11:37 by nobody?.

macworld story on new intel mac mini

17:27 by glenn in san fernando?.

Hello Leo, last week I heard you give ideas about cell phones on airplanes. The bottom line, the big secret, the phone co’s. cannot bill you when you are above the towers. I know lots of private pilots, the cat is out of the bag, now you know… the rest of the story.

11:26 by ChaosEsper?.

How does that work with the cell phones? Why wouldn’t they be able to charge if you’re above the towers?

11:28 by Mr NRA-South Bend Indiana?.

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11:43 by ChrisS1563.

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11:53 by ChrisS1563.

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11:47 by parker8888?.

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11:53 by SparkieInParadise?.

Protecting new HP Laptop… before you do anything else make system restore disks! The files are stored in a hidden folder, usually on drive D. The laptop will most likely NOT come with restore disks and most people miss that until its too late. There will be instructions in the restore program about making recovery CD’s or DVD. Or you can buy disks from HP. The disks don’t actually recover the operating software, they just recover the hidden files on D and then you recover Windows from there.

13:08 by anonymous.

Ken In Redlands should know that the trackpad on Toshiba Laptops can be turned off by pressing Function+F9

13:15 by Kyle?.

The guy with the old original iMacs can put up to 384MB RAM in them. To get all the specs go to http://www.everymac.com. I believe that you can put up to Mac OS 10.3 Panther on those iMacs because they only require a 233Mhz G3 and a Mac with a USB Port

13:19 by George in West Virginia?.

Good suggestion on using www.lowendmac.com- the ifixit link will help on the “do-it-yourself” upgrades he needs. You can pick up some really excellent G3 iMacs on places like ebay, macofalltrades.com, or powermax.com for just a couple hundred bucks and upgrade them to be solid teaching tools. Try to get one of the faster ones- 500–600mhz, load OSX, put in some more ram and they are surprising in what they can do.

14:17 by rnauth1418?.

Hey leo, Crypto has to be decoded in order for it to be of anyuse. Which means that the end user of a crypto message has to have some way to unscamble the crypto. Doesn’t this mean that the crypto has somehow been decoded in some way other that through the factoring of prime numbers??

 was a little confused on that technicality  

14:19 by a convert?.

Yo

Inquiring minds. I really don’t get your hatred of macs. I have used PCs all my life and I just got an 17in Intel Imac. It is so great. I admit most of the features I like are mostly just puff like Front Row, the GUI etc but at the same time I have done projects like building a website for my wedding, and editing home movies which is just easier on a mac. I know you can do all of these things on a PC but if you want to create something that works, and can be done with a short leaving curve, an Imac is a great way to go.

     Inquiring Mind = Troll
     The same person who’s always posting junk on this board
     As a rule of thumb, please do not feed the Trolls

15:34 by JorgeST?.

Caller asking for remote controlled backup:

Large amounts od date are difficult to backup over the internet. The best solution to your problem is BetterBytes (http://www.betterbytes.com/) where you have the hardware on-site but they do it for you and controlled the scheduling etc. etc.

It works very well for us (Eagle Aerospace) and I know of at least one other large software company, and another aerospace company who uses them.
They are somehow local to you somewhere in Irvine
Regards

05:32 by Al the Tec from Lansing?.

For Steve in Havertown.

Sometimes the BIOS setting for switching over to a graphics card vs. onboard doesn’t really work. I’ve had exactly the same problem many times. My solution that has yet to fail is to actually open up the case and jumper (reset) the CMOS. I’ll even pop the battery and cross-short it to make sure everything is gone and then put stuff back and boot with the video cable attached to the video card and viola! Proceed from there to install your video drivers. You may have to go back into your BIOS to reset some of the things that the memory wipe defaults to but other than that its straightforward. Compaq and HP are the two biggest offenders as far as not sensing properly and switching over to the new card that I’ve had experience with.

06:03 by Al the Tec from Lansing?.

Browsers.

