:)

love that guy.

live today yay!

good grief

I'm ready for a great show! :-)

get the FCC to do there job and maybe Net Neutrality won't even be a problem?
What's the best all-a-round (money no object) notebook?

Or just use Windows Live Onecare like I do and get all the patches as they come out.

I hope he doesn't throw any of the stuff. It gets broken that way. Ask me how I know.

Also, what's up with the monkey that keeps changing location/position?

NO! It's made from sugar!

Where's my Mr Fusion? :D

How is everyones Vista and/or Office 2007 install running? Or does anyone have that extra PC to install it on like I did? It is diffently buggie! But I have been having fun playing with it.

Long time no see

I downloaded Windows Vista 64 and it fits on a regular DVD. I am dul booting XP and Vista 64 on my computer and have no real problems with Vista.

You do not need a dual-layer DVD burner to download and install Vista 64-bit. Don't believe Robert. I did it over the weekends.

It was tough. Download speeds were insanely slow. Xcell energy started the rolling blackouts while i was trying to download Vista. Windows hated me for turning it on during this great peril.

re: widescreen

just use video lan client and crop to either 16 9 or 16 10 (on my dell 24 thats what i do )

-regards
elliot

The classic dvorak.org/blog plug is no longer limited to being said by Dvorak himself. Great!

If you're confused about what's going on in America, check out the book that was featured on Patrick's ebook reader this week.

lol, liked the stuff at the end! :P

You mean I just could of built my own projection unit and not spent the $20,000 on the FANTASIC!!! one that I have! Oh well, it's only money and I can just print up some more... hahahha!

Howdy folks. seemed like a nice show....well, sort of a nice show. More audio then video in my case. I"m sure that it had much to do with only getting around 150KB/s download thru Verizon's EV-DO service whilst traveling across the hills PA. at 65+ mph.

I've found that for the most part I'm getting d/loads in the 600 - 800 KB/s range while stationary in a major city. (except for Buffalo NY...what's up with that??) The latency is relatively low. I wouldn't game with it...but, pogo.com or some such other time waster site does fine. Away from major cities (except for Buffalo) I'm ony getting 14KB/s downloads. That is just barely enough to watch MLB thru my slingbox at home...ha ha...

Y'all do a mighty fine job. I'll send pics sometime of the whole geek thing going on in my truck. Robert, sorry dude no wifi yet....

peace
7s and 8s
I"m outta here

HeyDriver

My dual boot of Vista/XP went perfectly and even though my computer is almost three years old it runs Aero Glass perfectly. Office 2007 is running well on both XP and Vista, and plays nice with Office 2003, although Outlook 2007 usurped Outlook 2003.

I'm pretty happy with both vista and 2007. I think MS is doing some good stuff.

My dual boot of Vista/XP went perfectly and even though my computer is almost three years old it runs Aero Glass perfectly. Office 2007 is running well on both XP and Vista, and plays nice with Office 2003, although Outlook 2007 usurped Outlook 2003.

I'm pretty happy with both vista and 2007. I think MS is doing some good stuff.

aside from dling it being a pain, I haven't had any problems with vista 64-bit or the office beta. put both of them on the same machine last weekend. though installing apps is hit and miss. firefox is a hit! anti-spam ware is a miss...

If the DL.TV crew can't repost the ASF stream the same day that the show is done, I'm sure other people can. This wouldn't serve DL.TV as they would not get credit for the number of people who view it. It would serve DL.TV to get off their butts and provide this for their viewers. I'm currently looking for sites that host 200+MB streaming video for free.

What happened to the segement you guys were going to do about boosting audio levels on ipods and other portables in cars?

Just curious where the Download Page is for today's show? Did something go "Crash"? :p

I was wondering what online program Robert and Patrick featured that enlarges an image into multiple 8.5 x 11 images.

well its a shame as I liked the show but that was the last episode of dltv I will ever watch. Not being able to go past the ads made has made me angry with it to the point I cant watch it anymore. You wont be forcing me to watch ads so Im gone. Im sure I could get around it but not worth the trouble. yeah who cares about losing one viewer? lol I bet there are many more the same and that its the difference between your success and not. Congrats to whoever thought up the idea, you have killed the show in the long term.

