Welcome to Retro-FiT, the podcast review for the Friends in Tech Network, looking back on the week of December 25th, 2005.
We wish everyone a Happy New Year in 2006!

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Summary:

The Mike Tech Show

On the Mike Tech Show, Mike reviews a listener email discussing a printer problem, recounts some of the Christmas gifts he received, and he provides a great security link to assist you with the Zero Day Windows Metafile (.WMF) exploit.

Career Opportunities: The High-Tech Career Handbook

One little bug. That is all it takes to cause trouble in your job, your company and your career. In Career Opportunities: The High-Tech Career Handbook, I explain why you shouldn’t ignore the small issues or you just might find that they are not so small, after all.

Digital Experience Podcast

Lance from the Digital Experience Podcast has been busy with the holidays and his new job. In show number #98 talks about the new peer-to-peer plug-in coming exclusively for the Firefox web browser. He also gives a warning that what seems to be a beta of the new MSN Messenger is actually a virus targeted toward Messenger users. Show number 100 is coming up real soon, along with a celebratory giveaway contest.

The Typical PC User

On the Typical PC User podcast, Victor ended the year by providing some interesting new developments with his show, turning us on to Virtual Dimensions Desktop Manager, as well as a nifty command line tool NirCmd (pronounced NIR Command). I provided a segment on computer frustrations and Victor announced his new podcast The Typical Mac User www.typicalmacuser.com, beginning January 1, 2006.

Tech News Radio

Traffic was light this past two weeks on TechNewsRadio.com. But Steve managed to find the lost Tech Rag Tear Outs #40, and covered the following topics: Visioneer Strobe XP 300 desktop scanner; and the Colorgraphic Xentera GT PCI video card that can power 8 VGA screens from a single card at an output of 2048×1536 per display. There was also a quick look at new rack mounted fiber networking distribution hardware from Omnitron Systems Technology & Transition Networks. Embedded computing solutions from Arista, Digital-Logic, and Digikey were highlighted for prototyping options. Lastly, Steve reviewed an article from InfoWorld on Apple’s XSan 1.1 storage area network software. Tech Rag Tear Outs #40 had content from 12 trade magazines and covered topics related to: storage, mobile gadgets, configuration management, tablet PCs, network computer security, and enterprise applications. Most importantly though the “Official Beer of the TRTO #40 was: Coors Winterfest Ale – Brewed Once A Year in Celebration of the Season.”

In The Trenches

Kevin and George of In The Trenches covered listener feedback surrounding negative vendor experiences, a listener who has implemented Windows Storage Server 2003, an alternative from Symantec to Acronis’ TrueImage product for Servers, and wind up the show with a big thank you to ITT listeners for the past year.

Technorama

On Technorama, Chuck and Kreg provide their usual treasure chest of oddities including a massive purchase of Silly Putty by the folks at Google, a man who made a Bar-b-que grill out of a hemi engine, and they wrap up their interview series with Patrick Norton from Digital Life TV with an unexpected ending.

Freesoundproject Attributions:

• File Name: “chrchr.wav”
  Url: http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=513
  Date of upload: 2005-04-08 19:01:19

  Designer / Creator / Uploader:
  Name: “jenc”
  Url: http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/usersViewSingle.php?id=319

  Description:
  By “jenc” : mono field recording made using a homemade mic
  in a machine shop, sounds like filename–metal buffing machine

  Tags:
  field-recording machine metallic percussion

• File Name: “bang.wav”
  Url: http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=511
  Date of upload: 2005-04-08 19:01:19

  Designer / Creator / Uploader:
  Name: “jenc”
  Url: http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/usersViewSingle.php?id=319

  Description:
  By “jenc” : mono field recording made using a homemade mic
  in a machine shop, metallic bang

  Tags:
  field-recording machine metallic percussion

• File Name: “Sonic Valley-Air Ratchet 4.mp3″
  Url: http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=6082
  Date of upload: 2005-08-02 17:48:17

  Designer / Creator / Uploader:
  Name: “Sonic”
  Url: http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/usersViewSingle.php?id=2304

  Description:
  By “Sonic” : Recorded August 1, 2005. This is an air ratchet tool recorded at a metal shop.

  Tags:
  field-recording metal sonic tools workshop

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