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Sunday 25 March 2007
- Show Audio
- Tech News
- Guests
- Hour 1
- Hour 2
- Brian - Recording what’s coming out of the sound card
- John from Huntington Beach - WiFi not working on Ubuntu
- Dustin - Carbonite for the Mac
- Jeff from Orange - Controlling network traffic
- Ron - Dual booting Vista and XP
- Don from Irvine - How to make a CD that will play in the car/Recording audio
- Brett from Los Angeles - Multiple LCD screens on the wall
- Hour 3
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Tech News
Leo is addicted to Twitter. There, people simply post what they’re up to. Then Twittervision came along. It is a mashup between Twitter outputs and Google Maps. It jumps around the world constantly with different updates.
Justin.TV is a place where a kid named Justin wears a camera all the time, and that means, all the time.
Guests
Q Ron Rossberg: Whole House FM Transmitter/Blackberry 8800
- Whole House FM Transmitter
- Transmits 150 feet
- Works flawlessly
- Blackberry 8800
- More like the Blackberry Pearl
- On Cingular
- Keyboard isn’t all that great
- Too cramped
- Doesn’t support HSDPA
Hour 1
Q Christy from the Mojave Desert - Wants to create feedback page
- Has site: Shelterwatch
- Wants place for people to post about bad shelters and such
- Wordpress blogging software can let people reply in quotes
- Has excellent spam protection built in
- A message board would also be great choice
- Spam problem there
- Make sure people activate accounts via email activation
- Here’s an article regarding spam in forums
- Could appoint moderators to keep spam under control
- Spam problem there
Q Tom from Redlands - Wants to start Windows XP from scratch
- Wants to reformat and reinstall
- Just throw in the Windows XP install disc
- Should give an option to reformat the hard drive
- Delete all partitions on drive, then install
- Can also completely wipe hard drive with DBAN before installation
- After install, immediately turn on Windows Firewall and update like crazy
- Get Service Pack 2
- Possible to download from Microsoft and install from a CD
- Get Service Pack 2
Q Jamie from Culver City - Emailing videos to people
- Wants to know about compressing video
- Don’t send videos via email
- Can use something like Yousendit
- Will allow you to upload up to 100mb
- Will send recipients an email with the link
- Will have to choose a codec (compressor/decompressor) to compress videos
- DivX is a great codec
- An open source encoder, Dr. DivX is open source (meaning its free!)
- Play around with the settings
- Can reduce the frame size (320×240 sounds likea good size)
- Anything less than 30fps can be jerky, 24fps is a good compromise
- Also possible to upload to a service like VideoEgg or YouTube
Hour 2
Q Brian - Recording what’s coming out of the sound card
- The soundcard must support “full duplex”
- Older soundcards cannot support that
Q John from Huntington Beach - WiFi not working on Ubuntu
- You just need the right driver
- Ubuntu Forums have threads about Broadcom chipsets
- Configuring cards with Broadcom chipsets in Ubuntu
- How to: Broadcom Wireless cards
- Chart available of Linux Wifi support
Q Dustin - Carbonite for the Mac
- Carbonite is working on a beta for the Mac; you can sign up.
- Nothing similar on the Mac
- You can use iDisk (only 1gb)
- Backup critical data there
- Leo usually backups by hand for the Mac
Q Jeff from Orange - Controlling network traffic
- Wants to control corporate environment
- The iBoss Pro will do that
Q Ron - Dual booting Vista and XP
- Wants to play with Vista and eventually phase out XP
- When dual booting, boot loader on XP partition
- Maybe installing Vista again?
- SU182 in the chatroom says it is possible
Q Don from Irvine - How to make a CD that will play in the car/Recording audio
- Most programs will take mp3s and allow you to burn an output
- Can use Windows Media Player
- Put all files in a playlist and burn
- Make sure you specify an “audio CD”
- Cars will not play “data CDs”
- Make sure programs can see the mic input
- Audacity is a great recording program
Q Brett from Los Angeles - Multiple LCD screens on the wall
- Wants to run different things on multiple LCD screens
- If computer can output to more than one screen, should work
Hour 3
- Vista requires signed 64-bit drivers
- A lot of drivers are not signed and 64-bit
- Also uses “Patch guard” so antiviruses do not work
- Only advantage of 64-bit is to address much more memory
- Internet Explorer thinks he wants to download a file when going to a .mobi domain
- There is a resolution however
Q Randy from Minneapolis - Windows Vista “mini dump” and reboot
- May be a “spoof” blue screen
- Reliability/performance monitor available
- Read reports about failure
- Most probably a hardware problem
Q Dave - Recording audio from another device
- Don’t use line in
- Get a small USB interface: like the iMic
- From there, you can record from the USB input
Q Tony - Connecting to a home computer for content
Q Phil from Ft. Lauderdale - Inexpensive MP3 player to bookmark podcasts
