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This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. This is just an introduction, here is the rough text of the audio: Hello HPR: I'm murph, I've been an HPR listener for a long-time, into the TWAT days. I'll try to keep it quick. I started in computers in the early 80's with a VIC-20. After a few of the Commodore 8-bits, I settled into the Amiga line, which I daily drove up into this century, and stll have a few. In college in the 90's, I had a dilemma. I wanted to do C programming homework from home, but the expensive Amiga compiler wasn't compatible with the Sun workstations at school. Another student introduced me to Linux, and I promptly ordered a set of Slackware CDs and figured out how to install. I was looking for the compilers to complete my studies, but have stayed for the freedom, and the communities, like this one. I've used countless distros over the years, and use a few for different needs. I am still a Linux user, and system administrator. I've given a few talks on things like gnu/screen, mastodon, tmux ay conventions like Penguicon, SCaLE, HOPE and some more regional conferences. I was inspired by Lyle and Thaj Sera's HPR birds of a feather talk, and thought that it would make a good presentation, and asked them to let me base a talk off of it, which they encouraged. Part of that is how to submit a show, which resulted in me finally, after all this time, finally submitting one of my own, as opposed to the occassional show I've crassly barged into. If you want to reach me, the best ways would be by email or on the fediverse, @murph@hackers.town Thanks for listening. Provide feedback on this episode.

This week, Bob chatted with James, Norm, and Heidi from Penguicon. The discussion covers an introduction of Penguicon—an open-source and sci-fi (and more!) convention, favorite memories from Penguicons past (the '80s parties we hosted kicked ass!), and what's coming up for Penguicon. Unfortunately, there will not be a Penguicon 2025. Instead, there will be a smaller event held this year to raise funds to make Penguicon 2026 the best it can be. That event is The Underground Masquerade, a formal masquerade fundraiser gala, held on May 17, 2025 at Laurel Manor in Livonia. Tickets start at $150.

Special segment regarding the writings of Paul Weimer! Sci Fi World near L.A. still isn't open; LeGuin home becomes writers' residence, Hilary Hartwel is FIRED; The Acolyte gets review-bombed, as does Doctor Who. NASA ends first of few missions aimed at simulating life on Mars. We pour Paul Weimer a Cold One! A word from our (bogus) sponsor... Karl Klinger's bicycle is restored X2! Positive reviews for The Scotty! Re: Chris Barkley's article regarding Penguicon (and Leslie Varney!) Robert Bloch's Hugo Award is up for grabs!

Stef & Wolf were invited to be Guests of Honor at PenguiCon 2024 and they are here to report on 48 hours of pure awesomeness. Lots of talks (they gave four separate presentations) and LOTS of great questions later... they're here to tell you all about it. Have you ever wondered what you get when you combine Open Source, Sci Fi, and S3x Toys? You'll find out this week on Securing Sexuality!

After the tragic loss of an entire episode and taking some time to deal with some personal stuff we finally have a new Issue of Old Nerds Drinking.  In this issue we are live from Penguicon 2023 one of my absolute favorite local conventions.  

Recorded 4/23: It's our annual "Penguicon" episode. We are zooming from home with some of our favorite participants and new faces. Listen to be introduced to some new and exciting streamers, authors, and musicians. Find us @ShannonsParty and @BrainOfMaggie on Twitter. That More Thing on Facebook.

Special guest Blasted Bill is still here, and our favorite vehicles from 1980s pop culture are still doing battle in our latest FlopFight tournament. Some major players were knocked out last week (farewell, A-Team van) as Airwolf flew straight into the finals. Can anything stop that high-tech TV helicopter? The train from Silver Spoons and the station wagon from Nation Lampoon's Vacation are sure gonna try. Surprise upsets and random moments of silliness are guaranteed. Also: Happy Birthday to legendary voice actor Billy West! If the Red M&M were a 1980s vehicle, Billy would easily win the FlopFight. See Blasted Bill at Penguicon in Southfield, Michigan, April 22-24! And our regular links... The Flopcast website! The ESO Network! The Flopcast on Facebook! The Flopcast on Instagram! The Flopcast on Twitter! Please rate and review The Flopcast on Apple Podcasts! Email: info@flopcast.net Our music is by The Sponge Awareness Foundation! This week's promo: Cosmic Pizza!

#ThrowbackThursday Getting Drunk with Shannon & Maggie LIVE at Penguicon 2017. Tell your friends to listen. Find us @ShannonsParty and @BrainOfMaggie on Twitter. That More Thing on Facebook.

#ThrowbackThursday Getting Drunk with Shannon & Maggie LIVE at Penguicon 2016. Tell your friends to listen. Find us @ShannonsParty and @BrainOfMaggie on Twitter. That More Thing on Facebook.

#ThrowbackThursday Getting Drunk with Shannon & Maggie LIVE at Penguicon 2015. Episode 100. Tell your friends to listen. Find us @ShannonsParty and @BrainOfMaggie on Twitter. That More Thing on Facebook.

#ThrowbackThursday Getting Drunk with Shannon & Maggie LIVE at Penguicon 2014. Tell your friends to listen. Find us @ShannonsParty and @BrainOfMaggie on Twitter. That More Thing on Facebook.

#ThrowbackThursday Getting Drunk with Shannon & Maggie LIVE at Penguicon 2013. Tell your friends to listen. Find us @ShannonsParty and @BrainOfMaggie on Twitter. That More Thing on Facebook.

Recorded 4/24: Our annual LIVE Penguicon episode. The room is full or old friends and new. Join us for shots and shenanigans. Tell your friends. Find us @ShannonsParty and @BrainOfMaggie on Twitter. That More Thing on Facebook. 

We celebrate another year of missing Penguicon with our own “almost” Penguicon show. Our good Friends Shannon and Maggie join us for a wild conversation and a janky version of our game I Can Top That. It’s VERY janky sound…

The jankcast returns with so much jank and with special guest Shannon. Shannon takes some time for herself, Badger makes big changes to his life, Lyndsay watches the top grossing theatrical movie of 2020, Scott has some harsh words for…

In this episode of the Retro Detroit Nerdfighters, we talk about how people with invisible disabilities are able to keep jobs in retail, Streets of Rage 4, Streets of Rage irl, post Penguicon and other fun games. Guest for the show is Dave the Game. Music by Bulby

In this episode of the Retro Detroit Nerdfighters, we talk about how people with invisible disabilities are able to keep jobs in retail, Streets of Rage 4, Streets of Rage irl, post Penguicon and other fun games. Guest for the show is Dave the Game. Music by Bulby

In this episode of the Retro Detroit Nerdfighters, we talk about how people with invisible disabilities are able to keep jobs in retail, Streets of Rage 4, Streets of Rage irl, post Penguicon and other fun games. Guest for the show is Dave the Game. Music by Bulby

Recorded 4/24 at Virtual Penguicon 2020. Our annual AMA episode w/live audience. Special guests General Backpain and friends from YFU. We laugh. We cry. We go around the room. Find us @ShannonsParty and @BrainOfMaggie on Twitter. That More Thing on Facebook. #StayAtHome #Penguicon2020 #GeneralBackpain

Recorded 4/28: Our post-Penguicon episode. Preparing you for what's to come and getting caught up on the aftermath of a 4.5 hr Zoom session. Find us @ShannonsParty and @BrainOfMaggie on Twitter. That More Thing on Facebook. #StayAtHome

The jankcast returns once again with just as bad audio! Karen, Scott, Lyndsay, and Jon record from not-Penguicon to talk about more Animal Crossing, Mario Maker, and more. We also check in with each other to see how we are…

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Our episode review spreadsheet News Armin Shimermin’s offering another session of his previously-sold-out Shakespeare class on April 30th! @ShimermanArmin on Twitter HoloCon starts tonight! Hosted by the Lambda Quadrant with guests Nicole DeBoer and Chase Masterson. @LambdaQuadrant on Twitter and Twitch Larry Nemecek will be on a panel for the Virtual-for-2020 Penguicon today! It’s called “Life Support - Our Mission: To Boldly Go through uncertain times.” @LarryNemecek on Twitter The #TOSSatNight Twitter live-chat episode this week is What are Little Girls Made Of@TOSSatNight Segments Ten Forward If u can do a commentary track on a Trek episode with any Trek actor, which episode and actor would u choose? Episode Insight: Voyager, Season 7, Episode 14, “Prophecy”

