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The 25th podcast of Tech Rag Tear Outs has been posted.  Here are the detailed show notes:

• (00:00-02:57) Introduction
  • Thanks to Adam @ The MacCast, AT&T voices, and Craig @ Godcast.org for the intro material.
  • Promos for: Tech Podcasts and Mike Tech Show
  • Official Beer Of This Show: The Stone Brewery's Ruination Indian Pale Ale (IPA).
• (02:58-26:50) Primary Content
  • PC MAGAZINE:
    • M-Audio's GrooveLab
    • Archos PMA 430 30-GB multi-media player
    • Accenture’s Chicago-based Technology Labs is working on a 10-ft by 4 ft touch-screen high-resolution “interactive wall”
  • COMMUNICATIONS NEWS:
    • Cisco MeetingPlace v5.3
    • Mitel Navigator desktop SIP device
    • New handheld cable testing solutions: Advanced Fiber Solutions’ UOR-100 OTDR; Test-Um’s NT960 Validator; PowerDsine’s PoE Tester; and Ideal Industries’ NAVITEK
  • MOBILE ENTERPRISE MAGAZINE:
    • Laptop reviews of: Dell D610, HP nc6000, IBM ThinkPad X40, Panasonic Toughbook Y2, Fujitsu LifeBook P7010D, and Apple’s 12.1” PowerBook G4. And desktop replacement: HP Compaq nc8230 or a 17” Apple PowerBook G4.
  • INFOWORLD:
    • JBoss
    • Sun Sun Ran Server Software 3 and Sun Ray 170
    • HP Proliant ML150 Server
  • COMPUTER RESELLER NEWS
    • 8x8 Networks VoIP video phones
    • Tripwire Enterprise v5.0
    • ZyXEL’s new ZyWALL P1 Personal Firewall Device
  • NETWORK WORLD:
    • GPAnywhere by Full Armor.
    • Network Appliance Data OnTap Next Generation
    • Jason Meserve examines LifeSize new VTC gear
  • INFORMATION WEEK:
    • Walmart's next RFID plans
    • Diskeeper 9 (Windows disk defrag)
  • MAXIMUM PC:
    • Treo 650 vs. AudioVox PPC 6601 both using Sprint
    • Plextor PX-716A (external)
    • Microsoft has released Windows XP Pro x64 (64-bit)
    • Windows Future Storage (WinFS) to come to WinXP
    • Tech Station
• (26:51-30:28) Closing
  • Close out with awesome blues harmonica music called “Urban Menace” from Billy Watson
  • To leave audio comments call: 206-337-1533
  • Have a great day!

NOTE: This edition has various recording methods: Plantronics DSP-100 USB to WinXP, iRiver iFP-799 built-in microphone, iRiver iFP-799 + Sony ECM-MS907 (condenser microphone); and then iRiver iFP-799 + Sony ECM-MS907 + Rolls MX56S mixer (battery powered).

This is your Tech Tidbits Daily for Thursday, April 28th, 2005. Today's podcast contains one technical news item and one listener feedback.

The Neverfail Group has announced a new release of their high-availability solution for Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server. Key features: monitors SharePoint for content changes, and backs those up immediately to a fail over server; seamless fail-over to the secondary server in extreme failure cases; and it also protects SharePoint content in Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Exchange, among others.  This software can also be configured to work with VMWARE's virtual server technology. I personally have been using SharePoint at my work for several years.  It has really been a key collaboration tool for doing information technology (IT) management for myself.  I'll definitely have to take a look at this tool to make sure we have better up time capabilities.

Today's feedback is again a post to Podcast Alley by TL. Thanks for the great feedback!

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 email feedback to [email protected]; or you can leave audio comments by calling 206-337-1533. Have a great day.

I highly recommend going over to Kevin Devin's In The Trenches site and giving a listen to the  ITT - 04-25-2005 podcast. There is a good list of suggestions on doing backups (yours truly has some input), and there is great A2A ("Admin To Admin") segment from George Starcher that looks at network switch spanning trees.

This is your Tech Tidbits Daily for Wednesday, April 27th, 2005. Today's podcast contains one technical news item, and one subscriber feedback.

Arxan Technologies has developed an application that provides effective protection against reverse engineering, code lifting, and unauthorized changes to software applications.  The tool is called "EnforcIT" and it is based on new technology created at the National Security Agency's Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security, located at Purdue University. EnforcIT provides user selectable and adjustable levels of security.  These can be added to binary executables before distribution so that tamper-proof "Guard" algorithms are inserted into the executable itself. The Guards do not interfere with the functions of the executable, but increase its level of security and resistance to tampering and reverse engineering.  Currently targeted systems include Windows on Intel, and VXWorks on PowerPC.

