Saturday 4 August 2007
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Tech News
Morgan Webb, Leo’s colleague when he worked at TechTV and current host of G4 television show X-Play, has begun her own daily video podcast: Webbalert.
When it comes to FaceBook vs. MySpace, Danah Boyd has done some research to back the theory that it is a matter of class. “Facebookers are strivers; MySpacers are there in part because they’re rejecting the values of preppies, jocks and tools.”
Does Google have a phone in the works?
A new trojan horse has the simple goal of deleting all your mp3s.
An undercover NBC Dateline reporter was spotted at hacker convention DEFCON. The video depicts her practically chased out of the building.
Guests
Q Scott Wilkinson - HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray
- All discs have content at 1080p at 24 frames per second
- Most TVs play at 60 frames per second
- Player has to do some conversion
- Looking more and more likely that Blu-Ray will emerge
- More studios producing discs for Blu-Ray only
- Only Universal is doing HD-DVD exclusively
- HD-DVD can retrieve online content
- No Blu-Ray player can do that yet
- All HD-DVD players required to implement higher quality audio formats
- HD-DVD players also much cheaper
- Has a “control” outlet
- When device connected to control outlet turns off, everything else turns off
Q Steve Gibson - TPM
- Trusted platform module
- TPM is engaged to unlock secure elements of your PC
- Such as using fingerprint reader to log into pc
- Can be used for bad as well
- Could allow companies to force proprietary technology on you
Hour 1
Q Susan - Constantly getting spam on email account
- Mail is coming to Comcast account that was set for forwarding email
- Comcast, as a courtesy, is forwarding email to you for a while
- Due to switching ISPs
- Just make a filter in Outlook
- To trash anything coming from your Comcast account
Q Kurt from Newton, NJ - Completely wiping off a hard drive
- Download and boot DBAN
- Will completely “nuke” the hard drive by constantly rewriting zeros over all the data
- Then you will have a fresh hard drive
- For OSX apps and hints, try out OSX Hints and Versiontracker
Hour 2
Q Laura from Ventura, CA - All email folders lost
- Need to go to Microsoft
- Shouldn’t lose folders
- Need to get cooperation of Microsoft
Q Annette from Claremont, CA - Cannot load ESPN.com
- Need to change Mozilla’s advanced settings to make it wait longer
Q Wii working in same Wifi area iBook isn’t
- If there’s metal in any walls, it will bounce Wifi signal right off
- Interference is a big issue as well
- Can get a wireless repeater
- That uses WDS
- Need to find a repeater compatible with your router
- Simply use another Linksys product
- Here are some general notes on increasing WiFi range
- Need an external device for RAID 5
- Can take a look at the Drobo
- USB 2.0
- Simply plug in the drives
- Essentially a RAID
- Mac Pro is very, very fast
- There are PCI cards that work with OSX that will help you make the RAID
Q Ben from Rancho Cucamonga, CA - HP Photosmart software
- Says he is not administrator at boot
- Simple bug
- Mistake on HP’s part
- Try Autoruns
Hour 3
Q Shannon from Ventura,, CA - Cannot eject a disc
- In Windows XP, try right clicking the drive in My Computer and clicking “eject”
- Before anything loads on the computer, try ejecting then
Q Mark - Computers for seniors
- Take a look at Zonbu
- $99 PC
- Then $12.95 a month
- No storage in it
- Simply connect it to the Internet
- Built in applications
- Easy to use
- $14.95 monthly option gives you 50gb/backups
Q Clicking links on desktop gives an error in Firefox 2
- Try out these steps that may help your problem
- Mozilla details the problem as well in different places
Q Jackie - Getting rid of Norton
- Symantec has the Norton Removal Tool
- Can get our sponsor NOD32