Marc Gunn and Mikey Mason discuss "Jaynestown" from Firefly as they talk about symbols. * Special Note: Are you going to Dragon Con? We have a live episode of In the 'Verse scheduled. Check the Dragon Con Filk track for details. SHOW TIMES 2:42 Upcoming Shows with Marc Gunn 3:29 Upcoming Show with Mikey Mason 3:59 Geek Music News 8:10 Marc’s Song: 9:29 Mikey’s Songs: 12:01 Plot Summary 14:42 Discussion of Episode 6 “Our Mrs. Reynolds” 38:41 Mikey's thanks and song 42:18 Marc's thanks and song  #jaynestown #firefly #intheversepodcast SHOW NOTES MARC: My name is Marc Gunn, the creator of the Firefly Drinking Songs show. MIKEY: And I’m Mikey Mason, creator of the Beer Powered Time Machine Podcast. MARC: This is part SEVEN of our 14 part series. We are rewatching episodes of Firefly. Our goal is to find themes and stories that we can write songs about. Mikey: The  first six episodes were funded by Marc’s fans in his Gunn Runners Club. He hit a milestone which made this show happen. MARC: There are still eight more episodes of Firefly, and these next eight episodes were funded by Mikey’s fans helping him hit a Patreon milestone as well. But you can still help us in this creative endeavor by supporting him at  http://patreon.com/mikeymason/ MIKEY: And by supporting Marc at http://patreon.com/marcgunnmusic   UPCOMING SHOWS FOR MARC GUNN Aug 1-4: Gen Con, Three shows, Thursday, Friday, Saturday Aug 23: Interstellar Ginger Beer & Exploration Co, Birmingham, AL Aug 24: Pepper Place Farmer’s Market, Birmingham, AL Aug 29-Sep 2: Dragon Con with Brobdingnagian Bards Sep 21: Pepper Place Farmer’s Market, Birmingham, AL Sept 27-28: Browncoat Ball, Las Vegas, NV Season 3 - Coffee with The Celtfather every Wednesday at 10:00 AM EST starting August 7   UPCOMING SHOWS FOR MIKEY MASON May 3-5 - Penguicon in Detroit, MI May 10-11 - VisionCon in Springfield, MO May 31-Jun 2 - ConCarolinas in Charlotte, NC June 14 - Origins Game Fair in Columbus, OH July 5-7 - InConjunction in Indianapolis, IN And, online shows every month (don’t have dates currently nailed down for Feb/March yet, so… Check my schedule at mikeymason.com   GEEK MUSIC NEWS Marc is…MOVING Mikey is releasing songs from his EP Polyjuiced, as well as new music, fairly regularly on his Bandcamp site (mikeymason.bandcamp.com) His Patreon patrons get all of that music, too. REVIEW SONGS FROM THE LAST EPISODE Marc: “Spiderweb” Mikey: “Good Night Kiss”   Mikey: Good Night Kiss is a character song that could have multiple perspectives, and I like the ambivalence. It could be from Mal to Saffron, or Mal to Inara, or Inara to Mal. “We’re not who we thought we are. We’re both complicit in this.” FIVE MINUTE SHOW SUMMARY Episode 7: Jaynestown - Written by Ben Edlund Plot synopsis: Marc: The crew sets down at Canton, a town on Higgin’s moon, to discreetly pick up some contraband to finish a deal. They pose as buyers of “mud” (a type of clay) because the magistrate (Higgins) doesn’t take kindly to outsiders who aren’t buying. Mikey: Jayne is nervous because he botched robbery on this planet a few years ago, a robbery of Magistrate Higgins, and wears a ridiculous disguise. When they get into town they realize that Jayne is viewed as a local hero, and even has a statue in his honor and songs in his honor. Marc: They learn that the contact they were to meet had been caught and punished, but that his stash of contraband is still there. Then, Jayne gets recognized, and any chance of lying low disappear. Mal decides to use Jayne’s fame as a distraction so they can get the contraband. Mikey: Inara meets with Magistrate Higgins, who wants her to sleep with his son, Fess, a 26-year-old virgin, in order to “make a man of him.” She assures Fess that virginity is just one state of being and that he should be his own man. Marc: On the ship, an agitated River dismantles Shepard Book's Bible, insisting that it makes no sense and that she has to "fix" it. Book manages to calm her down and explains that the Bible is not about making sense, but about believing in something. Later, she attempts to repair and return it to him, but panics when she sees his wild head of hair that he normally keeps tied back. Mikey: The Magistrate learns that Jayne Cobb is back in town and releases "Stitch" from what appears to have been four years of solitary confinement in a very small cell. It’s revealed that Stich is Jayne’s former partner, whom he betrayed, from the botched robbery years ago. Higgins gives Stitch a loaded shotgun and then tells him that Jayne is back. Marc: After Inara and Fess have shared their intimate moment, she learns from him that Jayne is about to be captured and tried, and that the ship has been "land-locked". He tells her that he would rather Jayne escape. Mikey: The crew finds the contraband, and get it back to the ship behind the distraction of Jayne Day, then Mal & Kaylee go back to get Jayne, who is making a speech in the town square in fro nt of his statue. That speech is interrupted by a gunshot from Stitch. Marc: Stitch tells the mudders that Jayne is no hero, that the robbery was botched and that the only reason Jayne threw the money from their damaged aircraft is that it was still too heavy to fly after Jayne threw Stitch from the aircraft. Stitch fires the shotgun at Jayne, but a mudder jumps in the way of the blast. Mikey: Jayne stabs Stitch with a knife and, after a brief struggle, Stitch dies. Jayne then checks on the mudder who took the shot for him, finding him dead. Jayne knocks the statue of himself over, and they go back to the ship. Marc: With everyone back on Serenity, Wash attempts to take off, but finds the ship "land-locked" per the magistrate's order. It is quickly released, however, as Fess decides to prove himself a man by defying his father's attempt to capture the "Hero of Canton." Marc: I am ever so grateful for the kindness and generosity of Gunn Runners over on Patreon. Mikey: The generosity of my Patreon supporters is amazing, and helps keep the music being made. Thank you to all of you, especially Robin Abess, John R Wollard, Shouts Out Unicorn, Jeremy Jackson and Jennifer Lewis, and James Doster. And also to all my new patrons in the past few months that helped us get to this milestone: Paige, Mitch & Kelly P, Michael M., Matt B., Mark C (aka Sandpunk,) Adam G, Charlie T., Christopher R., Diana D., Eric H., Jerrie A., Jesse R., Jim M., Joshua O., Keith D., and Kevin B. (aka Moose!) Thank you for joining the family. CLOSING NOTES Marc: Thanks so much for listening. You can download these demo songs when you sign up on our Patreon pages. Find out more about Marc Gunn and Mikey Mason and how to support our music on Patreon. Mikey: We would love your comments, songs and lyrics or links to videos to share in the next show. Use the hashtag #InTheVerse. You can post them on the Blue Sun Tour Facebook page or email intheverse@fireflydrinkingsongs.com Marc: In the ‘Verse was produced by Marc Gunn and Mikey Mason. Sign up on our website and find out more about the Blue Sun Tour at http://fireflydrinkingsongs.com/intheverse/

We've known Tom Lawrence for a long time now, whether from the Sunday Morning Linux Review, his PC repair business, various meetups around the area, Penguicon, and more... he's a regular fixture at things going on and happening, and if you're not familiar with him yet... you should be.  Check out as we chat with Tom in particular about how he's built up a very successful Youtube channel with tens of thousands of subscribers and millions of views... Check out Tom's Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/TheTecknowledge   IT in the D On the web: http://www.ITinTheD.com On Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/ITintheD/ On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/IT-in-D-91763 On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ITintheD On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ITintheD Podcast Detroit is at: On the web: http://www.podcastdetroit.com/ On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PodcastDetroit On Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDetroit On Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/podcastdetroit

Music by Loeder. For more information on the Retro Detroit Nerdfighters Podcast, please visit www.ianformed.com

Music by Loeder. For more information on the Retro Detroit Nerdfighters Podcast, please visit www.ianformed.com

When the other two host and the sponsor doesn't show up to their own live show, it's up to one man to please the crowd. Due to circumstances beyond our control the live show didn't go how we planned. We'll try our best next year, we promise! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *If you would actually like to listen to the real live show and not the one that happened when we went back to the futures past, the link is below. I wouldn't recommend it though. https://soundcloud.com/sketchynonsense/penguincon-live-2019forget-this

It’s our annual Penguicon chaos on this episode of Sanity Claws Radio! Lindsay, Mike, Karen, Scott, Badger, and Jon are joined by the hosts of That More Thing with Shannon and Maggie as we play our annual game of audience…

http://smlr.us Downloads: Show 306 Contact Us: show (at) smlr.us or the Contact us page On the Lawrence Systems Forums https://forums.lawrencesystems.com/c/smlr-podcast Intro: Tony Bemus, Tom Lawrence, Phil Porada and Jay LaCroix Sound bites by Mike Tanner Phils GitHub https://github.com/pgporada The LawrenceSystems YouTube Channel Where videos https://www.youtube.com/user/TheTecknowledge Jay’s Site https://www.learnlinux.tv/ Jay’s Bash Prompt https://pastebin.com/kzPjE8y4  

Well, we survived another year of Penguicon, and we chat about that, as well as diving in with our guest from SecurityVitals.com to talk about not just consulting about security issues, but actually helping companies do something about them... Security Vitals is at: https://www.securityvitals.com/ IT in the D On the web: http://www.ITinTheD.com On Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/ITintheD/ On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/IT-in-D-91763 On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ITintheD On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ITintheD Podcast Detroit is at: On the web: http://www.podcastdetroit.com/ On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PodcastDetroit On Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDetroit On Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/podcastdetroit

Quite the packed house as we had Penguicon, Space Dive, and Wordcamp Detroit all in the room talking about how busy your calendar is going to be over the next few weeks.  A convention full of awesomeness, the Tangent Gallery getting turned into the Mos Eisley Cantina, and Wordpress tips and tricks?  Yes, please. Okay, maybe that's just our calendars...but still, these are three phenomenal things going on over the course of the next couple weeks, and you'll definitely want to check them out... Penguicon can be found at: https://2019.penguicon.org/ Bob's initial take on Penguicon is out at: http://www.itinthed.com/17044/2015-penguicon-review-part-1-the-sales-guy-learns-something/ Dave's initial take is out at http://www.itinthed.com/17054/2015-penguicon-review-part-2-the-geek-goes-home/ Space Dive is at: https://www.facebook.com/events/551680841987452/ Wordcamp Detroit is at: https://2019.detroit.wordcamp.org/ IT in the D On the web: http://www.ITinTheD.com On Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/ITintheD/ On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/IT-in-D-91763 On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ITintheD On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ITintheD Podcast Detroit is at: On the web: http://www.podcastdetroit.com/ On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PodcastDetroit On Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDetroit On Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/podcastdetroit

Welcome to In the 'Verse: Song Crafting for the Firefly Universe. Here are some of the themes discussed in this episode: Spiderwebs, Good night kiss, and Our Mrs Reynolds SHOW TIMES 2:42 Upcoming Shows with Marc Gunn 3:29 Upcoming Show with Mikey Mason 3:59 Geek Music News 8:10 Marc’s Song: 9:29 Mikey’s Songs: 12:01 Plot Summary 14:42 Discussion of Episode 6 “Our Mrs. Reynolds” 38:41 Mikey's thanks and song 42:18 Marc's thanks and song SHOW NOTES MARC: My name is Marc Gunn, the creator of the Firefly Drinking Songs show. MIKEY: And I’m Mikey Mason, creator of the Beer Powered Time Machine Podcast. MARC: This is part six of our six part series. We are rewatching episodes of Firefly. Our goal is to find themes and stories that we can write songs about. Mikey: These first six episodes were funded by Marc’s fans in his Gunn Runners Club. He hit a milestone which made this show happen. MARC: There are still eight more episodes of Firefly. If you want us to finish out the series, like we do, make a monthly pledge to Mikey Mason on Patreon. Once he hits his goal, we will record eight more episodes! Go to http://patreon.com/mikeymason/ MIKEY: And I’m 97% of the way there! Of course, if you enjoy Marc Gunn's music, you can still make a pledge to support him at http://patreon.com/marcgunnmusic UPCOMING SHOWS FOR MARC GUNN Coffee with The Celtfather every Wednesday at 11 AM CST on YouTube Interstellar Ginger Beer & Exploration Co in Alabaster, AL on March 8 Celtfather Evening on YouTube on March 10 The Hangout in Gulf Shores, AL on March 17, St Patrick’s Day, with Kilted Kings Sherwood Forest Faire, outside of Austin, Texas on last two weekends of March w/Brobdingnagian Bards Brennan’s Irish Pub in Birmingham, AL on April 6 Interstellar Ginger Beer & Exploration Co. on April 19 UPCOMING SHOWS FOR MIKEY MASON Mar 15-16 - BFG Con in Frederick MD Mar 22-23 - FantaSci in Durham, NC Mar 29-31 - Planet ComicCon in Kansas City, MO May 3-5 - Penguicon in Detroit, MI May 10-11 - VisionCon in Springfield, MO May 31-Jun 2 - ConCarolinas in Charlotte, NC And, online shows every month (don’t have dates currently nailed down for Feb/March yet, so… Check my schedule at mikeymason.com GEEK MUSIC NEWS Marc’s Special Offer on Patreon yielded 36 new Heroic Patron. Learned a LOT about Patreon once again. I also accidentally deleted my $1 level, which was a good move. I’m now making over $1000 per month on Patreon! Marc Finished his new CD, Heroes. And it’s fantastic. Great proof of concept too. Next up for Marc is working on the Brobdingnagian Bards next album. July Kickstarter. Blue Sun CD on Sale at the beginning of APRIL Mikey is recording a new album now. The Varlots! REVIEW SONGS FROM THE LAST EPISODE Marc: “Like a Big Damn Hero” Mikey: “Safe” FIVE MINUTE SHOW SUMMARY Episode 6: Our Mrs. Reynolds - Written by Joss Whedon Plot synopsis: Marc: Transporting some goods from one location on Triumph to another, the crew is set upon by bandits. One successful gunfight later and they’re dancing and singing in a nighttime celebration. Jayne is given a rain stick, and Mal has a wreath of flowers placed on his head, given wine to drink, and pulled to dance. Mikey: After Serenity is underway again, Mal encounters a stowaway in the cargo bay. The young woman Saffron informs him that she is his wife. Shepherd Book reads up on the local customs and informs Mal that he had inadvertently taken part in the local marriage ritual by accepting a wreath of flowers, drinking her wine, and dancing together. Marc: Mal has a heart-to-heart talk with the woman. Despite Mal's encouragement to be her own woman, Saffron cooks him a meal and offers to wash his feet. Jayne attempts to trade his favorite gun, "Vera", for Saffron, but Mal turns him down. Mikey: When Mal enters his quarters later, Saffron manages to kiss him. However, her lips are covered with a narcotic which renders him unconscious. Saffron heads to the cockpit and tries her wiles on Wash. When she is unsuccessful, Saffron knocks him out with a kick to the back of the head. Marc: She quickly takes control of the ship, setting it on a mysterious course and sabotaging the controls, then welding the door shut behind her as she leaves. Running to a shuttle to escape, she meets Inara and tries to seduce her too. Mikey: Inara plays along to buy time, but the alarm goes off. Inara compliments Saffron on her skillful lying. After dodging a kick from Saffron, Inara rushes to Mal after Saffron claims that she is Malcolm Reynolds' widow. After Inara finds him only unconscious, she kisses him, then collapses after calling for help, another victim of Saffron's drug. Marc: After breaking into the bridge, Kaylee and Wash are able to restore only the navigational system. They are headed straight for a "net". Book explains that the net will probably electrocute everyone inside, leaving the ship to the net's operators. Mikey: Mal has Jayne shoot a crucial part of the net with Vera, shorting it out. Jayne also ruptures the window of the net's control compartment, ejecting the two men inside into space. Marc: Later, on a snowy world, Mal bursts into Saffron's cabin and, after an unsuccessful attempt to get some answers, knocks her unconscious. Mikey: Back on Serenity, Mal presses Inara for an explanation of her supposed dizziness. Inara thinks Mal knows about the kiss and agrees to "not play" with him, but Mal reveals he thinks she kissed Saffron. NEW SONGS "Good Night Kiss" by Mikey Mason "Spiderweb" by Marc Gunn CLOSING NOTES Marc: Thanks so much for listening. You can download these demo songs when you sign up on our Patreon pages. Find out more about Marc Gunn and Mikey Mason and how to support our music on Patreon. Mikey: We would love your comments, songs and lyrics or links to videos to share in the next show. Use the hashtag #InTheVerse. You can post them on the Blue Tour Facebook page or email intheverse@fireflydrinkingsongs.com Marc: In the ‘Verse was produced by Marc Gunn and Mikey Mason. Sign up on our website and find out more about the Blue Sun Tour at http://fireflydrinkingsongs.com/intheverse/

