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Where do you want to go? 12 00:00:50.719 --> 00:00:51.799 I got a bunch of weird things. 13 00:00:51.880 --> 00:00:54.079 Yeah, I'll save all the good stuff for you. But 14 00:00:54.719 --> 00:00:57.000 there's some, you know, not so good things that happen 15 00:00:57.039 --> 00:01:01.600 in two thousand and five, like Hurricane Katrina. Oh right, yeah, 16 00:01:01.719 --> 00:01:05.719 I was down in New Orleans after Katrina for jazz 17 00:01:05.719 --> 00:01:13.000 Fest and Robert Plant and what's her name? Alison Krause 18 00:01:13.519 --> 00:01:15.319 came out and did when the levee. 19 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:17.719 Breaks a little on the nose but okay. 20 00:01:17.439 --> 00:01:22.480 And also I remember going to a bar where they 21 00:01:22.680 --> 00:01:30.480 said it was a makeshift hospital during Katrina and on 22 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:33.560 the you know, people would lay on the bar and 23 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:36.519 doctors would come in and work on them. Sure, all right, 24 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:42.879 Iraq war, bad war? In Iraqi elections. John Paul the 25 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:46.120 Second died in two thousand and five. Pope Benedict became 26 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:51.680 Pope Well. German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict, and 27 00:01:51.719 --> 00:01:52.879 he was a sixteen. 28 00:01:52.920 --> 00:01:55.439 He was a close confident of John Paul's. 29 00:01:55.439 --> 00:01:59.480 I recall, yeah, the London July seven terrorist bombings. 30 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:00.319 MS. 31 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:01.840 Were you around when that happened. 32 00:02:02.280 --> 00:02:06.560 I was in London when that happened. I was Yeah, 33 00:02:06.599 --> 00:02:11.400 that hit very close to home. Well glad you're still here. Yeah, 34 00:02:11.479 --> 00:02:11.879 me too. 35 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:16.400 Sodom Hussein's trial begin, Well, we know how that'll go. Yeah, 36 00:02:16.400 --> 00:02:21.879 we know. The spoiler alert didn't go well for him. 37 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:25.039 Terry Schiavo the right to Die case. Remember the legal 38 00:02:25.080 --> 00:02:29.599 and ethical battle over removing the feeding tubes from Terry's chabo. Yeah, yeah, 39 00:02:29.800 --> 00:02:34.599 national debate about end of life decisions, government intervention, family rights. 40 00:02:36.120 --> 00:02:42.360 Record breaking Atlantic hurricane season, not just Katrina, but Rita Wilma, 41 00:02:43.560 --> 00:02:48.919 just one of the worst hurricane seasons. UH Israel withdrew 42 00:02:48.960 --> 00:02:51.360 from Gaza. Things were looking up. 43 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:53.120 There, we're gonna be elections only one. 44 00:02:53.400 --> 00:02:59.759 Yeah, and Angela Merkle became Chancellor of Germany, first female 45 00:02:59.800 --> 00:03:03.479 chamer beginning a leadership era that would shape European politics 46 00:03:03.520 --> 00:03:09.280 for more than fifteen years. Some honorable mentions. Michael Jackson 47 00:03:09.400 --> 00:03:16.439 was acquitted, Prince Charles married Camilla Parker Bowels. French and 48 00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:20.599 Dutch rejection of the EU Constitution. Let's talk bad about 49 00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:21.240 the French and. 50 00:03:21.199 --> 00:03:24.520 The Dutch, right Arguably the moment the E that's the 51 00:03:24.520 --> 00:03:25.439 moment the EU broke. 