10:26 by .

What happened to the download button on KFI’s web site. I was getting used to downloading the mp3′s of the show, and now the download buttons are gone. When I click listen, the dreaded windows media player opens, instead of winamp. I’m not really into pod casting, can anyone tell me how to getaround this

11:16 by anonymous.

Truth, I appreciate your comments. I’m talking about all the downloadable shows on KFI’s site

  Search this page for N6LV.

14:47 by Kevin in Laguna Niguel?.

Concerning the post at 10:26 by steve.wurz@gmail.com?.

In Winamp select play/location and enter http://live.eonstreams.com/ccri_ca_losangeles_kfi_am.asf
It will stay in the dropdown menu too.

11:13 by Scott.

Disposable emails - www.mailshell.com.

Create an email address for each subscription, have it forward to your main email. That way if you are spammed, kill the one address, or if you switch emails you only go to one place to change it.

11:17 by Waldo?.

Google Page Creater--→>>Due to heavy demand, we are unable to offer new accounts for today. If you’d like to be added to our waiting list, please enter your email address.<<<←---- Looks like only 100 people got an account

11:30 by jlb?.

for the gentlmen with the usb problem it is the usb controller seeing it as a drive and trying to boot off of it. If he goes into the bios and changes the boot options so that usb is not a boot option you will fix it.

11:37 by dougwalk?.

Nice blue shirt you are wearing today Leo. Leo cam is working well.

Listening in Livermore!

11:37 by .

The USB connectors on the MB may be powered by the standby 5V supply which also supplies the power-on circuitry on the MB. A unpowered hub may pull to much power until power up. Try a powered hub.

11:48 by klokwkdog.

good comments on the USB problem (boot option) and standby (standby power runs the logic that sees the start button)(I hate the “always hot” motherboards now, but I guess it beats the old AT with 120VAC to the front power swtich).

efisher’s comment on the standby power + unpowered hub seems the most likely if a USB printer direct to the computer allows it to start up.

I would just add checking the existing two USB hubs to see if they can take external power via external jack (a wall wart may be cheaper than nu powered hub) and also investigating a BIOS update for the Dell in case it’s due to old BIOS (but I’d do that last).

11:50 by n6lv.

Noticed Show Archives state “available one week after show” Latest available is four weeks back (Jan 29)…

What am I missing here?

12:14 by Mikey?.

nglv: Leo is a busy man! KFI, 10 podcasts per week, Call For Help, etc. They will show up eventually.

12:24 by efisher2004dslextremecom?.

I can imagine Leo mumbling to him self “must sleep one of these days…family? I have a family? Sorry kids I might see you next week. Archives and podcasts come first, must sacrifice all to my listeners…Agh!!!

11:58 by KDM?.

With respect to email and security, as well as mailing addresses, it is a good idea to consider registering your own domain and then use a unique email address for each company you deal with. That way you can track who violates your privacy. For USPS, it is a good idea to have mail delivered to a locked mail box. A post office box is a better idea since it is hard to track to you (both directions) since some companies use your mailing address as a “security” question.

12:12 by Mikey?.

MACs: one lengthy post summarizing every difficulty one might have with the platform.

PCs: 3 hrs/day on KFI weekends, countless magazines, podcasts, newsgroups, anti-virus programs, anti-spyware utilities, and websites dealing with the myriad problems, vulnerabilities, and errors with Windows-based platforms.

  *Lengthy* is right
  (and — as usual — not even re-formatted to display properly)
  — and, as such, DELETED (this time **by Leo**).
  (Get a clue, lazy Windoze fanboyz; hit the *Preview* button.)

12:13 by Justin in Fort Myers, FL?.

Inkscape, GNU liscense freeware for vector drawing, or Paint.Net for an upgraded version of paint, and dont forget GIMP will do that too

12:17 by Robert?.

RE: USB problem also check in the BIOS what settings for the USB. I had a problem with a USB webcam. I change the USB setting BIOS to not support the old USB standard

12:27 by waldo?.

the link to the audio of this show is http://www.kfi640.com/cc-common/streaming_new/index.html

12:28 by Ray in Santa Monica?.

