The Personal Computer Show on WBAI
Summary: The Personal Computer Radio Show is on Wednesday nights at 8PM ET on WBAI in New York City. Our hosts are Joe King, Hank Kee and Alfred Poor.
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Podcasts:
Release history of Windows 10. Changes to the Windows 10 free upgrade rules. Dealing with OneDrive files when a Windows PC is sent out for repair. Changes in next version of Windows 10. Judge rules FBI can hack any time, any, place, anywhere. Net neutrality. Joes cellphone problems. The show will be pre-empted during the conventions. Fast.com. No listener phone calls.
Hello World. Macrium Reflect Free is a disk imaging program that saves hidden partitions. Charter halts Time Warner Cable Maxx speed upgrades. Cable set-top boxes. Going back to Windows 7 or 8 after an unwanted Windows 10 Upgrade. Making pulled or used hard disk drives usable. David Perry on keyboards. Listener phone calls.
Microsoft to buy LinkedIn. Announcements from Apple WWDC conference. Macrium Reflect Free disk imaging program. An Android Marshmallow User Guide. Listener phone calls.
How to run Windows off a USB flash drive. And, why. The free upgrade to Windows 10 ends July 28th. The Lenovo Accelerator utility, pre-installed on their consumer PCs, is buggy and should be un-installed. Ransomware. A good-guy hacker found a vulnerability on an election site, reported it and was arrested. A Beuler flashlight can record video and still pictures. Listener phone calls.
New free Mac OS Xransomware blocker. What is a VPN? The Opera browser will soon have a free, unlimited browser VPN. Congress and email snooping. Charter buying Time Warner Cable. Replacing the CMOS battery on the motherboard. Getting rid of old Windows XP machines includes installing Linux. Linux distros for older machines are: Lubuntu, DSL, Puppy and Makulu Linux. Listener phone calls.
New features in Windows 10. Difference between Windows 10 Home and Pro. Setting up a new Windows 10 computer. Test mode in Windows 10. Factory Recovery in Windows 10. Free upgrade from Windows 10 Home to Pro with: Settings -> Update and Security -> Activation -> Change product key -> enter VK7JG-NPHTM-C97JM-9MPGT-3V66T as the key. Listener phone calls.
The Beatles on Spotify. LifeLock penalty. CISA law. Toshiba is downsizing. Registering drones. British battery chargers from EE are being recalled. Hacking Linux, Macs, Chromebooks with the backspace key. Comcast billing. Listener phone calls.
Download the second hour of this 2-hour fund raising show at the Audio Archives on our website. Upgrading to Windows 10 from an ISO image. It took Hank over 3 hours to upgrade to latest 1511 build of Windows 10. ISO upgrades require the serial number of older version of Windows. It should be on a sticker. Hank says Windows 10 ready for prime time. OK Google. Listener phone calls.
Microsoft just released a major update to Windows 10 and Hank tried it. National Security Letter gag orders. The new $5 Raspberry Pi computer. The NSA is now doing less spying. Android OS updates. Bad USB type C cables from a Chinese smartphone company. Listener phone calls.
The show was pre-recorded. Hank griped about WBAI. A Blackhat vulnerability. Alfred Poor on health related wearable technology. This is the 33rd year of the Personal Computer Show. More on Windows 10. Joe King on the right to be forgotten online.
No show next week. Fund raising offering a whitepaper by Hank. Optional Windows Update patches let Microsoft upgrade your PC to Windows 10. A full-size 15.6 inch laptop for less than $134. Gray market products. Laplink Software PCmover is available free for non commercial use. The PC on a stick from Archos is the cheapest one yet and it runs Windows 10. Critical bugs in Android and the Apple App Store.
An update on Windows 10. Intel compute stick. Marty Winston on whats new in electronics. USB Flash drives.
Hank switched 2 years ago from Time Warner to Verizon and considered going back. Joe had bad experience with Verizon and a good one with Time Warner. Cellphone data plans. Joe had a bad experience using Netflix on a cellphone data plan. Microsoft Office is free on smartphones but its complicated. Changing the maximum duration of YouTube videos you upload. Companies selling your private information. eFiling taxes.
Jamming WiFi networks in Marriott hotels. No more Google Glass. A portable WiFi sniffer. A new mainframe. Replacement batteries for a Mac laptop. An interview by Jeff Fox about Make!Sense. Listener phone calls.
Windows 7 is still sold and supported with bug fixes. Very few Android devices run the latest v5 OS. Google will not fix a bug in Android browser. PC sales are up. New Chromebooks will boot from a USB flash drive. Apple Thunderbolt peripherals can contain malware. Freedome is a VPN from F-Secure. Some cheap Chinese Android phones have a back door built into the OS. Listener phone calls.