52 00:03:25.719 --> 00:03:29.120 Yeah, in Pakistan there was an earthquake that killed tens 53 00:03:29.280 --> 00:03:34.800 of thousands of people. In high oil and gasoline prices worldwide, 54 00:03:34.919 --> 00:03:38.240 I'm not so sure that they were as high as 55 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:41.080 they are now. I don't know, probably not. Yeah. 56 00:03:41.159 --> 00:03:41.280 No. 57 00:03:41.599 --> 00:03:44.120 Also, I got married in two thousand and five. Yeah, 58 00:03:44.319 --> 00:03:49.879 ah wow, which nearly made it to twenty years. Yeah, 59 00:03:49.960 --> 00:03:53.400 but you know, most of them were good and it 60 00:03:53.479 --> 00:03:57.599 was it's amicably dissolved, good, good, good. 61 00:03:57.639 --> 00:04:01.520 Some lovely progeny. As I recall, I do have two. 62 00:04:01.919 --> 00:04:04.759 I have two of the most amazing kids anybody could 63 00:04:04.840 --> 00:04:09.680 hope for. Yeah, that's just apps. I mean, they are special, 64 00:04:09.840 --> 00:04:13.080 they are and yeah, I'll never say that, but my 65 00:04:13.199 --> 00:04:16.439 kids are awesome, all right. 66 00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:19.199 So Top ten grossing movies from two thousand and five. 67 00:04:19.279 --> 00:04:25.360 Number ten Hitch, number nine, Batman Begins, so many Batman's, 68 00:04:25.959 --> 00:04:33.519 I'm Batman, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Mister and Missus Smith, Madagascar, 69 00:04:34.319 --> 00:04:40.519 King Kong War, The World's The Chronicles of Narnia, Lying 70 00:04:40.560 --> 00:04:44.560 the Witch and the Wardrobe, Number two, Star Wars Episode three, 71 00:04:44.680 --> 00:04:49.800 Revenge of the Sith, and number one Harry Potter and 72 00:04:49.800 --> 00:04:53.519 the Goblet of Fire, grossing eight hundred and ninety five 73 00:04:53.879 --> 00:04:55.519 point nine million dollars. 74 00:04:55.959 --> 00:04:57.759 I'll see. If I could only keep one of those, 75 00:04:57.800 --> 00:05:01.240 I'd go with Madagascar like that one was a great 76 00:05:02.560 --> 00:05:03.879 Winds just killed. 77 00:05:03.959 --> 00:05:09.360 Yeah, yeah. Richard, Space and Tech, I guess this was 78 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:10.879 a pretty good year for space. Huh. 79 00:05:11.040 --> 00:05:14.199 Well, uh, this is the year that Airbus reveals the 80 00:05:14.240 --> 00:05:18.000 A three eighty find the building an airplane bigger than 81 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:22.519 seven forty seven, and they kind of botched it because, actually, music, 82 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:26.000 they'll take far longer to build than planned. Deep down, 83 00:05:26.040 --> 00:05:29.680 if you're into aeronautics, they had they knew, they expected 84 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:32.639 that they would build stretch versions of the A three eighty, right, 85 00:05:32.680 --> 00:05:34.360 they only ever built the one model the eight, but 86 00:05:34.399 --> 00:05:36.519 they were planning on building stretch models, and so in 87 00:05:36.560 --> 00:05:39.360 anticipation of that, they overbuilt the wing so that it 88 00:05:39.399 --> 00:05:41.360 would be able to handle the stretch versions, and that 89 00:05:41.439 --> 00:05:44.759 there are for by making the main version, the initial 90 00:05:44.839 --> 00:05:48.079 version less efficient than it could be. Okay, that, combined 91 00:05:48.120 --> 00:05:51.399 with the general failure of spoken hub flying systems, this 92 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:54.120 method of using big airports that everybody flies into and 93 00:05:54.160 --> 00:05:56.839 everybody flies out of, meant the A three eighty was 94 00:05:56.879 --> 00:06:00.319 the wrong airplane for modern times. And so build a 95 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:02.040 less than two hundred of them, and then they'll shut 96 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:04.279 on the line and it'll be a major financial loser. 97 00:06:04.160 --> 00:06:04.600 For air US. 98 00:06:04.639 --> 00:06:08.120 I don't remember any of that. I just Airbus built 99 00:06:08.199 --> 00:06:10.680 other planes since then, right, Oh yeah, No. 100 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:13.680 Arguably the A three twenty is the most successful airplane 101 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:15.959 out there. You know, he's neck connect with the seven 102 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:18.120 thirty seven. But I can go nuts on aerospace, as 103 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:21.920 you well know. Yeah, let's keep going on, I would argue. 