Geek To Guru

Episode 4 - Email and Spam

pete.reality@gmail.com (Pete Ford) — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:52:00 +0000

Email and Spam: How Email works and how to reduce your spam intake.

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Topics covered:

How Email gets from A to B;

How spammers use weaknesses in the Email protocols to send email without revealing their identity;

The damage spam can do;

Reducing the amount of spam you receive.

Episode 3 - Malware

pete.reality@gmail.com (Pete Ford) — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:39:00 +0000

Malware: Viruses, Trojans and other very bad things, and how to protect yourself and your computer. New and Improved Sound Quality! Enriched with Vitamin B12!

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Topics covered:

What Malware is;

How Malware gets into your computer - email attachments, fake browser plugins and bad toolbars;

Preventing Malware intrusions - antivirus programs and precautions you can take;

Email scams (starring the famous Nigerian 419 scam);

Cookies.

External Links:

Malware Defined

The Nigerian 419 Scam (AKA Advance Fee Fraud)

Browser Plugin: Flash

Browser Plugin: Java

Browser Plugin: Quicktime

Browser Plugin: Adobe Reader

Lavasoft.com - home of Ad-Aware

Episode 2 - The Internet and the World Wide Web

pete.reality@gmail.com (Pete Ford) — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:40:00 +0000

What the Internet and the World Wide Web are.

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Topics covered:

The Internet as a collection of machines;

The Internet as Servers and Clients;

The World Wide Web;

For New Users: where to begin.

External Links:

Google

Altavista

WebCrawler

Lycos

Yahoo

Wikipedia

The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

WebMD

Episode 1 - Computer Hardware and Operating Systems

pete.reality@gmail.com (Pete Ford) — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:52:00 +0000

A high-level overview of the major parts of a computer and the basic functions of Operating Systems.

Apologies for the appalling sound quality. I'm working on it and hope to have this fixed before posting Episode 2.

MP3: http://www.archive.org/download/PeteFordGeekToGuruEpisode1/Ep1.mp3

Topics covered:

CPU;

RAM and ROM;

Hard Disks;

OS Resource Management and User Interface.

Next episode due approx. Feb 11.

Episode 0 - Introduction

pete.reality@gmail.com (Pete Ford) — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:20:00 +0000

Introducing Geek To Guru

MP3 download: http://www.archive.org/download/PeteFordGeekToGuruEpisode0/Ep0.mp3

Topics covered:

Who this podcast is for
What I'll be covering, in general terms