<![CDATA[Brandon's Podcast Production Network - BPPN Community Blog]]>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:28:38 -0500Weebly<![CDATA[019-Relaxing With Brandon-Family Issues Leads To Why I Haven't Recorded In Awhile]]>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 20:22:57 -0500http://bppn.weebly.com/1/post/2011/06/019-relaxing-with-brandon-family-issues-leads-to-why-i-havent-recorded-in-awhile.html
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Please Note That The Information In This Episode Is A Little Out Dated Because Was Recorded On May 16/2011 There Will Be A New Podcast Episode Out Soon Also Please Note There Is Know Show Notes For This Episode As It Was From My Head Or From Notes That Were On My IPod
]]><![CDATA[Reminders]]>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 20:30:55 -0500http://bppn.weebly.com/1/post/2011/04/reminders.htmlJust A Few Reminders From BPPN. There Will Be Two New Podcasts This Week, Also All Podcasts That Are Scheduled For This Week Will Be Recorded That's It For Reminders This Week From BPPN ]]><![CDATA[018-Relaxing With Brandon-No Power When This Was Recorded And Much Much More]]>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 20:21:50 -0500http://bppn.weebly.com/1/post/2011/04/018-relaxing-with-brandon-no-power-when-this-was-recorded-and-much-much-more.html
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In This Episode We Talk About The Following And Much Much More:

  • Grad Picture's Are Back
  • Me Falling Behind On Work And Spending Alot Of Time Digging Myself Out
  • Why There Was No DD House Cleaning Sponser In Shows For Last Week
  • Enjoying Weekend At My Friends
  • What I'm Doing Easter Weekend
  • My Easter Weekend
  • Daily News With Brandon Will Be Being Cancelled Becuase I Cannot Do It Every Day
  • Also If You Enjoy Some Of Our Podcasts Please Donate With One Of The Donate Buttons On This Site
]]><![CDATA[010-The Survivor Fan Podcast-The Merge And Matt Wins Again]]>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:44:43 -0500http://bppn.weebly.com/1/post/2011/04/010-the-survivor-fan-podcast-the-merge-and-matt-wins-again.html
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In This Episode Of The Survivor Fan Podcast, Brandon Sanderson Talks About The Following And Much Much More.

  • Talk About Merge And About The Person How Won Went Back To Play In The Game What Was Matt
  • Matt Is Back At Redemtion Island
  • Matt Is Mad He Got Blind Sided By The Same People Again
  • The New Name For The Merged Tribe Is Murlonio
  • They Are Talking About The Good Move Of Kicking Matt Back To Redemtion Julie Is Mad They Sent Matt Back
  • Ralph Is Yalking To Rob's Two Allanices
  • Rob Is Happy They Kicked Matt Out Becuase He Thinks It Brings The Tribe Together Better Also He Wants Them To Try To Say Seprete Even No They Are Meged
  • Ashley Just Told Rob That Ralph Said To Her If The Went To The Top Three He Would Vote Her
  • Now To The Challenge
  • digg to retrive club to break the tile then then first 6 move on then get water go under a structure And Spit In The Beaker the first Three move on and then they have to do a puzzle the first person to get the puzzle right wins
  • Grant And Mike Are The Two To The Finale And So Is David
  • Grant And Mike Trying To Get The Finale Piece In Right 
  • Grant Wins Immunity
  • Now Grant Can't Get Voted For Tonight
  • Murlonio Now Has To Decide How To Vote Out
  • Old Zapetere Tribe Dug And Then Ometepe Came And Started Diging
  • Rob Is Looking For The Idols So He Has Some Stocked Up
  • Rob Is Looking For The Idols So He Can Use Them When He Feels He Is Getting Voted For
  • Now To Tribal Council
  • Philip Likes Being At the Bottom So He Can Look Up
  • Philip Said Ralph Needs Respect To Get A Feature
  • Jef Said He Dosen't Know Who Is Going Home Tonight
  • Now Onto The Vote
  • 1 Philip 2 Philip 3 Philip 4 Philip 5 Philip 1 Mike 2 Mike 3 Mike 4 Mike 5 Mike And The 9th Person Voted Out Of Survivor Redemtion Island Is Mike
