11:09 by nmoore6676?.

Once again I am getting nothing but silence on the streaming audio. Ever since the plane took out the KFI main tower, I get a lot of chirps, bleeps and static and a bleedover of KSPN (710) on the broadcast. Maybe your show should move to a more powerful signal (KNX?). I’m in North Hollywood, by the way.

11:11 by John?.

I’m in Sherman Oaks. No problem with the signal here!

11:12 by anonymous.

11:12 by ken?.

hey i don’t get anything over the stream either.

11:14 by The Tech-Head?.

Leo = any chance of more photos of your studio setup? Im a big tech guy, and looking at your backdrop on your webcam, you would swear its just a small office =P

11:15 by Jeff.

I just go to Windows Media Player > File > Open URL > Enter: http://a814.l1977144512.c19771.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/814/19771/v0001/reflector:44512

and then wada!

11:15 by Sky?.

Is the Leo Cam on?

11:17 by .

PROBLEM WITH WIRELESS MAC TO PC AND TRIED HOOKING UP KVM SWITCH TO MAC MINI DUAL CORE TO HOME MADE SHUTTLE BAREBONES AND WANTO REFORMAT TO DUAL BOOT THREW MAC 310–455–0325

11:19 by Dan.

call into the show john, they dont dial out.

11:19 by AppleGUI?.

Hey Leo I got the perfect solution for you regarding replying to e-mails. Textpander. Best part its FREE!!. Get it off of versiontracker.com

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Textpander is a utility that helps you type more efficiently and more accurately. Textpander listens to what you type and inserts predefined text snippets on the fly whenever you enter their corresponding abbreviations.

Here are a few examples for what you can do with Textpander:
Insert standard greetings, text fragments, and signatures - including formatted text and pictures.
Insert the current date and time in any format you prefer.
Use editor-independent code templates and have Textpander position the cursor just where it needs to be.
Type special characters without having to launch any special characters palette.
Have Textpander correct more…

11:19 by Justin from Ireland?.

Leo - Justins back!

Hey can you talk about Webcams and which one you recommend the best - especially since Im looking at you right now! =P

Hey also check out the site www.scoutingradio.com

Im looking at the Logitec?

11:20 by Radio Head?.

“The Tech-Head” -

What “studio”? That’s a converted room in a converted barn on Leo property in Petaluma CA. (way north of Frisco). You actually think Leo is in KFI’s Clear Channel studio in Burbank?

11:21 by Justin from Ireland?.

Now u look asleep! =P

11:22 by The Tech-Head?.

Thats so cool Radio Head. Does he do this by ISDN???

11:23 by Radio Head?.

Oh yeah , the “Leoville Labs” is in the same “barn” next to the chicken coup.

11:23 by JOHNSSDSLEXTREMECOM?.

CANT SET UP SMTP OR INCOMING MAIL SERVER ON MAC

11:25 by The Tech-Head?.

thats real awesome i love it - the beauty of technology and radio, and never having to leave your house or office - Leo - ur the man.

11:27 by JOHNSSDSLEXTREMECOM?.

REFORMAATING IBM IN XP TO MIRROR RAID ARRAY DO I NEED EXACT SAME HARD DRIVE I FOROT AND BOUGHT ONLY ONE HD

11:30 by Justin from Ireland?.

Trying to get into the chat and comes up with unavailable null - must be my firewall?

11:34 by Mike_B.

Justin, the chat is working fine, so its on your end.

11:34 by Radio Head?.

It’s don’t no differently than any radio station does a “remote” for a promotion at a parade, concert, etc. If it’s a permanent location that repeated “remotes” are done from, an ISDN line will be installed (big bucks $3k to $4k plus a monthly $500 fee), but you can do it with as simple as a DSL line, even dial up. You’re only streaming voice anyway, so bandwidth is unimportant and small compared to say music.

Units like the “POTSCODEC” (POTS = Plain Old Telephone System) are used a majority of time (dial up) and expensive “studio in a unit” like the Zephyr are used with dial up, DSL and ISDN.

11:34 by JOHNSSDSLEXTREMECOM?.

GOT LAPTOP ON WIFI IN TRUCK LAPTOP ALL NICS ON NETWORK ARE US ROBOUCT ,PUT LATOP ONTOP OF WIRELESS SERVER BLINKS BUT NO GO HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

11:35 by JOHNSSDSLEXTREMECOM?.

I MEAN US ROBOTICS

11:36 by Leo Laporte.

Actually it’s not in a barn, or at home, it’s in my office. The camera is pointed away from the radio gear. There’s mixing board and ISDN codec, but it doesn’t take much to do a radio show.