104 00:06:21.920 --> 00:06:23.439 One of the most interesting things happened this year. The 105 00:06:23.519 --> 00:06:26.800 year was the DARPA Grand Challenge. This was the beginning 106 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:31.759 of automated driving, and when Stanford's stan Lee vehicle completed 107 00:06:31.800 --> 00:06:34.160 the challenge successfully, they had it they'd been running for 108 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:35.079 a couple of years at that point. 109 00:06:35.199 --> 00:06:37.079 That was the best show I ever watched on the 110 00:06:37.120 --> 00:06:37.959 Discovery Channel. 111 00:06:38.079 --> 00:06:40.720 Yeah, it was great, And here we are twenty years later, 112 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:43.639 still trying to figure it out. All right. On the 113 00:06:43.639 --> 00:06:48.000 space side, January is a crazy month. It starts with 114 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:54.000 a group of astronomers identifying a Cooper object they called 115 00:06:54.120 --> 00:06:56.920 Aras at the time, when they identified it, they thought 116 00:06:56.920 --> 00:07:01.720 it was larger than Pluto and kicked off the cascade 117 00:07:01.959 --> 00:07:04.519 that results in Pluto being demoted as a planet. Right, 118 00:07:04.600 --> 00:07:07.240 So the issue being here, now that they found Arison, 119 00:07:07.240 --> 00:07:09.199 they're pretty sure there's other objects of that size. They'll 120 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:12.160 laterally find them, things like said and so forth. Initially 121 00:07:12.199 --> 00:07:14.160 they say, okay, well there's ten plants in Solar system. 122 00:07:14.199 --> 00:07:16.519 Then there might be eleven or twelve or thirteen, but 123 00:07:16.560 --> 00:07:20.800 they're different from the main nine or the main eight. 124 00:07:20.879 --> 00:07:22.160 But they do or at the Sun. 125 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:23.639 Right all or at the Sun. So they had to 126 00:07:23.959 --> 00:07:25.959 The reality is there was no definition for a planet 127 00:07:25.959 --> 00:07:26.560 at the time. 128 00:07:26.839 --> 00:07:29.800 Right right. I remember Neil de grass Tyson was one 129 00:07:29.800 --> 00:07:31.959 of the guys who put the nail on the coffin 130 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:33.160 of Pluto as a planet. 131 00:07:33.519 --> 00:07:36.279 That's actually how Neil Degrass Tyson became famous. 132 00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:36.560 Yeah. 133 00:07:36.639 --> 00:07:38.639 Yeah, it was support of this argument. The problem is 134 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:42.040 that the definition is weak orbiting the Sun, fine is 135 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:45.839 round or has hydrostatic equilibrium aka enough gravity pull itself 136 00:07:45.879 --> 00:07:49.480 into shape. Fine, here's the one they added to make 137 00:07:49.519 --> 00:07:53.439 it planet has quote cleared its orbit. 138 00:07:53.800 --> 00:07:54.399 What does that mean? 139 00:07:54.560 --> 00:07:58.040 So that's exactly so it sucked up everything which is 140 00:07:58.160 --> 00:08:01.399 in its orbital path itself. 141 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:03.920 Yeah, to be clear, no planet has actually done that. 142 00:08:04.199 --> 00:08:08.480 Every planet has both Trojan and Apollo asteroids following in 143 00:08:08.560 --> 00:08:11.079 its orbit. But one would argue that is clear that 144 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:15.759 they are on the same orbital path, just in gravitational equilibrium, 145 00:08:15.759 --> 00:08:19.560 so they never get to the planet. You know, Pluto 146 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:23.600 isn't on the plane of the elliptic, it doesn't actually 147 00:08:23.720 --> 00:08:27.120 orbit flat with the other eight planets. It also crosses 148 00:08:27.199 --> 00:08:30.600 Neptune's orbit like it's a different object. Now. At the 149 00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:33.399 same time, they also had Serres, which is the probably 150 00:08:33.399 --> 00:08:36.039 the remains of a planet that existed between Mars and 151 00:08:36.080 --> 00:08:38.440 Jupiter and was torn apart, and it's a planetary core, 152 00:08:38.879 --> 00:08:41.039 so they considered they called that a dwarf planet as well. 153 00:08:41.200 --> 00:08:44.519 Was originally called an asteroid, even though it's huge, and 154 00:08:44.559 --> 00:08:47.639 now they had ris as well, also not on the 155 00:08:47.679 --> 00:08:52.360 planet ecliptic also, you know, doing some crossing and asymmetry, 156 00:08:52.799 --> 00:08:55.039 and so the dwarf planet category sort of picks all 157 00:08:55.080 --> 00:08:57.200 those Cooper objects up. 158 00:08:57.399 --> 00:09:00.120 I remember being blown away by the images of Pluto. 