May 25

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The Windows Segment of the show.

1:30 – Free AVG Anti-Virus v8.0 is an excellent free anti-virus program for Windows.

2:49 – DogPile is a search engine that searches Google, Yahoo! Search, Live Search, Ask.com, About, MIVA, LookSmart, and more all at once.

3:49 – ClamWin is a totally free anti-virus program that you can use in a commercial setting, its not just for home use.

4:30 – The Linux Segment of the show.

4:40 – Dell Inspiron 2500 Laptop. PIII-900 with 256 MB RAM, and 20 GB HD :-)

5:00 – Linksys PCMCIA card

5:05 – Lucent Wireless card

5:22 – Intel 815EM integrated graphics

6:05 – 915Resoultion plugin for Linux which helps identify problemactic Intel graohic hardware.

6:30 – Fedora 9

6:39 – The NetInstall CD for Fedora 9.

8:03 – Download Express for Windows allows you download Linux distros really, really fast! :-)

9:20 – PCLinuxOS 2007

9:35 – Linux Reality Podcast episodes about PCLinuxOS.

11:00 – apt-get and Synaptic Package Manager for Linux.

12:54 – KDE v3.5.9 is the default desktop in PCLinuxOS 2007.

13:05 – The PCLinuxOS 2007 Control Center.

16:56 – The KDE Control Center.

18:30 – What’s a Live CD?

18:35 – Boot from a Live USB flash drive.

19:26 – The Geeky Gadget segment of the show.

20:14 – KVM switches

20:40 – CentOS Linux

21:02 – Crazy mouse on a KVM.

22:35 – Find a good deal on a Belkin 2-port KVM on eBay.

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May 18

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The Windows segment of the show.

00:43 – Mozy Home is a free automatic off-site backup utility that gives you 2 GB of free off-site storage space. Use THIS LINK to 2.25 GB of free off-site storage. that’s extra 250 MB of free space when you sign up!

1:45 – SyncBack is my favorite free backup utility for Windows.

4:20 – Optmize Guides are free, easy to read, comprehensive guides for Windows 2000, XP, and Vista.

5:10 – NirSoft is a fantastic web site offering the best free tools for password recovery, packet sniffing, and other security tools.

6:40 – The HP Learning Center offers free professionally prepared online courses in every imaginable technology field. Click here to see a list of all the free courses.

9:45 – Cygwin is the free Linux-like environment for Windows.

10:45 – GNU Utilities for Win32 are a collection of common Linux utilities that run on Windows.

11:12 – Evernote Beta is a very cool web site allowing you to save anything to a web accessible site. Send an email to me at russ at thetechiegeek dot com to request an invitation to this Beta site.

12:11 – The Linux segment of the show.

12:15 – ‘top‘ is a system monitoring command line application in Linux.

14:10 ‘rsync‘ is a synchronization utility in Linux that makes a get utility for backups.

15:25 – OpenBSD is a free Unix like operating system.

15:55 – The ‘w’ command is the Twitter of the terminal window; it tells you who is logged on and what there doing! :-)

17:00 – The ‘who‘ command shows you who’s logged on.

36:45 – The Geeky Gadgets segment of the show.

37:10 – Linc from “The Linux Link Tech Show” wrote this fantastic how-to on viewing your TiVO recording on your Linux box and your Nokia N770, N800, or N810.

What’s a DVR?

KnoppMyth, MythBuntu, MythTV

Hauppauge TV tuner cards, the WinTV, 150 and 350.

41:00 – The TiVO Desktop software for Windows.

45:13 – ‘tivo-decode‘ strips the proprietary formatting out of the .tivo files and save them as a normal mpeg for viewing on your Linux machine.

45:38 – ‘tablet-encode‘ is the Linux command app that encodes your files for play on the Nokia Internet Tablet.

46:00 – Synaptic Package Manager had 3 of the 4 files I needed; libc6-dev, g++, mencoder.

48:00 – Shout-Outs to listeners Don and Drew! :-)

48:15 – Progress on the “Listener Project”

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May 11

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0:41 – Errata

1:19 – BSD Talk podcast

1:25 – Codeweavers, the company behind WINE.

2:02 – Listener Tracy Holz sent in this .pdf “Linux Distributions and What They Can Do For You”

3:24 – CloneZilla is a Linux based LiveCD for making cloned backups of your hard drive.

3:30 – The “Going Linux” podcast.

3:50 – Seagate FreeAgent 500 GB External USB hard drive. Find a good price on one here on PriceGrabber.

4:20 – SyncBack is an excellent freeware backup solution for Windows.

5:51 – YouTube videos describing how to burn an .iso file on a Windows or Linux machine.

6:30 – Ultimate Boot CD is an absolutely awesome set of freeware tools all included on a Bootable CD.

7:00 – What’s the difference between -R and +R DVD’s?

12:04 – What is NTFS Formatting?

12:18 – Debian Linux

12:25 – The “uname -a” Linux command

13:40 – Test out your backup with a test restore!

14:40 – Some YouTube videos asking the question: Do you really need to choose “Remove Hardware Safely” in Windows?