I’ll set up a camera pointing the other way.

11:38 by Dan.

JohnSSDSlextreme: the comments are not the best place to ask questions - please call into the show.

11:39 by The Tech-Head?.

Cool Leo looking forward to seeing all the gear, and im interested also in what type webcam you have

11:42 by anonymous.

If you have a lot of tapes to convert for the computer, check out http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/audio/7a8d/

11:48 by TruckeeRon?.

AppleGUI: Leo has stated several times on Canadian CFH show that he uses Textpander and finds it very handy.

11:49 by The Tech-Head?.

turn the camera around leo while the adds are on

11:50 by JOHNSSDSLEXTREMECOM?.

LEO ALL OF THE COMMENTS ABOVE ARE 4 Y ANYONE THAT CAN HELP JOHNSSDSLEXTREME.COM

11:52 by Romas?.

Audible has a subscribtion $9.99 for a year. Then you pay for individual books.

11:53 by Romas?.

Leo, BTW what tabletpc do you have?

11:54 by Justin from Ireland?.

hey I want to make a listener profile - leo whats the wikki word?

11:54 by JOHNSSDSLEXTREMECOM?.

DAN HAVE TLE ON AUTO REDIAL CALLLED ALL KFI NUMBERS, BUZY BEEP BEEP BEEP

11:56 by nmoore6676?.

Actually anybody can set up a remote broadcast with easily purchased equipment or a modified computer. The equipment is more costly than home audio gear, but affordable if you have the need to use it. A friend does a weekly show for a station in Grants New Mexico from his home studio in Oxnard.He plays the music and some ads with only the news and the rest of the spots put in at the other end.

11:57 by The Tech-Head?.

what equipment….

11:59 by I GET NO SPAM?.

About Audible: you can actually burn to a CD. But just like a store bought CD it will only hold one hour of material but you can then play it on any cd player in your car or at home.

Audible is fantastic. I always search by length of audio or “unabridged” and often get books of 40 plus hours or more, put them on my tiny Rio mp3 player and take these books everywhere. I usually have 12 hours of music and 30 hours of books with me at all times on a 2 inch player.

12:05 by JOHNSSDSLEXTREMECOM?.

DAN NO IM A GEEK AND PRUD OF IT. IM JUST TRYING TO GET THIS SETUP GOING ASAP

12:10 by JDMeister.

XP Pro can “Mirror” a drive, and it needs to be the same size or larger..

Mirror will only take what it needs..

12:11 by JOHNSSDSLEXTREMECOM?.

GOING TO OLD PODCASTS AND REVIEW THE DUAL BOOT THING

12:11 by The Tech-Head?.

Radiohead- thats excellent - im a tech guy from the uk working on a radio station - you work in radio yourself? keep this info coming…. its much different to the UK, and i am interested in setting up something on stream, you know what type of webcam leo uses?

12:11 by JDMeister.

And you should put the second drive on the second channel, drive 0..

12:15 by The Tech-Head?.

And which programmes he is using with it to make the camera work - its a sweet cam pic coming into the UK - very very sharp Leo

12:15 by JOHNSSDSLEXTREMECOM?.

NIX THE KVM ILL USE MY 32″VIEWSONIC ON IBM AND 19″ SAMUNG FOR MAC MINI DUAL CORE

12:16 by Charlie in La Canada, CA?.

Just for the record: ADD & ADHD were invented by psychiatrists and have no science behind them. Here is a video of a psychiatrist explaining this:

http://cchr.org/uploads/video/NIH_ADHD.wmv

12:18 by PC and Mac?.

John, turn your CAPS off. Looks like you are shouting at everyone. Your first question is a little hard to understand, there are plenty of good KVM swtches you can use (I have an ioGear USB that also switches sound).

12:21 by Justin from Ireland?.

Wikki word please anyone

12:22 by JOHNSSDSLEXTREMECOM?.

IM OVERCLOKICELERON D RIGHT NOW AND GETTING READY FOR BG CRASH AND COUNTIN3 2 1

12:22 by Brian SJC?.

Hey, is it normal for “LeoVille-LeoCam” to refresh every 10 sec. or so

12:24 by Justin from Ireland?.

hey leo if we are calling internationally, i have skype can i skype you, or am i better sending you an audio message?

12:27 by Kyle Bandy.

Yes, the Leo cam refreshes automatically, Brain SJC.

12:28 by JOHNSSDSLEXTREMECOM?.

pc and mac did i hurt youre ears ill w h s p er from now on , ysound like a big baby

12:30 by The Tech-Head?.

hey is that a special ear piece leo for phone calls?