A short recap of Penguicon and all of the events

Join Yanni Kuznia and Jer as they broadcast the live Q&A from Penguicon! Questions include: What is the worst job you've ever had (not starter jobs like fast food)? I keep hearing about servant leadership...what's that? It's easy to find tech conferences, what are good conferences for leadership? Is college necessary? If so, how much? Note: I kept referring to "Carnegie Mellon" courses when what I meant to say was "Dale Carnegie" courses. One of those is much more "bullshitty" than the other. I'll leave which is which as an exercise for the reader. Download this episode

Mark Oshiro is an author, blogger, and a social media star known for reacting to books and tv. Media Litter Sandwich episode 88 was filmed at Penguicon 2018. Mark Does Stuff: https://markdoesstuff.com/Penguicon: http://2018.penguicon.org/ For the video version go to http://www.medialittersandwich.com/87/

A short recap of Penguicon and all of the events

It’s mass chaos as we play another round of audience driven I Can Top That on this episode of Sanity Claws Radio. Lindsay, Scotty, Karen, Mike, Badger, Jon, and special guests Shannon and Maggie from That More Thing with Shannon…

Exhausted, brain dead, and barely functional, we staggered into episode 246 and then were instantly energized as we started talking about Penguicon and the upcoming Motor City Comic Con with ourselves and our guests: Rob Paulsen is an extremely talented voice actor, originally from Detroit. Huge fan of Detroit but now lives in LA. Famous for Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, lots of Disney and Nick shows. He will call you and has the studio number. Robert Pope – comic book artist, Looney Tunes, Peanuts gang. Garret Wang – Harry Kim on “Star Trek: Voyager” Steve Lieber – Whiteout (graphic novel made into a movie); Superior Foes of Spider-Man; The Fix at Image Comics. Motor City Comic Con is Michigan's largest pop-culture event gathering people of all ages, young to adult This year's 29th annual event will feature more than 250 media and comic guests Some top media guests include Val Kilmer (Batman Forever), Lucy Lawless (Xena: Warrior Princess), Stephen Amell (Arrow),  Wallace Shawn (Princess Bride), Jenna Elfman (Dharma and Greg), Kate Flannery and Oscar Nunez (The Office) and Cress Williams (Black Lightning). Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Superman, the movie, Margot Kidder (aka Lois Lane!) will be in town with other cast members. In addition, Tom Welling, who played Clark Kent in Smallville, will be here too. More than 55,000 guests are expected to attend this year Attendees can meet the writers who created their favorite comics, the illustrators who drew their favorite characters and the actors who brought them to life Motor City Comic Con will also have a variety of pop-culture merchandise available for purchase   Event information: Motor City Comic Con takes place at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi: Friday, May 18 (12:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.) Saturday, May 19 (10:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.) Sunday, May 20 (10:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.) Event tickets can be purchased by visiting www.motorcitycomiccon.com.    For details about this year's celebrity guest panel schedule, visit the MCCC website Follow MCCC on Facebook (Motor City Comic Con) and on Twitter (@MotCityComicCon)   Fun facts about Motor City Comic Con: Detroit hosted the first comic con in 1964 Per capita, southeast Michigan has the largest number of comic book shops in America   A brief description regarding Motor City Comic Con history: Local business owner, Michael Goldman began his career as a comic book retailer in the 1980s and hosted the first Motor City Comic Con in 1989 at the Dearborn Civic Center. Motor City Comic Con has continued to grow larger every year, leading to its existence at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi where the event had a record-breaking attendance of 55,000+ in 2016. Goldman is also the owner of Motor City Comics, located in Farmington Hills. Motor City Comic Con gives attendees the chance to meet many of the media guests and the chance to buy autographs and merchandise such as: comics, toys, art, movie memorabilia, posters and apparel. IT in the D On the web: http://www.ITinTheD.com On Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/ITintheD/ On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/IT-in-D-91763 On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ITintheD On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ITintheD Podcast Detroit is at: On the web: http://www.podcastdetroit.com/ On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PodcastDetroit On Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDetroit On Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/podcastdetroit

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A great night of chats with Merit Networks about not just network and computer security in general, but also their Capture The Flag event this weekend at Penguicon. Give it a listen... IT in the D On the web: http://www.ITinTheD.com On Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/ITintheD/ On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/IT-in-D-91763 On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ITintheD On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ITintheD Podcast Detroit is at: On the web: http://www.podcastdetroit.com/ On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PodcastDetroit On Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDetroit On Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/podcastdetroit

It couldn't be "perfect", simply because Nuri is still in transit around Peru, but Bob and I managed to handle ourselves nicely with Scott and Daniel talking all things Penguicon 2018.  If you're not familiar with this amazing event...you've been missing out, and you should absolutely plan on being there this year in just a couple weeks... Penguicon is at: http://penguicon.org Bob's recap of Penguicon is at: http://www.itinthed.com/17044/2015-penguicon-review-part-1-the-sales-guy-learns-something/ Dave's recap of Penguicon is at: http://www.itinthed.com/17054/2015-penguicon-review-part-2-the-geek-goes-home/ IT in the D On the web: http://www.ITinTheD.com On Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/ITintheD/ On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/IT-in-D-91763 On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ITintheD On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ITintheD Podcast Detroit is at: On the web: http://www.podcastdetroit.com/ On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PodcastDetroit On Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDetroit On Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/podcastdetroit