17:39 – Some pictures of my Clonezilla restore screens. 1. Are you sure you want to do this? 2. Progress. 3. More Progress. 4. Still more progress. 5. All done.

18:50 – LOL – This is from my Pre-Vista Ultimate Install, I got this error before I even installed Vista, this worried me a little.

21:23 – Windows 2000 and Windows XP in a Virtual Machine.

22:24 – Google Hacks on YouTube. This one by JimmyR is the one I talk about in the show.

22:49 – The awesome web site of JimmyR.

24:44 – Deskview.exe is an awesome freeware stand alone exe that will turn all the icons on your Windows desktop to a list view saving tons of desktop real estate.

25:14 – Why you should put lesser used desktop icons in a folder on your desktop.

25:39 – Windows explorer.exe

26:26 – “ResizeEnable” is a plugin for Windows that you can not live without. This plug in allows you to resize any window in Windows. This has been tested in Vista.

27:51 – The Geekie Gadget segment of the show.

27:55 – Flash Memory / USB Flash Drives

27:59 – Corsair Voyager Flash Drives.

30:00 – What does “cross-platform” mean?

30:37 – GT Model of the Corsair Voyager Flash Drives.

30:52 – TrueCrypt is free encrpytion software.

31:50 – SD Flash Memory

32:09 – The Nokia N800.

32:30 – Kingston Elite Pro series of SD Flash Memory.

32:50 – The Palm Zire 31.

34:00 – USB Memory Card Reader from NewEgg.com

34:14 – LISTENER PROJECT

34:40 – How do I make a videocast?

37:00 – What’s an ERP system?

37:50 – I finally stop ranting long enough to describe the “Listener Project”.

40:30 – Oh well, I’m back to ranting about how people use there computer.

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May 4

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2:07 – HowToForge Linux tutorials

2:15 – The Ubuntu Forums for getting all the help you need with Ubuntu.

2:50 – The Linux Link list of Linux Podcasts.

3:00 – Linux Reality is a podcast aimed at the new Linux user.

3:15 – Screencast video of Linux Reality Episode 11 on Linux File System.

3:29 – Episode 49 of Linux Reality is one of my favorites, its on the “screen” command.

3:35 – Episode 37 of Linux Reality on “ssh”.

3:40 – The Going Linux Podcast is another excellent Linux podcast for the new and advanced user.

3:55 – The Fresh Ubuntu Podcast dealing with everything to do with Ubuntu Linux.

3:59 – The Linux Link Tech Show Podcast (Streamed live on Wednesday Nights) The Grand-Daddy of all Linux podcasts.

5:00 – Thank you to listeners

5:10 – Thanks to Chad Wollenberg from the Linux Basement podcast.

5:50 - SPECIAL LINK – Listener Greg Schwartz created this 7 page .pdf file of 20 Vista Tips and Tricks. Thank you Greg !!!

7:40 – Virtual Machines and a comparison of VM’s.

9:00 – Sun Microsystems owns MySQL and VirtualBox.

11:45 – Wine and Wine Doors are applications for Linux that allow you to run Windows software on a Linux machine. (Wine means: “Wine Is Not an Emulator”, I accidentally say it means “Windows Emulator” in the podcast”…sorry) Click hear to listen to the “BSD Talk” podcast interview with Jermey White the founder of CodeWeavers, the company behind Crossover and Wine.

21:15 – Hidden files and folders in Linux begin with a dot (.)

23:00 – Keep redundant hardware on hand for mission critical servers hosting virtual machines.

26:20 – Remote controlling machines with LogMeIn and TightVNC

27:20 – Wubi is an easy dual boot installer of Ubuntu Linux for Windows.

28:50 – GRUB and LILO are bootloaders for Linux.

32:10 – A-Drive Beta and MediaMax offer free online storage.

34:45 – Download Express is a way-cool freeware download manager for Windows.

38:55 – 7-Zip is and excellent free compression utility for Windows and Linux

40:25 – File size limits on the FAT file system.

42:43 – Where my .vdi files? They are hidden files in the .VirtualBox directory on your /home/user

44:30 – File compression on Ubuntu.

46:00 – Do you remember using PKZIP on MS-DOS?

46:45 – What are “man” pages?

52:50 – Anti-Virus on Linux with avscan and ClamTK on Ubuntu.

59:30 – The Geeky Gadget Segment of the show

59:35 – The Nokia N800 Internet Tablet.

59:40 – The other models are the N770 and the N810.

1:00:25 – N810 and N800 on Pricegrabber.com

1:04:00 – Nokia Internet Tablet forum and Internet Tablet video tutorials.

1:07:46 – Project Guthenberg, free download books that you can read on your Internet Tablet.

1:14:18 – Red Pill mode, makes the N800 totally hackable and is a reference from The Matrix.

1:15:00 – What is “Bricking“?

1:16:17 My Gateway M675 is running cooler now.

1:19:50 – IRC chat rooms that I hang out in are #lottalinuxlinks, #linuxbasement, #freshubuntu, #linuxoutlaws, #linuxreality on Freenode.net (Use Mibbit.com to connect to IRC easily)