There is a wonderful program for freehand drawing by Alias (makers of Maya) called Sketchbook Pro 2. While it doesn’t have geometric shapes, there isn’t a program on earth with a simpler, more efficient interface. It’s kinda like a stripped-down Painter. I am a film director and I use it for storyboards. It’s $179 at alias.com.

There is a great program for creating 3D objects that is so intuitive that you’ll hardly ever click the help tab called sketchup.
However, it is way out of the listener’s budget at $495.

12:30 by .

Hey Leo,

For the USB problem: I had the same problem, and it turned out to be that the wiring on the USB connector, the connector that connects to the pins on the motherboard, (there is a positive and a negative) was actually placed into the wrong position by the manufacturer. It is fairly simple to pull the wire and place it in the correct position using the other connectors as a guide.

12:40 by .

Before you decide what resoulution you are going to scan a negative or slide to, you have to know what size you are going to print that scan to. What you need is 200 to 300dpi at the final print size not the size of the orignal. So if you want to make 11×14″ prints then for best results you want a mim. of 200 dpi (and best 300dpi) when the file is enlarged to 11×14″.

12:41 by oepapel?.

Hi Leo,

I think the program you are thinking about is Paint.NET. It has layers like Photoshop Elements. It’s free as well so any shapes stay live until you flatten.

12:42 by .

dont know where to ask this but…

  Try the Chat Room OR
 http://www.google.com/search?q=Leoville-Town-Square+message-boards

12:44 by My Dog Farts?.

Leooooooo…

Are you broadcasting the weekly KFI Los Angeles show from your home? If so, are you handling the calls and research all by yourself or are you working with someone at a remote location?
By the way, what are those pictures on the wall behind you of? Your big head *grin* keeps getting in the way.

12:53 by Les Merryman - Micro Masters?.

Scanning 35mm slides

When scanning slides it is best to use as high a dpi scan as possible. Because slides are so small and most want to enlarge the slide to a picture, you will want to make sure there is enough pixel density to enlarge the photo without seeing pixels after enlarged.

Polaroid slide scanner default is 2400 dpi and will produce a 12meg grayscale file or 36meg for a color file with a 35mm slide.

13:00 by All these Fruitcakes?.

A decent free drawing program is Draw Plus from Serif:

http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/DrawPlus/key_features.asp

13:05 by nmoore6676?.

How does VOIP save money? You pay for the service, plus the DSL and in order to have DSL you also must have a phone line from ATT or Verizon. You can use the cable broadband, but that is more expensive even if you already have the cable service. If you don’t have cable TV service then it is even much more expensive!

13:15 by akern233.

nmoore6676, you don’t HAVE to pay for the service. all you need is a computer and a good internet connection. (skype, gizmo project, etc.)

13:22 by nmoore6676?.

akern233, on the Vonage website it says plans start at $14.95 a month. I understand skype, but that is computer to computer and has a fee to get “real” phone numbers on the pots network.

13:27 by akern233.

nmoore6676, well you can choose either, you don’t have to use any of them.

Jack in Oceanside, CA can also use asterisk, it’t a Linux distro for voip. They did a SYSTM episode about it i think.

13:28 by Santa Rosa Steve?.

FREEWARE Image Editors

======================
Pixia is the English version of a popular Japanese painting and retouch software for full color graphics. It supports mask, layer and many other editing functions.
http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/

PhotoFiltre is a complete image editing and effects package that comes with many features that rival some commercial packages.
http://www.photofiltre.com/

Project Dogwaffle is a full featured paintbox application inluding natural tools, realtime filters, image warping, gradients. http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/free/

The GIMP is the Windows version of a popular Linux graphics editor and image manipulation software. It offers a ton of features, including advanced layer support, masks, filters, effects and many other features found in professional graphics programs. The interface is not exactly user friendly.
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/

13:34 by Justin in Fort Myers FL?.

