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Friends In Tech – “A Geek Christmas Carol” Released

December 18, 2005

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As a follow on to "The Server Room of Horrors" produced by Friends in Tech
for Halloween, we are proud to present to you, "A Geek Christmas
Carol." The familiar Christmas tale but with a geeky, tech twist.

This production was a lot of fun to put together which included all FiT
members along with family members and some special podcasting guests.

Feel free to check it out at http://www.friendsintech.com/agcc or
subscribe to the FiT RSS feed at http://www.friendsintech.com/wp-rss2.php.

From all Friends in Tech members, we wish you all a happy and safe holidays.

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Tech Tidbits Daily Podcast for December 16, 2005

December 16, 2005

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Today’s podcast is all about conferences … these are listed in order of occurrence. So the first ones are really soon, and the ones towards the end are in the future … but don’t procrastinate on signing up if they sound interesting ….
- Guy Kawasaki @ Garage Technology Ventures will be having an online seminar to discuss his book The Art of the Start (highly recommended and not just because I got mentioned in the forward) on January 4th, 2006 at 10 am Pacific.
- Consumer Electronics Show 2006 will be in Las Vegas, NV from January 5-8, 2006.
- If you are coming to AFCEA West 2006 in San Diego, you might want to check out a course called "Military Satellite Communications in a Net-Centric Environment" that is running January 10-12, 2005.
- SANS is offering their Firewalls, Perimeter Protection and VPNs course in Mission Viejo, CA in the SANS Mentor format beginning on Wednesday, January 18, 2006.
- VoIP 2.0 & the Internet Telephony Conf. & Expo will be Jan. 24-27, 2006 in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
- Medical Design and Manufacturing West 2006 will be in Anaheim, CA from Jan. 30 through Feb. 2, 2006.
- Supporting, Troubleshooting, and Optimizing Windows Server 2003 by CompuMaster will be in San Diego, CA from Feb. 2-3, 2006.
- Software Security Summit will be held in San Diego, CA from Feb. 6-8, 2006.
- DCI’s Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing Conference will be held Feb. 7-9, 2006 in Chicago, IL.
- TDWI World Conference on Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing will be held in Las Vegas, NV from Feb. 19-24, 2006.
- The Search Engine Strategies Conference & Expo 2006 will be February 27 – March 2, 2006 in New York City.
- Fred Pryor Seminars’ "How To Supervise People" will be in select locations in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, and Utah during the month of March 2006.
- O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology Conference or ETECH will be in San Diego, CA from March 6-9, 2006.
- FOSE 2006 will be at the Washington Convention Center in Washington DC from Mar. 7-9, 2006. The focus will be on software, hardware, security, wireless, mobile, and networking technologies.
- Software Developer West 2006 will be held Mar. 13-17, 2006 in Santa Clara, CA.
- The Inteq Groups’ Business Systems Analysis Training will be in the Washington, DC area from March 21-30th, 2006.
- DCI’s Portals, Collaboration, & Content Management Conference will be starting on April 4, 2006 in San Diego, CA.
- IDC’s IT Forum & Expo "Enabling Business Transformation: From Vision To Reality" will be at the Sheraton Boston Hotel in Boston, MA from Jun. 14-15, 2006 and will be held in-conjunction with CIO Summit 2006.
Announcements:
- Listen to the podcast for Thursday, Dec. 8, 2005 for details on a special contest from TomBihn.com for listeners of TechNewsRadio.com.
- Listeners can support TechNewsRadio.com podcasts with a financial donation via Amazon or Paypal.
- The next GotoMeeting
  & TechPocasts.com event is being planned for January 2006.
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Tech Tidbits Daily Podcast for December 15, 2005

December 15, 2005

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Want to play with Microsoft server technologies in a digital sandbox? Then check out TechNet’s Virutal Lab. Some things you can try out include:
- Live Communications Server
- Rights Management Services
- Windows Server 2003 R2 Labs
- SQL Server 2005
- Microsoft Operations Manager 2005
- SharePoint Portal Server 2003
- Internet Security Accelerator
- Exchange 2003
There are some unique system requrirements like OS, Browser, Screen Size, ActiveX Control, etc.