We review the information about Spectre & Meltdown thus far, we look at NetBSD memory sanitizer progress, Postgres on ZFS & show you a bit about NomadBSD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines Meltdown Spectre Official Site (https://meltdownattack.com/) Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/) Intel's official response (https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-responds-to-security-research-findings/) The Register mocks intels response with pithy annotations (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/04/intel_meltdown_spectre_bugs_the_registers_annotations/) Intel's Analysis PDF (https://newsroom.intel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/01/Intel-Analysis-of-Speculative-Execution-Side-Channels.pdf) XKCD (https://xkcd.com/1938/) Response from FreeBSD (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2018-January/009719.html) FreeBSD's patch WIP (https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13797) Why Raspberry Pi isn't vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown (https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/why-raspberry-pi-isnt-vulnerable-to-spectre-or-meltdown/) Xen mitigation patches (https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2018-01/msg00110.html) Overview of affected FreeBSD Platforms/Architectures (https://wiki.freebsd.org/SpeculativeExecutionVulnerabilities) Groff's response (https://twitter.com/GroffTheBSDGoat/status/949372300368867328) ##### We'll cover OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonflyBSD's responses in next weeks episode. *** ###The LLVM Memory Sanitizer support work in progress (https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/the_llvm_memory_sanitizer_support) > In the past 31 days, I've managed to get the core functionality of MSan to work. This is an uninitialized memory usage detector. MSan is a special sanitizer because it requires knowledge of every entry to the basesystem library and every entry to the kernel through public interfaces. This is mandatory in order to mark memory regions as initialized. Most of the work has been done directly for MSan. However, part of the work helped generic features in compiler-rt. Sanitizers > Changes in the sanitizer are listed below in chronological order. Almost all of the changes mentioned here landed upstream. A few small patches were reverted due to breaking non-NetBSD hosts and are rescheduled for further investigation. I maintain these patches locally and have moved on for now to work on the remaining features. NetBSD syscall hooks > I wrote a large patch (815kb!) adding support for NetBSD syscall hooks for use with sanitizers. NetBSD ioctl(2) hooks > Similar to the syscall hooks, there is need to handle every ioctl(2) call. I've created the needed patch, this time shorter - for less than 300kb. New patches still pending for upstream review > There are two corrections that I've created, and they are still pending upstream for review: Add MSan interceptor for fstat(2)](https://reviews.llvm.org/D41637) Correct the setitimer interceptor on NetBSD)](https://reviews.llvm.org/D41502) > I've got a few more local patches that require cleanup before submitting to review. NetBSD basesystem corrections Sanitizers in Go The MSan state as of today Solaris support in sanitizers > I've helped the Solaris team add basic support for Sanitizers (ASan, UBsan). This does not help NetBSD directly, however indirectly it improves the overall support for non-Linux hosts and helps to catch more Linuxisms in the code. Plan for the next milestone > I plan to continue the work on MSan and correct sanitizing of the NetBSD basesystem utilities. This mandates me to iterate over the basesystem libraries implementing the missing interceptors and correcting the current support of the existing ones. My milestone is to build all src/bin programs against Memory Sanitizer and when possible execute them cleanly. This work was sponsored by The NetBSD Foundation. The NetBSD Foundation is a non-profit organization and welcomes any donations to help us continue funding projects and services to the open-source community. Please consider visiting the following URL, and chip in what you can: http://netbsd.org/donations/#how-to-donate (http://netbsd.org/donations/#how-to-donate) *** ##News Roundup ###MWL's 2017 Wrap-Up (https://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/3078) > The obvious place to start is my 2016 wrap-up post](https://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/2822), where I listed goals for 2017. As usual, these goals were wildly delusional. > The short answer is, my iron was back up to normal. My writing speed wasn't, though. I'd lost too much general health, and needed hard exercise to recover it. Yes, writing requires physical endurance. Maintaining that level of concentration for several hours a day demands a certain level of blood flow to the brain. I could have faked it in a day job, but when self-employed as an artist? Not so much. > Then there's travel. I did my usual BSDCan trip, plus two educational trips to Lincoln City, Oregon. The current political mayhem convinced me that if I wanted to hit EuroBSDCon any time in the next few years, I should do it in the very near future. So I went to Paris, where I promptly got pickpocketed. (Thankfully, they didn't get my passport.) I was actively writing the third edition of Absolute FreeBSD, so I visited BSDCam in Cambridge to get the latest information and a sense of where FreeBSD was going. I also did weekends at Kansas LinuxFest (because they asked and paid for my trip) and Penguicon. > (Because people will ask: why EuroBSDCon and not AsiaBSDCon? A six-hour transatlantic flight requires that I take a substantial dose of heavy-grade tranquilizers. I'm incapable of making intelligent decisions while on those drugs, or for several hours afterward. They don't last long enough for twelve-hour flight to Japan, so I need to be accompanied by someone qualified to tell me when I need to take the next dose partway through the flight. This isn't a predetermined time that I can set an alarm for; it depends on how the clonazepam affects me at those altitudes. A drug overdose while flying over the North Pole would be bad. When I can arrange that qualified companion, I'll make the trip.) > I need most of the preceding week to prepare for long trips. I need the following week to recover from time shifts and general exhaustion. Additionally, I have to hoard people juice for a few weeks beforehand so I can deal with folks during these expeditions. Travel disrupts my dojo time as well, which impacts my health. > Taken as a whole: I didn't get nearly as much done as I hoped. I wrote more stories, but Kris Rusch bludgeoned me into submitting them to trad markets. (The woman is a brute, I tell you. Cross her at your peril.) Among my 2017 titles, my fiction outsold the tech books. No, not Prohibition Orcs–all four of the people who buy those love them, but the sales tell me I've done something wrong with those tales. My cozy mystery git commit murder outsold Relayd and Httpd Mastery. But what outdid them both, as well as most of my older books? What title utterly dominated my sales for the last quarter of the year? It was of course, my open source software political satire disguised as porn Savaged by Systemd: an Erotic Unix Encounter. (https://www.michaelwarrenlucas.com/index.php/romance#sbs) > I can't believe I just wrote that paragraph. The good news is, once I recovered from EuroBSDCon, my writing got better. I finished Absolute FreeBSD, 3rd edition and submitted it to the publisher. I wrote the second edition of SSH Mastery (no link, because you can't order it yet.) I'm plowing through git sync murder, the sequel to git commit murder. I don't get to see the new Star Wars movie until I finish GSM, so hopefully that'll be this month. All in all, I wrote 480,200 words in 2017. Most of that was after September. It's annoyingly close to breaking half a million, but after 2016's scandalous 195,700, I'll take it. *** ###PG Phriday: Postgres on ZFS (https://blog.2ndquadrant.com/pg-phriday-postgres-zfs/) > ZFS is a filesystem originally created by Sun Microsystems, and has been available for BSD over a decade. While Postgres will run just fine on BSD, most Postgres installations are historically Linux-based systems. ZFS on Linux has had much more of a rocky road to integration due to perceived license incompatibilities. > As a consequence, administrators were reluctant or outright refused to run ZFS on their Linux clusters. It wasn't until OpenZFS was introduced in 2013 that this slowly began to change. These days, ZFS and Linux are starting to become more integrated, and Canonical of Ubuntu fame even announced direct support for ZFS in their 16.04 LTS release. > So how can a relatively obscure filesystem designed by a now-defunct hardware and software company help Postgres? Let's find out! Eddie waited til he finished high school > Old server hardware is dirt cheap these days, and make for a perfect lab for testing suspicious configurations. This is the server we'll be using for these tests for those following along at home, or want some point of reference: Dell R710 x2 Intel X5660 CPUs, for up to 24 threads 64GB RAM x4 1TB 7200RPM SATA HDDs H200 RAID card configured for Host Bus Adapter (HBA) mode 250GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD > The H200 is particularly important, as ZFS acts as its own RAID system. It also has its own checksumming and other algorithms that don't like RAID cards getting in the way. As such, we put the card itself in a mode that facilitates this use case. > Due to that, we lose out on any battery-backed write cache the RAID card might offer. To make up for it, it's fairly common to use an SSD or other persistent fast storage to act both as a write cache, and a read cache. This also transforms our HDDs into hybrid storage automatically, which is a huge performance boost on a budget. She had a guitar and she taught him some chords > First things first: we need a filesystem. This hardware has four 1TB HDDs, and a 250GB SSD. To keep this article from being too long, we've already placed GPT partition tables on all the HDDs, and split the SSD into 50GB for the OS, 32GB for the write cache, and 150GB for the read cache. A more robust setup would probably use separate SSDs or a mirrored pair for these, but labs are fair game. They moved into a place they both could afford > Let's start by getting a performance baseline for the hardware. We might expect peak performance at 12 or 24 threads because the server has 12 real CPUs and 24 threads, but query throughput actually topped out at concurrent 32 processes. We can scratch our heads over this later, for now, we can consider it the maximum capabilities of this hardware. Here's a small sample: ``` $> pgbench -S -j 32 -c 32 -M prepared -T 20 pgbench ... tps = 264661.135288 (including connections establishing) tps = 264849.345595 (excluding connections establishing) ``` So far, this is pretty standard behavior. 260k prepared queries per second is great read performance, but this is supposed to be a filesystem demonstration. Let's get ZFS involved. + The papers said Ed always played from the heart Let's repeat that same test with writes enabled. Once that happens, filesystem syncs, dirty pages, WAL overhead, and other things should drastically reduce overall throughput. That's an expected result, but how much are we looking at, here? ``` $> pgbench -j 32 -c 32 -M prepared -T 10 pgbench ... tps = 6153.877658 (including connections establishing) tps = 6162.392166 (excluding connections establishing) ``` SSD cache or not, storage overhead is a painful reality. Still, 6000 TPS with writes enabled is a great result for this hardware. Or is it? Can we actually do better? Consider the Postgres fullpagewrites parameter. Tomas Vondra has written about it in the past as a necessity to prevent WAL corruption due to partial writes. The WAL is both streaming replication and crash recovery, so its integrity is of utmost importance. As a result, this is one parameter almost everyone should leave alone. ZFS is Copy on Write (CoW). As a result, it's not possible to have a torn page because a page can't be partially written without reverting to the previous copy. This means we can actually turn off fullpagewrites in the Postgres config. The results are some fairly startling performance gains: $> pgbench -j 32 -c 32 -M prepared -T 10 pgbench tps = 10325.200812 (including connections establishing) tps = 10336.807218 (excluding connections establishing) That's nearly a 70% improvement. Due to write amplification caused by full page writes, Postgres produced 1.2GB of WAL files during a 1-minute pgbench test, but only 160MB with full page writes disabled. To be fair, a 32-thread pgbench write test is extremely abusive and certainly not a typical usage scenario. However, ZFS just ensured our storage a much lower write load by altering one single parameter. That means the capabilities of the hardware have also been extended to higher write workloads as IO bandwidth is not being consumed by WAL traffic. + They both met movie stars, partied and mingled Astute readers may have noticed we didn't change the default ZFS block size from 128k to align with the Postgres default of 8kb. As it turns out, the 128kb blocks allow ZFS to better combine some of those 8kb Postgres pages to save space. That will allow our measly 2TB to go a lot further than is otherwise possible. Please note that this is not de-duplication, but simple lz4 compression, which is nearly real-time in terms of CPU overhead. De-duplication on ZFS is currently an uncertain bizzaro universe populated with misshapen horrors crawling along a broken landscape. It's a world of extreme memory overhead for de-duplication tables, and potential lost data due to inherent conflicts with the CoW underpinnings. Please don't use it, let anyone else use it, or even think about using it, ever. + They made a record and it went in the chart We're still not done. One important aspect of ZFS as a CoW filesystem, is that it has integrated snapshots. Consider the scenario where a dev is connected to the wrong system and drops what they think is a table in a QA environment. It turns out they were in the wrong terminal and just erased a critical production table, and now everyone is frantic. + The future was wide open It's difficult to discount an immediately observable reduction in write overhead. Snapshots have a multitude of accepted and potential use cases, as well. In addition to online low-overhead compression, and the hybrid cache layer, ZFS boasts a plethora of features we didn't explore. Built-in checksums with integrated self-healing suggest it isn't entirely necessary to re-initialize an existing Postgres instance to enable checksums. The filesystem itself ensures checksums are validated and correct, especially if we have more than one drive resource in our pool. It even goes the extra mile and actively corrects inconsistencies when encountered. I immediately discounted ZFS back in 2012 because the company I worked for at the time was a pure Linux shop. ZFS was only available using the FUSE driver back then, meaning ZFS only worked through userspace with no real kernel integration. It was fun to tinker with, but nobody sane would use that on a production server of any description. Things have changed quite drastically since then. I've stopped waiting for btrfs to become viable, and ZFS has probably taken the throne away from XFS as my filesystem of choice. Future editions of the Postgres High Availability Cookbook will reflect this as well. Postgres MVCC and ZFS CoW seem made for each other. I'm curious to see what will transpire over the next few years now that ZFS has reached mainstream acceptance in at least one major Linux distribution. NomadBSD (https://github.com/mrclksr/NomadBSD) About NomadBSD is a live system for flash drives, based on FreeBSD. Screenshots http://freeshell.de/~mk/download/nomadbsd-ss1.png http://freeshell.de/~mk/download/nomadbsd-ss2.png Requirements for building the image A recent FreeBSD system Requirements for running NomadBSD A 4GB (or more) flash drive A System capable running FreeBSD 11.1 (amd64) Building the image ~~ csh # make image ~~ Writing the image to an USB memory stick ~~ csh # dd if=nomadbsd.img of=/dev/da0 bs=10240 conv=sync ~~ Resize filesystem to use the entire USB memory Boot NomadBSD into single user mode, and execute: ~~ # gpart delete -i 2 da0s1 # gpart resize -i 1 da0 # gpart commit da0s1 ~~ Determine the partition size in megabytes using fdisk da0 and calculate the remaining size of da0s1a: = - . ~~ # gpart resize -i 1 -s M da0s1 # gpart add -t freebsd-swap -i 2 da0s1 # glabel label NomadBSDsw da0s1b # service growfs onestart # reboot ~~ FreeBSD forum thread (https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/63888/) A short screen capture video of the NomadBSD system running in VirtualBox (https://freeshell.de/~mk/download/nomad_capture.mp4) *** ##Beastie Bits Coolpkg, a package manager inspired by Nix for OpenBSD (https://github.com/andrewchambers/coolpkg) zrepl - ZFS replication (https://zrepl.github.io/) OpenBSD hotplugd automount script (https://bijanebrahimi.github.io/blog/openbsd-hotplugd-scripting.html) Ancient troff sources vs. modern-day groff (https://virtuallyfun.com/2017/12/22/learn-ancient-troff-sources-vs-modern-day-groff/) Paypal donation balance and status.. thanks everyone! (http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2017-December/313752.html) Supervised FreeBSD rc.d script for a Go daemon (updated in last few days) (https://redbyte.eu/en/blog/supervised-freebsd-init-script-for-go-deamon/) A Brief History of sed (https://blog.sourcerer.io/a-brief-history-of-sed-6eaf00302ed) Flamegraph: Why does my AWS instance boot so slow? (http://www.daemonology.net/timestamping/tslog-c5.4xlarge.svg) *** ##Feedback/Questions Jeremy - Replacing Drive in a Zpool (http://dpaste.com/319593M#wrap) Dan's Blog (https://dan.langille.org/2017/08/16/swapping-5tb-in-3tb-out/) Tim - Keeping GELI key through reboot (http://dpaste.com/11QTA06) Brian - Mixing 2.5 and 3.5 drives (http://dpaste.com/2JQVD10#wrap) Troels - zfs swap on FreeBSD (http://dpaste.com/147WAFR#wrap) ***

Yanni Kuznia, COO of Subterranean Press, and I spent this episode at Penguicon hanging out with our fellow geeks, answering some quick-hit questions from our inbox, and fielding a few more from the audience. Questions covered here include: How do we reconcile our statements that "firing is failure" and that one should "coach up or coach out"? How do you deal with teammates that have a hygiene or odor issue? How do you train to be a leader? What classes should one take? How do you avoid feeling as though you have to explain your every decision to your team? How do you handle a situation where a person to whom you report is making a bad decision that will have a big impact? Download this episode