Also leo there’s “ArtRage” from ambientdesign.com, for mac and windows, both paid and free versions ($20) just like using phisical media (paint, pencil etc) works ideally with a graphics tablet.

13:43 by The Tech Globe?.

Curious Minds Want to Know?

If Nod32 is Soooo Great, why is that Leo recommends EVERYONE elses online scanner to this lady who has a serious Virus Problem??? What, is there NO online scanner from Nod32? Is Nod32 too small a company to REALLY compete with the REAL AntiVirus companies that DO OFFER FREE Online Scanning!?

No one ever heard of Nod32, and this is the reason why … a tow bit company, that Leo pimps for.

13:48 by Chris in La Jolla?.

Allison iin LA - Act into her MAC- Chris in La Jolla RE: Act to the MAC - Forget about Entourage I love my DAYLITE contact program - My recommendation is DAYLITE a super program from www.marketcircle.com/ a Canadian software that can take ACT and input all fields.

13:51 by Blue_Tiger?.

Gentleman looking for TiVo modifying. Lots of information and help can be found in these two sites.

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/
http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/

13:55 by TastesLikeLead.

http://www.linux-laptop.net/

14:03 by nmoore6676?.

The Tech Globe< I have NOD32 and it is everthing Leo says it is. My computer is much faster now without the Norton Bloatware running in the background. Also Norton causes many other issues and conflicts. I blamed a lot of problems I had before on the programs I was using and have now found them to run fine without Norton.

14:04 by siouxmoux.

What is link for the twit.tv 2.0?? It not in shownotes as of yet.

14:08 by nobody?.

http://twit.tv/red/index.htm

14:09 by MF90250?.

Another AV to consider is CA EZ Antivirus. I’ve found it to be minimally intrusive. The free online scanner is at http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx

15:27 by MannyR?.

SBC Yahoo offers the CA Anti-virus as part of their “Security” package. PC ran extremely slow, switched to AVG Grisoft’s free AntiVirus. Much faster.

17:19 by tony moser?.

Leo …Leo….. Whats wrong with the old TWIT site? the empty home page you posted looks real good ……… for a woman’s site…… come on Leo look at the colors ……… you have lost the geek look and have moved into a womans online shopping site……..Just my opinion.Love the Show ….tm510a

20:05 by Samuel Gordon-Stewart, Canberra, Australia?.

For Ron in Canoga Park, I didn’t hear the call, but I’ve had that problem when I have a USB thumb drive plugged in at startup. The solution was simple enough, just disable booting from USB in CMOS setup.

For Mike in Charleston, if you’re like me and like to draw in Word but hate not being able to export to an image without taking a screenshot and importing it into a graphics app, try the drawing application in Open Office, it exports to most raster (bmp, jpg etc) and vector formats (wmf, svg etc).
Hope this helps!

20:05 by Doc C.

I have to agree with nmoore6676. I had problems with NIS, removed it and loaded NOD32. My machine used to take 2 1/2 minutes from the time I entered my password until I could use it. Now with NOD32, it takes 20 seconds !!!

So what if eset doesn’t have an online scanner. It doesn’t affect the quailty of their product.

20:51 by Mozilla_Fox.

Nikki in Lawndale for online virus scanner.

1. Bitdefender at http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/licence.php
2. Command on Demand at http://www.commandondemand.com/
3. eTrust AntiVirus Web Scanner at http://www3.ca.com/virusinfo/virusscan.aspx
4. This scanner from Trend does not require an activeX to run, this means that you can use Firefox or any other browser to run it as long as the browser supports Java

22:41 by brett?.

FYI: Mac OS X hacked under 30 minutes (unpublished security vulnerability)

13:18 by Bob in Brea?.

Where are all the show logs for February 2006? They appear to have fallen into some black hole.

  If you mean e.g., **Hour 3 Audio**, search this page for N6LV.

08:33 by eyerony?.

Btw, for those that had problems getting the KFI stream after loading the free Flip4Mac Quicktime Plugin, the latest version (2.02) makes hearing the KFI stream possible… and hopefully other problem streams.