Firefox is indeed the safest browser going I think and the features “straight out of the box” are ok, a couple of them very nice. I don’t know about the extensions available but it sounds like work to me.
For those of you who aren’t entirely satisfied with Firefox at some point of form or function, definitely stay away from IE6, but Avant Browser can be used as safely I think as Firefox IF once you’ve installed it you go under Tools and toggle off Active X and scripts for normal use and then simply toggle them on when you need them.
I’ll be very interested in Firefox 2.0 but so far it hasn’t quite measured up to the flexibility and “out of the box” features of Avant; which is to be expected I think since Avant piggybacks on IE6.
P.S. If you do check it out, you’ll also probably want to go into Avant Browser options and change the default search engine to Google—the one thing Avant gets totally WRONG!

 BULL.  The Avant Browser is just another skin for Internet Explorer.
 Because it uses the IE engine, it is just as insecure as IE.
 The only reason to use IE is ActiveX;
 if you are going to disable that, get a browser that doesn’t have
 the other security holes of the IE engine.

06:24 by Al the Tec from Lansing?.

Nuru in Mission Viejo - setting up a home network

Howard
dell
office VPN XP
cable?¨router?¨iPhantom?¨router?¨switch

Leo! This call and responses sounded as whacky as a Coast to Coast show does at 3:32 A.M. on a Friday the 13th during a full moon! That’s the first time I’ve said that in over two years about the KFI show. Home network right? All hardwired right? I can’t make it work in my head no matter which way I go except if I bring in PARANOIA and/or DUPLICITY! I hope there’s something I’m missing besides the “jumping to collusions” obvious. I understand the concept perfectly, its the necessity I need to have explained. I have this buzz in my head filled with angry/concerned yap yap about why I’m not setting someone up with a similar configuration.
I hope you elucidate on this one or I’ll be constipated for the rest of my life!!

17:52 by Al the Tec from Lansing?.

To Mr. Bull (rxn to 2(?) messages up),

Please read more, react less (or at least with more discerning criticisms), I covered all your arguments and more with the original statement in which I stated exactly what Avant was, its state of security compared to Firefox and who should or should not try it as well as when and where. In fact, I’ll critique myself much better—I should have more knowledge about the Firefox extensions to judge functionality truly fairly. And “piggyback;” well, that’s probably a colloquialism of some increasingly remote understanding. I’ll say “skin” next time but I won’t say disable since I come from a long line of togglers—give me something I can do on the fly without having to change cars or get out and lock the hubs and I have a much more satisfactory experience. (and I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with driving a slower, safer car—I recommend that to newer users or people satisfied with the upholstery all the time)

07:41 by Willy Cyote?.

This is what Cyberlink sent Me in an E-Mail

Archive files, folders and application data
Include/exclude files with advanced filtering
Restore data using independent restorer utility
Save archiving time with Stream-to-Disc technology
Back up onto Blu-ray discs

 Use your optical disc like a super large floppy disc 

Be ready for writing to new Blu-ray and HD DVD formatted discs
Cut, copy and delete files
Rename files and change file property information
Extensive rewritable burner support

 Burn your data onto double-layer and Blu-ray discs 

Author slideshows onto DVDs with Dolby Digital audio support
Extract audio tracks from video files & create Audio CDs from MP3s
Drag-and-drop files on express icons for fast burning

14:46 by Old PC Dude?.

Brett in Huntington Beach:

It sounds like your hard drive. They can fail as a short - which causes the power supply to shut off and protect the system. I had one fail and it caused the same symptoms that you are describing. Disconnect the hard disk and see what happens. If that doesn’t fix it, I would suspect the power supply. Good Luck.

21:17 by .

MikeHamby.com appreciates your honest opinion of any hardware or software you have tried. Leo has tested and provided support for so many different hardware and software products over the years that he has a well earned right to express some “love” for the items in which he has found merit. Say I try a new ipod, download some things from itunes, see how secure a new Apple computer is with the processing power of an intel duo core processor, I might just want to tell a friend or two about it. I just bought two new dual core processor computers, and I have been very happy with the speed that I can get things done. My ipod has great sound quality with some better Shure earplug headsets. Why bash any product if it works?

Thanks for the program. We are all being honest, Sometimes honesty hurts.