Sunday, March 26, 2006

11:22 by Spokavriel.

The Abortion/Adoption thing many Adoption books mention abortion while verry little abortion literature mentions adoption.

The authors of the materials know that saying adoption when the people already chose abortion would be annoying and tend to leave it that way.
So blame the content of the materials that are being made instead of the software finding them.

11:22 by fafner?.

re iPod: It’s a good thing Apple Computer isn’t a monoplly like the “evil empire.”

11:25 by OvalTeen?.

France has the right to keep monopolies out of their country.

11:29 by jccalhoun?.

You can only buy music for ipods from itunes? /Wow, that’s news to me…

http://www.epitonic.com/
http://www.betterpropaganda.com/
http://audiolunchbox.com
http://www.emusic.com/
http://www.audible.com/
http://www.bleep.com/
http://www.livedownloads.com/

11:37 by Chris?.

You can spend a lot more than $5,000 for a computer from Alienware.

My old P4–1.7 Ghz Micron sounds like an airport landing field. I’m looking for quiet in my search for my next computer. I’m seriously considering one of the Sony watercooled models.

12:01 by Rod from Newegg.

I have an HP MCE 2005 computer using S-video to my TV. The video driver is for NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200. If you go to Display Properties - Settings - Advanced - GeForce FX 5200 - Full Screen Video, there is a drop down menu where you can choose disable. This is just a function of the video driver and not related to being an MCE machine. Hope this helps…

12:23 by David?.

Parasound makes a 5 into 1 HDMI switcher. It works stand alone or seamlessly integrated with their preamp processors.

12:26 by John_in_HB?.

There is some fresh news posted at Spyware Warrior for killing spyware quake. Check it out!! “GO THERE NOW!!” http://www.netrn.net/spywareblog/

12:26 by Jerry Torrance Ca?.

Rue the day Vista ships with full time indexing of your hard drive and all web documents..

With the poor record of safety windows has, I expect maybe 30 minutes until the index file is hacked and exported to Elbonia..

12:35 by jccalhoun?.

direct link for killing spyware quake

  Please don’t use tinyurl.

12:47 by Larry in Moreno Valley?.

The latest IE vulnerability could have caused the download of all the bad stuff, specifically SDbot,on the DSL Extreme customer’s computer. See E-week article here

12:57 by Battlestar Jeff in SF?.

For the person who is having Costco color print problems on 5″ x 7″ prints, its very simple: make sure you images are 2100 pixels wide by 1500 pixels deep. That is 300 dpi at 7″ wide by 300 dpi at 5″ deep — or the equiv of 3.15 megapixel. I am a digital artist and graphic designer and deal w/this all the time.

12:58 by Taz?.

Could pls repeat the names of the 3 spyware/trojans(?) Leo mentioned as being the worst offenders so far as no action needed by user to become infected? Ta

12:59 by Len AD6CB?.

Leo, you spoke to someone regarding cable impedances. As a Ham radio operator, I advise to always match cable impedances to avoid standing waves and signal degradation. If the input/output from a device is 75 ohm, the cable should be the same impedance.

‘Great show, Leo.

13:23 by CalExplorer?.

For Chris in Covina - MS Office won’t unistall

Are you sure your daughter has admin rights. Without those rights she won’t be able to install or uninstall. Pershaps her username does not have those privileges turned on. She might be logged on as a user with only Limited rights or even as a Standard user but with restricted settings. Login as an administrator and upgrade her privileges.

Perhaps your not using the correct key. Download, Install and Run the Belarc Advisor. It will provide you a report and show you the correct user keys. You can get the Belarc Advisor from http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

13:24 by Ricky?.

My friend & I have been having a debate about Mac viruses, she insists the reason there aren’t any or hardly any is just because no one is writing them because Windows has 95% of users, this may be true but can you explain the fundamental difference between XP & OS10 as far as security.