159 00:09:00.559 --> 00:09:02.240 That was a voyager. 160 00:09:02.440 --> 00:09:05.440 Oh when new Horizons gets there, new Horizons. 161 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:05.720 Yeah. 162 00:09:05.799 --> 00:09:10.440 Yeah. My favorite thing about that whole sort of dwarf 163 00:09:10.480 --> 00:09:13.960 planet drama is that Eris is named after the Greek 164 00:09:14.000 --> 00:09:19.639 goddess of mischief and discord and chaos, which is very appropriate. 165 00:09:20.120 --> 00:09:25.440 Completely through the whole astronomical establishment into disorder for years, you. 166 00:09:25.480 --> 00:09:27.600 Got people wound up and still wound up. There's a 167 00:09:27.639 --> 00:09:29.399 movement again to make Pluto a planet. 168 00:09:29.519 --> 00:09:32.759 Yes, so Hailarius. That's right, it's not over yet. I 169 00:09:32.840 --> 00:09:33.720 recently heard that. 170 00:09:34.039 --> 00:09:36.200 Yeah, all right, well let's move on. That's a fun one. 171 00:09:36.320 --> 00:09:39.840 Also in January, the Huygens probe off of Cassini lands 172 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:42.240 on Titan and gives us our first images of the 173 00:09:42.240 --> 00:09:45.159 surface of Titan because it has a very thick hydro 174 00:09:45.399 --> 00:09:49.960 chemical atmosphere methane and methane primarily, and we can see 175 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:54.159 as it's descending and sends back these photos erosion patterns, 176 00:09:54.200 --> 00:09:57.399 just not erosion caused by water. Water is frozen solid there, 177 00:09:57.440 --> 00:10:02.879 it's like rock there. This is done by hydrochemicals, by 178 00:10:02.879 --> 00:10:05.919 things like ethane raining out of the sky and eroding 179 00:10:06.240 --> 00:10:11.600 the terrain. So amazing pictures. Great accomplishment there, and also 180 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:17.720 in January. We're still in January the Deep and Impact experiments. 181 00:10:17.759 --> 00:10:21.039 This launched off a Delta two to impact on the 182 00:10:21.080 --> 00:10:23.840 Temple one comet as it went by, so they get 183 00:10:23.840 --> 00:10:26.799 there by July. It was a very quick intercept, but 184 00:10:26.919 --> 00:10:28.559 mission will go a little bit wrong. They will have 185 00:10:28.639 --> 00:10:31.159 the impactor, but the sensors will be overwhelmed by the debris. 186 00:10:31.200 --> 00:10:33.200 It'll kick up far more than expected. 187 00:10:33.399 --> 00:10:34.000 I remember that. 188 00:10:34.159 --> 00:10:36.639 But the Stardust mission that's already up there, that's been 189 00:10:36.639 --> 00:10:39.000 doing collections off of other comets, will be able to 190 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:41.480 do a pass on Temple one's debris cloud as well 191 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:44.080 and get material that way, so they'll recover from. 192 00:10:43.960 --> 00:10:46.200 You want to land on the head of the comet, 193 00:10:46.320 --> 00:10:47.080 not the tail. 194 00:10:47.919 --> 00:10:49.879 Well this they only sent an impactor in it. The 195 00:10:49.919 --> 00:10:52.519 idea was to kick up debris to try and measure 196 00:10:52.919 --> 00:10:55.000 the contents and actually collect some of that de breach. 