"Hi
I'm hanging out for a new mac pro as a gaming rig (4-8 cores of pure gaming pleasure). I wanted to know though if my games can take advantage of the new 64 bit architectures that intel is rolling out and whether the vista O/S and directx 10 will take advantage of them - or do i risk buying this evil kit only to find i've got to run yesterday's software on it to get my games working?
Conrad"

The Core Due is NOT a 64bit chip.

"
well its a shame as I liked the show but that was the last episode of dltv I will ever watch. Not being able to go past the ads made has made me angry with it to the point I cant watch it anymore. You wont be forcing me to watch ads so Im gone. Im sure I could get around it but not worth the trouble. yeah who cares about losing one viewer? lol I bet there are many more the same and that its the difference between your success and not. Congrats to whoever thought up the idea, you have killed the show in the long term. "

Dude, the ads are what keep the show going, its not gonna kill you to watch a couple minutes worth of ads in a 30-90 minute show. sheesh.. if the ads were not there, then the show would not exist. the ads provide money to pay for bandwidth, and cool new toys to show you. so... go eat a cookie while the ads are there if you dont like em. damn. what an ignorent prick

PGP creator Phil Zimmerman announces encryption program for VoIP
From BetaDot:

Phil Zimmerman, creator of PGP, the encryption so secure it's outlawed in many countries where strong encryption is illegal, has designed a new VoIP encryption program.

This one, Zfone, is designed to encrypt VoIP traffic to prevent anyone from capturing VoIP packets and listening to them.

The method of encryption used is significantly different than that of PGP, however, it is key based. Rather than be user-based', the key is session based, each session of a VoIP call would generate a new encryption key. A full public-key layer was not the method chosen, as it is slower, and complicates matters too much.

http://www.voip-news-net.com/2005/07/pgp_creator_phi.html

The thing that bugs me about the ads is that they are almost always the same ones, every time, in the same order. I actually got excited to see the USPS ad (and I live in Australia!) because they were different. Actually, to make it sadder I download dl.tv and burn it to VCD or SVCD to watch on my TV.

I have no problem watching new ads at least once if it helps out the show. I just wish there was some variety.

LOL I can't believe I'm saying this but I agree with you shane.

Seriously, I'm not a bot or someone from a ad-firm. Its just that when I watch TV often I just ignore the commericals, but since DL.TV has short commericals I just sit there and watch; since there really isn't much time to do something else. Though it does get repetitive seeing that PCMAG or ExtremeTech commerical over and over again.

I guess I've reach the low end of life ;_;

Well!!! Loosen up you shorts will ya,as if you`ve never seen a commercial before.

Hi - i'm in the market for a high-end laptop and would have liked to see the macbook pro or even macbook compared to a windows laptop with both running windows - it's a comparison no one seems to make but which i know a lot of people are making (myself included).

Otherwise, as always great show.

Hi
I'm hanging out for a new mac pro as a gaming rig (4-8 cores of pure gaming pleasure). I wanted to know though if my games can take advantage of the new 64 bit architectures that intel is rolling out and whether the vista O/S and directx 10 will take advantage of them - or do i risk buying this evil kit only to find i've got to run yesterday's software on it to get my games working?
Conrad

Well, if you don't like the ads, I'm sure the guys would love for you to send in the money for them to make the show, that way it can still be free.

Well - yes, i have to download it, as staying up till midnight to watch it live isn't such a good idea. On the occasions where i have seen it live - I do get a bit annoyed by the ads - given that we've seen them over and over again.

But the plan becomes un-glued today because they haven't put it up yet

Seeing the same ads over and over is annoying, but then if they had more companies willing to advertise on DL.TV then we would see more. Maybe the part of getting more/better ads is that of the viewers using those ads which are already being used.

Has anyone else noticed the amount of ZD ads though? I am thinking that the other ads just arent producing revenue for the companies paying for them.

I hope I am wrong, because if I am right DL.TV is not long for this world.

can we stop talking about the ads and go with something a bit more important...like the content of the show. i thought the GBA movie viewer was a cool piece of equipment.