It's not really like us to start off the show on a somber note, but in this case, it was unavoidable.  However, once we got that out of the way, we had a great time chatting with Matt and Randy about the chaos and fun that was Penguicon 2017, as well as Kelly from National Technology Management about what they've got going on in the managed help desk space, and how they're reducing TCO and providing ROI for companies large and small wherever they go... Penguicon is at: https://penguicon.org National Technology Management is at: http://www.trustntm.com/ Hostgator's offer can be found at http://www.HostGator.com/ITintheD/ Freshbooks is at http://www.Freshbooks.com/ITintheD/ Blue Apron: http://www.BlueApron.com/D/ [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/320714352" params="color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] IT in the D On the web: http://www.ITinTheD.com On Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/ITintheD/ On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/IT-in-D-91763 On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ITintheD On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ITintheD Podcast Detroit is at: On the web: http://www.podcastdetroit.com/ On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PodcastDetroit On Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDetroit On Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/podcastdetroit

Another great episode as we were joined by Securonix to talk predictive behavioral analytics and other great security topics, and Hatch Detroit about their upcoming submission period for this year's contest... Securonix is at: https://www.securonix.com/ Hatch Detroit is at: http://hatchdetroit.com/ Penguicon is this weekend, so you might want to read Bob's take and then my take to know what you can expect as a first timer. The career academy launch details here: http://www.itinthed.com/19750/career-academy-launching-in-flint-press-release/ Hostgator's offer can be found at http://www.HostGator.com/ITintheD/ Freshbooks is at http://www.Freshbooks.com/ITintheD/ [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/319586204" params="color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] IT in the D On the web: http://www.ITinTheD.com On Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/ITintheD/ On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/IT-in-D-91763 On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ITintheD On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ITintheD Podcast Detroit is at: On the web: http://www.podcastdetroit.com/ On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PodcastDetroit On Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDetroit On Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/podcastdetroit

If nothing else, this episode reinforced to us just how crazy the next month is going to be.  Penguicon, a movie premiere, several security events, live broadcasts, and more.  And then we found out all about getting insurance for security breaches, and a whole new bundle of questions opened up.  Listen in as we chat about what Burns & Wilcox can offer your company, as well as Penguicon and what else is on our upcoming schedule of events that you want to pay attention to... Burns & Wilcox is at http://www.burnsandwilcox.com/ Penguicon is at https://2017.penguicon.org/ Our April networking event is at: https://www.facebook.com/events/358682657840967/ Find us at the Detroit Music Awards: https://www.facebook.com/events/239175256526592/ Or Penguicon on Friday night:  https://www.facebook.com/events/1744615759186875/ ...and Saturday night: https://www.facebook.com/events/1237047182999650/ ...and then Ann Arbor in May: https://www.facebook.com/events/1288372884616297/ ...and then at the MMC/MCRCon: https://www.facebook.com/events/1784773128511281/ ...and then at Motor City Comic Con: https://www.facebook.com/events/344668162598802/ [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/318556935" params="color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] Hostgator is at: http://www.Hostgator.com/ITintheD/ Couchbase is at: http://www.couchbase.com/ITintheD/  IT in the D On the web: http://www.ITinTheD.com On Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/ITintheD/ On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/IT-in-D-91763 On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ITintheD On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ITintheD Podcast Detroit is at: On the web: http://www.podcastdetroit.com/ On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PodcastDetroit On Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDetroit On Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/podcastdetroit

"I remember the day I first saw Ana in her element." Here is a personal note to explain the unannounced hiatus which this podcast experienced over the last two months. Thank you to those who asked after me. There's a happy reason and a sad reason. Let's get the sad out of the way. I no longer have access to the laptop which I was using to record this. It had several more episodes recorded on it, which I had not yet published, and which must now be re-recorded. That audio was the rest of Chapter Five, which is complex and surprisingly exerting to narrate for multiple reasons. The good reason is that over the last two months, I switched from my 9-to-5 employment routine, and have been focusing my effort on some other passion projects that bring in money. I look forward to telling you about them when the websites launch. Until then, suffice it to say: I hope you like games. I also run an annual convention, Penguicon, a combination of a science fiction/fantasy literature convention with an open-source software conference. Penguicon consumes most of my time in April every year. I had the pleasure to meet up with the author of UNSONG there. We got more than 1550 attendees. It was exhilarating. Another piece of good news is that a fan of the podcast recently sold me a new laptop for really cheap. It appears to have decent USB ports which will not corrupt the sound quality as much as my regular laptop would do. You can expect the podcast to resume its regular schedule. I would appreciate any tips you may wish to provide. As with all things related to UNSONG, this tip jar is provided with the explicit permission of the author. It's fast and convenient to send money through Square's Cash service. Here's my own Cashtag page: http://cash.me/$MattArnold While you have my thanks, of course tips are not necessary. And as always, here is a link to the author's site containing the original material narrated in this episode. Until next time. http://unsongbook.com/chapter-5-never-seek-to-tell-thy-love/ Episode 10

When the Cigarette Smoking Man from the X-Files says he wants to be on your show, you make room to have him on your show.  Episode 142 of our weekly live podcast broadcast was a little bit disjointed as we made room for several guests from the upcoming Motor City Comic Con in addition to our scheduled guests from OST USA and Local Apparel as actor William B Davis, special effects and makeup artist Daniel Phillips, and Alloy Ash...who's both a model and a welder if you can just let that sink in for a moment.  Plus we talked all of the chaos and mayhem from this past weekend's Penguicon event where, ahem, we won the award for best overall room party... https://youtu.be/F7tIoRNP_dY We didn't really have time to get into a lot of stories, as William B Davis, aka "Cigarette Smoking Man" from the X-Files series was ready and waiting for us right out of the gate.  So we chatted with him a bit about the X-Files (naturally), but also the rest of his career, his autobiography that he'll have with him at the upcoming Motor City Comic Con event, and more. Fascinating conversation, and definitely a really cool way to kick off the show. For the rest of the first segment, we talked Penguicon.  This past weekend was the 14th year of the event, and our 2nd year attending. To say that if you weren't there you really missed out on something awesome really doesn't even begin to scratch the surface. Bob and I participated in a number of panels.  From "The 10 Commandments of Networking" and "10 Commandments of Job Search" that you regular site visitors are likely familiar with to "The Art of Retro Gamers" where we discussed growing up with arcade games and the first consoles, the ever-popular "Flirting for Geeks" panel where we talked how to handle and manage interactions, the "Intro to Podcasting" panel where we talked all things podcasting from recording at home to studios and networks, and then a panel with a whole bunch of other online personalities where we discussed why we do what we do, our favorite and least favorite episodes. And the room parties...oh my, the room parties. Folks, we had dancing dinosaurs in our room.  We had pirates.  We had vampires.  There was a dance-off.  We burned through four kegs, twenty-four bottles of vodka, multiple 30 packs of PBR, a few bottles of Jaeger along the way to winning "best overall room party" with our 80s theme.  Bob kicked out an amazing playlist of tunes, and we did what we do best: get people drinking and having a great time. Huge shout out and thank you to the entire Penguicon staff, roster of volunteers, and of course all of the attendees.  We can't wait for next year's event April 28-30...which oh, you can already register for: https://registration.penguicon.org/ A quick break, and we dove in with OST USA.  Open Systems Technologies is a repeat guest on the show, and is a company offering services ranging from enterprise technology implementations, cloud services, business transformation consulting and much, much more to a wide and varied client base spanning just about any industry you can think of. Listen in, and hear how they just might be able to help you and your company as well. Then Daniel Phillips (no relation) called in.  He's a practical effects make up artist right here locally, and he does some outstanding work.  Some of which you may have seen during the show Face Off, or in the Hobbit films. He's a great guy doing a lot of great work, including training interns to carry on the craft...which is so cool to see in a world where many things are done by computer generated effects.  Check him out at http://dpmakeupstudio.net/ Next up, we chatted with Local Apparel USA. They provide a wide range of clothing featuring the word "local", your city or location, and then occupations, sayings, or just about anything you want to put on them. Best of all, they're a locally owned and operated company,

If nothing else, this episode planned out a couple weekends full of fun for you, as well as being awfully informative about a local organization providing some valuable services around the state.  From our plans this weekend at Penguicon to an 80s party for a great cause in a few weeks, as well as Samaritas, we had three great guests in-studio with us for a night full of great chats, fun conversations, and lots of good information... Penguicon is at https://2016.penguicon.org/ and https://www.facebook.com/events/159206487792469/ The 80s Party for a Purpose is at http://www.80sparty4apurpose.org/ and https://80spartyforapurpose.webconnex.com/2016 Samaritas is at https://samaritas.org/ The Metro Detroit Podcaster Meetup is at https://www.facebook.com/events/794028940729613/ [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/261096304" params="color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] IT in the D On the web: http://www.ITinTheD.com On Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/ITintheD/ On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/IT-in-D-91763 On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ITintheD On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ITintheD Podcast Detroit is at: On the web: http://www.podcastdetroit.com/ On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PodcastDetroit On Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDetroit On Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/podcastdetroit

This week on the show, we will be talking to Benedict Reushling about his role with the FreeBSD foundation and the journey that took him This episode was brought to you by Headlines HardenedBSD introduces full PIE support (https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2016-04-15/introducing-full-pie-support) PIE base for amd64 and i386 Only nine applications are not compiled as PIEs Tested PIE base on several amd64 systems, both virtualized and bare metal Hoped to be to enabled it for ARM64 before or during BSDCan. Shawn will be bringing ten Raspberry Pi 3 devices (which are ARM64) with to BSDCan, eight of which will be given out to lucky individuals. “We want the BSD community to hack on them and get ARM64/Aarch64 fully functional on them.” *** Lessons learned from 30 years of MINIX (http://m.cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/3/198874-lessons-learned-from-30-years-of-minix/fulltext) Eat your own dog food. By not relying on idiosyncratic features of the hardware, one makes porting to new platforms much easier. The Internet is like an elephant; it never forgets. When standards exist (such as ANSI Standard C) stick to them. Even after you have adopted a strategy, you should nevertheless reexamine it from time to time. Keep focused on your real goal, Einstein was right: Things should be as simple as possible but not simpler. *** pfSense 2.3 released (https://blog.pfsense.org/?p=2008) Rewrite of the webGUI utilizing Bootstrap TLS v1.0 disabled for the GUI Moved to a FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE base PHP Upgraded to 5.6 The "Full Backup" feature has been deprecated Closed 760 total tickets of which 137 are fixed bugs Known Regressions OpenVPN topology change IP aliases with CARP IP parent lose their parent interface association post-upgrade IPsec IPComp does not work. IGMP Proxy does not work with VLAN interfaces. Many other updates and changes *** OPNsense 16.1.10 released (https://opnsense.org/opnsense-16-1-10-released/) openvpn: revive windows installer binaries system: improved config history and backup pages layout system: increased backup count default from 30 to 60 system: /var /tmp MFS awareness for crash dumps added trust: add “IP security IKE intermediate” to server key usage firmware: moved reboot, halt and defaults pages to new home languages: updates to Russian, French, German and Japanese Many other updates and changes *** Interview - Benedict Reuschling - bcr@freebsd.org (mailto:bcr@freebsd.org) FreeBSD Foundation in Europe *** News Roundup Write opinionated workarounds (http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2016-04-11-write-opinionated-workarounds.html) Colin Percival has written a great blog post this past week, specifically talking about his policy of writing “opinionated workarounds”. The idea came about due to his working on multi-platform software, and the frustrations of dealing with POSIX violations The crux of the post is how he deals with these workarounds. Specifically by only applying them to the particular system in which it was required. And doing so loudly. This has some important benefits. First, it doesn't potentially expose other systems to bugs / security flaws when a workaround doesn't “work” on a system for which it wasn't designed. Secondly it's important to complain. Loudly. This lets the user know that they are running on a system that doesn't adhere to POSIX compliance, and maybe even get the attention of a developer who could remedy the situation. *** Privilege escalation in calendar(1) (http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2016-003.txt.asc) File this one under “Ouch that hurts” a new security vuln has been posted, this time against NetBSD's ‘calendar' command. Specifically it looks like some of the daily scripts uses the ‘-a' flag, which requires super-user privs in order to process all users calendar files and mail the results. However the bug occurred because the calendar command didn't drop priv properly before executing external commands (whoops!) To workaround you can set run_calendar=NO in the daily.conf file, or apply the fixed binary from upstream. *** PGCon 2016 (http://www.pgcon.org/2016/) PGCon 2016 is now only 4 weeks away The conference will be held at the University of Ottawa (same venue as BSDCan) from May 17th to 20th Tutorials: 17-18 May 2016 (Tue & Wed) Talks: 19-20 May 2016 (Thu-Fri) Wednesday is a developer unconference. Saturday is a user unconference. “PGCon is an annual conference for users and developers of PostgreSQL, a leading relational database, which just happens to be open source. PGCon is the place to meet, discuss, build relationships, learn valuable insights, and generally chat about the work you are doing with PostgreSQL. If you want to learn why so many people are moving to PostgreSQL, PGCon will be the place to find out why. Whether you are a casual user or you've been working with PostgreSQL for years, PGCon will have something for you.” New to PGSQL? Just a user? Long time developers? This conference has something for you. A great lineup of talks (https://www.pgcon.org/2016/schedule/events.en.html), plus unconference days focused on both users and developers *** CfP EuroBSDCon 2016 (https://2016.eurobsdcon.org/call-for-papers/) The call for papers has been issued for EuroBSDCon 2016 in Belgrade, Serbia The conference will be held from the 22nd to 25th of September, 2016 The deadline for talk submissions is: Sunday the 8th of May, 2016 Submit your talk or tutorial proposal before it is too late *** Beastie Bits “FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS” has officially been released (https://www.michaelwlucas.com/nonfiction/fmaz) Support of OpenBSD pledge(2) in programming Languages (https://gist.github.com/ligurio/f6114bd1df371047dd80ea9b8a55c104) pkgsrcCon 2016 -Call for Presentations (http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=9781) Christos Zoulas talks about blacklistd (http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/talks_about_blacklistd) Penguicon 2016 Lucas Track Schedule (http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/2617) Feedback/Questions Peter - NVME (http://pastebin.com/HiiDpGcT) Jeremy - Wireless Gear (http://pastebin.com/L5XeVS1H) Ted - Rpi2 Packages (http://pastebin.com/yrCEnkWt) - Cross Building Wiki (https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/crossbuild) Geoff - Jail Failover (http://pastebin.com/pYFC1vdQ) Zach - Graphical Bhyve? (http://pastebin.com/WEgN0ZVw) ***