197 00:10:55.000 --> 00:10:58.080 It didn't work out. Finally for space There was only 198 00:10:58.120 --> 00:11:01.960 one flight of a shuttle after the Columbia disaster in 199 00:11:01.960 --> 00:11:03.559 two thousand and three. There were no flights in two 200 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:05.360 thousand and four. There's one in two thousand and five. 201 00:11:05.399 --> 00:11:06.759 It was supposed to be the return of flight. It 202 00:11:06.799 --> 00:11:10.080 was the Discovery Shuttle bringing supplies to the space station 203 00:11:10.200 --> 00:11:14.879 that brought up the Rafello, the MPLM European capsule that 204 00:11:14.919 --> 00:11:16.600 they would take out of the cargo bay of the 205 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:18.639 shuttle and dock to the station to leave it there 206 00:11:18.679 --> 00:11:21.480 that they could refill it with garbage and or experiments 207 00:11:21.480 --> 00:11:25.399 and bring it back. There will be enough problems with Discovery, 208 00:11:25.879 --> 00:11:28.960 including damages to its tiles, that they will not fly 209 00:11:29.039 --> 00:11:32.519 again that entire year. They'll have to do further corrections. 210 00:11:32.519 --> 00:11:34.240 This is when they add the additional arm to be 211 00:11:34.279 --> 00:11:38.039 able to inspect the hull, and that'll be later. This 212 00:11:38.080 --> 00:11:39.840 one they did of they because they went to the 213 00:11:39.879 --> 00:11:42.919 space station. They did the inspection by pulling Discovery off 214 00:11:42.960 --> 00:11:44.960 of the space station and flipping the shuttle over so 215 00:11:44.960 --> 00:11:47.759 they could photograph it and saw some problems. So the 216 00:11:48.200 --> 00:11:50.799 issues of the tile system are becoming more and more apparent, 217 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:52.759 and it will ultimately result in the end of the 218 00:11:52.759 --> 00:11:57.919 Shuttle program. On the computing side, in the Microsoft lands, 219 00:11:57.960 --> 00:12:02.360 we get XP National sixty four bit, the first sixty 220 00:12:02.399 --> 00:12:04.159 four bit version of Windows. 221 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:08.240 I ran it, yeah, I remember that show. Yeah, we 222 00:12:08.279 --> 00:12:11.919 did on sixty four bit, and that also prompted the 223 00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:15.679 sixty four bit question yeah, which we end our conference 224 00:12:16.200 --> 00:12:16.639 shows with. 225 00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:21.039 It also goes alongside dot net two and Studio two 226 00:12:21.080 --> 00:12:23.519 thousand and five, which includes sixty four bit support, except 227 00:12:23.559 --> 00:12:26.759 that they had law offered the option as compile any, 228 00:12:26.879 --> 00:12:29.200 which really meant running thirty two bit and crash in 229 00:12:29.240 --> 00:12:29.879 sixty four bit. 230 00:12:30.159 --> 00:12:32.200 Yep, I remember. 231 00:12:34.799 --> 00:12:37.159 Any wrong? We did that show. Don't do it any 232 00:12:37.200 --> 00:12:39.279 If you're not sure you're going to run in sixty 233 00:12:39.279 --> 00:12:41.360 four bit, set it to thirty two bid. Oh you 234 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:44.120 will be sad. And really the only thing you were 235 00:12:44.120 --> 00:12:46.000 getting was do you get more than two gigs of 236 00:12:46.039 --> 00:12:46.759 address space? 237 00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:47.080 Right? 238 00:12:47.159 --> 00:12:49.159 And I think I said this on the show at 239 00:12:49.159 --> 00:12:50.440 the time. If you need more than two gigs of 240 00:12:50.440 --> 00:12:56.759 address space, what do you do? Do you doing, especially 241 00:12:56.759 --> 00:12:59.279 for a web page? I want to run. I want 242 00:12:59.320 --> 00:13:01.840 to run is sixty four bit moode. It's like more 243 00:13:01.879 --> 00:13:03.440 than two gigs for a web page? 244 00:13:03.679 --> 00:13:04.279 What do you doing? 245 00:13:05.639 --> 00:13:06.919 Like a tudy stories. 246 00:13:06.639 --> 00:13:09.399 Coming out of the dot com bust last year. In 247 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:12.120 two thousand and four, we had YouTube going public because 248 00:13:12.159 --> 00:13:15.080 the SEC required they had too many shareholders, so they 249 00:13:15.159 --> 00:13:19.080 start making some our Google goes public and this is 250 00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:22.000 when YouTube is founded and the first YouTube video called 251 00:13:22.120 --> 00:13:24.440 Me at the Zoo is published. This is before you know, 252 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:27.840 Google hasn't bought