Is there any point to encrypting P2P? Boxee.TV. Keep Your Notebook from Overheating, Can I upgrade my motherboard without re-installing Windows? Free Software. Weasels in our Pants!
Veronica was buzzing around Montreal in Quebec, Canada and Roger was tooling around San Diego Comic-Con meeting celebrities and spending quality time with the Ayleen and friends at the October toys booth. (He also ran into Felicia Day from Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog while he was at Comi-Con
Veronica Belmont... although according to last week's credit my name is also Roger Chang.
Ready to win our Badass Monster Gaming Machine? (Sponsored by Nvidia!) We'll have the full details soon; our build a PC segment will be delayed a week as the parts we order wind their way thru the Internets. Our apologies for the delay!
CJ's angry with Patrick! He says, "Patrick is sorely misinformed if he believes that a quad core gaming system doesn't benefit from the two extra cores." Sorry, CJ, just because boutique builders can get folks to drop cash on quad core CPUs doesn't mean they help much on gaming. Check out Look at ExtremeTech's Core 2 Quad vs. the Core 2 E8500. We're building dual core for now... then, when quad core chips get cheap (and there are heaps more game that pop with quad core) we'll upgrade!
This week's Freebie Download Pick: Notepad Plus Plus a nice clean text editor designed for coders that supports syntax highlighting for languages like C, C#, C++, HTML, Java, JavaScript, Perl, and PHP. (If you're hard core enough you can define your own language syntax!) and packs auto-completion, bookmarks, split screen editing, a hex editor... and quite a bit more!
Zac wants to know which media center software he should on his Mac, and wants to know what we think of Boxee. Veronica's got a full review of this slick (and social) replacement for Front Row that works with the Apple Remote.
Want to add music or sound effect to Skype calls? So does Eric.
We want your questions on video! Just record yourself asking a question no longer than 15 seconds, upload the video to YouTube, then email us the link with "Video Question" in the subject line. (No attachments, please!)
As an added incentive.... Veronica will be giving away Boxee invites to 25 people at random who email us with VMAIL questions!
This Week's Website We Can't Get Enough Of: GetHuman.com, one of the crappiest looking and most useful websites we've ever talked about. GetHuman allows you to figure out which combination of phone buttons will connect you to an actual living, breathing person that can answer your questions!
James emails from the UK with some serious concerns about P2P privacy "It's become quite clear that the government are teaming up with ISPs in order to punish anyone caught using filesharing programs; I've heard that DNS configuration, and encryption can be quite valuable in protecting yourself online, but I'm unsure where to start."
First off, we'd love for the Tekzilla Crew to email us with their ideas about how to protect yourself online... second, we've got some questions about how useful it is to encrypt P2P traffic, but encrypting email is quite useful. Tor is great for hiding your tracks when you're online.
As far as DNS goes... yes, you can use OpenDNS to help secure yourself, and here's some more info on that: Secure and Speed Up Internet Surfing with OpenDNS. BTW, Dan Kaminsky is -the- source, his website , DoxPara Research is chock full o' useful info,
Yes, the Pirate Bay Wants To Encrypt The Entire Interent. Good luck with that.
Daniel wants to know if he can upgrade his motherboard and CPU without reinstalling Windows.
Is that notebook burning your lap? Xander asks "Exactly what options do us laptop owners have when it comes to keeping our cool - besides moving to a colder area? I've heard about laptop cooling stands, but how well do these function?" We've got options for Xander
Macbook/Macbook Pro users should check out SMC Fan Control... anybody know of a good Windows fan control utility? Email us: Tekzilla@Revision3.com.
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Posted by datalossfs on 08/06/2008 at 03:46:14 am in Tekzilla
In regards to keeping your lap cool with a notebook I've been using one of these *link*
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Posted by Ryudo on 08/03/2008 at 04:29:00 pm in Tekzilla
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Me too, but unfortunately I did it in 17th century New England, and was burned at the stake. I'm reasonably sure that actually happened."
I was always good at voices but that one I trained myself for since I was just 'dropping' shall we say since then I did it to talk to pets or annoy my dad with it.
eventually did it so much it became natural to just switch in and out of voices.
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Posted by jks15 on 08/03/2008 at 12:43:56 pm in Tekzilla
Great Tekzilla episode! Just my two cents about keeping your lap/laptop cool. This may seem really cheap of me, but I find that when I'm sitting at my desk, using a kitchen cooling rack to place my laptop on helps a lot! I haven't tried it while sitting with the laptop in my lap, but I will.
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Posted by davmoo on 08/03/2008 at 04:51:39 am in Tekzilla
And again I say there has to be something "extra" in Veronica's can of cola... :)
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Posted by Juniper Monkeys on 08/03/2008 at 02:00:40 am in Tekzilla
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Dunno what's breaking smc on your MBP, but another one you can try is FanControl. I don't use either anymore since my 'Book mostly sits on an MStand (which I link to because they mentioned the Griffin one on the show, and this one matches Apple displays better for those of us who were dumb enough not to just buy the Dell LCD instead), but it looks like they've kept it updated, and it was basically the same thing.
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Me too, but unfortunately I did it in 17th century New England, and was burned at the stake. I'm reasonably sure that actually happened.
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Posted by Ryudo on 08/02/2008 at 07:54:07 pm in Tekzilla
Veronica want to know something scary.
Even though I have a fairly deep voice I can imitate that voice you did in the bloopers quite easy....I used to always scare my co workers with it till they banned me from using it.
no worries I just started doing one of many of my other character voices.
Fun to scare them like that.:p
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Posted by dlong9 on 08/02/2008 at 05:20:20 pm in Tekzilla
For those who don't have a Boxee invite, there is another XBMC based media center for mac called Plex (formerly OSXBMC). It also works with the Apple Remote. I have had some remote problems problems in the past, but haven't had any since the latest update. I use it on my Mac Mini and It plays every type of video and audio I throw at it (minus DRM).
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Posted by computoman on 08/02/2008 at 04:59:32 pm in Tekzilla
With MS Windows XP and prior windows versions, you can in most cases replace a cpu/motherboard, then reboot in the safe mode. Once you are in the safe mode you can update/install drivers as necessary. Reboot and all should be fine.. There is no need to reinstall a system from scratch unless it was hosed to begin with. Running a registry cleaner is a good idea though after loading all the new drivers. This has save me a boatload of time not have to re-install all my settings and setups. I had a client who did not have the original cd available and using a safe mode driver install saved the day. I have not tried this with messyvista though. We only use linux now.
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Posted by Boxcarjay on 08/02/2008 at 11:39:09 am in Tekzilla
so i installed that smc fan control program veronica talked about on the show, and when i try to run it says my computer isnt a supported system or something like that. i thought it worked on all mac book pro's. any help or another good program would be great
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Posted by gobo on 08/02/2008 at 10:33:02 am in Tekzilla
Just started watching now, and re the Quebecois not speaking French: my french-speaking province mates speak a mish-mash of french and english (although mostly french) with an almost entirely different set of slang and expressions because they split apart from France almost 400 years ago and things have evolved differently.
Hope you had a good time in Montreal! It's too bad you didn't get "real" poutine, although it sounds like Casey doesn't really know real poutine :)
Also: Just say Saint in english not Sawn re: Saint Denis, good job on Denis though, that statue is awesome
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