Episode 140 featured some great conversations about machine learning, security, the metro Detroit area, how Detroit stacks up...and doesn't...against other cities around the area.  Where Detroit is falling down, even in the midst of the resurgence underway, and what absolutely, positively has to change if things are every going to really get any better... Interworks can be found at http://iworkstech.com/ Daily Detroit can be found at http://www.dailydetroit.com/ Thursday's networking event is at https://www.facebook.com/events/651264421642851/ Sunday's meetup at Detroit Pub is at https://www.facebook.com/events/158619864528959/ Penguicon is at https://www.facebook.com/events/159206487792469/ The Metro Detroit Podcaster Meetup is at https://www.facebook.com/events/794028940729613/ [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/259948780" params="color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] IT in the D On the web: http://www.ITinTheD.com On Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/ITintheD/ On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/IT-in-D-91763 On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ITintheD On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ITintheD Podcast Detroit is at: On the web: http://www.podcastdetroit.com/ On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PodcastDetroit On Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDetroit On Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/podcastdetroit

Well, we lost one guest to the flu and another to some minor dental chaos, but that didn't stop us.  For episode 135 of our weekly live podcast broadcast we were joined for chats about Penguicon, Lawrence Technology Services and Automation Alley... Automation Alley can be found at: https://www.automationalley.com/ Penguicon is at: https://2016.penguicon.org/ Lawrence Technology Services is at: http://lawrencesystems.com/   [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/252104259" params="color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] IT in the D On the web: http://www.ITinTheD.com On Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/ITintheD/ On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/IT-in-D-91763 On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ITintheD On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ITintheD Podcast Detroit is at: On the web: http://www.podcastdetroit.com/ On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PodcastDetroit On Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDetroit On Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/podcastdetroit

One guest had to reschedule, but we still had a phenomenal set of conversations with our guests for episode 128 of our weekly live broadcast of our podcast.  We were joined by Vittoria Katanski from Hatch Detroit to talk about what they've got going on and the upcoming Paczki Run that you might want to check out whether you're a runner or not, and also Scott Kennedy to talk about the next Penguicon convention in April that you're most assuredly going to want to be at... Hatch Detroit can be found at http://hatchdetroit.com/ The Paczki Run can be found at http://www.tour-de-troit.org/ Penguicon can be found at http://2016.penguicon.org/ Bob's recap from last year's Penguicon event is at http://www.itinthed.com/17044/2015-penguicon-review-part-1-the-sales-guy-learns-something/ Dave's recap from it is at http://www.itinthed.com/17054/2015-penguicon-review-part-2-the-geek-goes-home/ Podcast Detroit is at http://www.podcastdetroit.com/ [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/243909039" params="color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] The stories... Amazon drone delivery: 30 minutes or less within a 10 mile radius - http://uproxx.com/technology/what-is-amazon-prime-air/ The Goldman Sachs elevator gossip story: http://www.knowable.com/a/65-rules-for-being-a-man-according-to-elevator-gossip-at-goldman-sachs A widow's struggle with Apple to get her dead husband's iPad unlocked: http://nypost.com/2016/01/19/apple-demands-widow-get-court-order-to-unlock-dead-husbands-ipad/ ATM overdraft fees: http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/14/investing/atm-overdraft-fees/index.html Netflix and NBC debate ratings: http://www.themarysue.com/netflix-throwing-shade-at-nbc/ I'm in favor of this: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160114/06532833339/56-would-drop-espn-heartbeat-if-it-meant-saving-8-month-cable.shtml Colonoscopies are good for your health...except at this hospital: http://wwlp.com/2016/01/22/293-possibly-exposed-to-hiv-hepatitis-through-colonoscopies/ You're going to need an ad blocker for your next...television: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/youre-going-to-need-an-ad-blocker-for-your-next-tv Internet of Things is awesome...unless you're a sleeping baby: http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/01/how-to-search-the-internet-of-things-for-photos-of-sleeping-babies/ Google quietly pretending Google Glass never happened: http://gizmodo.com/google-wants-to-forget-it-ever-tried-to-sell-humans-goo-1754931205 Amazon Customer Service is a great way to go phishing, apparently: https://medium.com/@espringe/amazon-s-customer-service-backdoor-be375b3428c4#.vqw8vevjs Five top execs bail out of Twitter: http://arstechnica.co.uk/business/2016/01/twitter-exodus-begins-as-five-top-executives-depart-overnight/ Stoned drug traffickers call 911 on themselves: http://www.newser.com/story/219471/stoned-drug-traffickers-call-911-on-themselves.html That igloo on AirBnb: http://distractify.com/news/2016/01/24/dan-an-igloo-snows-in-brooklyn IT in the D On the web: http://www.ITinTheD.com On Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/ITintheD/ On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/IT-in-D-91763 On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ITintheD On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ITintheD Podcast Detroit is at: On the web: http://www.podcastdetroit.com/ On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PodcastDetroit On Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDetroit On Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/podcastdetroit

We had some great guests in-studio with us for episode 99 of our weekly live podcast, with the conversation going from IT security and risk management all the way out to the maker-based economy, some cool charitable organizations you can get involved with to help others, and tons more.  Thanks to our guests Dan Gregory, Matt Thompson and Dave Glenn from CBI (Creative Breakthroughs Inc), as well as Daniel Dugan from E-Nable, for joining us and hanging out all night for the chats... Episode 99 was steeped in 1999-themed breaks and an intro, and thankfully that's the last episode we're doing this for and so we'll be back to the semi-regular mayhem from back before episode 80 happened starting next week.  Once the intro wrapped, it was time to dive into the news, events and items that grabbed our attention over the past week.  The chaos on Reddit.  A guy who's owned and used a domain for 16 years getting sued by a startup trying to claim infringement.  Our collective wondering why anyone does a Q&A session on Twitter since they never go well...and the recent ones with Bobby Jindal and the author of 50 Shades of Grey were no exceptions.  How we're all idiots because some guy recording himself playing video games made over 7 million dollars last year.  Facebook's social media experiment with the rainbow photo app.  A new 9% tax on streaming / cloud services...and what that might mean for Detroit.  All that and much, much more. Dave (left) and Matt (right) from CBI Big shout out to the folks at Ruppits for doing the puppets of us, by the way.  Go check them out at https://www.facebook.com/Ruppits For our second segment, we dove in with CBI (Creative Breakthroughs, Inc).  CBI manages IT risk and ensures your data is secure, compliant, and available. No matter your industry, their Subject Matter Experts, tailored assessments and custom solutions help safeguard your organization's information.  For more than 20 years, their customers have come to rely on CBI as their trusted advisor to meet their unique needs with solutions from the best professionals in the industry.  We covered a whole bunch of topics with them from recent hacks to their impending move downtown. Give it a listen, and check them out at https://www.cbihome.com/ They're also hiring like mad, so check out their careers page at https://www.cbihome.com/careers They're also heavily involved with the upcoming Converge/BSides security conference downtown...and they announced a discount code that'll get you in the door free while supplies last. Use discount code CBICC2015GOLDSPONSORSHIP on the registration page at https://convergedet2015.busyconf.com/bookings/new Dan from CBI (left) and Daniel Dugan (right) Then we dove in with Daniel Dugan to talk about a whole bunch of topics.  E-nable, the place we met at Penguicon that does 3d printing of prosthetic limbs for children.  Detroit Maker Faire and all of the things you can expect to see at the Henry Ford.  The First Robotics group, and how they're helping get kids engaged in advanced projects. Needless to say, we had a lot of ground to cover and a whole bunch of interesting topics came up during the course of our chat. Segment four was our usual wrap up segment, doubling back on a few things from earlier in the night, as well as a few other news items that we didn't get to during the opening segment. That's all for this week.  Join us next week as we hit episode 100 and we're joined by some old friends to sit around, reminisce, and have a good time talking smack about our first 100 attempts to be somewhat humorous and relevant... [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/213680371" params="color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] Links from tonight's episode: SPONSORS Squarespace: get 10% off by going to www.squarespace.com and using code IT during checkout