12:02 by jcoman?.

Regarding the USB ptoblem. I also had a mother board that would not boot when I installed a new 4 port USB card. The motherboard had two 1.0 USB ports but I needed a 2.0 port. I bought a PCI card but never got it to work. I spent a lot of time then finally bought a new MB with 2.0 ports. Go figure.

09:51 by parol?.

15:56 by Cisally?.

07:09 by Rother?.

Voip

http://www.voipstunt.com/en/splashvoipin.html

this one gives you free pc to landline in different countries, when you try it you only get a minutes time, i think you only have to pay 10 euro into them to get rid of the minute limit on the free calls.

08:41 by Peggy?.

Could anyone tell me the name of the antivirus Leo recommends instead of Norton (free or paid) I don’t mind paying if I’m getting something that works and doesn’t bog my system down.

Leo responds: it’s NOD32 from www.eset.com

23:18 by Martin Eklund, Denmark?.

“computer won’t start when USB device is plugged in”

is usually because of the legacy support in your bios… Try disabling it, worked for me..

10:25 by Chris, Phoenix AZ?.

Just wanted to comment about VOIP. I have been using Vonage for over 2 years now and I would heartily recommend it. We wind up paying about 16 bucks a month for the basic package and taxes and what not. My wife and I each have a cell phone and didn’t have a land line at all. We decided to sign up for Vonage mainly because we wanted a phone line for our ‘business’ (we’re both church workers so it’s not really a business per se) and they have some amazing features. Not only do they store all of our call information (duration, numbers dialed from, etc) they allow us to retrieve our voicemail from anywhere. The killer feature, IMHO, is that they allow you to ring another number at the same time when a call comes in. What this means is that when someone calls our house number (Vonage) it also rings my wife’s cell phone and she can answer it where ever she is. We can also specify a fail-over number that rings if our Vonage router is offline. As far as cost, we already pay for broadband so we didn’t have to pay anything extra for that and when we moved to a different city we didn’t have to change our phone number! On top of that, when our modem broke (once in two years, not bad) we had an new one in the mail within 2 days. Overall, we’re both really happy with VOIP! I never considered that we were on the ‘bleeding’ edge and the only problem we have is when people call our house and get confused because they don’t whether it’s our cell phone or our house phone!

12:42 by Rob from London Ontario, Canada?.

Regarding Ron and his issue /w the system not booting /w a USB hub connected..

  I can understand Leo’s logic on the show about it possibly being a short in the motherboard, but I don’t think this is the issue.

  I work for HP Technical Support in Canada, and I’ve seen this issue before. Here are some possibilities:

1) if one or more of these printers on the USB hub have a card reader, the BIOS can see them as ‘mass storage devices’, and is trying to boot from them.

 As the card reader slots are not initialized yet (This is done by drivers and/or the O.S.), they don’t respond, and the BIOS just waits…those technically inclined among us, think P.O.S.T. test)

1b) 2 ways to try to fix this…
- check with the motherboard/PC manufacturer for a BIOS update (It works on some of the HPs with an “Ambermine” (HP naming) motherboard.
- disable ‘Legacy USB Support” in the BIOS

2) Most modern motherboards have one USB port that’s initialized by the BIOS (so a USB keyboard can be used and still access the BIOS), all the others by an O.S., if the USB hub is connected to this USB port, it may be expecting a USB keyboard, waiting for a response from the keyboard BIOS, and not getting it (When you turn the computer on, and the Caps/Num/Scroll Lock lights flash once, that’s the keyboard being initialized by the BIOS (Again, think P.O.S.T.) Try the USB hub in another USB port.

Another idea, try the USB hub ‘bare’ (nothing plugged into it) to see it it’s the hub, or something plugged into it.

 Hoe this helps! :) 

04:59 by Frank from Nashville?.

I agree with updating BIOS. If it’s an older machine there could very well be a bug in the BIOS

that’s been fixed by a subsequent release. I’ve had
it happen to me before.