GeekSpeak for July 29, 2006
News and Calls
Keeping you up to date on the week's news and taking your calls the Geeks, Lyle Troxell, Sean Cleveland, Drew Meyer, and Miles Elam take time to whip out a great show.
[ Audio 24.6 MB mp3 ]Geek News
A heaping bowl of news. Now free of trans-fats.
Anti-Virus Ain't What It Used To Be
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Popular anti-virus software seem to work as an inverse of its popularity
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It is getting so bad that as much as 80% of new malware gets through
(http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/Eighty_percent_of_new_malware_defeats_antivirus/0,2000061744,39263949,00.htm)
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The Geeks recomend AVG (see our writup on AVG), or Avast
Space is Cool (err... hot?)
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Quasar points to MECO rather than black holes?
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But just in case black holes exist, NASA has modeled a collision between two
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Does size actually matter? How about 200 million light-years long
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Will it go boom? A type 1a supernova in the works? Soon? (Soon being relative.)
Biology is Cool (err... old?)
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Jurrasic Park anyone? Soft tissue from a T. Rex as well as 10 million year-old bone marrow from amphibians
Building Your Own Computer
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Sean recently had a great experiance with custom ordering a computer from http://ibuypower.com/.
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We mentioned http://comprec.com/ a site which helps the non-geek through the processes of picking out a computer.
