ZenTech show notes August 14, 2006
Our first caller told the story of the man who found no sunshine in his house. He called the neighbor about this, who said that there was however sunshine int the garden and that perhaps the house should therefore be relocated there. We are off to a super start!

5 mile Wireless Radio Internet Brige  notes: THANKS Bill from far away Vacaville (FM radio 89.5 at 100 miles out!). Thsi would allow you for example, to share your Internet connection with a neighbor so long as they are in sight.
http://www.radiolabs.com/products/wireless/point-to-point-bridge.php

http://www.colfaxnet.com/
Listner from Alta, about 14 miles from Colfax (?) with a question about about a 10-year agreement to sign to carry a relay on a tree on his property. Glenn suggested studying Easements, Paul suggested consulting a lawyer not a tech show as a lot can change in a few years, such as when selling the property!

Vacaville Caller again:
When dialed up to the internet there is a sound interfering with phone calls made on another phone line
Caller does NOT have a Cordless Phone (these opearate at similar frequencies to wireless networks and can get interferance)
Paul suggested the house phone wires were picking up the signals, probably from unbalanced wiring (where one wire of a  pair somehow has gotten longer)
Dennis B. of KVMR suggested AFTER the show that this interferance can come via cell phones-
especially with a weak signal because the cell phone must maximize its gain to reach the tower.
A very characteristic set of 5-6 bursts of about 100Hz at about 3 times a second ends after a few seconds. It's NOT continuous, and often happens right before a call comes in!

Buy.com Memorex 2gig usb flash dirve $29.95 plus free shipping !!

Ipowerweb.com ftp problems from last week and this week too
Isp gives you an ip address … use reverse lookup to see who it belongs to

1. http://Checkip.dyndns.org to check your ip address
2. MAC Terminal or Windows cmd promt: "nslookup"
3. Paste IP address found above. should get NO error but rather, some kind of name for the ip, usually referring to you Internet Provider.
4. If this gives an Error, then FTP may be hindered by the remote server refusing connections as you cannot properly 'identify'eho your IP is. Problem is often intermittent,

use nslookup in the command area and if it tells you that your provider is there then ftp should work, if it can’t find your provider then try again

Thanks, Bruce Doan for:
http://computer-show.com used/off-lease/refurbished  laptops from Nevada 

sbcglobal.net how to setup thunderbird to send mail when clicking on a weblink
http://help.sbcglobal.net/article.php?item=287

These are BASIC settings. More reliable is so called SMTPAUTH settings. More To Follow? 

dvd shrink. A program to decode and compress DVDs from 9+ GB disks to 4.x+GB DVD Drives.
Basically, it often fails. Ideally, use NERO plus NeroVision Express and "Recode". (transcode, or convert resolutions and compression)

No Notes Yet

We will put things up that we mean to talk about, here!
Then, when the show is Over, the actual notes will go here!
Links Open New Windows. Close Windo When Done

Intended Subjects: http://www.01sj.org/ 'Zero One San Jose'
A Global Festival of Art on the Edge & the Thirteenth International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA2006) AUGUST 7-13, 2006. Sample Artworks:
http://01sj.org/content/blogsection/14/49/
Thanks, C Jordan for contribution.
PS- That site uses the same CMS (Content Management System)
as this one, but taken to its artisitic maximum " )

Click on Links to open a NEW window to look at.
When you close them, you will be back here.

KVMR’s experimental Studio 401 & News PODCASTS

www.kvmr.org/tech [now Inactive]
click on podcast.htm then drag your choice to iTunes

Very early Audio Archuve test:
http://Audio.kvmr.org

Use Winamp to record live radio broadcasts from the internet
Get it from here, free: http://www.winamp.com

Right click on main menu, left click on options, preferences at bottom section choose plugins … output (where to send the sound that winamp is getting) switch to nulsoft’s “Disk Writer”
and click “Settings” to control where things that Winamp plays will get saved. Note you may not hear Winamp in this mode as it is no longer talking to the sound card (DirectSound Output) so when finished, you need to switch back…

Winamp … office laptop with Norton internet security, home computer uses panda 2006 5.24

Can’t get to Audio Online sites from home computer using Panda, might be a problem with Panda’s firewall or port numbers, try to temporarily turn off Panda and see if the link then works … to try to isolate the problem. Audio Feeds often use ports other thatn 80 (the web port). For example, KVMR’s high resolution feed uses port 8000, which, while pretty common, is not universal. Other stations may not do that. Also Possible: That the Internet Provider has blocked all but the commonest ports?

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Winamp agent in the system tray … Panda blocks him from accessing it from the system tray, turn Panda off, make changes to Winamp preferences, then turn Panda back on.

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Terry: 2 xp pc’s using file sharing, 3 shared on pc2, on pc1 it can read one of the shares but can’t read the other 2. Turned off Norton firewall, it works until Norton comes back all.
More Details will Follow, Probably to paul’s Picks, abotu this increasingly common issue

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http://www.ncerc.org Nevada County Economic Resource Counsel
Check Links on Left for free furniture and recycling office stuff

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http://www.nevadacountyrecycles.com

Nevada County’s recycle web page

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Microsoft office/excel mail merge problem … make sure both excel & word are the same version,
To Do THis: Help… About… in either program. Should match version wording.

try printing to a file not the printer. Try checking this site to ensure all Office Products Up To Date (Paul’s Picks) http://officeupdate.microsoft.com

You MUST use Internet Explorer to do this. Also– If you do not need Paginations (Page Numbering) Turn it Off. It slows things down a lot.

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Script error messages

Open internet explore, tools, internet options, advanced turn off “report script errors”

Thanks for transcribing this, Glenn!

How to disable or uninstall the pilot version of Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications

Opera 9 Web Browser

http://www.opera.com/

http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

The Ditty Bops 
http://www.dittybops.com/

http://www.kalnet.com/~ussrover/show.html

EWIDO antispyware software

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/lng/us/tpl/v5#ewido-free

SmarterBroadband offers High Speed Broadband Wireless

http://www.smarterbroadband.com/

Find wireless signals with Net Stumbler

http://www.netstumbler.com/

Toast.net offers internet speed tests

http://performance.toast.net/

use this site to check your internet speed and compare it to other providers and types of service