• Ah, the old wives’ tale about “Security through obscurity”.
• PERMISSIONS — and what is automatically granted access to monkey with the underlying system is where Unix and Windoze are different.
• A Unix infection will typically bugger up 1 directory (someone’s personal files); a Windoze infection gets access to system files and messes up the SYSTEM.

13:48 by Justin in Fort Myers FL?.

reappearing IE icon: try using TweakUI the microsoft powertoy to remove it…

13:54 by Edgar Scott-Davilla?.

Hello, this is for the caller that is having the internet explorer icon problem. has the caller tried to go in to the set program access and defaults in the add/remove programs applet in the control pannel? there should be a check box that says “enable access to this program internet explorer” make sure that that box is not checked. see if that helps.

17:02 by Nahid?.

About Microsoft’s genuine advantage, you can’t use Windows Update without it but you can have automatic updates turned on without it which will give you the critical updates.

17:52 by STREAMCASTER?.

Leo is always falling behind in getting the podcasts of these shows out to the hungry public it seems. I know, he’s working on it as fast as he can, etc… So if editing the show is perhaps one of the bottlenecks, and you have Premiere Elements, try it, you might like it. I make my own personal podcast from the stream so I can listen to it a couple more times during the week. I record .wav at the full 48 kHz sterio, which is overkill for a stream of course, but it makes for a much smaller conversion, or .pek file in Premiere so it loads faster. Then I might play with the zoom a little to get the best definition of the graphical representation of the audio in Premiere and then in less than eight, yes eight minutes, 1Hr. 38min. and some seconds of pure Tech Guy with perfect split-second transitions is ready for export as PCM wave audio. Run the resulting file through your favorite audio compression program and in less than 20 minutes total work time, you too can be riding down the street with today’s Leo-cast in your pocket!

Leo would have to add his preamble and postscript and maybe another sponsor or two so it might take him another 5 minutes or so. I should time the whole process from absolute beginning to end instead of just the editing process but, maybe next time. I’d be interested to know if there’s someone out there with a faster method for editing that’s still oh, under a $100 or so. I bought Premiere for video editing on Leo’s recommendation but he never said it was such a useful tool for just audio files.

Tha’r, I’ve said ma’ piece! If it helps someone else out great but if it facillitates the catch and release of the rich baritones (there’s only so much an equalizer can do to a squeaky internet stream) encapsulated in a Tech Guy podcast, then the world is an even better place!

18:08 by Not_the_Chris_not_from_MS?.

“Chris from Microsoft” story should have been titled “be aware that MS is controlling www.localpcbuilder.com”. MS does bussiness in a ruthless way so the only conclusion from that post is that they are attempting to place their clout over independent small local PC producers in the same way as they deal with big companies. Bad for consumer in long term.

Do support your local PC builders who offer builds without OS or with the OpenSource OS provided.

18:18 by mrledoux?.

to remove ie icon go to add/remove programs,add/remove windows components , then uncheck internet explorer.this will disable ie and remoe icon

19:03 by waldo?.

there is an easy way to remove the IE Icon just right click the desktop then click on propertys, click the desktop tab then at the bottom click customize desktop uncheck the IE BOX

15:29 by miquonranger03?.

What “waldo” is saying does work, albeit his many puntuation and spelling mistakes. Perhaps Kyle in Nebraska was using a different version of Microsoft and something was going wrong. There’s always something wrong with windows…And as for what “mrledoux” said, I would just add that unless you have Opera, it is not a good idea to delete IE. I say Opera only because it is the only browser that will let you use websites that require IE, such as Sony Connect Music Store because when the website says to the browser, “Hi! What browser are you?” Opera will say, “Internet Explorer.” Of course, it is a good idea not to use IE de to its neverending “severe” vulnerabilites.

A couple of good audio editing programs are cool edit pro and sound forge.

02:47CST 4/24/06 by Finsternuke?.

Leo talked a bit about how France is trying to mess over Apple with the iTunes business. Perhaps Apple should invade France. It doesn’t take too much trouble. Ask the Germans.