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Tech Rag Tear Outs for Friday, Dec. 9th, 2005.  Our 40th show has been found and released.  ;-) Sorry for the delay. [OPML]

(00:00-04:04) Introduction

Feed back or show content ideas can be sent to:  [email protected].

Official Beer of the Show: Coors Winterfest Ale - Brewed Once A Year in Celebration of the Season

(04:04-16:47) Part 1

eWeek (www.eweek.com):

NetApp has a new operating system in the works called Data OnTap GX that is optimized for fabric-attached storage and should be on them market in early 2006.

Xantrex Technology's XPower Pocket PowerPack 100 offers an external additional NiMH battery solution for a for mobile users.

Wired (www.wired.com): Neruros Audio (www.neurosaduio.com) MPEG-4 Recorder can create MPEG-4 files from TV feeds, DVD players, or any other video source from a composite output. It can record to CompactFlash or SD cards; and can transfer files via USB 2.0 port. The unit costs $130.

Network Computing (www.nwc.com): Bruce Boradman has a great article you should check down if you do an configuration management. The article outlines how to create a configuration-management database or CMDB that can support audit, control, and automation. The core background for creating the CMDB is done by utilizing resources fro IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL). Links mentioned in article:

BMC (www.remedy.com—atrium.htm)

ITIL People (www.itilpeople.com)

ITIL Survival (www.itilsurvival.com)

Microsoft (www.microsoft.com)

Managed Objects (www.managedobjects.com)

OpsWare (www.opsware.com)

Pink Elephant (www.pinkelephant.com)

Computer World (www.computerworld.com):

Russell Kay has a great intro article to Ruby on Rails. [AmigoFish.com an example?]

HP has announced Storage Essentials 5.0.

Information Week (www.informationweek.com): TabletPCs are strong in niche markets: health-care, pharmaceutical, and education. What will get them more mainstream? Units mentioned:

Lenovo ThinkPad X41

Fujitsu Lifebook P1510D

Hewlett-Packard TC4200

Motion Computing LS800

(16:48-29:52) Part 2

Network World (www.networkworld.com):

Sun Lucent, and Echoworx have announced a new encryption service.

NetIQ has a new tool called Changed Guardian for Active Directory that can audit and monitor changes in real time.

Forbes (www.forbes.com): Ready Fready (www.readyfreddy.com) has a $150 emergency knapsack that is color coded and labeled: Light-Power-Communications; Tools-Supplies-Food-Water; Protection; Personal; and First Aid.

Government Computer News (www.gcn.com): Red Hat & Sun aim for Level 4 Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance

CIO Magazine (www.cio.com): Had an ad for the new Motion Computing LS800 Tablet PC: 2.2 pounds; 8.4" SVGA, and Intel Centrino Mobile savvy

Computer Reseller News (www.crn.com): Antec (www.antec.com) P-1800 PC Case [$159].

Software Developer Times (www.sdtimes.com): Sleepycat Software's Berkeley DB XML 2.2 has performance boosts up to 500%

(29:53-36:00) Conclusion

Thanks: Harold Reed @ the DarnPC podcast, Frappr Map, and Jersey Boys Podcast

Music at the end from Bill Watson (www.billywatson.com).  The song is a short sample from the "Disinterested Wedding Song" from his new album Absolutely Live at the Rhythm Cafe - Billy Watson and the International Silver String Submarine Band."

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

No TechTidbitsDaily podcasts will be produced this week.  The next one (#190) will be on Monday, 02Jan06.  Have a great New Year celebration!

I hope to find the lost TechRagTearOuts #40 (12-09-05) and #41 (12-23-05) in my spare time this week.

A special thanks to all the listeners and readers who supported TechNewsRadio.com with a financial donation via Amazon or Paypal in 2005.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday wishes to all TechNewsRadio.com listeners and readers.  We are looking forward to 2006!

Some technology related podcasting news pointers:

• Macworld UK - "Podcast brings news from space The new free service is called NASAcast. It allows subscribers to download NASA features, news and other content as part of a new free podcast service. ..."
• Information Week has podcasts [not sure where the RSS feed is?!?]
• Tim Mayer and Jeremy Zawodny are starting a podcast called "Power Source." [SearchEngineWatch]
• Apple has a new Podcasting FAQ.
• OnTheRun with Tablet PCs has a conversation with Buzz Bruggeman of ActiveWords. [Source: What Is New]
• Red Herring - "A twenty-something team has launched a web-based audio magazine show called Dailysonic featuring music, news, science talk, and comedy sketches it hopes to build into a model for independent media, combining technologies like podcasting, MP3 downloads, audio streams, and news feeds."
• MacWorld seems to have pretty regular podcasts. As does The Mac Observer (TMO).  Our favorite Mac related podcasts continue to be Adam @ The Mac Cast and Surf-Bit's Mac ReviewCast.
• Interested in photography? Then The Image Doctors talk show podcast with Jason Odell and Rick Walker centered on all aspects of photography might be for you.
• RealTechNews has started podcasting.
• IBM is using a "free" iPod contest and podcasts to promote some of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) technologies.
• Designtechnica News recently did a podcast segment on recommended holiday gadget presents.

The technology podcast marketplace certainly continues to be growing, and being pretty competitive for listener attention.

The podcast for today is abstracted from an article from InfoWorld Test Center (10.17.05) written by PJ Connolly and Mario Apicella.  The article is entitled "Storage Area Networks (SANS): X Marks the Sweet SAN Spot - Apple Xsan offers industrial-strength performance and stability at a low, low price."

In summary the Apple Xsan 1.1 scored an '8.4 or Very Good Score' with high marks 8 or better for performance, scalability, ease-of-use, setup, and value.  It got two 7 scores for manageability and interoperability.  It is best suited according to the article "as a solution for accessing massive amounts of data without shelling out massive amounts of cash."

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

This podcast examines three items of potential interest with regards to embedded computing:

• Arista ATX-807 single board MiniITX computer
• Digital-Logic MICROSPACE Comptuer Systems
• DigiKey TFT LCD Toolkits

Announcements:

• 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.

Today we play a promo from Chuck Tomasi for a new podcast he is doing focused on Google's Gmail.

We also share some "very preliminary market research" on distributed fiber networking via a rack mounted distribution system.  The two vendors we are looking at are:

• Omnitron Systems Technology
  
• Transition Networks

Discuss this topic at FriendsInTech.com's Forums.

Announcements:

• 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.

Today is a quick look at two new products that were recently advertised in I think PC Magazine and Computer Reseller News that caught my eye:

• The new and improved Visioneer Strobe XP 300.
• And the Colorgraphic Xentera GT PCI video card that can power eight (8) VGA screens from the single card at an output of 2048x1536 per display.

Announcements:

• 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.

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.

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.