12:31 by Jim H?.

RE: the iPod that won’t turn off. I’ve also had luck removing the extra items from the menu. Go to Settings→Reset all settings. After that, it turns off and on as normal. Then go in and customize it the way you want.

12:32 by Justin from Ireland?.

one answer - dont buy iPods get iRivers, the best!

12:32 by TastesLikeLead.

Windows OneCare Firewall blocks a lot of Freewares and Open Source software from accessing the network, because they’re not “recognized” by OneCare

12:34 by JOHNSSDSLEXTREMECOM?.

[pc and mac] Next time ill try so hard to obey youre oerders this is a chat room note a legal ffice

12:35 by JOHNSSDSLEXTREMECOM?.

and i guess i need a new keyboard

12:36 by Brian SJC?.

Thank-you Kyle,… I thought I had a problem

12:38 by JOHNSSDSLEXTREMECOM?.

well i guess ill try figure out unix os 10mac mini

12:41 by PC and Mac?.

Wow. No wonder you never get help.

12:41 by Jeff.

I am trying to make a perdonal webserver to be accessed from my neighborhood. Does anyone have any links on how to do this with not a lot of knowledge in programming. I can make the website but need to figure out configurations of the router and what linux service is best and easiest to use.

Thanks for any help.

12:45 by anonymous.

http://www.linux.org/

12:57 by richiefrich?.

JOHNSSDSLEXTREMECOM..

why dont u try linux.. plus please take off the <CAPS LOCK> it’s really annoying

gentoo.org

13:02 by WashingtonEd?.

Hey Jeff (at 11:15) your link for the stream of the show also works in Quicktime. Now I can use Airfoil on my mac and redirect the audio to my stereo - Thanks

http://a814.l1977144512.c19771.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/814/19771/v0001/reflector:44512

13:03 by JOHNSSDSLEXTREMECOM?.

jd miester you sond lke yore hip.im well versed withraid mirror or stripping have done it on last box till hard drives kept giing out have 9 harddrives in still trying to recover data but thats for business im tying to refomat mac mini harddrive to dual boot winows and os ten can you help?

13:10 by Joe in Diamond Bar?.

Hey JOHNSSDSLEXTREMECOM try proof reading before you send your comments.

13:10 by anonymous.

Toward the beginning of today’s show, Leo mentioned an organizing tool for e-mail. I didn’t write it down because my fingers were busy with multi-tasking and I assumed it would be in the show notes. Now, I can’t find it. Can someone help me out with the site?

13:51 by Mike in Monterey?.

I’m using a Canon S830D with 6 cartridges, 5 color and 1 black. The problem with this printer is that even when printing B/W documents it still uses the color carts. I can’t remember the last time I printed a color document and yet yesterday I had to replace all 6 to print my tax forms.

14:02 by Brian SJC?.

Great show Leo… Thanks.

14:09 by richiefrich?.

Mike in Monterey

i can print without the color cart. in my HP
as long as i gots the black one it all good.

14:34 by George Spink?.

Hi, Leo,

As you know, I often transfer LPs and cassettes to MP3 files and upload them to my web sites and blogs (see below), such as the Ken Nordine/WBEZ promo I sent you earlier this week.

Until recently, I used Musicmatch to transfer songs from LPs. It works beautifully! I can also use Musicmatch to transfer from cassettes. However, about six weeks ago I purchased a new Sony dual cassette deck TC-WE475 (one of the last on the retail market) for about $150.00 and Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition for about $16.00. The latter includes several programs, including Plus! Analog Recorder and Plus! Audio Converter.

I bought a new cassette deck because my two old ones had simply wore out. Each was about 25 years old. I have many audio cassettes, including about 200 cassettes of the big band radio show (The Saturday Swing Shift) I hosted in Chicago in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

I find Plus! Analog Recorder an easy way to transfer either cassettes or LPs to my computer—and it allows you to remove pops and hisses in the process! Moreover, if you wish, Plus! Analog Recorder will split an LP or cassette into individual tracks.

NOTE: When transferring from a cassette deck to your computer, you must run a cable directly from the cassette deck’s output jack to the line input jack on your computer. When you are done with the transfer, you can leave your deck connected that way (if you plan to transfer more cassettes in the near future) or re-connect the output jack to your amplifier/receiver.

Plus! Recorder transfer files from LPs and cassettes as WMA (Windows Media Audio) files. Use Plus! Audio Converter to convert them to MP3 or WAV files. I prefer using the MP3 format.

