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Tech Tidbits Daily Podcast for October 17, 2005

October 17, 2005

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Looking for a new LCD monitor? The market moves quickly … but here are some highly recommended 19-inch products offering native 1280 x 1024 resolution with 16ms response time from MaximumPC for August 2005:
- Eizo L778 (retail $850)
- Viewsonic VP191b (retail $650)
- Philips 190P5 (retail $580)
In addition, PC Magazine for October 4, 2005 has awarded the following monitors with their Editor’s Choice award:
- Dell Widescreen UltraSharp 2405FPW (retail $1,199) with 4.5 out of 5
- Samsung SyncMaster 213T (retail $899) with a 4.5 out of 5
Definitely some good choices on paper, so a good place to start in my humble opinion. Good hunting …

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Busy Extended Weekend

October 17, 2005

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Friday: Pre-podcast production; run; Miramar Air Show; bike ride, baseball playoffs on TV; Tech Rag Tear Outs #36 (Part 1 of 2) …

Saturday: More podcast production; 4 hours of volunteer painting at La Mesa’s Harry Griffin Park; kid’s soccer games; more baseball playoffs on TV; run some errands; clean the pool …

Sunday: Church; Sunday School; Tech Rag Tear Outs #36 (Part 2 of 2); Horse Show in Santee; more baseball playoffs on TV + Chargers on TV; run in the rain (one of my favorite things to do); skim through the Sunday paper; podcast post productions (MindManager is no so ideal for export of show notes into my TypePad/HTML world)

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Tech Rag Tear Outs (TRTO) Podcast #036 [Part 2 of 2 – Baseline, Communications of ACM, Maximum PC, Federal Computer Week, Network Computing, eWeek, and Computer Reseller News]

October 16, 2005

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Show 36 (Part 2 of 2) has been finished and uploaded … HTML show notes (limited in links unfortunately) are below:
- Part 2
  
  Baseline
  
  From Sep05: Hands On Workbook – "Calculating Costs, Knowing When To Embrace Open Source" by Sean Nolan
  
  Maximum PC
  
  Want to quite your PC case? Side Panel mats from Dynamat & Akasa’s Paxmate
  
  Federal Computer Week (FCW)
  
  Portable technologies for business travelers:
  
  Lenovo ThinkPad X41 Tablet PC
  
  Iogear Laser Travel Mouse 1600
  
  Brother Industries MPrint
  
  Phatware PhatPad for PocketPCs
  
  Five star open-source products
  
  Apache
  
  JBoss
  
  MySQL
  
  OpenOffice
  
  PHP
  
  eWeek
  
  Microsoft, Palm, and Verizon new Treo to take on RIM’s Blackberry
  
  Five Across’ Bubbler 1.0 website creation tool
  
  Workshare’s Trace v2.0 (free)
  
  Communications of the ACM
  
  Y.Yuan and B. Detlor "Intelligent Mobile Crisis Response Systems: To Help coordinate responder communications and response efforts in order minimize the threat to human life and damage to priority." [Feb05; Vol. 48, No. 2; pp. 95-98]
  
  Network Computing
  
  iSCSI Modular SANs in Real-World Labs: EqualLogic PS200E Storage Array (A-); MPC Comptuers DataFrame 420 (B+); LeftHand Networks NSM 150 (B-); and EMC Clariion CX300i (C+)
  
  Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2006
  
  Disk To Disk To Tape (D2D2T) software: EMC Dantz Retrospect (B); with Symantec & Yosemite Technologies with B- scores; and C+ scores for BakBone, CA, and UltraBac
  
  Computer Reseller News
  
  Microsoft and JBoss agree to more interoperability
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New Apple Video iPod Illegal In California?

October 15, 2005

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There was a new law I think passed last year (2004) that went into effect on Jan. 1, 2005 in the State of California on what type of "video displays" can be visible to driver.

On the California Driver Handbook – Laws and Rules of the Road says:

Do not drive a vehicle equipped with a video monitor if the monitor is visible to the driver and displays anything other than vehicle information or global mapping displays.

I need to do some digging and find the actual reference. From the above text, I think even looking at my iRiver MP3 players screen could be consider a violation?

[UPDATE: Political cartoonist David Branch has his take on the Video iPod.]

