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Turns out you don't like it, you can always go to the manufacturer's website, download the firmware for your router, and re-flash it to the router. Also, you'll probably want to browse around the FAQ at Polarcloud. Just a simple way to stick a tiny bit of dynamic content on a webpage without writing a whole script. Private Function GetResponseTable As Dictionary Of String, String Dim t As New Dictionary Of String, String 'Read from the text file to fill these values.

Yeah, because, see, he's, Cooley has yet to respond to my little tirade about him. Keep on firing them away for you guys that just want to know anything and I guess we could just start off. Your Name is Lol! It's like I have my whole library on there. They can give you a basic understanding of how our crawler works and covers crawl delays. As far as being able to get a signal. Are you using a Microsoft Account or Local Account? Write msg, 0, msg. Yeah, Nick and Tina, I think it's a good deal for what it is, absolutely. It always just keeps your collection fresh, but the fact that you can have access to that, listen to it, it's really nice.

Hi there, i got another see open discussion about logs issue: there is a linux box where i run an eggdrop bot and normally you do a Direct Client to Client CHAT DCC to administer it... Are you having trouble downloading Comcast Norton? To answer your question it could be a false positive, or it may be real. And so, I didn't get to play with the software, I mean, I've been able play with the earlier Zune.

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Welcome to Editor's Office Hours. We have the man, Mister Tom Merritt here. Normally, it's the other way around, right. We've got the man, you know him, you love him, Tom Merritt's here on Editor's Office Hours. We're basically gonna answer whatever questions you guys have, anything you want. It can be about shows, recent videos we did, some of the latest news topics, specific questions you have for us. Yeah, I don't know. Things we like, we're gonna talk about them. And all you have to do is up here in the, is it here? Here in the right hand corner, you have a little box that says submit a question, just type it in, if you're not registered with CNET. First of all, like, how was your weekend, dude? So I think I might shot that as an insider secret tomorrow. I didn't actually do it though, cause the thing is, this is one of the problems of working at CNET is that, it's like, I got the Boxee thing and I went through the instructions, I saw how it worked. I'm like, oh, this is pretty easy. I'm just gonna flash it to a drive and I'm like, wait, I can't do it yet, cause then I'd have to undo it. What we're gonna do with Tom is basically ask him questions. We have two already in the cue. Keep on firing them away for you guys that just want to know anything and I guess we could just start off. It's like, I'm in, I'm out. Okay, DiggDoug asks us, okay, we all know you're both Mac heads, I mean, I use both platforms. I'm a platform agnostic. So, DiggDoug, maybe I'll have you go first, what you think. New MacBooks on the fourteenth? What have you guys heard? There's that big story out about how Apple might start its own manufacturing process using lasers and large aluminum blocks to carve out cases. Lasers and water cutting, pretty cool stuff. But, as far as the MacBooks coming out on the fourteenth, I think, I think, first of all, that's a rumor that it's gonna be MacBooks. It's actually not even, have the invites even gone out? Or is this still a rumor to the announcement? There still has not been an official statement saying we're gonna have an announcement. You know, normally, the media knows, like, two weeks in advance. I think if there is an announcement, it's more than likely, it'll be about MacBooks, it'll be about laptops. And I don't think you're gonna see anything crazy new. Yeah, everyone's been talking about, oh, it could potentially be a touch screen. I don't think they're there yet. No, the whole touch screen laptop, touch a tablet. I think, I think there will be something, there's always got to be something unique, otherwise, they wouldn't be having an announcement. So, I think you may see some touch, some expansion on the touch part of the track pad. Which is kind of the incremental version from Leopard that they're gonna come out with. It's the next version of OS ten. Maybe we'll get a surprise announcement. But they've got to refresh that MacBook line going into the holiday season. And it's been about a year since the refresh before that happened so the time is right. And then, I think, you know, how we're talking about we don't think anything crazy or revolutionary will come out. If they had something that was really out of the box or revolutionary, I think they would hold onto it for Mac World anyways because that's the show where they cater to the consumer. You know, we have the iPhone. We had the MacBook era which had, you know, different, you know, the pulse was different about how people felt about that. But, Mac World is the flagship show for Apple. They're not gonna release a flagship brand new product on October Fourteenth. So we're getting more questions. I don't know if you want to take a scan. Okay, here we go. I think it's BOL related for you. I can't afford an iMac. Can I get an Apple Mini and use my Windows monitor keyboard and mouse? Now, if your Windows keyboard and mouse are USB, you got no problems there. Windows monitor, you'll need an adaptor, that's pretty much it cause, again, all the Apple products have the DVI out, like this little port instead of the VGA port so your Windows monitor, if it has a DVI connection on it, you're good, but if it, more likely, as it more likely does, has a VGA connection, then you'd need an adaptor, but yeah, you should be able to use all that stuff. I don't know if it's still readily available. They