  • There Is Still Going To be One More Person Voted Out Tonight Stay Tuned To Find Out Who 
  • Murlonio Just Got Back From Tribal Where They Voted Out Mike
  • Rob Said That Philip Is Doing What He Is Told Like Philip Is A Baby
  • Rob Said That Philip Is Faking Some Of The Crazyness and is only a little crazy
  • Philip Said Everyone Thinks He Is Crazy And That he Is A Smart Guy And People Should Be Proud If They Are In The Top3 With Him
  • Philip Is Almost Gettig In A Fight Because Ralph Inturupted Philip And Andrea's Talk
  • Now Onto The Game
  • Hang From Bar As Long As Can After 20 Minutes They Can Use There Feet The Last One On Wins Immunity
  • To Be Able To Eat They Had To Get A White Rock If They Got A Black Rock They Had To Play The Game Only To Got The White Rock But If They Got To Eat They Don't Win Immunity
  • Rob Is The First Out Julie Is The Second Out Down To Six Left Grant Is The Third Out Grant Is The Forth Out There Are 4 Left David Is The Fifth Out Three Are Left Ashley Was Sixth  And Andrea Won Immunity
  • Philip Said They Did A Good Job
  • Ralph Went To Check The Fish Net And It Was Full Of Fish That They Can Eat
  • Rob Is A Bit Controling Over His Tribe
  • Rob Told The Ometepe Tribe Not To Eat Any Fish Because Zapetere Caught It
  • Ometepe Did Not Listen To Rob And Ate Fish Anyways
  • Philip Has The Feature On His Head Again
  • Philip Is Saying Something Completely Wacked Again
  • Philip Said That They Have A Buddy System
  • Julie Said That Rob Is Controlling The Tribe And It Really Isn't A Tribe
  • Now Onto The Second Vote For Tonight
  • 1 Rob 2 Rob 3 Rob 4 Rob 1 David 2 David 3 David 4 David 5 David 10th Person Voted Out Of Survivor Redemtion Island Is David
  • Scene's From The Next Episode
  • Next Onn Survivor Philip Has Issues With Steve And They Get Into A Fight
]]><![CDATA[003-The Computer Help Podcast-Hard Drive Information]]>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:13:14 -0500http://bppn.weebly.com/1/post/2011/04/003-the-computer-help-podcast-hard-drive-information.html
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  • In This Episode Of The Computer Help Podcast, Brandon Sanderson Talks About The Following And Much Much More.
  • A hard disk drive[2] (HDD) is a non-volatile, random access device for digital data. It features rotating rigid platters on a motor-driven spindle within a protective enclosure. Data is magnetically read from and written to the platter by read/write heads that float on a film of air above the platters.
  • Introduced by IBM in 1956, hard disk drives have fallen in cost and physical size over the years while dramatically increasing in capacity. Hard disk drives have been the dominant device for secondary storage of data in general purpose computers since the early 1960s.[3] They have maintained this position because advances in their areal recording density have kept pace with the requirements for secondary storage.[3] Today's HDDs operate on high-speed serial interfaces; i.e., serial ATA (SATA) or serial attached SCSI (SAS).
  • Hard disk drives were introduced in 1956 as data storage for an IBM accounting computer[4] and were developed for use with general purpose mainframe and mini computers.
  • Driven by areal density doubling every two to four years since their invention, HDDs have changed in many ways, a few highlights include:
  • Capacity per HDD increasing from 3.75 megabytes to greater than 1 terabyte, a greater than 270 thousand to 1 improvement.
  • Size of HDD decreasing from 87.9 cubic feet (a double wide refrigerator) to 0.002 cubic feet (2½-inch form factor, a pack of cards), a greater than 44 thousand to 1 improvement.
  • Price decreasing from about $15,000 per megabyte to less than $0.0001 per megabyte ($100/1 terabyte), a greater than 150 million to 1 improvement.[5]
  • Average access time decreasing from greater than 0.1 second to a few thousandths of a second, a greater than 40 to 1 improvement.
