Podnutz Daily #219 - Firefly Computer Repair

Steve is joined by Luke Rosebarro (Laidback Luke) of Firefly Computer Repair

Running time: 58:36
Added: 15 Feb 2010

Computers worked on:

• Dell laptop, bluescreen on boot-up, traced down to bad hard-drive, tested using MHDD(part of the Ultimate Boot CD), attempted clone using clonezilla and Driveimage XML, both of which failed, Acronis finally worked
• Laptop with Window Vista with bluescreen, caused by Norton antivirus
• Getting many problems with Macaffe anti-virus as a result of being the standard AV from local cable internet provider
• Computer infected with a rootkit, used combofix

Topics and Links Discussed:

• Luke's job as an IT worker for a local high school
• The importance of a good website
• Easeus Diskcopy is a freeware providing sector-by-sector disk/partition clone
• nod-32 anti-virus by Eset
• kaspersky anti-virus
• SuperAntiSpyware
• Angie's List
• ServiceMagic
• SuperPages
• Craigs List advertising
• BlueScreenView scans all your minidump files created during 'blue screen of death' crashes, and displays the information about all crashes in one table
• Podnutz Forums as a resource
• Startup Delayer allows you to setup how many seconds after Windows has started, to load each program
• Billing Boss is a free online invoicing tool designed for small businesses
• Screentoaster is a Free Online Screen Recorder
• Jing is another free screen recorder
• Camtasia is a full featured screen recorder
• Screencast.com is a place to upload manage and share videos and presentations
• Luke has been putting tutorials on his website
• Microsoft Technet is a good source of microsoft software
• Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds

Voicemails/Emails:

• DoorToDoor Geek calls in about aida32 which is a system information, diagnostics and benchmarking program running on Win32 platforms. It extracts details of all components of the PC.
• Keven questions using questionable OEM OS images for re-installs
• More on reinstalling windows on top of itself
• Scott writes about Dell Inspiron 2400 stuck on windows screen during boot, pulled cmos battery and booted OK
• Jim writes about advice on courses on computer repair
• Martin writes about stokeit which a mouse gesture program and mp3DirectCut which is a small tool for editing MP3 files directly
• Tom writes about issues involving his wireless router

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Music provided by Evan King
Notes by Mike Evans at datamike.net