DL.TV

episode 63 (1x63)

Air date: May 23, 2006

In the News today: * US Veterans' Data Exposed * EMI Profits On iPod Sales * Judges Approves Sony Rootkit Settlement * Samsung Will Sell PCs with Flash Drives * Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Released Products to play with: * Windows Vista Hardware Requirements: No, Virginia, Vista doesn't need DX10 to do Glass. * Vista Beta 2 (Did NOT like our 6600GT graphics card, at least not with lots of windows open.) HowTo: * Defrag happiness! Robert says defragging won't help system performance. * Patrick says it's a nice way to boost performance a bit on machines where you're constantly moving files on/off and around. (Especially if you've into double digit fragmentation.) Your viewer questions: * Carlos asks "Why do none of these tech shows that have risen from the ashes of TechTV mention this potential breakthrough and explore it for its validity and real world applications? * Max says "I was searching Google Video and found quite a bit of copyrighted material: Robot Chicken, Aqua Teen Hunger Force... Trigun and Gundam Wing... Doctor Who... South Park. Will anyone crack down on this?" (You know, a lot of those videos look like they've been submitted by the copyright holders, which means they'd be all kinds of legal!) * Cameron asks "Can you make a ultra-deluxe version of DL.TV, say a gig for each episode or at least twice the current size? I want my quality dang it!" * Joel from Pittsburgh, PA asks "Do SpywareBlaster and SpyBot Search and Destroy's immunize feature really work? I use both and seem to detect the same amount of spyware that I did prior to using them." (Props to Neil Rubenking over at PCMag for some great info to help Joel!) * Steven from Union, NJ asks "Can a PCI Express graphics card be used in a regular PCI expansion slot?"