (aka. Holtzer in IRC)
Tracy Holz’s “Working in the Open” podcast
Tracy’s computer repair business High Tech Redneck
Portable apps for Admins – Admin Swiss Knife Suite
Network World article on Admin Swiss Knife Suite
YouTube link on tweaking XP shutdown speed
YouTube videos showing HP dv9000 and dv6000 blank screen repair
MS Security Essentials
Juno Free dial-up Internet for 10 hours per month
OpenOffice.org excellent free cross-platform office suite
Second Life viewer for Linux
Knoppix LiveCD for retrieving files off unbootable Windows disks
OpenBSD
Packet filtering in OpenBSD
Chess Griffin’s “Linux Reality” podcast
Dave Yates “Lotta Linux Links” oggcast
.deb based Linux distros Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and Debian
Mandriva Linux
Easy URPMI makes administering a Mandriva box much easier
Linux related podcasts listed here and here

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