Suggestion for future program: you should mention real ultraportable laptops... As an user who uses mainly these type of laptop I must say that 12-13 inch screen machines are exactly "worst of all". Too small to be of use as the larger screen ones (if you wish for that go over 14 inch screens) while too bulky to be really ultraportable and with no computation power in advantage to the really ultraportables which are in my opinion now made only by Sony and Fujitsy (anyone else?): 10.6 inch screen ones...
So, it would be nice to see 10.6 inch laptop overview...

On another note, iRex iLiad vs. Sony eBook reader comparo?

I wonder if the guy watching DLTV on his Ipod was me? I watch it on the train going to work. I did notice a guy trying to watch it over my sholder, Hmmmm.....Anyway he gave a shot out to the Bronx! BooYA!

Tried from East Coast at 4:26 PM EDT and link to download page is broken.

download page no longer broken

Download link still appears to be broken. I just tried and got a 404 error.

When Louderback was reviewing the three notebooks, he seemed so fascinated by the optical drive tray on one of them, almost like he had never seen one before.

Did I miss something? Was there something special about it?

a lot of the ultraportables don't sport built-in optical drives. i have a thinkpad x60 (their "portable" version) and the optical is actually in this silly dock thing, not in the actual laptop. but hey, that's what alcohol 120%'s for!

most ultraportables don't sport built-in optical drives. my thinkpad x60 has its drive in a silly dock thing...but that's what alcochol 120%'s for, i guess.

Patrick is reading 1984, sweet.

Here is a link to the DivX version of episode 69 http://zdpub.vo.llnwd.net/o2/dltv/episode69/dl.tv.069.divx
And The WMV version.
http://zdpub.vo.llnwd.net/o2/dltv/episode69/dl.tv.069.wmv
And Last iPod Video
http://zdpub.vo.llnwd.net/o2/dltv/episode69/dl.tv.069.m4v

Patrick, for god's sake, I know you're super paranoid, but can you stop raggin' on encryption! It's not a "or so you think" issue. Good encryption, with strong passwords, is unbreakable by any means other than brute force! Barring some insane break through in mathematics, this will continue to be true. Now, I understand that flaws in certain encryption implementations (such as WEP) happen, but there's no magic machine the NSA has that can crack properly implemented encryption.

Besides that, I'm a very happy viewer. Thanks!

"but there's no magic machine the NSA has that can crack properly implemented encryption."

...or so you think!

j/k

What's with all the stupid cheap universal remotes?
Is that supposed to make their desk look techy?
Cheap RCA, Cheap Sony and other remotes.

Continue on informing others of the deterioration of their privacy rights. I love how people respond by going (in dumb voice) "I hope it doesn't get any worse. I trust the gov't and big businesses."

What is wrong w/ Robert? Is he the color guy?

I think Jim Louderback missed the boat by not highlighting the new Lenovo 3000 V 100 which is 4lbs, runs 5 hours on battery, has dvd optical drive, 1 gig memory, 100 gig hd, and more for $1600. The Dell is nice but expensive, the V100 in my opinion blows the other 2 laptops away with power and features.

Wow, Louderback sure didn't give Patrick much space there during the laptop deal. I was so distracted of him making sure he was talking all the time, I couldn't pay attention to what the result was. But anyway, great show as always!

$80 for the movie player? No way... if you buy it from lik-sang it is only $30. Same thing as the M3 shown in show.

Get She SD version over the CF. The pins on the CF are prone to bending. my first one only lasted 6 months in the hands of my 8 and 6 year olds.

Also be aware that the conversion software is buggy and does not work if you have Nerovision installed.

It also dees more than just Video. Really worth the $ 30 bucks (but not $80).

$80 for the movie player? No way... if you buy it from lik-sang it is only $30. Same thing as the M3 shown in show.

Get She SD version over the CF. The pins on the CF are prone to bending. my first one only lasted 6 months in the hands of my 8 and 6 year olds.

Also be aware that the conversion software is buggy and does not work if you have Nerovision installed.

It also dees more than just Video. Really worth the $ 30 bucks (but not $80).

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Wait an extra day and download the show to your hard drive, then you can fast forward through the commercials.. thats what i do. Not rocket science.

@Francis G: The program you're looking for is called Rasterbator:

http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/