Saturday 21 April 2007
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Tech News
Dr. Phil is blaming violent videogames for the Virginia Tech Massacre. However, there is no evidence whatsoever that the shooter owned any violent videogames. On the other hand, Dr. Phil may be blaming the violent culture - not videogames.
RIM suffered a widespread outage for its Blackberry email service, and the company has blamed a software upgrade.
Watch Shooby do the shownotes on a live stream on Ustream. Or you can try to crash Ustream and watch Leo on Ustream.
The RED Digital professional camera is doing something twice as good as the other companies, but they just can’t make them fast enough. In fact, they gave Peter Jackson one to shoot a video.
Guests
- Almost like an RPG
- Living through the life of an organism growing
- Start off as a single cell (spore)
- Can control all aspects of its life
- Decisions you make early on can affect future
- Leo’s wife can go play SimFarm
- Games that are great for non-gamers can help hardcore gamers as well because they’re social
- Search YouTube for “Will Wright GDC” to see his speech about Spore at the Game Developer Conference
Hour 1
Q Tim from Baton Rouge - Static on speakers, then PC freeze/crash
- Maybe a power issue
- Could be a lot of different things
- Maybe bad capacitors on motherboard
- First thing to do would be to eliminate software problems
- Download a Linux LiveCD (like Ubuntu)
- Try it and if it works fine, then definitely a hardware problem
- You want to eliminate problems one by one
Q Andre from Murieta - Running Windows programs on a Mac
- 2 methods
- Those 2 require copies of Windows
- Can also try Crossover
- Emulates Windows
- Only works with defined applications in this list
Q Linked together 55gb into several discs
- One of his discs is corrupted
- Seems like Nero put all data into one large file and split it across the numerous discs
- Not sure how to extract data
Hour 2
Q Louis - Can’t access some files on flash drive
- Flash drives, in some ways, are more fragile than real hard drives
- May have taken out the drive before writing was done
- PC Inspector Smart Recovery will probably restore the files
Q Tony from San Diego - Getting rid of duplicates in iTunes/iPhoto Preview
- When you delete files in iTunes, there’s an option to move the file to the trash
- To view duplicates, click the “View” menu and click “show duplicates”
- iDupe can help
- In iPhoto itself would be a great idea
Q Dave - 134mb only free? Can’t defrag
- Try doing a search for for file over 500mb
- Worst case situation a hacker may have taken over
- Look around for a huge folder
- SequoiaView will allow you to view at your hard drive graphically
Wesley writes:
Try out Treesize for WINDOWS, its free.
That’s the program I was trying to remember! There’s a similar program for Mac’s called WhatSize.
Hour 3
Q Glen - Clock is wrong sometimes/Windows bootup very slow
- Something at startup is taking a while
- Try creating a new account to see if problem is unique to your account
- Autoruns will tell you everything running at startup
- Try disabling things you don’t need
Q Devon from Mission Viejo - MacBook questions
- It is safe to use 3rd party RAM
- Leo gets RAM from Trans International
- Apple uses unusual heatsinks on Mac Pro RAM
Q Bogdon from Carlsdad - Program taking up all processes
- svchost.exe
- Not really a program
- Runs other stuff
- Some dll is running
- Try Autoruns to disable unused services
Q Becky from Alta Dina - Windows Media Player not working in Firefox
- Can’t view videos on cnn.com
- Find it here
Q Randy from Temecula - System Restore removed all drivers
- Used system restore after downloading virus
- Virus probably did that
- Use Windows installation to repair the partition
- Will restore all critical files