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BBT October 12, 2021

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BBT from 2020

Has High Quality Stereo Recordings 

Breakmaster Cylinder composed and performs our theme music.

To Keep Your Voice Google Regularly 

Christy and Joe welcome callers, Stephen, Terri, and Joan.

Call anytime! 775-241-3571 and set up a time to battle your tech!

  1. Stephen finds his Google loses his Voice after two months 
  2. Terri and outsmarting the Smart TV.
  3. Joan’s computer takes naps. Oops. Hibernate saves to storage (hard drive) NOT memory! Some computers will wake from sleep with the power button.

“Essay Answer to a True/False Question”

“SmartTVs…get dumb quick” 

“Wiggle My Husband”

“‘Fast Startup’ is the backwards way of saying ‘Never Turn Off’” 

“Taste the Tech Next Tuesday”

 

 

 

BATTLE PLANS

Google Voice

Formerly GrandCentral, is an internet telephone service offered by Google. Can be used by special VoIP phones or computers.

VoIP

Voice over Internet Protocol. This protocol allows users to make telephone calls using the internet. 

Fast Startup

An advance power setting in Windows that keeps the computer on when the user shuts down the computer so the computer will start faster. 

 

 

 

Battle Born Tech KNVC
October 12, 2021

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BBT August 10, 2021

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BBT from 2020

Has High Quality Recordings of Our Shows

Breakmaster Cylinder composed and performs our theme music.

Power to Upgrade  

Christy and Joe welcome callers Ozzie, Gary, and Ozzie again.

Call anytime! 775-241-3571

 

  1. Ozzie cuts off power to his computer with a switch which means a call to us.
       
  2. Gary has Windows 7 and wonders if he should upgrade to Windows 10. 
  3. Ozzie warns us about email scams trying to get you to “upgrade” to their malware.

 

“I told you to say, ‘Yes’.”

“Never Use the Power Switch on a Power Strip” 

“If you get an email from ‘Microsoft’ it isn’t from Microsoft”

“I’m feeling faint.” 

 

 

 

BATTLE PLANS

Spooler

A system service that manages documents that are sent to the printer.

UPS

Uninterrupted Power Supply are batteries that condition power and allow computers to still be powered during a power outage. 

Mainboard

Also called a Motherboard it is the board in a computer that connects all the components and holds the CPU, memory, and other computer chips.

Battle Born Tech KNVC
August 8, 2021

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BBT May 18, 2021

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BBT from 2020

Always Guess Power

Christy and Joe deal with power and privacy with just one phone call. Call us! 775-241-3571

 

  1. Terry wonders about why someone needs a VPN and we wander into web privacy using Privacy 

“When you say ‘interesting’ you mean catastrophe” 

“If You Have to Guess….Guess Power” 

“Stand and Salute (the service of the 25 year UPS)” 

 

 

TECH BATTLE PLANS

dDOS attack

Flooding a network or a server with so many bogus requests that actual traffic fails to connect.

Surge Suppressors

“Fuse boxes” for electronic equipment. Stop many small power spikes or one large spike from damaging equipment plugged into them

UPS

Uninterruptable Power Supply. Batteries that keep equipment power for a few minutes for orderly shutdown when the main AC power fails.

Double Conversion / Continuous
Duty/Online

A type of UPS that always powers equipment from the battery which is continuously charging.

VPN

Virtual Private Network a secure encrypted tunnel from your device to an exit location of your choosing. Good for public wifi and nosey Internet Service Providers (ISP)

TOR

The Onion Router a system that masks your location and identity by hopping around the internet before going to special private sites.

CNAME

Part of a websites Domain Name entry that is sometimes used as an alias and now abused to allow third party tracking even when it is blocked.

Fingerprinting

Using information about the browser settings and computer capabilities to identify a user.

CSS

Cascading Style Sheets are a way of formatting web pages.

Battle Born Tech KNVC
May 18, 2021

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Tuesdays 8 PM Pacific 95.1 FM

Streaming LIVE and on-demand at KNVC.ORG

Call

775-241-3571

email

[email protected]