Packets and Bolts

Join us as season 4 comes to an end; this is the 2022 Packets and Bolts Year in Review! What are the highs and lows of this past year and what can we look forward to in 2023... In addition, we will check-in on Mongoose's predictions from 2021. As always, we will review headlines, read listener emails, and sip on a special holiday brew. Join Us on Discord: https://discord.gg/SXnaRGs2aT *** Packets...

Is Just-in-Time-Inventory (JIT) to blame for our continued supply chain issues? Cee Gee is back to discuss this and other topics with us tonight. Pull up a chair, grab a drink, and join the discussion as we review headlines, read listener emails, and mix a cocktail in preparation for diving into how Just-in-Time-Inventory might be contributing to our supply chain issues... Join Us on Discord: http...

We are facing a shortage of microprocessors and the US government is going to send billions of dollars to the tech industry in an attempt to startup domestic production of microprocessors. Will this work? Once again, we review headlines, read listener emails, and mix a cocktail as we discuss the ongoing chip shortage... Join Us on Discord: https://discord.gg/SXnaRGs2aT *** Packets and Bolts - Brin...

SysAdmin Day 2022 was the last Friday of July (the 29th this year to be exact) and we discuss the trials and tribulations of System Administrators. Being a sysadmin is a thankless job, but somebody's got to do it... Don't worry, we will still review headlines, read listener emails, and have a cocktail or two on this fine July evening. *** Packets and Bolts - Bringing AM radio to Podcasting since 2...

Tonight we discuss the Great Resignation and how the pandemic caused many to rethink the nature of work. Including out of touch billionaires, employers, and remote work... Of course, we review headlines, read  listener emails, and have a cocktail or two for the evening. Tor Security Advisory: https://thehackernews.com/2022/05/tails-os-users-advised-not-to-use-tor.html?m=1 *** Packets and Bolts - B...

37th episode of Packets and Bolts: The podcast about technology, life, philosophy, and everything in between. Tonight we revisit the Superfoods Challenge from 2020! How did it go then? We also check in on Mongoose's recent bone broth cleanse... Was it worth it? As always, we review headlines and mix up a cocktail for the evening! *** Packets and Bolts - Bringing AM radio to Podcasting since 2019.....

36th episode of Packets and Bolts: The podcast about technology, life, philosophy, and everything in between. Tonight we discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine along with our returning guest DubStench... Will this be the start of WWIIII? As always, we review headlines and mix up a cocktail for the evening! *** Packets and Bolts - Bringing AM radio to Podcasting since 2019...

35th episode of Packets and Bolts: The podcast about technology, life, philosophy, and everything in between. Tonight we are joined again by DubStench as we discuss selling farts and other odd items on the Internet... Is this the quickest way to make fast cash??? As always, we review headlines and mix up a cocktail for the evening! *** Packets and Bolts - Bringing AM radio to Podcasting since 2019...

34th episode of Packets and Bolts: The podcast about technology, life, philosophy, and everything in between. Tonight we discuss Outages, Hacks, and Smacks of 2021. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and more. All have had high profile outages along with vulnerabilities in Log4j and others. Does anyone really care? Of course we review headlines and toast the new year with a cocktail for all! *** Packets an...

33rd episode of Packets and Bolts: The podcast about technology, life, philosophy, and everything in between. Tonight we are joined by DubStench and Mike the Admin to discuss if we should break up Big Tech. Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and more; are they good or bad for the economy and society? Of course we review headlines and toast with a special cocktail. Join us for tonight's extravaganza of e...

32nd episode of Packets and Bolts: The podcast about technology, life, philosophy, and everything in between. Tonight we discuss the outages of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp; mishap, incompetence, or something nefarious... Of course we review headlines and toast with a drink. Grab a beer and let's go down the rabbit hole of Social Media Mayhem... *** Packets and Bolts - Bringing AM radio to Po...

31st episode of Packets and Bolts: The podcast about technology, life, philosophy, and everything in between. Tonight Muskrat sits with Mike the Admin for a belated Sysadmin Day 2021 episode. We discuss cloud, DevOps, and other random technical thoughts. As always we throw in some headlines for good measure. Find your nearest computer terminal and sit for a spell as we celebrate Sysadmin Day 2021....

30th episode of Packets and Bolts: The podcast about technology, life, philosophy, and everything in between. Tonight's guest had to reschedule so we take the full episode to discuss recent headlines. Sit down for a spell and let's dig into what is new in the news today.... *** Packets and Bolts - Bringing AM radio to Podcasting since 2019...

