Q Sheryl - Condenser microphone

• Normal condenser microphones use XLR connectors
  • Would need to buy an interface with “phantom power” and then transfer to the computer using Firewire or USB
• USB microphone choices are much more limited
  • MicFlex
  • Samson C01u is a condenser mic
    • Condenser mic is very sensitive

Q Merlin Mann - Making better meetings

• Always have an agenda
• Can use email to circulate the agenda
• Make sure to have an end time for a meeting
• If you can’t come out of a meeting without completing your agenda, you haven’t accomplished anything
• Backpack and Stikkit help with lightweight collaboration
• Make sure each person is of a contribution to the meeting
• Need to have someone in charge of the meeting the entire time
  • Someone to be a bouncer, timekeeper, and referee
• Doodle allows you to invite people to meetings with certain times
  • Will allow you to see what times are optimal to meet
• Mindmapping with something like MindMeister or even Post-It notes can help people organize brainstorming

Q Port 0 open?

• Using Shields Up to test security
• Ports are like TV channels
  • 65000 ports
• Best thing to do is to keep ports “stealthed”
• Port 0 is not a real port
  • Means malformed packets coming in

Q Steve - Playing iPod in garage/office & Podcasts downloading automatically

• Take a look at the Griffin RoadTrip
• Allows you to stream to the radio and charge iPod in cradle
• If you subscribe in a podcatcher like iTunes, yes podcasts will download automatically

Q Joe - Getting a new camera

• Sanyo Xacti HD2 is your best bet
• You also want to shoot HD video - this will do it

Q Steve Gibson - WiFi

• Most people are not encrypting WiFi
• Routers are like radio stations, not a magical wireless wire
• On open WiFi networks on default settings, the routers may be compromised
• WEP (wired equivalent privacy) is easily hackable
  • Designers of WEP not cryptography experts
  • WEP can be hacked within 1 minute!
• “Good” cryptography is WPA
  • What everybody should be using
  • WPA “TKIP” is Temporal Key Integrity Profile
    • Even that is absolutely strong enough

Q Steve Gibson - WiFi

• Most people are not encrypting WiFi
• Routers are like radio stations, not a magical wireless wire
• On open WiFi networks on default settings, the routers may be compromised
• WEP (wired equivalent privacy) is easily hackable
  • Designers of WEP not cryptography experts
  • WEP can be hacked within 1 minute!
• “Good” cryptography is WPA
  • What everybody should be using
  • WPA “TKIP” is Temporal Key Integrity Profile
    • Even that is absolutely strong enough

Q Liz - Laptop overheating and crashing

• Dust probably is blocking airflow
• Most definitely not a virus
• Take it to a computer store that will do some diagnostics for you
• Make a backup of your data before taking it to the store

Q Nicole from Santa Clarita - Moving from Thunderbird to Outlook/Fixing auto-correct

• Needs to move all Thunderbird emails to Outlook
• Looks like you’ll have to export to .csv format which Outlook can import
• IMAPSize has a tool called Mbox2EML which will convert the standard format to Outlook’s proprietary format
  • The developer’s website has a tutorial
• Changing “doris” to “dories”
• Want to go into the autocorrect options
  • There you can replace dories

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Q Michael - Connecting NAS to the Internet

• Doing a tech help parody video show
• People will download from the NAS
• No web server software on the NAS installed
• Worked through Feeder because it uses a browser
  • Browsers can see FTP pages
• iTunes is not able to see FTP for some reason
• Ask the college if they have a website to host it on

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Guests

Q Justine Ezarik - Lifecasting/Image-macros

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• Justin.tv is launching new channels
• Justine is now streaming nearly 24/7
• Sometimes points camera to herself as well
• Find Justine’s stream at iJustine.TV or Justin.TV/ijustine
• I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER? hosts images of cats with random phrases overlayed on them
• Quite humorous
• Not necessarily of cats
  • LOLKev.com has pictures of Kevin Rose
  • LOLPresidents.com has pictures of presidents
• Meant to mock people or subjects
• Image-macros became popular on various forums
  • Slowly taking over the Internet
• The roflbot generates image-macros for you
• Justine has made a few of her own
  • lolblog
  • lolerskating on ur newbz
• Takes advantage of Internet slang and mocks it

Q Rob - Cannot defrag hard drive

• Background applications using the disk
• Should run defragmentation in safe mode

Q Jim from Riverside - Cannot install Service Pack 2

• The farther PC gets from original XP installation, harder to install Service Pack 2
• Best way to do this would be to do clean install of XP and then install SP2 immediately
• May also be time to get a new PC
  • PC is 5 years old

Apple has begun selling songs from EMI in a higher bitrate and sans copy-protection for $1.29. Hopefully more record companies will jump on this bandwagon.

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The Slingbox allows you to stream your own TV signal across the Internet to your PC anywhere in the world. However, the MLB is threatening the company.

Saturday 2 June 2007

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