  • Market application expanding from general purpose computers to most computing applications including consumer applications.
  • Hard disk manufacturers quote disk capacity in multiples of 1000, where a terabyte is 1000 gigabytes and a gigabyte is 1000 megabytes.[18] Many operating systems and utilities – including Microsoft Windows and Apple's MacOS X prior to version 10.6 – report hard disk capacity in multiples of 1024, where a terabyte is 1024 gigabytes and a gigabyte is 1024 megabytes. Therefore available space appears less than advertised capacity. The relative difference between the two capacity measurements increases logarithmically with the capacity of the hard disk. The actual number for a formatted capacity will be somewhat smaller still, depending on the file system.
  • The discrepancy between the two methods of reporting sizes had financial consequences for at least two hard drive manufacturers when a class action suit argued the different methods effectively misled consumers (see Orin Safier v. Western Digital Corporation and Cho v. Seagate Technology (US) Holdings, Inc.).[19][20]
  • Starting in about 1998, a number of standards and trade organizations approved standards and recommendations for a new set of prefixes for binary multiples, proposed earlier by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), that would refer unambiguously to multiples of 1024. According to these, the SI prefixes would only be used for decimal multiples, even when referring to data storage capacities. As of 2011 they had seen limited adoption in the computer industry. Microsoft Windows continues to reports disk and file sizes using SI prefixes for binary multiples, while Apple's MacOS X switched to decimal multiples in version 10.6,[21] with Ubuntu planning to do so as well.[22]
  • Nearly every desktop computer and server in use today contains one or more hard-disk drives. Every mainframe and supercomputer is normally connected to hundreds of them. You can even find VCR-type devices and camcorders that use hard disks instead of tape. These billions of hard disks do one thing well -- they store changing digital information in a relatively permanent form. They give computers the ability to remember things when the power goes out.
  • IDE Hard Drives:
  • There are quite a few good hard drive options depending on your budget.  IDE hard drives are usually fairly comparable in price for the same size, same rpm, so I generally suggest just going for the best performing drive with a good reliability record. Since the 7200 rpm drives aren't much more expensive than their slower 5400 rpm brothers, I suggest getting at least a 7200 rpm drive. I also suggest going for an 8 MB cache hard drive.  They also aren't much more expensive anymore, and if you can be satisfied with a smaller amount of disk space (i.e. 80 GB), you can get an 8 MB cache drive for pretty cheap. Here are my specific recommendations:
  • #1:  Western Digital Raptor series (model WD740GD or WD360GD) - These drives are currently the fastest drives available unless you look at SCSI drives (and it even rivals some of the fastest SCSI drives).  Unfortunately, they're fairly expensive and small.  The largest one only holds 74 GB, and the smaller one only 36 GB.  Nevertheless, this is sufficient for the typical home user.  If you play a lot of games or have large MP3 or video collections, you'll need a different drive or a secondary drive for the large amount of data. These drives are Serial ATA only, spin at a fast 10,000 rpm, and have the large 8 MB cache buffer.
  • #2:  Hitachi (formerly IBM) Deskstar HDS7225*:  The * represents the rest of the model number, which usually determines the size and whether it's parallel or serial ATA.  Either one makes a good choice, but if you have serial ATA available on your motherboard, you might as well take advantage of it.  Aside from the 10,000 rpm Raptors, these 7200 rpm drives are the fastest IDE drives available, plus they're quiet and inexpensive.  They are available with a 2 or 8 MB cache, but make sure you get the 8 MB cache version (which also has a 3 year warranty instead of a 1 year warranty on the 2 MB version).  The 160 GB version is a good choice since it's still relatively inexpensive.
  • #3:  Western Digital JB series drives - They range from 40 GB to 200 GB (and from less than $70 to about $400). Get whichever one fits your budget.  I suggest the 120 GB version - model # WD1200JB.  These all spin at 7200 rpms.  The larger drives tend to be a little faster than the smaller ones.  The only negative is that it's an ATA-100 drive (the Maxtor drives are ATA-133), but that's not a big deal at all. If you want a Serial ATA drive, the WD2500JD is as good as it gets (also with 8 MB cache). The Western Digital drives are actually faster and in many cases cheaper than the Maxtors and IBMs.