29th episode of Packets and Bolts: The podcast about technology, life, philosophy, and everything in between. Tonight we speak with DubStench about all things fish. Aquariums, seafood, go fish, marine life death matches, not even the band Phish is off limits. In addition, we have an extra large amount of headlines for this one, so pull up a chair, grab a fish stick, and let's dive into the deep wi...

28th episode of Packets and Bolts: The podcast about technology, life, philosophy, and everything in between. Tonight we talk to Gary T. McDonald, author of the book The Gospel of Thomas (The Younger): Gospel as Novel, Novel as Gospel. Interview begins at: 1:11:05 Gary T. McDonald is a fifth generation Texan who now lives in California. While studying at Southern Methodist University, his first pl...

27th episode of Packets and Bolts: The podcast about technology, life, philosophy, and everything in between. Tonight we chat with Sparrow and Ken Knight regarding conspiracies and reality. What are conspiracies, who believes them, and is reality even objective? Grab a stiff drink and get ready to dive into the depths of chaos... *** Packets and Bolts - Bringing AM radio to Podcasting since 2019.....

26th episode of Packets and Bolts: The podcast about technology, life, philosophy, and everything in between. Tonight we chat with Mick Dizzle to discuss the Cisco FirePower firewall platform. We spent so muck time time dissing it we wanted to get someone that could hopefully breath some hope into this product... Can it be saved? Is 7.0 the rebirth of the platform? Pull up a chair, grab a drink, a...

25th episode of Packets and Bolts: The podcast about technology, life, philosophy, and everything in between. Tonight we discuss Software Defined Wide-Area-Networking (SD-WAN). Does your WAN seem tired, worn out, dull? Then SD-WAN might be for you. Love to sink a lot of cash into buzz words? Then SD-WAN is right up your alley... Set your network monitoring to auto pilot and grab a drink. Let's tal...

24th episode of Packets and Bolts: The podcast about technology, life, philosophy, and everything in between. Tonight we talk with Kevin Gosztola about Julian Assange (Interview begins at 1:25:40): Kevin Gosztola is an American journalist, author, and documentary filmmaker known for work on whistleblowers, WikiLeaks, national security, secrecy, civil liberties, and digital freedom. Writing The Dis...

  23rd episode of Packets and Bolts: The podcast about technology, life, philosophy, and everything in between. Tonight we review 2020 and all its glory. Let's toast to the new year and be done with the horror that was the past. We are sans commercial break and cocktail today instead drinking only beer with a minimal rest. We still review listener emails as we drink and discuss all that was the me...

22nd episode of Packets and Bolts: The podcast about technology, life, philosophy, and everything in between. Tonight we talk with Atticus the Lawyer to discuss the attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. How will this all end? Will US democracy survive? Are we worried about nothing? Let's review some headlines, grab a drink, and throw caution to the wind... *** Packets and Bolts - Br...

21st episode of Packets and Bolts: The podcast about technology, life, philosophy, and everything in between. Tonight we talk with Cee Gee to compare and contrast various enterprise Next Gen Firewall platforms featuring Forinet especially. As always we review recent headlines and have a drink to celebrate the evening. *** Packets and Bolts - Bringing AM radio to Podcasting since 2019...

20th episode of Packets and Bolts: The podcast about technology, life, philosophy, and everything in between. Tonight we talk with David Chandler about the September 11th attacks and how the buildings fell.: If you wish to skip our wonderful banter the interview begins at 1:02:00. Websites: http://911speakout.org/ http://www.scientistsfor911truth.com/ https://medium.com/@davidchandler_61838/free-f...

19th episode of Packets and Bolts: The podcast about technology, life, philosophy, and everything in between. Tonight we talk with Michael Horn about UFOs and the Billy Meier Story: If you wish to skip our wonderful banter the interview begins at 1:22:23. Websites: https://theyflyblog.com/ https://theyfly.com/ Michael Horn has over 40 years of experience as a science researcher. In 1986, Michael f...

  18th episode of Packets and Bolts: The podcast about technology, life, philosophy, and everything in between. Tonight we celebrate System Admin Appreciation Day 2020 with our guest Sim the SysAdmin! To all those System Admins that get no recognition because the job is being don correctly, we salute you!!! As always we discuss headlines and mix up a drink. Tonight's drink: The Pegu Club: Ingredie...