February 23, 2008
· Filed under On the Air, Posts by Stephen, Show Hosts, That Computer Show
If you listened to Episode 34 of That Computer Show, you may have heard me go on and on about… Jiangmin KV Antivirus! Well, I talked about a number of other apps as well… but Jiangmin KV Antivirus was one of the applications broken by Vista Service Pack 1. This was done intentionally by Microsoft because those apps were apparently already foiling people’s Windows experiences. I promised to post a linky link for all you out there in listener land, so without pause, here it is!… Read the rest of this entry »
February 23, 2008
· Filed under On the Air, Posts by Stephen, Show Hosts, That Computer Show
Ok, so on today’s fast and furious episode of That Computer Show we talked about the impending Robot War… It’s coming, and between you, me, and Sarah Connor I’m not sure what scares me more, a giant mechanical robot spider, or a swarm of tiny robo-flies. Either way, check these two links out, and pray neither of these to technologies goes wry and hunts you down. All creatures great and small… coming to get you.

February 21, 2008
· Filed under Off the Air, Posts by Stephen, That Computer Show
Ok… so I boot up today, and notice a little windows update notification. A new update is being downloaded? Hmmm *rubs chin*.
Whatever could it be? Could it be… no… really? Could it be…… Windows Vista Service Pack 1? Yep, that’s right. It’s available for machines though Windows Update. Kindof cool… but what about all those reports of service pack 1 breaking people’s computers? We reported on it a few shows back. So… What happened when I installed it on my beautiful MianoVision 1205-BRD?
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