No BS Podcast #77 The Going for the Gold Edition
Posted 08/15/08 at 10:43:26 AM | by Tom Edwards
The podcast gang supplies our listenership with gold-medal-worthy tech advice this week! We lead off with a discussion of what your email address says about you and then crown the winner of our Win a Dream Date with Norm competition. Unfortunately, the man of the hour was out of the office working on his high bar routine, but we sifted through the entries, judged each participant on a 10-point scale, and decided that one of the myriad contestants rose above all others!
The ol' No BS Podcast mailbox was overflowing with questions this week. We discuss the possibility of using an Nividia and ATI card in one rig, how to take care of your customer-service woes, and whether you should switch to 64-bit Vista. Gordon Mah Ung also takes the floor for a few minutes to supply us with another Rant of the Week!
Do you have a tech question? A comment? A tale of technological triumph? Just need to get something off your chest? A secret to share? Email us at maximumpcpodcast@gmail.com or call our 24-hour No BS Podcast hotline at 877.404.1337 x1337--operators are standing by.
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Move Hard drives to copy a boot ini?
Submitted by DRAGONWEEZEL on Wed, 2008-09-10 11:14
O.K. so I am a little bit late but physically moving a hdd to fix a boot ini because it's text?
JUST RE TYPE IT! it's 4 fricken lines!
THERE ARE ONLY 11 TYPES OF PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD. Those that think binary jokes are funny, those that don't, and those that don't know binary
Submitted by kkern on Sun, 2008-08-24 20:23
Isn't it 4th week? Which means the magazine capture point must be taken first! Once that is done, Team FU will certainly take the podcast capture point!
Or something like that ...
I do miss the podcast, but I'm sure it'll be worth the wait ...
Yeah what he said. I demand
Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Sat, 2008-08-23 19:39
Yeah what he said. I demand an explaination why are you delinquent with the totally free podcast 78 that I don't pay for? I insist. Or I'll never again purchase another podcast. Errrrrr...........
You owe me (absolutely nothing) damnit... I want that podcast. My neighbors puppy will not rest until you give us another podcast. I've been spiking that pups water with pulverized NoDoze tablets.
Not really but it sounds funny.
Submitted by Scapegoat on Sun, 2008-08-24 13:12
I'm investing in NoDoze.
Submitted by Block_Dude on Fri, 2008-08-22 21:17
is here. Can we at least get an explanation this time?
Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Fri, 2008-08-22 19:32
Well it's Friday and I'm not listening to PoDcast 78. This is a problem. I need my blow I mean my Podcast on.... Come on....
most awesome rap ever ever
Submitted by papu on Tue, 2008-08-19 03:38
Link to the most awesome rap i've ever heard?
please please please please
also stop rating on Vista , it lets me watch Youtube videos by hovering over the taskbar , win \0/ productivity ++
I bat people on Tf2....its true...i doo
Submitted by LinuxForLife on Mon, 2008-08-18 07:59
Gordon Mah Ung's using Twitter now?
The end must be near...
DAVE=the best for doing Strongbad!
Submitted by Strongbad536 on Fri, 2008-08-15 21:29
Dave I love your quote at the beginning, check out my name. lol. Strongbad's EMAIL!!!!!
Complete the free Stamps.com offer for a free 360 Elite
rap
Submitted by Gailim on Fri, 2008-08-15 14:00
you know you want to provide a link to nuclearbastards song. you know you do
Submitted by strykyr on Fri, 2008-08-15 11:59
If there is a computer with no networking card you can use the usb and you will have internet. It's about a 10th the speed of cat5 and u MUST install the drivers for it.
Submitted by Queenof1 on Sun, 2008-08-17 14:07
Shame on you MaxPC! You should have known the answer to this question. Just to add to strykyr's answer, you cannot connect a pc to the ethernet port and the usb at the same time.
Submitted by Block_Dude on Fri, 2008-08-15 10:13
Stumer? The person with the 8600M gt - I have the same card in my asus laptop. Get rid of/uninstall that program, it sounds like bloatware to me. I've had some issues with mine as well but I've found that keeping your sound on normal 2 channels and *not* selecting the virtual surround option works the best. Also, disable/exit logitech's setpoint while playing too - that had issues with multiple keystrokes pressed at the same time. Lastly, consider that it might be one of the many defective cards - see here: http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/09/nvidia-g84-g86-bad
Submitted by knexkid on Fri, 2008-08-15 10:34
What the hell? Everyone should overclock their floppies! Think of the production increase!
Also, in responce to the ATI and nVidia in the same machine. I tried it with my PCI-express nvidia 6800 and I threw in a really old PCI (yes PCI, not PCI-express) ATI card and everything died. The 6800 would not display anything, and hte ATI card could only display things at like 4bit color at 680X420 (or whatever that really low resolution is...). Could be because one card was so much older than the other, but I don't know, when I did it, it didn't work. All on windows XP
Submitted by blue_holocaust on Fri, 2008-08-15 09:46
Gymkata.
Hell.
Yeah.
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