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Tech Rag Tear Outs (TRTO) Podcast #036 [Part 1 of 2 – Network World, Software Development Times, InfoWorld, Information Week, PC Magazine, and Government Computer News]

October 14, 2005

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Show 36 (Part 1 of 2) has been finished and uploaded … not so great HTML notes are below … I had some unexpected errors and problems getting these out of MindManager (if someone has time to give me the time codes I’ll put them in also):

(00:00-??:??) Introduction
- Thanks to
  Dan Klass and
  Doc Searls for the intros.
- Part 1 has content from:
  Network World, Software Development Times, InfoWorld, Information Week,
  PC Magazine, and Government Computer News
- Part 2 has content from:
  Baseline, Communications of ACM, Maximum PC, Federal Computer Week,
  Network Computing, eWeek, and Computer Reseller News.
- Official Beer:
  Green Flash Brewing Co. West
  Coast IPA
(??:??-??:??) Main Content – Part 1
- Network World:
  
  WAN Optimization options:
  
  Availl
  
  Cisco
  
  Silver Peak
  
  Brocade
  
  PacketShaper
  
  Tacit
  
  Verizon Road Map:
  
  optical MPLS
  enhancements
  
  self provision circuits
  
  easily upgrade capacity
  
  home market: IPTV, more
  fiber roll outs
  
  EMC’s RepliStor
  for Windows
- Software
  Development Times:
- InfoWorld:
  
  Security Event Management (SEM) Test Center Report
  
  Solutions evaluated from:
  
  Arcsight
  
  e-Security
  
  Micromuse
  
  Network Intelligence
  
  Symantec
  
  Top Score (9.2):
  
  e-Security Sentinel 5.1
  
  Network Intelligence 7550-HA
  
  Jon Udell on "The Spiral Staircase of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)."
  
  Windows Workflow Foundation
- Information Week:
  
  IBM, Red Hat, and Trusted Computer Solutions is trying to get Red Hat Enterprise "Trusted" Linux NIAP Common Criteria EAL 4 rating
  
  Marc Andreessen has joined PHP vendor Zend Technologies’ Board of Directors
- PC Magazine:
  
  Editor’s Choice Award for MobiBLU DAH-1500i MP3 player
  
  SMS Text Messaging Resources (potentially useful):
  
  www.google.com/sms
  
  www.smarter.com/sms
  
  http://www.4info.net
  
  http://www.upoc.com
  
  http://www.synfonic.com
  
  http://www.411sms.com
  
  http://www.feedbeep.com
  
  auto.msn.com/everyday/trafficreport.aspx
  
  Editor’s Choice Award also for Google Earth
- Government Computer News (GCN):
  
  Federal XML Community of Practice + GSA & DHS have a new Federal guideline on XML schema creation
  
  11 ultraportable notebooks reviewed, best ones are:
  
  Dell Latitude D410
  
  Fujitsu LifeBook S7020
  
  HP Compaq nc4200
(??:??-??:??) Conclusion & Feedback
Requested & Thanks for Listening
- Email: technewsradio@gmail.com
  or call: 206-337-1533
- Skipping the music at the end of this split show, but here is a promo
  from RedJazz.com
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Guerrilla Marketing – Microsoft Vista Versions?

October 14, 2005

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I am not sure if I have the term right for what I think Microsoft is doing – floating an idea that isn’t that good, to gain favor for a changed decision in the future. It is sort of guerrilla marketing but maybe it is just a strong form of psychological marketing manipulation.

Here is the theory … Microsoft pre-announces (nothing really confirmed) their pre-Vista product marketing plan with 9 or so versions. Nobody likes it, especially folks like John Dvorak.

Actually, you weren’t suppose to like it. You are suppose to think it is stupid and a bad idea. That is part of the plan.

Come next Fall 2006 when Vista ships, Microsoft makes a "BIG" splash and says "we listened to everyone complaining about all the versions" so we just made one (with two/three vertical solutions).

It is either that (they are brilliant), or their marketing/sales team with 9 product SKUs are really in the need of some reality juice, because that currently floated idea stinks IMHO.

