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Beer Musings …

March 7, 2005

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A short beer theme from this weekend …

#1 … Wil Wheaton has a funny Stone Brewery (website) story. He is right on. Their beers are excellent. Congrats on being number 10,000 on their mailing list. [WIL WHEATON dot NET: Where is my mind?]

#2 … Forbes (28Feb05) has an interesting "entrepreneurs" article starting on page 57 entitled "Microbrewing – Chateau Dogfish: How does Sam Calagione get $9 for a bottle of beer?" by Patricia Haung. The article has details on Calagione’s Dogfish Head Craft Brewery and restaurants. Interesting stats on the microbrew business, Dogfish’s business plan, and some tidbits on beer history.

#3 … We had a little family and friends get together on Friday night. I finally tried a Chimay Ale … it was good but not really my style … it has a very strong in alcohol content. Part of the fun of the evening including sitting for a couple of hours with family friend Phil Laak (professional poker player who is dating Jennifer Tilley), and listening to Hollywood and Las Vegas stories.

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Podcast Alley Now Supports Monthly Voting

March 7, 2005

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Podcast Alley is one of the main places that "new" people to podcasting end up, and it is also a great community site for podcatchers and podcasters. They have reset the voting counters and enabled a new monthly voting plan.

I’d appreciate your vote but what I really want is your comments. Here are some "archived comments" for Tech Rag Tear Outs:

Worth the listen
If you are in the IT biz, this is a great feed to have. Helping you keep on top of the ever-changing landscape that we call The IT Field. Nice highlights that are to the point. Thanks for taking the time to put this together for us Steve, your work is appreciated.
Submitted By: Eric of San Diego on 20041215

IT info at its Best
Tech Rag Tear Out is a big time saver for me. Steve does a great job of tracking the information and advanced technology field on a regular basis. I’ve relied on Steve’s information and have not been disappointed. His concise and direct information is a must for IT weenies trying to get ahead of the dynamic playing field.
Submitted By: Glenn S. Tolentino on 20041216

Great IT Value
If you’re like me, you like to stay on top of the latest news and reviews from the technology magazines. But who has time to read them all? Evidently, Steve Holden does… and he provides a great service pulling out the best news and reviews and putting them into his TRTO podcast. Now, while you commute you can get caught up on the latest technology mag news and reviews. Great show!
Submitted By: hawks5999 on 20050209

If you could take a moment, and go over to this link (for Tech News Radio) and leave your own comment (+ vote) I’d appreciate it.

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Tech Tidbits Daily for Mar. 7, 2005

March 7, 2005

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This is your Tech Tidbits Daily for Monday, Mar. 7th 2005. "Darik’s Boot and Nuke (DBAN) is a self-contained boot floppy that
securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will
automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that
it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or
emergency data destruction." It supports a wide selection of operating systems. Definitely something to check out. For
more information about the links mentioned in this podcast, or for more
details on how to subscribe to this podcast check out www.technewsradio.com. You can also send audio or email feedback to technewsradio@gmail.com. Have a great
day.

[NOTE: Original link to this utility came from Boing Boing’s "Study: Used hard-drives full of juicy blackmail material."

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IT Conversations – Recently had a 200GBs Day

March 5, 2005

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Doug Kaye reports via this post "Blogarithms � A 200GB Day" that IT Conversations recently had a 200GB day of downloads. That is amazing.

To put that in perspective … Tech News Radio (in its first full month) and sholden.typepad.com did just over 10-GBs for the month of Feb05. The previous months were at a steady 6-7-GBs so things are moving. There are via Feedburner 130+ subscribers to Tech News Radio. I think there were before the consolidated site only 50+ listners to to sholden.typepad.com.

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New Tech Rag Tear Outs Post

March 4, 2005

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There is a new Tech Rag Tear Outs available at Tech News Radio. The focus of this edition is mostly on wireless and mobile news articles of potential interest.

Thanks for listening.

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Tech Rag Tear Out (TRTO) #021 [CRN, Mobile Enterprise, PC Mag, Communications News, InfoWeek, NWFusion]

March 4, 2005

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The 21st podcast of Tech Rag Tear Outs has been posted. Here are the detailed show notes (generated using PocketThinker including OPML):
- (00:00-02:26) Introduction
  
  Thanks to eDave.org and ChuckChat.com for the intros
  
  The theme of the stories covered is primarily wireless and mobile topics.
  
  Official Beer Of This Show: Hopzilla India Pale Ale (IPA) from
  Bert Grant Brewery
- (02:27-17:47) Primary Content
  
  Computer Reseller News:
  
  New MIMO wireless solutions from Linksys, Cisco, D-Link, & Video54 [01-24-05]
  
  Zero
  Technology Group offers servers and software
  developer kits to build Java 2 Micro Edition solutions for mobile
  devices [01-31-05]
  
  AD: Hawking Technologies "Hi-Gain" Wireless-G PC Card with directional
  antenna & signal strength LED indicator
  
  Mobile Enterprise:
  
  Junxion.com offers a WAP that interfaces to 3G network cards (pricing starts at $600) [Feb05]
  
  PC Magazine:
  
  New MSN Direct SPOT watches from Fossil FX3005; Abacus Watches AU4002; and Swatch Paparazzi [Jan05]
  
