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On Today’s Show: Upgrades, Hacking, Wind Up Cars, Caffeine and Superheroes

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Podsafe Music & Announcements

• Maria Daines: House of the Rising Sun
  • Folklore House of the rising sun

• Wordpress 2.5 is now out, So when will I upgrade? Problem with free software
• The weekend begs of Spring, Trout Season Opened, Baseball Opening Day is tomorrow

Real News Bytes

• Lower than Low, Message board for epileptics attacked
• Day 1: Nothing. The error is obviously Human
• Day 2 Hacking the Gibson… Macbook Air Falls in under two minutes
• Day 3: Windows Vista SP1 laptop fall on final day. After some installs
• Ubuntu Stand alone at the end
• Comcast Degrading Signal? So thats why Lost has looked bad lately

Tech Cruft

• Drive a small car? Need a boost?
• Concept Art, PC on a Pallet. Needs a little tweaking
• Photoshop goes online, and free. But not without issues
• After the last show we talked about small and useful, this fits the bill in spades

Caffeine & Food

• Safe Driving, Caffeine tip
• Twitter is my new source for awesome links
• Snapple’s New “Water”, Give me beer
• Starbucks buys Clover, mass data collection
• This is stupid. But I like the scale

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• Phone Me: 215-240-1319 :: Email Me @ CaffiNation@gmail.com
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Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

LAMP is the Way to Go

I recently had a server die on me at my day job and I needed to choose a new os for it. After consulting twitter. I was suggested by Knightwise that I should go with a LAMP install of Ubuntu. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, Mysql, and Php. All of the elements I needed in one spiffy package. I had never done one of these before so I decided to give it a shot. Let me tell you this install when blindingly quick. It took longer to download and burn than it did to have a working web server again. With less than an hour of total downtime, including swapping video cards, and burning an ISO. Both of those were done at the same time. Thanks So much to Sir Knightwise for that suggestion. I have run linux servers for a while but i never tried the Lamp install. Quick and painless let me tell you.

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