them yet, right, but they will. But 253 00:13:28.120 --> 00:13:31.320 my Google does launch Google Maps in two thousand and five. Yeah, 254 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:33.679 and a little bit on the hardware side, Microsoft launches 255 00:13:33.720 --> 00:13:36.639 the Xbox three sixty, the weirdo version of Xbox that 256 00:13:36.679 --> 00:13:40.960 all the game developers hated. The first r duinos are sold, 257 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:44.200 and this really begins this wave even before Raspberry Pie 258 00:13:44.200 --> 00:13:46.919 and things of the little micro controller you can program 259 00:13:46.919 --> 00:13:50.919 and do cool computer things. Yeah, and Lenovo buys IBM 260 00:13:51.000 --> 00:13:53.799 think padline and becomes you know, today, I think the 261 00:13:53.840 --> 00:13:57.000 coolest laptop maker on the planet, not that I want one, 262 00:13:57.120 --> 00:13:58.960 but they do cool stuff. 263 00:13:59.000 --> 00:14:01.480 The think pads where coveted. Yeah. 264 00:14:01.840 --> 00:14:05.039 The coolest maker on the planet that is an Apple. 265 00:14:05.240 --> 00:14:06.159 Let's put it that way. 266 00:14:06.799 --> 00:14:08.799 The Apple doesn't make a lot of machines. They make 267 00:14:08.799 --> 00:14:11.519 the highest quality machines, like by far. But when I 268 00:14:11.519 --> 00:14:14.159 say cool, I mean like you never know what logos 269 00:14:14.440 --> 00:14:16.799 Leno was gonna do. Is like this one has two screens, 270 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:20.080 this one has three screens, this one full. Yes, yes, 271 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:25.720 it becomes right like they're nuts. Yes, all right, standing down. 272 00:14:26.159 --> 00:14:29.799 They make it. They make a dedicated knock for teams 273 00:14:29.879 --> 00:14:36.559 because everybody hates themselves, Like I don't know it all right, 274 00:14:36.600 --> 00:14:38.320 that's all I got, thanks. 275 00:14:38.039 --> 00:14:43.120 For Okay, before we talk to MS. Let's do better. 276 00:14:43.159 --> 00:14:44.679 No framework, roll. 277 00:14:44.519 --> 00:14:53.799 It awesome man, you got. 278 00:14:54.360 --> 00:15:00.000 So there's this project on GitHub called Sophia Script for Windows. 279 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:01.039 Oh what is that? 280 00:15:01.080 --> 00:15:04.679 And basically it's a PowerShell module for fine tuning Windows 281 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:09.039 on GitHub. It's got one hundred and fifty unique functions 282 00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:13.759 to configure Windows using Microsoft's officially documented ways without without 283 00:15:13.799 --> 00:15:18.840 harming your system. Okay, And there is now or there 284 00:15:18.960 --> 00:15:22.799 was recently a Windows version of this. So this is 285 00:15:22.919 --> 00:15:27.879 Sofia app in the Sofia community. So they say, it's 286 00:15:27.919 --> 00:15:32.480 the next chapter of the Sofia script project. And this 287 00:15:32.559 --> 00:15:34.840 is a free, open source app for fine tuning Windows 288 00:15:34.879 --> 00:15:38.879 ten and Windows eleven. Offers a modern UI UX with 289 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:41.960 more than one hundred and thirty unique tweaks and shows 290 00:15:41.960 --> 00:15:46.240 how Windows can be configured without making any harm to Windows. 291 00:15:47.039 --> 00:15:49.799 So I haven't used it, but there's you can install 292 00:15:49.799 --> 00:15:53.279 it with Chocolate Scoop and beta versions you can just 293 00:15:54.120 --> 00:15:59.279 you know, expand them and run them and yeah, it's 294 00:15:59.320 --> 00:16:00.000 this is good stuf. 295 00:16:00.440 --> 00:16:03.759 Yeah, sure, you know. Over my other life on Windows Weekly, 296 00:16:03.919 --> 00:16:06.919 Paul the Rod has been working steadily on how do 297 00:16:06.960 --> 00:16:09.840 you make Windows eleven not suck? Yeah, right, like just 298 00:16:09.919 --> 00:16:14.039 turning removing stuff and getting the base configuration down, you know. 299 00:16:14.559 --> 00:16:16.360 And if you don't want to deal with one drive, 300 00:16:16.440 --> 00:16:18.879 here's how to actually make it go away without nagging you. 301 00:16:18.919 --> 00:16:20.759 If you don't want a Microsoft account, here's how you 302 00:16:20.879 --> 00:16:22.840 actually can figure it. But this looks like a tool 303 00:16:22.919 --> 00:16:24.320 just make your life a lot easier for that sort 304 00:16:24.320 --> 00:16:24.559 of thing. 