From the archive

November 2004

85 posts

Mars Rovers 320 days and counting

It is always great to see that our taxpayers dollars have went a long way. Rovers Opportunity and Spirit continue to collect science even though running on reduced power. The next true test will be to see just how long they will continue to rove the red planet. [Nasa JPL]

Geek News Central Podcast #14 11-29-04

Light news today due to the 4 day Thanksgiving weekend, but I was able to dig out some stories and have a 30 minute show for you today. GeekNewsCentral-112904.mp3 Call us on Skype at GeekNewsCentral or leave a message at 619-342-7365 on the show and get a free gmail account. As always vote for the show at podcastalley.com Initial Show

Bofra Worm Gets Past Antivirus Software

Users of Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) are vulnerable to infection by the Bofra worm, downloaded through website banner ads.

Do you have a commercial product you want to Advertise!

Due to out of control bandwidth on our twice weekly Podcast I am going to offer a single 2 minute spot in the Geek News Central Podcast for $20.00 which will be aired for two shows. I will provide a link on the 2 Podcast post with the disclaimer that it is a advertisement. I am going to reserve the

Sales of Linux Servers Up

Sales of network servers running the open-source Linux operating system are topped $1 billion last fiscal quarter, according to International Data Corporation (IDC), a market research and analysis firm.

Geek News Central Podcast #13 11-24-04

A show for all of you folks that will be on the road today driving to your in laws for Thanksgiving. I have a terrific show for you and this is one of our best yet. GeekNewsCentral-112404.mp3 Clarification we are not yet in the running for the 2004 Weblog Awards but with your help we possibly could be. Please go

What is your LCD Screen settings in Windows?

For those of you on laptops and also those of you using LCD screens with your computers you will want to read this very good article from [Robert Scoble]

Finding how your site is being ranked by Google

I always visit Google and search on several keywords that I know will bring our site to the top of the list. This is to insure the parsing is correct and also find out how old the archives of the site are. But if you want to expand your search terms to see where you fall out be sure to

Websites not using RSS Dead

I have to agree with the author of the linked article if a site's content is not available via RSS I no longer read the site. I just do not have the time and when so many thousands of other sites are RSS compliant I can surf the net the way I want and not open myself up to malicious

Trackback ping caused site alignment issue

Weird first time we have ever had a trackback ping cause a formatting issue on the site. Luckily the Podcast listener that sent the trackback let me know and we were able to clear it out...

Geek News Central Podcast #12 11-22-04

Real happy with this show in the can in under 1 hour nearly 41 minutes of information. If you have a clue on how to help us with BitTorrent setup we need your help.. GeekNewsCentral-112204.mp3 Want a Gmail account leave a comment on this show at 619-342-7365 or if you have a bitch call me on Skype at "GeekNewsCentral" or

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