Only time will tell … speaking of predictions … my Apple video iPod prediction from 8/3/05 based on Engadget data was correct. Not a hard prediction though, and that probably makes me 1/100. 🙂

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Tech Tidbits Daily Podcast for October 13, 2005

October 13, 2005

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Today we look at Jack Herrington’s new book "Podcasting Hacks: Tips & Tools for Blogging Out Loud" by O’Reilly & Associates. How does it compare with Todd Cochrane’s "Podcasting: Do-It–Your-Self-Guide" and Michael Geoghegan & Dan Klass’ "Podcast Solutions"? You’ll have to listen to find out.

[NOTE: Thanks to Craig @ Godcast.org for helping me get the review copy.]

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Tech Tidbits Daily Podcast for October 12, 2005

October 12, 2005

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There continues to be some pretty interesting products in the Windows XP Media Center PC area. Two items that highlight this include:
- Hewlett Packard’s integrated suite that got a recent PC Magazine Editor’s award. This included the: HP 65" Microdisplay TV md6580n ($5K), Microdisplay TV Stand, and HP Digital Entertainment Center z557 ($2.1K).
- On the laptop size, the Asus W2V Elegant 17′ Widescreen Media Center ($2599) with their "Brushed Metal Design" has gotten some good reviews.
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Tech Tidbits Daily Podcast for October 11, 2005

October 11, 2005

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Here are some upcoming conferences and expos that might be of interest …
- Mobile Resource Management from Nov. 30 – Dec. 1, 2005 in Atlanta Georgia. Includes presentations from UPS, Whirlpool, Pitney Bowes, Cox Communications, and GE.
- The International Conference on Software Testing Analysis and Review is Nov. 16-17, 2005 in Anaheim, CA.
- David Hulett is presenting via Technology Training Corp (TTC) "Project Risk Management: Tools, Techniques, and Methods" in Washington DC from Nov. 3-4, 2005; San Diego, CA from Nov. 14-15, and Las Vegas, NV Dec. 8-9, 2005.
- WiMax World Conf. & Expo 2005 will be Oct. 26-28, 2005 in Boston, MA.
- RFID Link 2005 will be in Dallas, TX from Nov. 8-9, 2005 with presentations from Walmart, CVS/pharmacy, Kraft, DOD, Boeing, J.Crew, and a host of other companies using RFID and RFID solution providers.
- The Red Hat Linux Government User Conference will be Nov. 1, 2005 (Tuesday) from 7:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in Washington, DC. This is hosted by DLT Solutions and Hewlett-Packard.
- Gartner is combining their Application Integration & Web Services Summit 2005 and Open Source Summit 2005 into the same time period (Dec. 5-9, 2005) in the same location: Orlando, FL. Keynote will be: Tim O’Reilly.
- The Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies will be Nov. 29 – Dec. 1, 2005 in Boston, MA. Expect heavy industry participation from: EMC, Hummingbird, Interwoven, Quark, RedDot Solutions, and Stellent.
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Tech Tidbits Daily Podcast for October 10, 2005

October 10, 2005

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Is Microsoft dead? You may hear this theory floating around some tech podcast roundtables. I am not one that buys into this type of thinking that much.

A couple of reasons are highlighted in the podcast including: research.microsoft.com and a recent reference graphic in InfoWorld.com on 10.03.05 entitled "The New Playbook" that lists a "staggering" number of new Microsoft technologies that should be out before the end of 2006:
- Active Directory Federation Services [id mgmt in AD]
- Dynamics [consolidated business solutions]
- Centro [combo server, Exchange, security for the midrange]
- Language Integrated Query (LINQ) Project [.NET database language]
- Microsoft Expression [new graphics and Web design tool]
- Microsoft Visual Studio for Applications [.NET developer tools]
- Office "12" [revamped with support for workflow]
- Project "Atlas" ASP.Net [client scripting framework]
- Visual Studio 2005 [integrated .NET dev tool]
- Vista [next generation client OS]
- Windows Communications Foundation (WCF) [Web services protocols]
- Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) [richer GUI API with 3D visualizations]
- Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere [portable version of WPF]
- Windows Server 2003 Identity Management [id mgmt tools]
- Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF) [programming model for workflow]
Over the next year "success in integration" is actually going to be the metric for success for Microsoft, and to execute on that they will need to turn up the volume on their developer & power-user evangelism.

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