Tech Talk Radio Podcast

Operation Bot Roast, Spam King arrested, Profiles in IT (Developers of Intel's first CPU, Intel versus Busicom), Mechanical computer update, nanolasers, international space station, WEP cracked in 60 seconds, and war driving equipment. This show originally aired on Saturday, June 16, 2007, at 9:00 AM EST on Washington Post Radio (WTWP) Radio.

Free temporary phone numbers, sounds for sleeping, barbecue grilling calculator, searching the Net using Sputtr, Profiles in IT, Ada Lovelace (first programmer), Charles Babbage (inventor Analytical Engine, first programmable mechanical computer), Digicomp mechanical computer kit, NASA satellite completes Venus fly-by, and space shuttle Atlantis launched. This show originally aired on Saturday, June 9, 2007, at 9:00 AM EST on Washington Post Radio (WTWP) Radio.

Job search strategy (referencing John Crystal, Dick Bolles, "What Color is Your Parachute"), Profiles in IT (Rasmus Lerdorf, Creator of PHP), NOAA Atlantic hurricane prediction methods, DNA tests support out-of-Africa migration, American Idol voting technology and abuses, Apple to drop digital rights management on iTunes, DVD encryption key availability makes AACS useless, and Chinese cyberwarfare on the rise. This show originally aired on Saturday, June 2, 2007, at 9:00 AM EST on Washington Post Radio (WTWP) Radio.

Keeping up with key IT standards and trends, Google checkout, 32GB flash drives in laptops, evaluation of pirated software purchased in China (Windows XP, Windows Vista, Office 2007, and Macromedia Dreamweaver 8), Silly Worm infects flash drives, new Facebook platform enables innovative applications, text messaging in the news (exorbitant bills, driving while texting (DWT), cheating during exams), text message email gateways, text message lingo, and Russian Trojan Gozi is a keylogger. This show originally aired on Saturday, May 26, 2007, at 9:00 AM EST on Washington Post Radio (WTWP) Radio.

Final implosion and explosion of supernovas (creation of heavy elements); podcast overview for our radio listeners (history of podcasting, programs that can read podcast feeds, and RSS versus ATOM podcast feed standard showdown); meta-languages reviewed; meta-language standards discussed (SGML, HTML, XML CSS, and more); website that creates sound files on the fly of Wikipedia articles; military limits YouTube, MySpace, and other social networking sites; mission that may find Vulcan, Spocks home planet; Internet traffic report; Internet Storm report; distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack in Estonia; and sites with embedded malware on the rise. This show originally aired on Saturday, May 19, 2007, at 9:00 AM EST on Washington Post Radio (WTWP) Radio.

Laptop versus desktop; recovering deleted digital photos; significance of the Supernova explosion; Big Bang 101 and star formation; impact of Supreme Court patent law decision; frivolous and questionable patents; advances in racing bike technology, results of service academy cyber defense competition; Chindia (China + India) strategy for companies; and rejection of XXX top level domain by ICANN. This show originally aired on Saturday, May 12, 2007, at 9:00 AM EST on Washington Post Radio (WTWP) Radio.

Checking upload/download speed; sticky web sites; keeping neighbors off your wireless network; China trip update; using Google Maps from New York to London; crackdown on military blogs and emails; Mercury and its molten core; why raw and hardboiled eggs spin differently; getting an IT job without experience (a continuing story); joining IT trade and professional organization; women in technology resources; and setting up a home web server. This show originally aired on Saturday, May 5, 2007, at 9:00 AM EST on Washington Post Radio (WTWP) Radio.

Remote broadcast from Beijing, China. ancient Chinese technology; overview of Chinese communications technology; Chinese cell phone deployment; delays in Chinese 3G cell phone standards; Internet sites blocked in China (actual trace route test results from Beijing); using proxy servers to by-pass filters (actual test results from Beijing); nude chat group in China; WTO piracy action against China; buying pirated software at Beijing IT Mart; examination of Chinese pet food suppliers; Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft to cozy with Chinese officials, and computer virus generation in China. This show originally aired on Saturday, April 28, 2007, at 9:00 AM EST on Washington Post Radio (WTWP) Radio.

Getting my first Gmail account by trading chocolate covered cicadas; my favorite Sterling cycle (hot air) engine; Blackberry service outage analysis; State Department hacked using infected Word document; service academy cyber competition overview; man lives underwater in capsule for 12 days; Dell offers XP after customers reject Vista; pet food recall web sites; transitioning to the job market after a military career; getting an IT job without experience (a continuing story); reading industry IT rags; knowing key IT standards; joining user groups; and setting up a MySQL database. This show originally aired on Saturday, April 21, 2007, at 9:00 AM EST on Washington Post Radio (WTWP) Radio.

Location of missing White house emails; using the Whois database to see who owns a domain name; using robtext to search Whois database; distributed computing on the Internet (seti@home, folding@home, world community grid); getting an IT job without experience (a continuing story); Backtrack2 hacking tools revisited; and setting up a Beowulf linux cluster. This show originally aired on Sunday, April 15, 2007, at 8:30 AM EST on Washington Post Radio (WTWP) Radio.

High tech Easter egg night light (Oggz); advances in LED lighting; Google voice activated search; finding your misplaced cell phone with phone-my-phone; Microsoft ANI patch; developers behind Kazaa, Skype, and now Joost; using Skype for international travel; and by-passing country-wide blocking of VoIP using proxy servers. This show originally aired on Sunday, April 8, 2007, at 8:30 AM EST on Washington Post Radio (WTWP) Radio.

Google April fool's joke; other April fool's jokes for nerds; fool's tools CD; string theory (breakthrough or cruel hoax); reconciling quantum mechanics and general relativity; report on debate between Brian Greene and Lawrence Kraus; imagining extra special dimensions (using Flatland analogy); Backtrack2 hacking toolset released (a great way to learn Linux, hacking, security); and seniors love Nintendo Wii. This show originally aired on Sunday, April 1, 2007, at 8:30 AM EST on Washington Post Radio (WTWP) Radio.

Computer games to be archived in the Smithsonian; top ten computer games of all times; action plan to divert killer asteroids (it is a real possibility); my all-time favorite computer games (the Myst series); Twittervision; and Net Neutrality (law, politics, and money). This show originally aired on Sunday, March 25, 2007, at 8:30 AM EST on Washington Post Radio (WTWP) Radio.

USB (universal serial bus) standards; wacky USB devices for the geek (missile launchers, mouse wheel, kitty, screen smasher, and much more); Martian South Pole probe; Martian caves revealed (Is someone hiding?); my identity theft update; replacement battery woes; and origin of the smiley face. This show originally aired on Sunday, March 18, 2007, at 8:30 AM EST on Washington Post Radio (WTWP) Radio.

Daylight Saving Time (DST) details and oddities; DST computer system updates; Internet time-check protocol; radio-controlled clocks change to DST automatically; how radio-controlled clocks work; how the Cesium fountain clock (NIST atomic time standard) works; spam filters; and corporate blocking of objectionable sites. This show originally aired on Sunday, March 11, 2007, at 8:30 AM EST on Washington Post Radio (WTWP) Radio.

Fixing a slow Windows computer (ruling our hardware issues; removing adware and spyware; cleaning the registry; defragmenting the hard drive); identity theft at eBay (a continuing and frustrating saga); how long the average water molecule stays in the atmosphere; founder of Wikipedia has trouble cashing in; NASA releases new photos of Saturn; and electronically monitoring your driving habits (or your kid's driving habits). This show originally aired on Sunday, March 4, 2007, at 8:30 AM EST on Washington Post Radio (WTWP) Radio.