August 27, 2011
The August 27, 2011 broadcast catches Dr. Dave and Evil Steve doing what they had done for twenty years: keeping a live show moving even while the studio equipment fought them. It documents a remarkable month in technology as Google acquired Motorola Mobility, HP abandoned WebOS and the TouchPad, and Steve Jobs stepped down as Apple CEO; Dr. Dave’s personal memory of trying to arrange Jobs as a guest gives the history an especially direct connection to Computer Talk. A damaged client laptop brings out both the brothers’ dark humor and Dr. Dave’s insistence that the information inside a machine can matter far more than the costly hardware around it. The closing security discussion reaches one of his clearest consulting principles: technology failures are ultimately people problems somewhere in the chain, so good systems must account for ordinary human judgment and error.
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Regular show: hour recordings
2 recordings · 107:29 total within this version.
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Regular show: segments
8 recordings · 95:10 total within this version.
Numbered positions are present in sequence. This alone does not prove the show is complete.