  • Description:
  • As the primary communication device to the rest of the computer, the hard drive is very important.  The hard drive stores most of a computer's information including the operating system and all of your programs.  Having a fast CPU is not of much use if you have a slow hard drive.  The reason for this is because the CPU will just spend time waiting for information from the hard drive. During this time, the CPU is just twiddling it's thumbs... 
  • The hard drive stores all the data on your computer - your text documents, pictures, programs, etc.  If something goes wrong with your hard drive, it is possible that all your data could be lost forever. Today's hard drives have become much more reliable, but hard drives are still one of the components most likely to fail because they are one of the few components with moving parts.   The hard drive has round discs that store information as 1s and 0s very densely packed around the disc. 
]]><![CDATA[006-Secrets Of CityVIlle-Cruise Ships Are Here]]>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:32:32 -0500http://bppn.weebly.com/1/post/2011/04/006-secrets-of-cityville-cruise-ships-are-here.html
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In This Episode, Brandon Sanderson Talks About  CityVille One Of Zynga Games Also If You Like This Show Or Another Show Please Go Over To bppn.weebly.com And Donate We Can Always Use Your Support As We Are A Non Profit Organization With Only One Sponser  
]]><![CDATA[017-Relaxing With Brandon-My Dad Watering The Satellite Dish]]>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:11:41 -0500http://bppn.weebly.com/1/post/2011/04/017-relaxing-with-brandon-my-dad-watering-the-satellite-dish.html
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This Episode Of Relaxing With Brandon Talk About The Following And Much Much More
  • This Weeekend With BPPN
  • Airband Issues
  • 3 Episodes Away From The Special Thing I Have To Announce 
  • Sunday With My Sisters Computer
  • My Dad Watering Our Satelite Dish
  • Why I Could Not Work Until Thursday Of Last Week
  • Easter Surprise For My Mom And Her Sisters
  • Secrets Of Petville Will Be Starting Again Soon And So Will Another New Podcast Name To Be Announced Next Episode Of This Show
]]><![CDATA[043-Daily News With Brandon- Thursday April 14/2011]]>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:37:59 -0500http://bppn.weebly.com/1/post/2011/04/043-daily-news-with-brandon-thursday-april-142011.html
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In This Episode Brandon Sanderson Talks About News Sports Weather And Things Happen In Canada And The U.S Also Go To Our Website At bppn.weebly.com You Can Find All New Shows And Releases There Also If You Like The Work BPPN Does You Can Donate With One Of The Four Donate Buttons On The Site You Can View This Show Either Above, Under The Daily News With Brandon Page Under The Podcasts Drop Down Menu
]]><![CDATA[042-Daily News With Brandon-Wednesday April 13/2011]]>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:34:41 -0500http://bppn.weebly.com/1/post/2011/04/042-daily-news-with-brandon-wednesday-april-132011.html
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In This Episode Brandon Sanderson Talks About News Sports Weather And Things Happen In Canada And The U.S Also Go To Our Website At bppn.weebly.com You Can Find All New Shows And Releases There Also If You Like The Work BPPN Does You Can Donate With One Of The Four Donate Buttons On The Site You Can View This Show Either Above, Under The Daily News With Brandon Page Under The Podcasts Drop Down Menu
]]><![CDATA[Reminder]]>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 21:01:23 -0500http://bppn.weebly.com/1/post/2011/04/reminder1.htmlRemember That Tomorrow You Will Not Be Able To Access This Site And http://brandonscomputerconsulting.weebly.com/ Will Be Shut Down From 12-8 Tomorrow You Will Not Be Able To Get Into Our Site Or Watch Any Podcast From It But It You Do Want To Watch Podcasts Go Over To: http://feeds.feedburner.com/bppncb And All New Shows Will Be There Sorry For The Inconvenience And Have A Good Night        BPPN ]]>