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Saturday, April 2, 2005

Show #131

I’m on vacation overseas this weekend and next, but the show must go on with all new calls (recorded earlier)

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Today’s news items

Breaking News

Breaking news from the Vatican, the Associated Press is reporting that Pope John Paul II has died. http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/02/pope.dies/index.html

Update while Leo is on Vacation: Pope John Paul II Died during the Saturday show so although there are notes the calls did not all get heard through the breaking world news.

Note: I added the notes for the benefit of those who called in during that hour; I doubt if that segment will be replayed. MikeMac

11a-Noon (the mp3 file for this hour is in the April 3rd show file: 20050403–1.mp3)

James in Ventura – wants to move icons

James is using Windows 2000 and he can’t move the icons on his desktop
Right-click on any open space on your desktop and this will open a pop-up menu. At the top of the menu, you will see various options on how to arrange your icons. You will probably want to uncheck auto-arrange and then you can place the icons wherever you want. You can also use the “Run Desktop Cleanup Wizard” from this menu.

Penny in North Hollywood – Virex discovered Trojan

Penny has an iBook and discovered the “Exploit-byte verify Trojan” after running a scan with her Virex antivirus software
This is a false positive and is not a problem with the Mac’s; it is a JAVA related issue.

Mike Mac adds: To clear the Java Cache use these directions from the / Florida Institute of Technology:

	1.  	 Go To Applications → Utilities → Java → Java Plugin  Settings
	2.  	 Go to Cache Tab
	3.  	Click “Clear JAR Cache”
	4.  	Quit all browsers

5. Re-open your browser

Milt in Cerritos – Problems after re-installing Windows 98SE

Every time Milt re-boots after re-installing Windows 98SE he gets a programs file folder on the screen
This can be a symptom of a virus and you can become infected within minutes by a network worm unless a router protects you. Because you are behind a router, the problem could be a conflict with other software you are installing. To determine which processes are running when you start the PC, use the msconfig command by clicking on Start then choose Run and type in “msconfig” (without the quotes). This command will display a dialogue box with tabs for all of the programs that are running and you should look at the Startup tab. Look for something that is starting up with the system and is opening the problem folder by process of elimination. Only uncheck half of the options at a one-time until you find which process is causing the problem. Keep halving the number of options until you find the problem.

Michael adds: Milt, did you find the solution to your problem? I had a horribly long document explaining this situation back in 2001. It was written for many users in some newsgroups. I was supposed to make a shorter version but never got to it. The problem seemed to have stopped with Windows XP. If you want to read it, I placed it here:

          http://pages.videotron.com/mrobich/Hidden/Program.txt

Be warned. It’s a txt file (no html) and it’s 5 pages long.

Ian C adds: I recently came across this same problem when I re-installed a program. Drove me crazy for a while. It turned out that the path to the program contained spaces in the name (eg “Program Files”). The link to it in the HKLM/Run registry key did not have quotes around the path to the program. When I added the quotes the file folder quit opening and the program starred normally.

Might I recommend Mike Lin’s excellent “Startup Control Panel” (http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml) for a quick and easy way to manage and edit the Startup Group, Run, Run Services, and Run Once registry keys. It let me find and fix this problem quickly. Far simpler than using regedit and navigating to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run … etc

It also has the additional benefit of letting me easily turn off those pesky little memory wasters that insist on putting things in the run keys any time you install or run a program. (Eg the “Quick Time Task”)

Jim in San Gabriel – Athlon 64 good choice?

Jim wants to buy a new PC after building several of his own, should he go for AMD’s Athlon 64?
Yes, this is a great processor. AMD has designed a premium product. Intel does have the inside track on PCI-Express.

John in La Habra – what’s on that old hard drive

John has an old hard drive with files that he wants to open and they have the extension .dd
These are files of disk sectors and they were created by Norton Disk doctor, hence the .dd extension. If you want to delete them, you can do it by using the safe mode.

Noon-1p

Did not air - but the pre-recorded hour is available below.

Regarding using Final Cut Pro HD with a Sony Camcorder I got this email:

Hello Leo,

I was listening to your 4/2/05 broadcast when a caller asked about HD
cameras.

You recommended the Sony FX1 to use with Final Cut Pro HD.
Actually, the FX1 records in the “HDV” format, currently Final Cut Pro
doesn’t support that codec. There is a work around using something
called the Apple Intermediate Codec, and it is true that imoviehd
supports HDV. But the “HD” in Final Cut ProHD refers to
Panasonics DVCPRO100 codec.

Canon’s XL2 and Panasonic’s DVX100A have a cool feature that let you
record in 24p like a movie. But they’re DV cams. The Sony FX1 is an
HD cam, but does not record in 24p.

Of course, this all may change at NAB 2005 next week. Steve Jobs
wouldn’t have stood on stage with the president of Sony for nothing.
www.Adamwilt.com has great technical reviews for this kind of stuff.

Phil

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