The listener feedback is from a post to Podcast Alley by hawks5999.  Thanks for the support!

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 email feedback to [email protected]; or you can leave audio comments by calling 206-337-1533. Have a great day.

This is your Tech Tidbits Daily for Tuesday, April 26th, 2005. Today's podcast contains one technical news item, and one subscriber feedback.

Mena Trott one of the Founders at Six Apart has a blog post that outlines her perspective as their flag ship product Movable Type has been maturing and growing.  One of the more interesting things that they recently did at Six Apart was hire a professional quality assurance team to track down and fix new and old bugs.  This effort has resulted in a new version 3.16 that was just recently released and it is probably the quality of code that users of their product have grown to expect.  As a very happy user of TypePad which utilizes MovableType, this should be good news for me and my subscribers. Kudos to Six Apart.

Next up is a quick review of a comment posted by Glenn T on Podcast Alley.  Thanks for the feedback.

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 email feedback to [email protected]; or you can leave audio comments by calling 206-337-1533. Have a great day.

This is your Tech Tidbits Daily for Monday, April 25th, 2005. Today's podcast contains two technical news items, and one subscriber feedback.

First is that W2K News recently had a pointer to a new column on SearchWinSystems.com called "Beginner's Guide to Scripting" by Christa Anderson, a noted authority on the subject.  The first article for this column covers: Objects, properties and methods; Scripting hosts and the interpreter; How are scripts interpreted?; and Data types you'll use.  This seems like a great getting started resource.

Next is eEye has announced a new free wireless network scanning utility called Retina WiFi that can detect wireless devices connected to your networking environment.  It can also find rogue access points or improperly setup transmitting laptops.  In addition, there is also advanced reporting capabilities enabled so you can better access your security posture.  Currently the released versions are for Windows, an optimized Japanese version for Windows, and PocketPC.

User feedback is from Eric and it was a comment posted to Podcast Alley.  Thanks for taking the time to post a comment for Tech Rag Tear Outs!

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 email feedback to [email protected]; or you can leave audio comments by calling 206-337-1533. Have a great day.

A couple of items of potential interest for technology podcast listeners:

• Slashdotreview.com is the featured podcast over at Podcast Alley
• Boing Boing reports that some of the original Screen Savers are going to get together on a regular basis and podcast. [NOTE: I listened to the first one.  It was pretty good.]
• MAKE magazine is now podcasting
• FORBES magazine is now podcasting with a heavy on business focus

This is your Tech Tidbits Daily for Friday, April 22nd, 2005. Today's podcast contains three items of potential interest all focusing on database technologies.

First is a recent news item from Computer Reseller News that examined the new MySQL v5 that is expected to be released soon.  Some key new features include: stored procedures, triggers, and views.  Subscription support services will also be available starting at just under $600 per server per year.

Next is that I noticed that Dell is aggressively advertising in many of the tech magazines that they now offer a 5-user pack of Oracle Database 10g Standard Edition One for Windows for $745, or you can get this bundled and installed on a Dell PowerEdge 1850 Server starting at $2949 with a reported savings of $700.

Lastly, an advertising insert called Developer Tools Roadmap publishing in Jan 2005, had a product highlight article on Sleepycat Software's Berkeley DB that focused on the two optimized versions of Berkeley DB for native XML and the other for 100% Java.  This tool also has application programming interfaces for C, C++, Perl, Python, and TCL.  And it can also run customized platforms utilizing Linux, BSD Unix, VXWorks, and QNX.

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 [email protected]; or you can leave audio comments by calling 206-337-1533. Have a great day.

Hello faithful listeners and subscribers of Tech News Radio.  I am sorry that there have not been any new posts since Friday of last week.  Let's be honest.  This is not my full-time job.  And the full-time job that I have, has been keeping me very busy the last two weeks.

And I haven't quite started to make enough money from podcasting to hire a staff to do the pre- and post-production which would in theory fix all my podcasting troubles.

All that being said, I think I have made some adjustments to my personal and work schedules to better enable regular podcasts starting next week.  Thanks for your support.

If you are looking for some podcasts to hold you over ... check out www.techpodcasts.com, and I highly recommend some of the more recent Dave Winer's Morning Coffee Notes (minus the singing ones).  They have been excellent.

On today's podcast, Kevin Devin @ In The Trenches offers up his thoughts on the new release of VMWare 5.0.

If you have comments sent them to [email protected], or or call 206-337-1533 to leave us your feedback.