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Q Ron Rosberg - CallPod ChargePod/Roadmaster Power Inverter with FM Roadmaster VRTP4N1 - Power Inverter with FM Transmitter

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Q Ron Rosberg - CallPod ChargePod/Roadmaster Power Inverter with FM Transmitter

Q Ron from Sun City, CA - Recording HBO from digital cable onto PC

• Cable box probably putting copy protection on HBO
• Copy protection is encouraging people to pirate more
• Could downgrade to older box without copy protection

Q Tina from Twin Peaks - Laptop crashing with Adobe Premiere Elements

• Could use external hard drive
• Get Firewire drive if you can

Q Sue from Gilroy, CA - PC not booting correctly/New computer

• Reformat/reinstall Windows
  • Make sure to update completely and back up your data
• Dell is a great choice
• You’ve had Dells in the past
• You’ll be getting Vista
  • Dell does offer XP option

Q Aaron from Atlanta, GA - Finding Starbucks along a cross-country trip

• GPS systems have “points of interests” that include Starbucks
  • Garmin Nuvi is a great choice
• Findbyclick.com has several Google Maps mashups for different locations including Starbucks

Q Ron Rosberg - CallPod ChargePod/

• Can charge multiple devices using USB & other tips
• Can plug it into a cigarette lighter to charge
• Built in FM modulator to transmit iPod
• 180watts for up to 20 minutes
  • Charging
  • Even can charge using
• $25 at Costco

Q Sabrina - 80gb external hard drive not working

• Making clicking sound
  • Sound of drive trying to read
• It’s gone, dead
• Try taking it out of enclosure and connect it internally
  • Then can try something like SpinRite

Q Dale from Los Angeles - Registered domain, but lost the company

• Forgot registrar name
• Simply do a whois on the domain
  • Will do a query as to the ownership of the domain
  • Try out AjaxWhois
• Then you can transfer ownership of the domain to new registrar
  • Tell registrar to redirect to your new server

Finland is allowing DVD copying because the CSS copy protection has been deemed by them as ineffective.

Q Jason from San Luis Obispo, CA - Washed out photos in Firefox on Flickr

• Only Safari honors color profiles
• Every Mac supports color profiling
• Problem is monitor specific
• If you want true color, you need Safari

Q Luann - Hot laptop

• You have a “desktop replacement”
• Fast processor is why it’s hot
• Could look for laptop with Pentium M or Celeron

Q Othello from North Ridge, CA - Low profile AGP graphics card

• AGP cards are not the most powerful
• Several low-profile cards available

Q Steve from Antioch, CA - Cannot log onto Windows

• Need to use the Emergency Boot CD
  • Will wipe out all passwords in Windows

Guests

Q Steve Gibson - Passwords

• “Brute force” hacking uses dictionary to find password
• Should make password based on a short phrase
  • But use numbers and letters differently
  • Offset the keys
• Some day we’ll have hardware-based account protection

Q Sonia from Eaglesville, PA - Cannot access new hard drive

• Wants to get files off of a hard drive
• Need to take ownership of the drive
  • Microsoft has a technote that will teach you how to do this

A mob of zombies invaded the San Francisco Apple Store. This was akin to a flash mob.

Q Kurt from Belfast, Ireland - Setting up an email server

• Sendmail was one of the first pieces of software to do this
• A number of people seem to like Postfix
• Setting up a mail server is not a very trivial thing

AnyDVD HD will allow you decrypt HD-DVD and Blu-Ray disc movies.

Sunday 27 May 2007

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