DL.TV

DL.TV

episode 159 (1x159)


Uitzenddatum: Apr 24, 2007

Comparison shopping online? That price looks good? You can pick it up in the store right now? Then you should buy it online for pickup in the store, or print out those prices before you head to the store! Especially if you're shopping at Kragen or BestBuy. Why? 'Cause sometimes the online price and the in store price are different, even if you're picking it up in the store. These are the two we've ran into lately. (sigh) • Networking two buildings? Use fiber, not copper Ethernet!!! Otherwise you can create all kinds of electrical headaches... or kill two buildings worth of networks if one get hits by lightning. Or, if the ground potential is different enough between the two buildings... well, watch the show. We'll talk about it there. Thanks to Ken, Scott, John, Tim, Wayne, Mark and Tim for sounding the "Don't use copper Ethernet between two buildings!" alarm, and giving us lots of good info to answer Trey's question from Episode 156. • DivX movies look better off your $100 DVD player than your $1500 Macbook? Chances are you do need to tweak your settings in VLC, the Video Lan Client, David! (Deinterlacing is generally -not- on by default, makes DVDs or any non-deinterlaced video look ugly. Robert reccos the X setting! • PCI-X vs. PCIe... you've got PCI-X (PCI Extended) on that motherboard, David. You want PCIe (PCI Express) for the latest and greatest in graphics cards. • GoogleFight: Yes, Scott, we're stupid. We didn't put quotes around the names we searched! • Mimobots aren't evil. They're limited edition USB thumbrives designed by artists. Oh... they've got Star Wars characters in 1GB to 4GB versions. Can you say 'collectible?' Roger says "never take it out of the box!" NEWS • Google Beats Microsoft as Most Valuable brand in the world. Must be the 'do no evil' motto. • Virtual BlackBerry for Windows Mobile means you'll be able to run crackberry apps on your Windows Mobile 6 device. • Intel Cuts Prices on Dual and Quad-Core Processors to

  • Plaats #
  • in première gegaan: Aug 2005
  • Afleveringen: 259
  • Volgers: 0
  • Afgelopen
  • Onbekend
  • Onbekend