305 00:16:24.720 --> 00:16:27.480 Yep. There's one feature that I'm going to check to 306 00:16:27.519 --> 00:16:34.399 see if it has, and that is this persistent the 307 00:16:34.480 --> 00:16:38.960 first persistent feature quote unquote that anytime you're in file 308 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:41.799 Explorer and you've got wave files and MP three files 309 00:16:41.840 --> 00:16:48.440 and stuff, it insists on using the music format for 310 00:16:48.799 --> 00:16:52.320 the fields that it shows rather than regular documents. And 311 00:16:52.360 --> 00:16:57.000 I don't care about artists and album and contributing artists 312 00:16:57.039 --> 00:16:59.960 and you know, all this stuff. I want to see 313 00:17:00.159 --> 00:17:03.919 the file sized, because I'm you know, I deal with files. 314 00:17:04.240 --> 00:17:06.039 Yeah, I don't care about how big the file is. 315 00:17:06.119 --> 00:17:07.920 And it's and you turn it off and you turn 316 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:11.960 it and it comes back, and it's just really really aggravating. 317 00:17:12.200 --> 00:17:14.240 I just want that feature out of Windows. So I'm 318 00:17:14.279 --> 00:17:18.200 gonna look for that. Stop fighting me, right, That's that's 319 00:17:18.599 --> 00:17:20.720 what I'm talking about. Who's talking to us? 320 00:17:20.839 --> 00:17:23.839 Richard grabbing camming off the show nineteen sixteen. You know, 321 00:17:23.960 --> 00:17:28.359 back in the World War One days done with one 322 00:17:28.440 --> 00:17:32.559 Rendel called how simple is as simple as possible? Because 323 00:17:33.039 --> 00:17:37.599 we get good show names, generated a ton of comments. 324 00:17:37.640 --> 00:17:40.680 Of course, this is when we were talking primarily about 325 00:17:40.720 --> 00:17:44.920 things like is our micro services essential? Like what are 326 00:17:44.920 --> 00:17:46.880 better ways to build software? How do you keep this 327 00:17:47.119 --> 00:17:48.960 just as complicated as it needs to be? In no 328 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:51.559 more than that? And just got a ton of comments 329 00:17:51.559 --> 00:17:53.720 off of this show. Yeah, and I'm gonna grab this 330 00:17:53.720 --> 00:17:57.920 one from Robin Osborne who says, thanks so much. When 331 00:17:57.920 --> 00:18:00.920 I'm really doubting myself during the decade long tsunami of 332 00:18:01.119 --> 00:18:05.480 JavaScript all the things, and I'm thinking, surely this isn't 333 00:18:05.480 --> 00:18:09.079 the best approach. Am I wrong? Do I just not 334 00:18:09.160 --> 00:18:12.160 understand something that everybody else gets. It's a load off 335 00:18:12.160 --> 00:18:14.279 my chest to hear people I respect in the industry 336 00:18:14.279 --> 00:18:18.400 talking about lovely things like HTMX and referencing Alex Russell's 337 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:22.319 great articles. I love Polly, I love twelve factor back 338 00:18:22.319 --> 00:18:25.079 in the day. I love making things as simple as possible, 339 00:18:25.119 --> 00:18:27.640 simple to build, simple to maintain, and still for the 340 00:18:27.720 --> 00:18:32.039 end user. Gagny and kiss for the win. Shit, I'm 341 00:18:32.039 --> 00:18:34.599 not going to argue with that. How about kiss? You mean, 342 00:18:34.759 --> 00:18:35.400 keep it simple? 343 00:18:35.400 --> 00:18:35.799 Stupid? 344 00:18:36.160 --> 00:18:37.920 Yeah, I don't know where you want to go, but 345 00:18:38.279 --> 00:18:40.960 you know what ramin where on board. You obviously heard 346 00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:42.759 it on that show and probably hear more of that 347 00:18:42.799 --> 00:18:44.599 today too. So thank you so much for your comment. 