Once you have transferred a couple of cassettes, you’ll probably want to trim them. Audacity works well and is free. I also use MP3 Trim and MP3 Splitter/Joiner. You can read and find links for these products on my Palomar web site (see below). It takes practice to trim large MP3 files, but with patience you can get it right— or right enough so your trims are “close enough for jazz.”

Here are some links to articles that go into more detail about transferring cassettes to your computer:

Microsoft

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/knowledgecenter/howto/FromCassettetoComputer_StepByStep.aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/knowledgecenter/mediaadvice/0081.mspx

CNET

How to Transfer Cassettes to Computer Link Page:

http://cnet.search.com/search?part=&q=transfer+cassettes+to+computer

General Article on How to Transfer LPs or Cassettes to Computer

http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-10163_7-6226087-1.html

Specific Artice on How to Transfer Cassettes to Computer

http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6450_7-5020866-1.html

I hope this will help your listeners, Leo.

Your buddy,

George Spink
Email: george@tuxjunction.net

Web Sites

Tuxedo Junction - http://www.tuxjunction.net
Club Alibi - http://clubalibi.com

Feeds

The Saturday Swing Shift - http://www.tuxjunction.net/swingshift.xml
The Palomar - http://milliondreamsago.net/?feed=rss2

Blogs
The Palomar - http://milliondreamsago.net
Swingin’ at the Junction - http://www.tuxjunction.net/tuxedojunction/
The Flatted Fifth - http://www.tuxjunction.net/theflattedfifth/
Never On Friday - http://www.tuxjunction.net/neveronfriday/

14:35 by Vik?.

Janet—

It may also be helpful to check if your system memory and CPU aren’t causing the BSOD. I didn’t hear the exact reason for the BSOD, but many times bad RAM can cause the problem. The thing to do is get something known as the Ultimate Boot CD which comes with a program known as MEMTESTx86+ as well as programs to test your CPU.

Just a thought. You can get the Ultimate Boot CD here. http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4019

14:37 by Mike in Monterey?.

Richiefrich

It works! Yea. Will this cause the black ink to be used more? Meaning I would use 6 black inks vs 1 black and 5 color?

Wish I had known that before I spent $60 on the color carts. Oh well, somtimes I do print color documents. Just wish I would not have to install them each time.

14:53 by Vik?.

Rick—

if you feel that your USB2.0 device driver is corrupted you can also search for the file (at least in win2k) called usbhub20.sys (generally in system32drivers directory
I doubt that’s the problem, but maybe you could get a friend to email you his working usbhub20.sys. Then unlock the driver by disabling/deleting the usb2.0 hub in the Device Manager (WITHOUT REBOOTING) copy the new file over the old usbhub20.sys.

Maybe that will work…but again, it probably isn’t the problem. First check to make sure you have usb2.0 support enabled in your BIOS AND make sure that your Motherboard supports it to begin with. After that, make sure that you have found the device drivers from your motherboard provider (or system builder) to see if they have updated the drivers. After all those, you may actually have a corrupted file. The proper file size (again in win2k, find out for XP, is 49,392 byte.

15:23 by anonymous.

gfagfa

15:28 by anonymous.

opps i drop something on keyboard sorry about that…

on the usb make sure that you have the usb enable on mine i can chooese if on or off…

15:59 by Scott.

According to yesterday show Leo stated that Windows Home is designed for dual four processors!? I have been telling people otherwise. Don’t mean to sound like a broken record but I would prefer not to pay for the full version for Windows XP SP-2 (already have the full version of XP Pro SP-1. Regarding Boot Camp:

You can create your own SP2 install disk. You can search and find the manual way of making a slipstreamed SP2 install disk, or just download Autostreamer.

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=223562

All you do is insert your XP disk, select the SP2 install, and it will create a .iso for you to burn your own bootable SP2 disk.

00:42 by Pete from North Dakota?.

Hi,

I own a i9900 that I had for over a year now. The performance is pretty good for me as far as printing text and graphics. I rarely print photos, but when I do they look quite good. I mainly bought this printer to print out large media printings like schematics of electronic equipment. Also, when the ink runs low it will warn you, but you can keep printing even after the second warning until the cartridge runs dry. The HP I used to have would stop printing due to the expired dated ink cartridge even when it was still half full, and there was nothing you could do till you replaced the ink cartridge, not to mention the dated print heads too, which really sucked, I WILL NEVER BUY A HP PRODUCT AGAIN! The only thing I do not like about the i9900 is when you want to print something and the printer is turned off. When it first powers up it seems to take for ever for it to purge, which seems to me, all the ink cartridges, wasting ink, before it will print the first page. It also seems to take longer when the ink cartages are running low. As I said before that I rarely print photos, and I still have to replace the photo inks that it seems to get wasted every time I print from a power up state. I tend to leave the printer on all the time. Doing that kind of minimizes the purging process.