Announcements:
- Listen to the podcast for Thursday, Dec. 8, 2005 for details on a special contest from TomBihn.com for listeners of TechNewsRadio.com.
- Listeners can support TechNewsRadio.com podcasts with a financial donation via Amazon or Paypal.
- The next GotoMeeting
  & TechPocasts.com event is being planned for January 2006.
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Bob Gaudio on Rhino Records Podcast

December 15, 2005

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Rhino Records Podcast has an interview with Bob Gaudio that was just posted.

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Tech Tidbits Daily Podcast for December 14, 2005

December 14, 2005

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Why should information technology (IT) professionals pay attention to RSS feeds like Slashdot.org or Digg.com? I share my thoughts via pointers to some recent articles:
If you can’t keep up with the RSS feeds, then check out: Slashdotreview.com and the Diggnation podcasts

Time is running out to listen to the podcast for Thursday, Dec. 8, 2005 for details on a special contest from TomBihn.com for listeners of TechNewsRadio.com.
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Tech Tidbits Daily Podcast for December 13, 2005

December 13, 2005

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Today’s podcast is a quick look at embedded computing via a very interesting article by Edward Correia for Software Developer Times called "VxWorks 6.2 by Wind River Systems: A ‘Legos’ Approach" published on 01Dec05.

Message from Steve Holden, "If you can support the podcast with a
financial donation, it would be greatly appreciated. There are several
options in the ‘Advertising’ section on the right-hand column of
TechNewsRadio.com."

Don’t forget to listen to the podcast for Thursday, Dec. 8, 2005 for details on a special contest from TomBihn.com for listeners of TechNewsRadio.com.

The next GotoMeeting
& TechPocasts.com event is being planned for January 2006.

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Podcast Directory Woes – Ray Booysen with iPodder.org

December 13, 2005

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Ray Booysen who manages several nodes (hacking, games, and technology) in the iPodder.org (aka Indiepodder.org) has been having a bunch of problems and not getting anywhere. He posts his details of his woes at:
- http://www.rjb.za.net/archives/2005/12/13/ipodderorg-node-editing/
Ray makes some good points on how little support there is within the directory. I was able to get Jersey Boys Broadway into iTunes, Yahoo, Odeo, and Podcast Alley before I gave up on the insanely stupid multiple directory hell that podcasters are currently in. I can’t even seem to get into Podcast Pickle, and I still can’t figure out what AOL is doing.

Starting a new podcast can be a real challenge, and I think I sort of know what is going on.
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Tech Tidbits Daily Podcast for December 12, 2005

December 12, 2005

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Today we look at two articles from Computer World:
- 21Nov05: LogiCube’s "CellDek" for doing digital forensic work on cellphones
- 14Nov05: Penguin Computing has a "mobile" Linux cluster in the works
Listen to the podcast for Thursday, Dec. 8, 2005 for details on a special contest from TomBihn.com for listeners of TechNewsRadio.com.

Listeners can support TechNewsRadio.com podcasts with a financial donation via Amazon or Paypal.

The next GotoMeeting
& TechPocasts.com event is being planned for January 2006.
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Monday Early-Evening Mini-Link Fest

December 12, 2005

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Some stuff caught my interest as I was moving through my Newsgator RSS subscriptions this afternoon:
- Dynamism December 2005 Holiday Newsletter [Mobile]
- Ronald Ondrejka – The Role of the First Spy Satellites [History]
- TechPodcasts.com’s RoundTable for Dec 10, 2005 looks at potentially good Holiday Gifts [Podcasting]
- Having trouble deleted Microsoft Outlook folders? Try this link. [Tip]
- A gadget that might let you play console games on your laptop or desktop screen. [Gaming]
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Anthro eNook Special

December 12, 2005

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I just got an email from Anthro (800-325-3841) about a deal they are running on th eNook – the Wall-Mounted Charging Workstation that we did a recent Tech Tidbits Daily on.

If you order an eNook before Dec. 31, 2005 you will get a free Accessory Shelf for your
gadgets (save $29). And if you order before Dec. 14, 2005 your order should be delievered before the Christmas holiday.

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