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Sunday, July 3, 2005

Show #158

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Today’s news items

11a-Noon

Lenny from Hemet - Having problems with old Compaq computer.

Gabe in Los Angeles - Wants to learn Visual Basic.

Teach Yourself Visual Basic

Here is a free tutorial that I found. -Buzzrr

Sheman from Diamond Bar - Problem with Linksys router.

Leo advised caller to, “buy another router,” when Linksys router was not working correctly.
Ill advised solution since trouble shooting was apparentl not attempted. Try to reset the router, by holding in the router’s reset button for 30 seconds and reconfigure it for use with your service. Free tech support +1 (800) 326–7114

I concur as I had a problem with connecting to the internet with my Netgear router and it was resolved by resetting. http://www.linksys.com/support/TechSupport.asp -Buzzrr

Lee_O says:
Even when returning your router for a different one you still may run into a problem where your broadband isp is only allowing one mac address. Look for a router option in your settings called mac address cloning and clone the router mac address with your computer.

Noon-1p

- Video podcasting player.

iPodderX
Doppler

Russ in Los Angeles - Searching for a high end SLI video card.

Here’s an article on the Scan Line Interleaving cards by HardOCP -Buzzrr

Morris from Auburn, AL - Looking for good e-mail filter.

InBoxer
MailRoute

Joe from Riverside - Wants to switch hard drives from old Dell computer.

Roger (former TechTV set designer) from Thousand Oaks - Having problems with memory in Photoshop.

Adobe memory allocation & usage. -Buzzrr

txrickd says… If you are using up 10s of megs for a web page, and the work is using gigs of space, because of UNDOs and swap file issues, then you are probably working with the page design the wrong way. Create your graphics in the appropriate program, saving them in a raw file(i.e. .BMP) for future editing and the final file type(i.e. .JPG) for the site. View and edit the actual page in an appropriate designer program using the final graphics files. A home web page should only be about 1 meg tops. And links should be placed for regular and high speed(for really huge animated pages). Most of the country is still dial up.(sep 06,2005)