used to have them at Apple stores. So, but the company's called Keyspan and I definitely know they have an adaptor. I think it's around twenty, twenty-five dollars for it, but it does exist, so. We have a lot of people that ask us these questions but I think it's always good to kind of refresh people's memory because it's still pretty hot at the top. We have a question from Pac Gamer and Pac Gamer asks us, what are you views on Google's G one? I've talked about it before here on Office Hours so maybe you could kind of spit off the top of your head. I don't think it's all that great looking. It's more of a question of what do you think of android because G one, first generation phone. Never get a first generation phone. As far as being able to get a signal. I know a lot of people with T mobile that they do just fine but they complain about it. So, G one is interesting in being able to look at it and see what it does. As a consumer, I would hold off. And also, just the adoption of T mobile doesn't really have three G networks in place yet. I don't know, you want to take a look over there? We'll just do that. I'm used to Adobe Premiere and Sony Vegas on the Windows side of things. I just ran across something recently and I can't recall the name, video editing on a Boo-Too, specifically. And let me see if I can pull that up. If you want to tap dance or sing a song. I just saw a blog posting this weekend about it and I think, no, that's old. I just need to find a name but, apparently, there is a, there's a video editing software that's gaining some popularity amongst the Boo-Too crowd. They recommend VLC for the cropping and editing. That's not what I heard. That's not the thing I'm thinking of, though. There was something out, that was, that was really getting some traction. I'll keep poking around for it and we'll see what we can come up with. We can go to video, maybe you can talk about it a little bit. You did a video about the Tomato router. Can you kind of give a little preface on what that is. I have not idea what we're talking about. I think that may be what it was. So, I'll throw that out there. Okay, so the Tomato router. See, now you go buy one of those little Wi-Fi routers and it's sitting over there in the corner and, all of a sudden, you start to come across different functionalities that you wish your router could do, like, look around on a site survey and found out what Wi-Fi signals are available in your area. What part of the spectrum they're using so that you can move to a different one and you don't collide with each other. It can track your bandwidth so you know exactly if you've got multiple devices on that network, exactly how much bandwidth are you using via the router? It can log that for you. And it's as simple as plugging in your router to your laptop with the Tomato firmware download, picking the correct firmware for your machine, which means you have to turn it over and look at, maybe the serial number, maybe the model number, and then, look up the read me, actually read the read-me file. Turns out you don't like it, you can always go to the manufacturer's website, download the firmware for your router, and re-flash it to the router. But flashing the firmware, while it sounds really hard, it's a matter of pressing down, you know, upload, selecting a file, and uploading it to the router. We will catch you guys in a few minutes. Sit tight with us and keep on sending your questions in. But rather than ditch it, I'm gonna give it some new life with new third-party firmware. I'm Tom Merritt from CNET. And whether you're replacing your old router or you're just frustrated with your new one, there are a few reasons you might want to do this. My Linksys here can only act as an access point for turning my internet into a wireless. Now, the Tomato firmware, that's the firmware I'm gonna put on here, will allow it to act as a bridge, allowing machines in my house that don't have Wi-Fi access to the network wirelessly. It can also act as site survey tool giving me the strengths of nearby networks and letting me know which frequencies they occupy. Now, in a crowded neighborhood, this can help you reduce interference on your network tremendously. Tomato also has a bandwidth usage monitor. If your ISP has a cap on bandwidth, this is indispensible in telling it you're close to the cap. There are also other features like Wake-on-LAN, static DHCP, and more. So how do you do it? Well, there are many third-party firmwares out there. Some work better with specific routers. I'm gonna use Tomato which says it works with the Linksys WRT fifty-four GS versions one through versions four. Look underneath your router for a serial number, or more specific, model number to match it up. Then, download the firmware, extract it to a folder, read the read me file to determine which file goes with your router. Then, connect your router to your computer. Open the router's admin screen as described in your manual, or just look it up on a search engine. Click administration, click firmware upgrade, select and upload the correct firmware for your router. And you want to wait for about two minutes while the firmware is uploaded and flashed. Then, it should reload to the Tomato screen. Now, Tomato advises you may want to reset the settings to default to avoid any minor incompatibilities between the Linksys firmware and the Tomato firmware. Also, you'll probably want to browse around the FAQ at Polarcloud. That's it for this Insider Secret. I'm Tom Merritt, CNET. Hopefully, that video helped you guys out for a lot of people are really interested in how to track their bandwidth because of that whole Comcast cap issue so it's really something that's relevant to almost anyone that is using Comcast with is a lot of people, at least I know, in the Bay area. That's part of the reason but it's also a good way to make use of, like I said, old router stuff. So before we jump into questions, you were talking about how your catching up with your TV. So, then I finally sampled it on HD Net, actually on television, but it was in the middle of season two. So I started watching it there and decided, you know what, I want to go back to the beginning and catch up. I'm such a Pollyanna. Let me just read the question here. Is there one single box that does it all? Now, the easy answer here is a media center PC because a media center PC would be able to run iTunes, it's be able to stream Netflix in Internet Explorer, and be able to stream your Amazon on box purchases or download to play them. But that is probably the most expensive way of doing that. So, on the cheap, there's the Popcorn Hour router but it won't stream the iTunes DRM stuff. So, really, the only easy answer that I can think of is a media center PC. Try to get something stripped down that has a TV tuner card attached to it. But there's not one box that does it all, yet. Although, Netflix, Rowcou, I'm sorry, Rowcou keeps making noises about how they're gonna expand the streaming abilities. That iTunes part, though, that's the part that's gonna always gum you up. So maybe you could take an Apple TV and mod it with Boxee, frankly. I don't know if you'd be able to stream the Amazon unboxed though. I haven't played with the Boxee service. Hopefully, that helped you out. It says, here's a question maybe you want to try, ah, take whatever question you want. Which one are you looking at? As soon as you scroll up. It says, from Wogus, is Tom, do you still play World of Warcraft? If so, give us some details about your character. Even when I was playing it, it wasn't, it wasn't like all consuming. I was just going in, you know, at times when I would normally play some other sort of video game or watch a television show so it's not like I was stealing time from the great cancer solving project that I would otherwise be doing. Talking about a game that you can get sucked into, I don't know if you've heard about it much, but have you heard of the game from Sony for PS three called Little Big Planet? Have you heard anything about this game? You have four players going on at once. I just got access to the beta of it and it's ridiculous. It looks kind of, when I first heard about it, I'm, like, oh, whatever. It's just gonna be kind of a corny game. But there's so much creativity and so much charm to the game, I'm super excited about that. So, Little Big Planet, I'm just telling you, look for it. It says, what would you say is your most used gadget? I have got Lois, she's a MacBook Pro, dual boot, Windows and OS ten and also VM ware running on it, or running Windows XP. But, when you say gadget, you probably don't mean laptop, right, so, my phone, of course. Yeah, I have the phone that Apple makes. So Smart Phone, that's, they really have become the ultimate gadget. And also, like you said, when you left your laptop at home, I tried to just see how much I could actually do without a laptop, with iPhone, and let you know, I rarely bring my laptop around, at least, you know, if I, before where I could kind of be, like, I think I might need to bring my laptop to browse the web, I don't even think about it any more. I just bring my iPhone. You couldn't do that very easily on the iPhone. It's kind of hard to read some sites because, just because you don't have much of a screen. Cause my fingers are small so I have an easy time. But I still don't want to do anything long form. I just want to do short stuff cause there is pain in my brain when I use it. Do you think it is as sexy as the third generation version? So what's your answer? That's quite a difference. The new one's taller, you know, so, it's all right. I'm just never a big Nano fan anyway. They're too limited for me. But because it can do all those other things, and so, I'm willing to live within that. I, for a long time, I was like, no, I need iPod with as many gigabytes as possible. It's like I have my whole library on there. I don't live that way any more. I can't catch the show live and sometimes forget to watch Fridays so there are times I don't see it until Saturday or Sunday. That is going to happen, actually. It was the encoding process that was making it take so long to post. And we have changed that encoding process so that it can be much faster. I think this last week there was a little bit of technical difficulty which is always, you know, gonna be something unforeseen. But the idea's that CNET Live will post much faster after the live taping which is Thursdays at four PM Eastern, one PM Pacific, ten AM Hawaiian. All right, here we go, another question from Wogus. Tom and Brian, every consider switching outfits? Brian would look sweet and Tom, I just can't picture it. I'd consider it and say no. You can put on the handcuff necklace right now. So, do you have a key? Cause I don't want this thing to get stuck around my head. We're not gonna switch shirts though. It's not that kind of show. Rural route, if by street, you mean country road. Bradman one two three says, I'm in the market for a new laptop but I'm concerned about Vista. Are there any downsides to a Mac? Downsides to a Mac, well, depends on what software you have. If you've got a bunch of Window software and you get a Mac, then, it's gonna cost extra to be able to run that software on your Mac because you're gonna have to buy a new copy of Windows, or pirate one, which is illegal. So, unless you want to break the law, you're gonna have to copy it. I'm messing with my mic here. So there's a couple of cost considerations there. Otherwise, I think OS ten does pretty much everything. There's lots of great open source programs available for OS ten. So, you know, I wouldn't be too concerned about Vista. If you're living in a Windows World, you got to a lot Window software and you can find a good, like, sub one thousand dollar Vista laptop, you're probably gonna be fine. Vista's not having the