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Microsoft Strata

Hosts: Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte

Microsoft Strata, Live Framework, Hyper-V, Android and Storm, Xbox Experience, and more.

• Windows Strata: Microsoft’s cloud computing platform gets a name
• Live Mesh might be named Live Framework, will likely run on top of Strata
• Thoughts on standalone Hyper-V
• Google Android and RIM Blackberry Storm
• New Xbox Experience coming November 19; Duke Nukem 3D is on Xbox Live Arcade now

Tip of the week: Think 64

Software of the Week: AssaultCube

Audible pick of the week: Planet Google: One Company’s Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know, Unabridged, By Randall Stross, Narrated by William Hughes. For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/windows.

Check out Paul’s blog at http://www.internet-nexus.com and the SuperSite for Windows http://winsupersite.com for more information.

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Things that were updated in this patch:

Security Update 2008-007

• Apache
• Certificates
• ClamAV
• ColorSync
• CUPS
• Finder
• launchd
• libxslt
• MySQL Server
• Networking
• PHP
• Postfix
• PSNormalizer
• QuickLook
• rlogin
• Script Editor
• Single Sign-On
• Tomcat
• vim
• Weblog

Read the details here.

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MitNicked

Hosts: Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, Patrick Norton, and Veronica Belmont

Special Guests: Kevin Mitnick and Ryan Block

Kevin Mitnick’s airport detainment, Craigslist bank robber, Steve Jobs is alive, and more.

Links to all our stories are at http://del.icio.us/twit/163.

Audible pick of the week: Anathem, Unabridged, By Neal Stephenson, Narrated by Oliver Wyman, Tavia Gilbert, William Dufris, Neal Stephenson. Get two free audiobooks when you sign up for Audible’s Platinum offer at Audible.com/twit2.

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p.s. yes I did miss posting a reminder for TWiT #162: Wedding Jitter Twitter.

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Issue #17

* Command and Conquer - Nano & Vim.
* How-To : Program in C - Part 1, Connect to IRC, Using GIMP - Part 6 and Scan & Convert to PDF.
* My Story - …When I Was Two
* My Opinion - Is This The Year?
* MOTU Interview - Harald Sitter
* Top 5 - Email Notifiers

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DOWNLOAD ISSUE 18 HERE (October 2008)

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Hasta La Vista

Hosts: Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte

Windows 7, Windows Cloud OS, Office Live, Hyper-V Server, Virtual Machine Manager, and more.

Topics:

• Paul’s Windows 7 presentation
• Microsoft reveals to announce “Windows Cloud OS” at PDC
• Future version of Office Live to be announced at PDC
• Microsoft releases free standalone Hyper-V Server; Enterprise-oriented Virtual Machine Manager 2008 to launch within 30 days
• Windows Vista Secrets SP1 arrives

Tip of the week: Managing videos with Zune 3

Software of the week:

• The Election Countdown 2008 Gadget
• Daily Gallup Poll Gadget
• More gadgets at livegadgets.net/#gallery

Audible pick of the week: Anathem, Unabridged, By Neal Stephenson, Narrated by Oliver Wyman, Tavia Gilbert, William Dufris, Neal Stephenson. For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/windows.

Check out Paul’s blog at http://www.internet-nexus.com and the SuperSite for Windows http://winsupersite.com for more information.

Sockstress

Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte

Steve explains yet another security flaw in the TCP stack.

Audible pick: I Am Legend, Unabridged, By Richard Matheson, Narrated by Robertson Dean. To sign up for a free audio book, visit AudiblePodcast.com/securitynow.

For 16kpbs versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve’s site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.

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