Hope this helps!

Pete

10:36 by Brock In Houston?.

Can I ask here without being assasinated, how do you read the .txt files from the chat logs? I have windows and when I open the chat log .txt files I see chineese characters.

13:22 by Bob in Acton California?.

This comment is in regards to Leo’s comments about RF energy in answer to this question:

Michael in New York - should my wife worry about the Wi-Fi?

The comment was something like this: a 10 watt transmitter in something like a taxi is more dangerous than a cell phone or a wi-fi transmitter because the taxi radio puts out 10 watts of power and the cell phone and wi-fi device put out only milliwatts of power.

What you need to be concerned with is not the output power at the antenna, but the power density away from the antenna. As you move away from the antenna, the power density falls off at the “square of the distance”. As you move from the antenna the power density falls off rapidly. So you really can not say 10 watts is worse that 10 milliwatts without considering the distance from the antenna. In the case of a wi-fi access point, even being a foot away lowers the rf field density below harmful levels. Same with the 10 watt taxi radio, chances are you will not be physically close enough that the power density will be high enough to cause any harm. The cell phone on the other hand might be of more concern because the distance from the antenna to your brain is small. Also another factor is operating frequency, the higher the frequency the lower the EPA permissible limits of power density.

At 900MHz the acceptable density in an uncontrolled environment is .6 milliwatts per square centimeter (mW/cm2)
At KFI broadcast frequency of .640 MHz the acceptable limit is 100 mW/cm2

A handy tool for estimating power density is located at
http://n5xu.ae.utexas.edu/cgi-bin/rfsafety.cgi

Using this tool I ran some numbers to show what I mean about power density

1) Example of high frequency low power transmitter close to your head.
Power output = 200 mW
Distance of interest = .5 inch
Frequncy = 900 MHz
Power density = 41.2 mW/cm2
In this example you the power density is 70 times above the acceptable limit

2)Example of a medium power high frequency transmitter in your immediate vicinity
Power output = 10 Watts
Distance of interest = 3 feet
Frequncy = 900 MHz
Power density = .40 mW/cm2
In this example the power density is below the acceptable limit.

3)Standing next to the KFI broadcast antenna
Power output = 50,000 Watts
Distance of interest = 20 feet
Frequncy = .640 MHz
Power density = 45.48 mW/cm2
In this example, the power density is close the to the same as for example #1. Being at a lower frequency this level is still half the acceptable limit

4) A typical microwave oven
Power output = 1000 Watts
Distance of interest = 6 inches
Frequncy = 1300 MHz
Power density = 1455.66 mW/cm2
That is why a microwave oven cooks things, high power density.

If we look at examples 1 and 2 we can clearly see that the 200 mW transmitter in this case yields much higher power densities.
Looking at 1 and 3 we see nearly the same power density, but #3 is well below the acceptable exposure limit because of the lower frequency. In this comparison we have 2 transmitters one of which puts of 250,000 times the power. But in this example the smaller transmitter is likely to cause more harm.

The harmful effects of human overexposure to RF radiation are well documented. Most of the harm comes from the heating of tissue. Example 4 shows what power densities are required to for sure do damage. We know the microwave oven can cook and burn things we put in it, and this is all due to the RF power density. If microwave ovens were not shielded you would need to be at least 20 feet away from the oven to avoid harm.

All this is not meant to scare anyone. Generally speaking most electronic devices are safe as long as they are not damaged and they are operated according to manufacturers specs. Whether or not a certain power density of RF energy will cause harm is a very complex question. It really depends on how much heating occurs for a given amount of energy.

I do not think science really knows if, or how much harm will come from long term use of things like cell phones. We do know that when you use a cell phone, some RF energy is coupled into the tissues in your head. We also know that RF energy excites water molecules, causing them to vibrate and rub against other molecules. The friction of water molecules is what causes the heating.
Is the amount of energy we absorb from average rf devices around the home enough to cause heating and damage? Can small amounts of damage be done at the cellular level (biological cell level)over the long term and not have a negative effect?

If you live in the modern world, which I assume you all do since you are listening to chip talk, then you have to realize that you are exposed to RF energy every day, from numerous sources most of which you have no control over. It really comes down to a personal choice, do I want to expose myself to additional RF energy? My self I think things like cell phones are ok in moderation. Just like anything else. The more you are exposed to something that is potentially bad, the higher the risk.