Well...we've had smoother running episodes, that's for sure...but Episode 89 of our live weekly broadcast is in the books. We were plagued by technical difficulties this time around for some reason, so please excuse some of the rough cuts during conversations.  We did the best we could getting everything cleaned up as best as we could for our guests from Pure Storage and Nuri from Penguicon.  We lost two entire segments, managed to talk Nuri into hanging out to try another run at segment three that came off...mostly okay, but cuts out rather abruptly.  So as a bonus to try and make it a little better, we're including the recording we did live at Penguicon... Our 1989 intro wrapped and as always we dove into the news, stories and events that caught our eye over the previous week. The latest social media mafia hit on a restaurant...that involved someone Bob knows.  Cameras around the downtown area and why they may or may not be legally placed.  Facebook's storage of updates that you erase before you post and tons more.  The really, really stupid thing that Starbucks is doing for Mother's Day and more. For segment two, we focused in with our guests Rich and Jarrod from Pure Storage.  Pure Storage has a simple mission: to enable the widespread adoption of flash in the enterprise data center. They're a team of some of the brightest minds in storage, flash memory and related technical industries. Founded on principles of teamwork and knowledge sharing, they focus on producing an exceptional result while they transform the landscape of the enterprise storage market (and have some fun along the way).  Long story short, they're doing some very cool stuff that can improve your system's response times, dramatically decrease your costs, and make your life a lot easier in general...so you should probably check them out: http://www.purestorage.com/ Then some serious whacky mayhem started, and so we lost a whole lot of our third segment, and Nuri was gracious enough to hang out and record it all over again with us, so you'll have to forgive some of the awkward transitions.   We recapped everything that happened at Penguicon over this past weekend. You can read more about Penguicon here: http://www.penguicon.org/ You can read Bob's recap of his experiences at http://www.itinthed.com/17044/2015-penguicon-review-part-1-the-sales-guy-learns-something/ You can read Dave's take on it at http://www.itinthed.com/17054/2015-penguicon-review-part-2-the-geek-goes-home/ ...and because of all of the chaos that had happened up through that point, we just called it a night.  So, as a little bit of a bonus to help ease the pain a bit, we've included a (heavily edited) live recording we did at Penguicon on Saturday night.  We'd been drinking, we were a little loopy, and we got some audience participation...so it's mostly like our normal shows...but with an audience. [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/203222605" params="color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] Check out Pure Storage at http://www.purestorage.com/ You can read more about Penguicon here: http://www.penguicon.org/ You can read Bob's recap of his experiences at http://www.itinthed.com/17044/2015-penguicon-review-part-1-the-sales-guy-learns-something/ You can read Dave's take on it at http://www.itinthed.com/17054/2015-penguicon-review-part-2-the-geek-goes-home/ As always, we can be found: On the web: http://www.ITinTheD.com On Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/ITintheD/ On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=91763 On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ITintheD  On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ITintheD     

Starring:Host: Robbie FergusonCo-Host: Sasha Dirmeitis Our viewer, alphaomega, wanted to know how to move a WordPress site, so we'll show you! Whether you have administrator access or not, we'll take two different approaches to this surprisingly easy task. Also, Dennis Kelley visited Penguicon in Michigan and had a chat with Jason Kridner about the BeagleBone Black. Read the complete show notes, comment or rate this episode, view pictures and obtain links from this episode at https://category5.tv/shows/technology/episode/397/ Running time: 1 Hour 1 Minute 17 Seconds

Bonus episode! This very special episode of SOC was recorded during our live show at Penguicon 2015. Travis and Devin were invited to Penguicon as Featured Guests and presented SOC at a panel. We had special guests BluRaven Houvener and Trico Lutkins, with special field reports by Ben K.

1988 was a good year for movies and music, and episode 88 of our live weekly broadcast wasn't too shabby either. Joined by our guests from The Center for Michigan, as well as our friends from Penguicon and the Agile and Beyond conference, a great time, some fun chats and a whole lot of information about things going on around the area including this weekend and the end of the month and all sorts of good stuff for your career and professional life. We may or may not survive the weekend, so let's get to some details just in case we need bail money... Our 1988 themed intro came to a wrap, and the conversations got underway. Naturally, we had to talk about the insane number of trailers dropping from Hollywood including Star Wars, Mad Max, Batman vs Superman, Fantastic Four, Jurassic Park and the rest.  Bob's binge-watching of Daredevil and a chat about Netflix's original programming in general.  The awkward friend request. All the news, stories and items that caught our eye over the past week that you ought to know about. Then we dove in with Molly and Amber from The Center for Michigan.  The Center for Michigan is a “think-and-do” tank founded by former newspaper publisher and University of Michigan Regent Phil Power in early 2006.  A 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, The Center's objective is to make Michigan a better place by by encouraging greater understanding and involvement in policy issues among the state's citizens and making sure their voices are regularly heard.  We do this by regularly by calling forth citizen views, amplifying those views and projecting them into the halls of power.  You can find out more about them at http://thecenterformichigan.net/ Click below to participate in any of the Center for Michigan's online community conversations: College Value & Affordability Career Navigation Challenges to Upward Mobility And if it's useful, here is the link to find and register for in-person community conversations: http://bit.ly/ConvoCalendar For our third segment, we hopped in with the guys who are likely going to be at least partially responsible for our demise this weekend, Scott and Nuri from Penguicon.  It's going to be a phenomenal time this weekend at The Westin in Southfield, with more than 500 hours of programming crammed into Friday night through Sunday, including a few panels and presentations that we'll be a part of and running ourselves. Imagine your happy place... ...a happy place where all geeky interests are represented, explored, and respected. A place with hackers, makers, foodies, open source software junkies, anime buffs, and science fiction fans of all ages and backgrounds come together in a hotel for a weekend and totally blow the roof off.  We go to panels, get free food and beer in our Hospitality Suite, go to ridiculously awesome room parties, and just hang out.  It's more than a thousand of your new best friends.  Check it out at http://www.penguicon.org/ and come play with us this weekend. Last but not least, we chatted with Tom and Jason about the Agile and Beyond conference taking place at the end of April.  Agile and Beyond 2015 is a Two-day conference in the heart of innovation in Dearborn, MI. Now in it's 6th year, Agile and Beyond brings together a eclectic mix of engineers, designers, product owners and executives for world-class workshops and talks focused on Agile and Lean processes and beyond. Get everything you need to know at http://agileandbeyond.com/2015/ And that brought episode 88 of our weekly broadcasts to a close. Tune in next week as we're joined by the folks from our core sponsor, Pure Storage, and it may or may not be someone's birthday. Again, our guests for this week's episode can be found at: The Center for Michigan is at http://thecenterformichigan.net/ Penguicon can be found at http://www.penguicon.org/ Agile and Beyond is at http://agileandbeyond.com/2015/ [soundcloud url="https://api.

Episode 81 of our weekly broadcast is in the rear view mirror, and it was definitely a good one. We were joined in-studio by two of the ladies behind ComiqueCon to discuss their November event, the owner of The Detroit Bus Company to talk about their recent dust-up with a production house as well as their efforts to keep Detroit's youth safe and able to access programs, and the writer behind Folkteller to talk a little Detroit folklore and history in the context of their stories, graphic novel, and in-progress film version... Hey, did you hear Spock died?  In case you went Amish for a few days, Leonard Nimoy died, and so of course we chatted about that for a few.  Our Pink Slip Party event is just a couple of weeks away, and in just a week we're down to only one sponsor slot left open.  We talked about a need that our friends over at Penguicon have that will help them work miracles for some local children, so you should go read about that here.  The opening of Buffalo Wild Wings in Royal Oak...and people standing in line in the freezing weather for basically nothing.  Uber's data breach and the guy who got hit with a $452 fare over an 11 mile, 30 minute ride.  That stupid dress that took over the internet for a few days.  Net neutrality and the internet being classified as a utility.  So, so much more. After a break, we came back with Sharon and Chelsea from Comiquecon, an event being put on in November focused on female creators, authors, artists and panels.  It's taking place on Saturday, November 7 at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, and since they're still in the planning stages, there's plenty of time for you to get involved.  They're looking for sponsors, ideas for panels, volunteers, presenters and more.  Tickets haven't been released yet, but they made a few announcements last night as to some guests who have been booked for appearances at their event, so listen in and hear what they've got going on. In segment three, we chatted with Andy Didorisi of The Detroit Bus Company on a couple of different topics.  We invited him in originally because of a bit of whacky mayhem that went down regarding a tv program that apparently took the liberty of stealing a video he was a part of...and if that wasn't bad enough, they bundled it into their own work and completely misrepresented his story.  Even better, he didn't know about it until he started getting calls and texts from people watching it.  But then, even though we initially brought him in to chat about that, as we did a little pre-show research, we discovered that his company does some very cool things, including ensuring that school kids who don't have access to after school programs due to a lack of transportation availability are able to get where they need to go to have the opportunities to learn and grow.  Which, as it turns out, isn't cheap at all to do.  They received a grant to get them rolling (pardon the pun) last year, but this year it's on them to raise a hefty chunk of the cash required to keep this program alive, and so they've got an IndieGogo campaign running to raise the money they need.  There are worse things you can do with your money, so go give it a look and donate. For our last segment, we brought Joseph Bastien of Folkteller into the mix to discuss his Nain Rouge story, graphic novel and movie in the works.  For those unfamiliar with the urban legend / folklore of Nain Rouge, the story goes that there's a red dwarf who shows up when bad things are about to happen in Detroit, dating as far back as 1701.  There are events that have cropped up around the story in recent years, beers have been named after it by local breweries, and it's a rather interesting story and bit of legend for the area.  This was an interesting chat, going through the process of a writer trying to get his story more easily accessible to today's readers, as well as the process of finding the talent to support his work,

What a fun, fun night. Thanks to our guests Scott and Nuri from Penguicon, Kelly O'Hara of Bebop Art and Kasey from Kosmic Kasey for joining us for just a great night of conversations, laughs, and we even managed to be a little informative...not to mention running a giveaway that you can still be a part of. We talked conventions, comics, art, women at cons, and all sorts of really great topics... As always though, our first segment kicked things off with the stories that have caught our eye over the past week.  Samsung's announcement that their smart televisions are recording everything you say.  Radio Shack filing bankruptcy.  The problems with state income tax returns via Turbo Tax, which actually likely had more to do with the Anthem hack that resulted in 80 million full identities being stolen than anything else. In our second segment, we chatted with Kelly and Kasey about art, comics, and the female perspective on several of the conversations we've been having lately.  We met Kelly at Motor City Comic Con last year in Artist's Alley (you can catch that earlier conversation with her here: https://soundcloud.com/itinthed/motor-city-comic-con-2014-interview-kelly-ohara-bebop-art), and it was great to hear more about what she's got going on, the various shows that she's involved, her art, Kasey's writing, and their take on things.  Kelly is a Detroit-based portrait painter that has sold works internationally and shown work for over a decade from multiple galleries in and around the Detroit area, like the one taking place later this month that hit: https://www.facebook.com/events/922314677780270/.  Catch up with her at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bebop-Art/239939760127  Kasey Pierce is a writer, vidcast-host, and comic-con personality from the Metro Detroit area. She's written pieces for AllThingsGeeks.com, AlmostNerdy.com, and quoted on the back of Dirk Manning's graphic novel, Tales of Mr. Rhee (Procreation of the Wicked). Kasey is also in the works on a horror anthology for Rocket Ink Studios to be released early 2015.  Check her out at https://www.facebook.com/kosmickasey Segment three focused in on Penguicon, a convention taking place at the end of April that's definitely different than a lot of cons in the area.  They describe themselves as a happy place where all geeky interests are represented, explored, and respected. A place with hackers, makers, foodies, open source software junkies, anime buffs, and science fiction fans of all ages and backgrounds come together in a hotel for a weekend and totally blow the roof off.  And nothing we've heard or read so far can dispute any of that - programming tracks for the hardcore geek to the casual cosplay enthusiast, events, panels and fun for just about everyone.  It's a safe bet that you're going to see us there.  Read more about them and get your tickets today at http://www.penguicon.org/ In our fourth segment, we continued learning a little more about Penguicon and then doubled back into our conversation with Kelly and Kasey...and then we made the decision to continue things even on out into a fifth segment, which went pretty much like those usually do. That's all for this week's episode. [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/190574853" params="color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] Kelly O'Hara can be found at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bebop-Art/239939760127 or http://www.bebopart.webs.com/ Kasey can be found at https://www.facebook.com/kosmickasey or http://www.kosmickasey.com/ Penguicon can be found at http://www.penguicon.org/ As always, we can be found: On the web: http://www.ITinTheD.com On Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/ITintheD/ On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=91763 On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ITintheD  On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ITintheD 

