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episode 191 (1x191)

Air date: Aug 16, 2007

STUFF • Looks like YouTube wants to drag Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert of Comedy Central fame into court. Viacom it seems is still not happy with YouTube's performance on removing Viacom content from the YouTube site. YouTube hopes the comedic duo will make a favorable impression in court on their behalf. • Microsoft released nine security patches for Vista this week. Get em while they're hot! • Robert went over True Crypt the Open Source solution to encrypting your sensitive data from prying the eyes of " The Man", x-spouse, jilted lover or nosey co-workers. • More 3 Games in 3 Minutes. This week the 3 games are Madden NFL 08, Glory Days 2 and Boogie. • Linux on a stick? Or rather USB stick. That's right thanks to the helpful folks over at Pen Drive Linux have dozens of helpful stories on getting Linux to boot off the ubiquitous USB flash drive. Things to note: you'll need a mobo that supports booting from USB devices not just USB floppy drives or hard drives, and that not all USB flash drives work. In my experience is that it can be toss up even within the same manufacturers lineup. • Paint a penguin or rather a Gwin. The folks over at October Toys are running a contest on who does the best work on dolling up a MegaGwin. You can enter it in contest they're having this October 13th down in Long Beach at a toy store and gallery called Alpha Cult. They're asking that the finished Gwins to be sent back by September 28th, but as long as they're there before the show it should be good. • Paul had a question about external hard drives for his mac mini HDTV. He wanted to run media off it and wanted to know if there were any issues in doing so? The short answer is no. Having done something similar, unless you're using super large uncompressed files or super high bandwidth files most files including HD quicktimes (except the 1080p version on lowered clocked processors) should run fine. Ideally Paul should stick to FireWire drives. If wants to pick up a