348 00:18:44.799 --> 00:18:46.519 A copy of music Coby. It's on its way to you. 349 00:18:46.519 --> 00:18:47.880 And if you'd like a copy of music Cobe, I 350 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:49.720 write a comment on the website at dot at Rocks 351 00:18:49.759 --> 00:18:51.880 dot com or on the facebooks we publish every show 352 00:18:51.880 --> 00:18:53.160 there and even comment there when I read it on 353 00:18:53.200 --> 00:18:55.480 the show, we'll send you copy of music Cobayah. 354 00:18:55.599 --> 00:18:57.640 Music to Koba, of course, is a project I started 355 00:18:57.640 --> 00:19:00.440 a long time ago to create twenty five minute music 356 00:19:00.599 --> 00:19:03.200 tracks that can slip into the background and help you 357 00:19:03.240 --> 00:19:07.079 focus and it's been wildly popular. Now we have twenty 358 00:19:07.079 --> 00:19:11.440 two tracks. Twenty three is coming, I promise, and music 359 00:19:11.519 --> 00:19:13.119 too by dot net if you want to get it 360 00:19:14.720 --> 00:19:20.440 in MP three, wave and FLACK versions. Okay, let's bring 361 00:19:20.480 --> 00:19:24.920 back ms Rendel. Ms has been writing code since childhood, 362 00:19:25.000 --> 00:19:28.640 getting paid for it since her teens, and inflicting opinions 363 00:19:28.680 --> 00:19:33.319 on conference audiences for the last fifteen years. The former 364 00:19:33.440 --> 00:19:36.559 CTO with deep roots in dot net, c sharp APIs 365 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:40.680 performance engineering and system architecture. She's now working in financial 366 00:19:40.720 --> 00:19:44.920 technology by day, then spending her spare time building ambitious, weird, 367 00:19:45.279 --> 00:19:49.440 and occasionally beautiful things at the intersection of ar AI 368 00:19:49.680 --> 00:19:52.039 and human connection. Welcome back with MS. 369 00:19:52.279 --> 00:19:53.880 Hey, Hey, thank you for having me. 370 00:19:53.920 --> 00:19:59.279 Thanks for participating in the intro. Yeah, fun, Yeah, I'm 371 00:19:59.279 --> 00:20:01.319 sure since the ast time we talked, you've got a 372 00:20:01.359 --> 00:20:02.640 lot of things on your mind. 373 00:20:03.319 --> 00:20:11.200 It's been a wild couple of years. Yeah, yeah, I 374 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:15.880 just I've continued trying to keep things as simple as possible. 375 00:20:15.920 --> 00:20:20.160 There's a bit of a movement has kind of popped 376 00:20:20.240 --> 00:20:23.039 up in the last couple of years. Actually, Chris Woodruff, 377 00:20:23.160 --> 00:20:28.440 who I know, you guys know, has been doing a 378 00:20:28.480 --> 00:20:33.079 lot of writing sort of around the simplicity first approach. 379 00:20:33.160 --> 00:20:38.079 She's a big advocate of that. There's the use what 380 00:20:38.200 --> 00:20:42.839 works initiative, which is sort of the whole buy don't 381 00:20:42.880 --> 00:20:47.480 build kind of trying to suggest to people that just 382 00:20:47.559 --> 00:20:51.720 because an open source project is asking for commercial support money, 383 00:20:51.839 --> 00:20:53.920 that's not a good reason to go off and build 384 00:20:53.960 --> 00:20:59.920 your own messaging stack or warth authentication stack or whatever it. 385 00:21:01.400 --> 00:21:04.000 We wrote this code not because it was easy, but 386 00:21:04.079 --> 00:21:05.519 because we thought it was easy. 387 00:21:06.720 --> 00:21:09.079 Yes, we wrote this code because we thought it would 388 00:21:09.079 --> 00:21:10.519 save us five thousand dollars. 389 00:21:10.519 --> 00:21:14.400 And I think it's a trap of modern AI development, 390 00:21:14.759 --> 00:21:18.519 which we're all finding ourselves doing some somewhat, is that 391 00:21:19.079 --> 00:21:22.480 you think, you know, oh, I'll just I need this, 392 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:26.720 I'll just have my AI write it. Where the first 393 00:21:26.799 --> 00:21:29.559 question should be does it exist? You know? 394 00:21:29.880 --> 00:21:30.119 Yes? 395 00:21:30.359 --> 00:21:33.680 And that's literally in my prompt that I use for 396 00:21:34.079 --> 00:21:38.359 exploring new ideas, there's a sort of thing very near 397 00:21:38.400 --> 00:21:41.759 the top saying if something exists, let's just use it, 398 00:21:41.799 --> 00:21:42.920 tell me about it. 399 00:21:42.839 --> 00:21:45.319 It kind of reminds me of the days when you know, 400 00:21:45.480 --> 00:21:49.480 everybody wanted to build an iPhone app, an Android app, 401 00:21:50.359 --> 00:21:54.799