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While it goes against many best practices to mix and match a lot of different client hardware configurations for an Enterprise, I am always fascinated by new client hardware designs.  Here are two that caught my eye:

• BoldData Systems' LCD PC
• Cybernet's Zero-Footprint-PC (ZPC-9000)

Also ... don't forget to check out on December 3rd, 2005 @ 11:00 am PST a special presentation by Christiaan at HomeNetworkHelp.info will covering: MythTV - Building, Setup, and Configuration.

The next GotoMeeting & TechPocasts.com event for Dec. 2005 is currently being planned.

Today's tidbit is going to examine Microsoft's recent Live! announcement.  The content is a summary of information gathered from Information Week, Computer Reseller News, and eWeek.

We look at what the product offering is expected to be near-term and into 2006 for the end-user (both individuals & small businesses), and for the developer.

We also weigh in on the question "is Microsoft late to the game" with a different opinion than many analysts and other tech podcasters.

Also ... don't forget to check out on December 3rd, 2005 @ 11:00 am PST a special presentation by Christiaan at HomeNetworkHelp.info will be covering: MythTV - Building, Setup, and Configuration.

The next GotoMeeting & TechPocasts.com event for Dec. 2005 is currently being planned.

The latest version of TRTO is out.  Sorry for the delay [Reminder to self - don't try out new audio editing software and expect everything to go smoothly!]:

Tech Rag Tear Outs for Friday, Nov. 25, 2005.  Our 39th show.

Feed back can be sent to:  [email protected].

(00:00-04:38) Introduction

Primary content for todays podcast is from nine (9) sources: Network Computing, Communications News, CIO Magazine, Wired, PC World, Information Week, Network World, Forbes, and Government Computer News.

Official Beer of the Show: Buffalo Bill's Brewery's Pumpkin Ale & Sam Adams' Black Lager

NOTE: On December 3rd, 2005 @ 11:00 am PST Christiaan at HomeNetworkHelp.info will covering: MythTV - Building, Setup, and Configuration:

(04:39-12:35) Part 1:

Network Computing (www.nwc.com):

Kyocera KR1 Mobile Router (www.kyocera-wireless.com)

Peter Morrissey on "Skype unsafe for Enterprise"

Communications News (www.commnews.com): Ulinx USB Extender

CIO Magazine (www.cio.com): Galen Gruman on "Open Source Lights Up" with mentions about LAMP, CRM, ERP, and Business Intelligence

Information Week (www.informationweek.com): Tony Kontzer with "Extreme Makeover: If your Website has a 2001 style, its time for a new look. Here's what five companies are doing to improve their sites"

Staples

Budget Rent-A-Car

NewEgg

Delta

A&E

(12:36-23:35) Part 2:

Wired (www.wired.com): Short overview of Gizmo VoIP

PC World (www.pcworld.com):

Adobe's Premier Elements 2 (movie editor) gets a 90 out of 100 rating

Microsoft Streets & Trips 2006 with GPS Locator to get voice directions

Nero vs. Roxio [good summary]

Network World (www.networkworld.com): Group Policy Mgmt Tools Tested evaluated from: NetIQ, Quest Software, ScriptLogic, and Desktop Standard

Top tool was NetIQ's Group Policy Guardian 2.0 and Group Policy Admin 4.6 (www.netiq.com)

Forbes (www.forbes.com): Stephen Manes examines Sprint's PocketPC PPC-6700 & the Sprint MM-A940 and Motorola Rokr

Government Computer News (www.gcn.com): David Essex with "Methods of Execution: Without good project tools, IT governance and portfolio analysis are just fancy words". Some web-based solutions included:

www.attask.com

www.alexcorp.com

www.eproject.com

www.umt.com

(23:36-30:25) End Of The Show:

The music at the end of the show is a song by Billy Watson called  "Tremelo"

Thanks to Harold Reed @ the DarnPC podcast for continuing to support the bandwidth needs of this show.

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GotoMeeting & TechPocasts.com event for December 2005 being planned.

I am having some post production problems I am working through to get the #39 edition of Tech Rag Tear Outs completed (it should have been up for download on Friday).  I hope to have things worked out ASAP.

Tech News Radio wishes you a very Happy Thanksgiving.  Over at Friends In Tech we created an MP3 of what we are all thankful for.  Check out this link to download.

Our pre-Thanksgiving Holiday show examines some upcoming conferences:

• Search Engine Strategies Conference & Expo 2005 will be December 5-8 in Chicago, IL.
• SANS Firewalls, Perimeters and VPNs course will be offered starting Wednesday, January 18, 2006 in Orange County, California.  The course will be led by SANS mentor Craig Duerr of Motorola. 
• SANS Training Program for the CISSP Certification Exam will be offered in Sacramento, CA from February 6 - 11, 2006.  The course will be taught by Joey Niem.
• Also the big SANS 2006 conference is in Orlando, Florida from Feb. 24 - March 4, 2006 with tracks on Audit (3 levels), Mgmt (2 levels), Operations (2 levels), and Security (13 levels from Intro to Windows to Oracle to Wireless)
• Portals, Collaboration and Content Management Conference will be in San Diego, CA from April 4-6, 2006 

And after a short plug by Eric Rice we examine PC World's article: "Solid $500 Laptops: Notebook prices have hit a new $500 low (with rebates).  We tested three budget units which proved surprisingly capable at standard office tasks" by Tom Spring. The laptops they looked at were:

• Acer Aspire 3003LCi {froogle}
• Dell Inspiron 1200 {froogle}
• HP Compaq Presario M200

The next GotoMeeting & TechPocasts.com event for Dec. 2005 is currently being planned.

This podcast includes coverage on the following three items:

• U3 is building a software integration business linking USB drive vendors to software solutions to make mobile applications and data more viable.
• Anthro Technology Furniture's eNook is a wall-mounted workstation space that has a lot of potential value in the home.
• InduKey North America offers a complete line of industrial keyboards and mice for very harsh physical locations.

The next GotoMeeting & TechPocasts.com event for Dec. 2005 is currently being planned.

Two things of potential interest from eWeek and Information Week.  First, from eWeek is details about Sun's new UltraSPARC T1 processor, and what it could mean to data-centers & competition to the "web tier" sector dominated by x86 running Linux.

And second, from Thomas Claburn @ Information Week with an introductory review of TransMedia's Glide product line of 12-browser based applications that include the following functions: Mail, Contacts, Shops, Photos, Music, Video, Docs, and Video/Audio conferencing.

The next GotoMeeting & TechPocasts.com event for Dec. 2005 is currently being planned.

The team at TechPodcasts.com has released two items that may be of interest with listeners to this site:

• Tech Podcasts this Week: Summary of what is coming from up from a host of tech podcasters
• Audio from the recent Tech RoundTable: With Doug Kaye from ITConversations  and Mark McCrery from Podtrac.com

Links to the MP3s are on the main site at TechPodcasts.com or subscribe to the RSS feed.

We are going to end the week with some pointers to computer network security news and a special announcement.  Links mentioned:

• Unix and Windows forensic tools [FCW]
• NIST and CSE push FIPS 140-2 for ANSI X9.66 [Network World]
• ActivCard's SecureLogin Single Sign On v5.5 supports Firefox [FCW]

The special annoucement:

• Jersey Boys Podcast

GotoMeeting & TechPocasts.com event for November 2005 is this Saturday - 1:30 PM (EST) and will cover news from the Portable Media Expo and Podcasting Conference.