  Communications News:
  
  Toshiba Strata Wireless IP Telephone allows users to roam with a VoIP handset when within Wi-Fi coverage
  
  AD: Berkley
  Varitronics Systems offers a handheld based 802.11
  b&g analyzer that integrates with their mapping package called
  Yellowjacket Hive Software
  
  Information Week:
  
  UPS RFID Strategy – Investment (Impinj & Savi Technology), Pilot Programs, R&D [29Nov04]
  
  Wireless
  Sensors (aka "motes") – Overview of testbed, data integrators, and
  solution providers (Dust Networks, Ember, Crossbow Technologies) [24-Jan-05]
  
  Network World:
  
  More on MIMO or "pre-N routers" – Belkin, Linksys, Arigo, Netgear, Video54, D-Link, SMC, Atheros [2/7/05
  
  Demo 2005 – Meru Networks new WLAN architecture coordinates radio frequencies to insure interference is at a minimum
  
  Wireless
  at Las Vegas Airport: Free Wi-Fi using Aruba Networks H/S, and baggage tracking RFID (using FKI Logistex & Symbol Technologies) [2/28/05]
  
  Distributed Antenna System (DAS) Overview by James Hermann [2/7/05]
- (17:48-19:51) Closing
  
  Close out with awesome blues harmonica music from Billy Watson
  
  To leave audio comments call: 206-337-1533
  
  Have a great day!
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Tech Tidbits Daily for Mar. 4, 2005

March 4, 2005

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This is your Tech Tidbits Daily for Friday, Mar. 4th 2005. Today’s news is from WinZip. They have a new compression and encryption plug-in for Microsoft Outlook called "Winzip Companion for Outlook 1.0." The cost of the product is $19. The configuration options allow you to compress attachments by user preferences: automatically, ask first, or manually on a message by message basis. Messages can also be encrypted and protected using AES encryption found in their standard WinZip 9.0 product which costs $29 or you can get both tools for $39. For
more information about the links mentioned in this podcast, or for more
details on how to subscribe to this podcast check out www.technewsradio.com. You can also send audio or email feedback to technewsradio@gmail.com. Have a great
day.

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Overview of 1st San Diego Podcaster’s Meeting

March 3, 2005

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This is a good omen … there were four of us last night. There were four at the first Orange County Podcaster’s group back in December – me, Mr. Reel Reviews, and The Podcast Brothers (before their excellent show started).

The next OC one in January had 8 (intro to Grape Radio and May It Please The Court), and the February one had 16 or 17. Doubling every time so far.

But back to last night in San Diego. This was a great meeting! Let me emphasize GREAT! It was myself, Mr. Godcast, and Mr. MacCast, and a soon to be podcaster who will remain nameless.

We talked about:
- the state of podcasting
- the tools of podcasting
- who is and isn’t writing books (without violating any NDAs)
- how each of us are doing our podcasting (process)
- who we are listening to
- who we aren’t listening to
- are we or aren’t we going to do advertising
- where we think the future is going
- tips, tricks, and secret sauce ;-
If you are doing podcasting, or thinking of starting a podcast, you need to RUN to the nearest podcasting group; and LEARN, SHARE, and COLLABORATE.
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Tech Tidbits Daily for Mar. 3, 2005

March 3, 2005

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This is your Tech Tidbits Daily for Thursday Mar. 3rd 2005. Today’s resource of potential interest comes from Robert Scoble in a post entitled "Have your RSS feeds read to you by NewsAloud." This tool is available for free download and evaluation. A full version costs $20. In a nutshell, the tool will take an RSS feed like to Yahoo News and translate it into a "computerized voice" MP3 of the content. There is another tool called
Feedspeaker that has similar goals and features. We suggest testing both of them yourself, and letting us know what you think. For
more information about the links mentioned in this podcast, or for more
details on how to subscribe to this podcast check out www.technewsradio.com. You can also send audio or email feedback to technewsradio@gmail.com. Have a great
day.

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Small IT Shops – Ton of Open Source Resources For All

March 2, 2005

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Kevin Devin’s recent Tech Chat for his In The Trenches (ITT) podcast focused on small information technology (IT) shops. It was interesting in that of late, most of all my work has been about "large" enterprise efforts, but I was thinking that the folks who have "plenty" can help out the little guys via podcasts and weblogs in a serious force mulitplier way.

For instance, Sandra Gittlen over at Network World has a list of "open source testing tools" used in the Network World Lab Alliance:
- AirJack and File2Air for doing wireless penetration testing
- Ethereal for doing network protocol analysis
- Fedora Core as a general-purpose operating system
- Firefox with LiveHTTPHeaders & Web Developer Extension for testing and troubleshooting web pages
- Iperf allows for TCP/UDP packet analysis (capacity, latency, loss)
- Kismet finds and analyzes security settings on wireless access points
- Multi Router Traffic Grapher is a network based time series traffic grapher
- Netperf offers network traffic generation and benchmarking
- Nmap allows you to map out all network devices, services, and operating systems on a network [Tech Tidbits Daily for 15Feb05]
- Nessus is a vulnerability scanner that checks for known vulnerabilties
- Snort is an all-purpose intrusion detection system (IDS) that can be utiliized for packet sniffing and logging
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