Episode 77.  We had a few Detroit-themed guests on the show tonight, as you can tell. Thanks to our guests Courtney and Ian from Detroit Beer Press, Monica Wheat of Pipeline Fellowship Detroit, and repeat offender Daily Detroit for joining us for a night of laughs and fun conversations... Of course we talked a little Super Bowl...well, we talked about the commercials. Especially the Nationwide one.  Wow.  Nothing like dead kids to really kick the party up a notch... We chatted about the naked guy in a cowboy hat wandering down I-75, the Star Wars comic "Into The Great Unknown", the amazing profit margin one company gets on high speed cable, and the usual smattering of stories and rants you've come to expect by now from us. In our second segment, we dove in with Ian and Courtney from Detroit Beer Press. If you're not familiar with them by now, then you haven't been paying attention.  In addition to chatting about their upcoming issue coming out next week, we also chatted about Yelp reviews, their new Howler Membership program that can get you some sweet deals at some great locations, where you can find their publication, and everything else they've got going on currently.  Check them out at http://www.detroitbeerpress.com/ Our third segment brought Monica Wheat to the forefront to chat about Pipeline Fellowship Detroit, a new organization that's spinning up to change the face of angel investing.  Pipeline Fellowship is an angel investing bootcamp for women.  They work to increase diversity in the U.S. angel investing community and create capital for women social entrepreneurs. Pipeline Fellowship has opened a call for applications for its spring 2015 angel investing bootcamps in Ann Arbor, Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, DC, Detroit, Memphis, Miami, NYC, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis. Candidates are encouraged to apply by Friday, February 6, 2015.  For more information, please check them out at http://www.pipelinefellowship.com/, hit info@pipelinefellowship.com, or feel free to contact Monica directly at mwheat@pixeldsi.co Our fourth and final segment had us chatting with Daily Detroit about Google Fiber, what's going on in the city, and we seriously questioned their selection of "10 awesome movies filmed in Detroit" because, well, because we're opinionated and it's fun to give him a hard time sometimes, that's why.  Really great conversation, as it always is.  If you're not checking Daily Detroit out on a regular basis, you're missing out.  See everything they've got going on at http://www.dailydetroit.com/ That's all for this week.  Tune in next week as we talk with the organizers of Penguicon, and we dive headfirst into the conversations and issues that have evolved surrounding the blog entry about a trip to the comic shop - from women attending cons to the comic book industry in general, it should be an excellent conversation as we're joined by two ladies who have a few things to say about it all...since they live it every day. Detroit Beer Press can be found at http://www.detroitbeerpress.com/ Pipeline Fellowship can be found at http://www.pipelinefellowship.com/ Daily Detroit can be found at http://www.dailydetroit.com/ [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/189383999" params="color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] As always, we can be found: On the web: http://www.ITinTheD.com On Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/ITintheD/ On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=91763 On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ITintheD  On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ITintheD  The stories we got to...and a lot we didn't: Top 25 jobs: http://www.glassdoor.com/blog/jobs-america/ Youtube, Flash and HTML5: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Youtube-Says-Goodbye-to-Flash-HTML5-Is-Now-Default-471426.shtml Guy acts as his own lawyer,

Finishing up this episode while recovering from the amazing convention known as Penguicon which happened this weekend. One of the highlights was one of the staff members dressed in corpse-paint and a hula skirt behind a Tiki bar. That's pretty unconventional, but what's even more unconventional (outside of being, well, outside of the convention) is the cadre of chaos we have in store for you in this episode. There's new stuff by Substance Black, Black Market Serotonin, and Samsara, as well as music from Masakari, cells, The Symbioz, Autarch, and one of my new favorite unconventional bands Toumaï. So get those headphone ready for a ride your ears won't soon forget. Shownotes and links to the bands follow: (00:09) Tide Will Turn by Substance Black from Tide Will Turn (BY-NC-ND) (05:56) XIV. The Voiceless by Masakari from The Prophet Feeds (BY-NC-SA) (10:05) lost for lust by cells from promo (BY-NC-SA) (13:16) Perception by Samsara from UNO (None) (16:52) Шлях поневірянь by The Symbioz from Шлях поневірянь (BY-NC-ND) (19:57) An Exodus by Autarch from The Death of Actiacus (BY-SA) (26:50) The End Of History by Black Market Serotonin from Something From Nothing (BY-NC-SA) (35:47) Madness in Mind by Toumaï from SAPIENS DEMENS (BY-NC-ND) Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, or offer to do their taxes for them next year. Whatever you can do to help these bands keep making music, please do it! Also check out the other great podcasts at Metal Injection, and be sure to listen to all of the great shows (including Open Metalcast) streaming 24/7 at Metalinjection.FM. If you have any suggestions for Creative Commons licensed metal, send me a link at craig@openmetalcast.com. Open Metalcast #071 (MP3) Open Metalcast #071 (OGG)

Finishing up this episode while recovering from the amazing convention known as Penguicon which happened this weekend. One of the highlights was one of the staff members dressed in corpse-paint and a hula skirt behind a Tiki bar. That's pretty unconventional, but what's even more unconventional (outside of being, well, outside of the convention) is the cadre of chaos we have in store for you in this episode. There's new stuff by Substance Black, Black Market Serotonin, and Samsara, as well as music from Masakari, cells, The Symbioz, Autarch, and one of my new favorite unconventional bands Toumaï. So get those headphone ready for a ride your ears won't soon forget. Shownotes and links to the bands follow: * (00:09) Tide Will Turn by Substance Black from Tide Will Turn (BY-NC-ND) * (05:56) XIV. The Voiceless by Masakari from The Prophet Feeds (BY-NC-SA) * (10:05) lost for lust by cells from promo (BY-NC-SA) * (13:16) Perception by Samsara from UNO (None) * (16:52) Шлях поневірянь by The Symbioz from Шлях поневірянь (BY-NC-ND) * (19:57) An Exodus by Autarch from The Death of Actiacus (BY-SA) * (26:50) The End Of History by Black Market Serotonin from Something From Nothing (BY-NC-SA) * (35:47) Madness in Mind by Toumaï from SAPIENS DEMENS (BY-NC-ND) Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, or offer to do their taxes for them next year. Whatever you can do to help these bands keep making music, please do it! Also check out the other great podcasts at Metal Injection, and be sure to listen to all of the great shows (including Open Metalcast) streaming 24/7 at Metalinjection.FM. If you have any suggestions for Creative Commons licensed metal, send me a link at craig@openmetalcast.com.

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Open Metalcast was filmed live before a studio audience. Actually, this was recorded live in front of a podcasting panel I did at Penguicon. Thanks to everyone who came out to participate! To celebrate, this episode features all live music. Shownotes after the break: * (00:11) Cannibal Legion LIVE by Spike the tomb from Live at the Altar Bar (BY-NC-ND) * (04:28) Patricia(live) by HOME from EP Re-release (BY-NC) * (09:40) Kill With a Vengeance (live) by Skitzo from Hellavator Musick (BY-NC-SA) * (14:11) …And The Sky Came Falling Down (live – 11/12/2010) by Iron Thrones from (single) (BY-NC-SA) * (21:22) bumsville by CAPS from live in the windowless room (BY-NC) * (24:26) Paint it black by Steam-Hammer from Livedemo 2011 (BY-NC-ND) * (27:01) Solitaire [Live] by EVL from Strong Rock: LIVE! (BY-SA) * (29:35) Fallen Star by nocreeps from Livealbum @ Autumn Rock 4 (18.10.08) (BY-SA) * (35:39) Apocalyptic Sunshine High by The Reptilians from Official Live Bootleg ONE (BY-NC-SA) Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, or cosplay them at the next Penguicon. Whatever you can do to help these bands keep making music, please do it! Also check out the other great podcasts at Metal Injection. If you have any suggestions for Creative Commons licensed metal, send me a link at craig@openmetalcast.com.

Open Metalcast was filmed live before a studio audience. Actually, this was recorded live in front of a podcasting panel I did at Penguicon. Thanks to everyone who came out to participate! To celebrate, this episode features all live music: (00:11) Cannibal Legion LIVE by Spike the tomb from Live at the Altar Bar (BY-NC-ND) (04:28) Patricia(live) by HOME from EP Re-release (BY-NC) (09:40) Kill With a Vengeance (live) by Skitzo from Hellavator Musick (BY-NC-SA) (14:11) ...And The Sky Came Falling Down (live - 11/12/2010) by Iron Thrones from (single) (BY-NC-SA) (21:22) bumsville by CAPS from live in the windowless room (BY-NC) (24:26) Paint it black by Steam-Hammer from Livedemo 2011 (BY-NC-ND) (27:01) Solitaire [Live] by EVL from Strong Rock: LIVE! (BY-SA) (29:35) Fallen Star by nocreeps from Livealbum @ Autumn Rock 4 (18.10.08) (BY-SA) (35:39) Apocalyptic Sunshine High by The Reptilians from Official Live Bootleg ONE (BY-NC-SA) Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, or cosplay them at the next Penguicon. Whatever you can do to help these bands keep making music, please do it! Also check out the other great podcasts at Metal Injection. If you have any suggestions for Creative Commons licensed metal, send me a link at craig@openmetalcast.com. Open Metalcast Episode 046 (MP3) Open Metalcast Episode 046 (OGG)

Open Metalcast was filmed live before a studio audience. Actually, this was recorded live in front of a podcasting panel I did at Penguicon. Thanks to everyone who came out to participate! To celebrate, this episode features all live music: … Continue reading →

Tom Smith joins Howard and Brandon at Penguicon for a discussion of Filk and some delightfully improvised music.

Tom Smith joins Howard and Brandon at Penguicon for a discussion of Filk and some delightfully improvised music.

Jim Hines suffers abuse from Howard and Brandon as the three of them discuss parody, satire, and humor in front of a live audience at Penguicon.

Jim Hines suffers abuse from Howard and Brandon as the three of them discuss parody, satire, and humor in front of a live audience at Penguicon.

This episode was recorded live in front of participants at Penguicon 2011 that came to my Podcasting 101 panel. Thank you to everyone who came out to the panel, and watched me put this episode together! You all rock! Beyond Perception by Empyreon from NYC Sucks, Volume 2 (BY-NC-ND) World Extinction by Extinctionist from All Flesh Must Be Eaten (BY-NC-ND) Raise The Dead by Theorized from False Hope Of Tyranny (BY-NC-SA) In a deep silence by Embrace my Ruin from A lullaby for a dying man (BY-NC-SA) Asphalt by Ghostlimb from Infrastructure (BY) Creature Of Night by Dark Eternity from The Last Way To The End (BY-SA) I am Your New God by Systematic Sickness Kin from Systematic Sickness Kin (BY-NC-SA) Cthulhu Fhtagn by Throng of Shoggoths from Nauseated and Terrified for the Future Demo (BY-NC-ND) Update: Special thanks to Doug from Music Manumit for the pointer to the NYC Sucks Vol 2 album! Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, or do an interpretive dance on the plight of humanity to their music. If you have any suggestions for Creative Commons licensed metal, send me a link at craig@openmetalcast.com. Open Metalcast Episode 020 (MP3) Open Metalcast Episode 020 (OGG)

This episode was recorded live in front of participants at Penguicon 2011 that came to my Podcasting 101 panel. Thank you to everyone who came out to the panel, and watched me put this episode together! You all rock! Beyond … Continue reading →

This is a special joint podcast with Seth Harwood’s Crime Wav. *** Written by Ray Banks Narrated by Sean “Dogg” Robertson Promos Seth Harwood’s Crime Wav http://www.crimewave.com Kronos http://www.jeremyrobinsononline.com/ Technorama http://www.chuckchat.com Well Told Tales http://www.welltoldtales.com Penguicon 2009 http://www.penguicon.org The Last Kayfabe Copyright 2009 Ray Banks http://www.thesaturdayboy.com/ Variant Frequencies Copyright 2009 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace […]