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BBT from 2020

Has High Quality Stereo Recordings 

Breakmaster Cylinder composed and performs our theme music.

 Private Boxes

Christy and Joe talk about cages and independence on this week’s show.

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  1. Steve setting up a Google Free Android Phone
     
  2. Dean wants to get his own equipment for his home office Wi-Fi and internet.

“SkyNet Tunes In To Root for the Robots” 

“First Names Only”

“Google How NOT to Google” 

“Tech On”

“Whenever you can, throw a wire on it” 

“ZOOM hates the Wi-Fi”

“Wi-Fi is like a Bubble” 

“The Faraday Cage We Also Park Cars in”

“The Best Tech Call in Show in Eagle Valley” 

 

 

BATTLE PLANS


Side Loading

Sideloading generally is uploading a file to a phone. But usually it refers to installing an app outside an app store.

Fingerprinting

Colleting info from browser settings and other information to identify computers across websites..

VPN

A secure hidden tunnel from your computer to an exit node, hiding your traffic from your ISP

ISP

 

Internet Service Provider. The folks that provide your internet connect to you and who get to watch your browsing unless you are using a VPN or secure https: sites

On Prem

 

Equipment at the user site not in the cloud (on the internet) Backup can be on prem in a hard drive or in the cloud such as Microsoft One-Drive.

Mesh

 

More than one box to provide home Wi-Fi throughout a site without speed reduction of an extender. Mesh rebroadcasts the Wi-Fi AND has a dedicated channel for administration of the network.

Faraday Cage

 

.A metal enclosure that stops wireless signals (including radio and Wi-Fi) from getting out or in the boxed enclosure.

 

 

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Packing Data 

Christy and callers come out of the cave to work on how to store their data.

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  1. Robert and making folders. Sometimes it is less painful just to reinstall Windows. Robert got an SSD to make the reinstall worthwhile.
      
  2. Steven has an SSD that is filling up and needs to move his user libraries to his larger spinning Hard Drive.

 

“Maze of Twisty Little Passages, All Alike”

“I Died in St. Louis” 

“A Lot of Horn Tooting for Not A Lot of Parade”

“You Don’t Know Where It’s Been” 

 

 

 

BATTLE PLANS


Insider Channel

Windows Pro users can get features before they are Generally Available by being a Windows “Insider” with the options of Dev, Beta, or Release Preview.

Ctrl+Shift+N

One way to create a new folder on your desktop in Windows.

User Profile

Collection of settings and information associated with a user. Desktop settings, passwords, along with preferences are stored for each user.

S.M.A.R.T.

Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology reveals the health of the hard drive.

Wipe and Reload

Removing all the programs, data, passwords, etc and set the system back to factory fresh blank OS status. Backup anything you want to save!

SSD

Solid State Drive. A storage medium that replaces spinning disk Hard Drives with faster memory based storage without moving parts.

GUID

Global Unique Identifier, also UUID Universally Unique Identifier. Use to label database keys, filenames, or resources.

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Tuesdays 8 PM Pacific 95.1 FM

Streaming LIVE and on-demand at KNVC.ORG

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775-241-3571