problems that it did at launching. This one is from Peter A. Norris, I believe that's correct. Is there a good solution for this? He's always into this stuff. I mean, for sharing, there's SmugMug and Flicker. The problem is, not the problem, but with Flicker, unless you pay, you only get to store up to a certain amount, and then, your stuff is still there but you don't get, it's not visible or available for sharing any more. And then, with SmugMug, you have to pay after a certain time period. Those are, but they're both good services, and then, Picasa, actually, from Google is another one that's good and they give you some third-party, or not third-party, they give you some installable software to manage and share. If you're on a Mac, you can share photos through dot Mac but you got to pay for that. That's ninety-nine bucks a year, well, yeah, seventy-nine bucks a year now. You got any other photo sharing? It's easy and it's convenient, you know. It's a good sharing solution though. For online storage, you know, you can handle it two ways. You could use Flicker for free for sharing, for just throwing photos out there, and then, you could go and use like an Amazon S three or Carbonite or, you know, some other backup service just to store the photos and have them backed up. Buy a hard drive, they're cheap. I mean, that's the best way to just back it up, have it click to access and, you know, you'll never lose it. DiggDoug wants to know, do you think Apple will let Flash onto the iPhone now that Adobe has made it. It's in your court Apple. So, I think it's a matter of time. Come on, Apple, what are you waiting on? It's just up to them. And possibly, they've got a little something, something under way to put out their own version of a silver like or flash. This is gut, making this up. I have heard about the Quick Time thing. I've not heard about any secret projects. But I'm saying, that wouldn't be outside of Apple, and if you look at their history, to have something like that to push onto the market. So, I have a feeling that Apple's dragging their heels on flash support and they're gonna drag it for a little longer. It was, well, someone wrote, this is CLY, he wrote, how soon before we see a Tong-Cooley Smackdown? Cooley said he wanted to put Tong over his knee. It would make a great special. When did Cooley say that? Yeah, because, see, he's, Cooley has yet to respond to my little tirade about him. Any possibilities of combining both and moving to IRC? Well, I know that we're trying to bring the watch BOL. Would we ever do IRC chat along with this, producer man? I wouldn't mind that. What's nice about this is, we can moderate the questions so I think we should have both so that we can have a free flowing chat room that we can check in on and see what's going on there. You've seen the chat room flying by. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't have a chat room. Well, actually, you have a pineal gland, but that doesn't really count. Although it is light photosensitive, it's not outside of your forehead. Is it a good deal for what it is? Yeah, Nick and Tina, I think it's a good deal for what it is, absolutely. Especially the Linux version, cause if you do have Windows laying around, you can put on there and you can dual boot it. But, it just doesn't, for me, I need to have, and this is following my pattern that I mentioned earlier about, I have to have all my music on my iPod, and then, the iPhone came along and I'm like, well, I guess I can live without it. Right now, I still feel like, I want to have a hard drive where I can download and install a lot of things and have all the options that I have so I can carry that big old MacBook Pro around with me. But, there might come a day where one of these NetBooks really catches my eye and has all the features that I can't have, somehow, with my MacBook. But the only one really is weight, I mean, it's the light weight. Otherwise, I get to do a whole lot more with the bigger laptop. I think the EPC is a great deal. And then, this last question we have, thanks guys for writing everything but we're gonna wrap this up. I've just recently did a prize fight, actually, with, that's coming out this week, with actually, I think it's releasing tomorrow, with the latest Zune three G flash base versus the iPod fourth generation Nano. And so, I didn't get to play with the software, I mean, I've been able play with the earlier Zune. I don't know how much time you're had to hands on with the Zune. But, you know, I know that Cooley likes it. I know that Molly fell out of love with it. I think the new version makes it better. I still think Microsoft is moving along and third version of that Zune is the one that's going to bring it into play. The problem with that strategy for Microsoft is that MP Three players are becoming PDAs. They're not there yet, don't get me wrong. But they're getting there. They're going to instinct, they're going to Dare, they're going to the Apple phone. So, I don't see people really buying MP three players in greater and greater numbers and that's what's bad news for the Zune. As the Zune gets better and better. I mean, I love, I actually, the Zune is underrated because people automatically dismiss it because they're like, oh, whatever, iPod. I'm telling you, the Zune player has a lot of compelling features that make it really fun. It's a list and it changes every day and you can get an update of different music, and then you can, you know, purchase those songs right off the bat. It always just keeps your collection fresh, but the fact that you can have access to that, listen to it, it's really nice. And honestly, I do like the Zune interface. Okay, that's, I think that's gonna do it for today. My voice is like shot out. Thanks a lot for coming in, Tommy. But thanks for coming again. Eleven thirty P, sorry, eleven thirty AM, west coast time, two thirty PM, east coast time, we'll see you guys tomorrow.