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Kaytlin Bailey

Kaytlin Bailey’s nothing-to-lose honesty and brazen comedic style is sure to make you laugh – and/or avoid eye contact with your Comic Kaytlin Bailey’s bio. significant other…and mom. Kaytlin started life in the spot light, as an only child! Her ex-hippie-liberal mother, and ex-military-“birther” father...

June 24, 2015 admin Guests Comments Off

TTG 56 – Comedian Kaytlin Bailey

The Technology Geek Podcast 56 Interview Comedian Kaytlin Bailey Today we have special guest Comedian Kaytlin Bailey joins the show. We talk about her new one women show being done in New York area. She tells us about her experiences of living on the road and...

June 24, 2015 admin Podcast Comments Off

CRYENGINE Support Added For Linux

CRYENGINE, the video game engine from Crytek, will run natively on Linux starting from version 3.8.1. Other improvements include the ability to run on the Oculus Rift, support for OpenGL, 8-weight GPU vertex skinning, and improved POM self-shadowing. Here are the full release notes....

June 22, 2015 admin Linux Comments Off

The GNOME Music Player Is Getting Smart New Features

The GNOME Music Player is getting smart new features GNOME developer Alan Day tells us about them in his blog post “I’ve been a bit quiet about GNOME’s applications of late. This isn’t because nothing has been happening, though – quite the opposite. We’ve been...

June 22, 2015 admin Linux Comments Off

Ubuntu Founder loses fight to cancel $20m bank fee

Mark Shuttleworth has lost his long-running fight to reverse a US$20m (£12.8m) bank charge levied after he transferred a fortune out of South Africa. In 2001, Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu Linux maker Canonical, emigrated from his home nation of South Africa to the...

June 21, 2015 admin Business, Linux Comments Off

Open Source Hardware Pioneers Interviews New MakerBot CEO

Open source hardware pioneer and founder of Adafruit Limor “Ladyada” Fried sat down and interviewed the new CEO of MakerBot, Jonathan Jaglom. She asked some really tough questions had some suggestions for them, too, if they’re going to turn things around. Discussed: Is there...

June 20, 2015 admin Business Comments Off

TTG 55 – Air Force Trump

The Technology Geek Unleashed Podcast 55 Air Force Trump We start the show out talking about gun control. We talk about all the trouble the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation trying to save the world and all the trouble there running into with other...

June 20, 2015 admin Podcast Comments Off

ARRL 2015 Hurricane Season Webinar Set for July 20

The ARRL will host a 2015 Hurricane Season webinar Monday, July 20, getting under way at 8 PM EDT (July 21, 0000 UTC). The approximately 90-minute session will address the role of Amateur Radio during the 2015 Hurricane Season. Anyone interested in hurricane preparedness...

June 19, 2015 admin Amateur Radio Comments Off

Free SSL/TLS Certificate Project Let’s Encrypt

Let’s Encrypt, a project aimed at increasing the use of encryption across websites by issuing free digital certificates, is planning to issue the first ones next month. Digital certificates are used to encrypt data traffic between a computer and a server using SSL/TLS (Secure Sockets...

June 19, 2015 admin Business, Linux Comments Off

Etsy Bans Witchcraft Items

Etsy, the online marketplace for buying and selling all things quirky and handmade, is also home to a vibrant witch community. Those witches are fuming over Etsy’s new policy of rigorously enforcing its existing ban on sales of “metaphysical services,” which is to say spells and...

June 19, 2015 admin Business Comments Off