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Saturday, May 1, 2004

Show #35

Happy May Day!

Our top story today: California Secretary of State Kevin Shelly bars electronic voting in November. And rightly so.

Jim in Diamond Bar bought a Treo 600 from the AT&T web site. The first model failed. So did its replacement. PalmOne says they’re backlogged for five weeks (that may be true - there’s a backlog on LCD screens because of increased demand from LCD TVs). I recommend dealing with AT&T - not PalmOne. AT&T has more to lose than PalmOne. If they want to keep you as a customer - and I assure you they do - they need to make you happy.

Matthew in NJ is looking for a good hosting solution. I won’t be crass and recommend our sponsor, iPowerweb, although they’re excellent. Do read the reviews on sites like www.tophosts.com and www.web-hosting-reviews.org. They’ll probably throw in the domain registration, but if they don’t I recommend GoDaddy and Dotster. Matthew’s current new site is Esc from the World!.

Jan in Beverley Hills says her two-year old Zire is dying. It keeps losing its memory. I’d guess it’s losing its battery. LiON batteries often die after two or so years. However since you paid so little for the Zire it might not be worth the cost to get the batteries replaced. Check PalmOne for a price.

Nick in Coventry, RI uses a router and Anonymizer. He wants to know if they overlap. They do not. The router replaces a firewall, but Anonymizer, anti-virus, and anti-spyware programs all do something different. Nick is a jazz vocalist with the .

Beth in Oak Park tried to update Microsoft update but something went wrong. Now she can’t get online and she’s getting error messages. The three steps to solving this problem:

• Reinstall dial-up networking. Open the Add/Remove Programs control panel, Windows Components, Telecommunications. Uncheck DUN and press OK to remove it. Then reopen the Control Panel and check dial-up networking to re-install it.
• Reinstall Office to replace damaged or missing files
• Run Microsoft’s Office Update.

Experts only: The beta of Windows XP Service Pack 2 is available here.

Belinda in Dana Point opinion on Windows 2000 Pro vs XP. She can’t install Netscape 4.8.

Dennis in Seal Beach can’t hear center channel

Sherry in La Crescenta MSConfig

Philip in West Covina XBox mod, xbox-scene.com

Tim on the 605 MacUser, ssh, vpn, ssl, pgp

Kathy in Thousand Oaks palm desktop for the mac, missing link