{ "language": "en", "language_probability": 1, "duration": 2648.484, "segments": [ { "id": 0, "text": " From my heart and from my hand, why don't people understand my intention? Computer running slow? Caught a virus? Does your computer seem to have a life of its own? The computer guru is here. Call in now. 751-1041. That's 751-1041. Now, it's Mike Swanson, your computer guru. On 104.1 The Truth.", "start": 0.0, "end": 30.06, "words": [] }, { "id": 1, "text": " Yeah, it is showtime. This is the Computer Guru Show. My name is Mike, here to deal with your technology needs and treat you like a real person in the process, right here on the Computer Guru Show. Give us a call, 751-1041. Once again, that's 520-751-1041. Got the normal compliment of crew just recently back from E3. Surprisingly, we're still alive. You survived whatever seedy gas station that Rob was apparently afraid of. Right? Yeah.", "start": 30.7, "end": 60.75, "words": [] }, { "id": 2, "text": " Now, I've got to say, though, that trip was quite eventful. That's good. And that's all I have to say about it. That's it. Okay, we're done. Of course, Tony answering the phones and pushing the buttons over on the board, doing his thing. And he'll be answering your calls at 751-1041.", "start": 60.75, "end": 75.98, "words": [] }, { "id": 3, "text": " Come on, Randall. Yes. I know you want to spew it. About what? Spew what? Gaming, man. Oh, man. Gaming week. So much gaming. Video games. We covered so many games while we were out there. I mean, you name it. Even from the little guys, the little independent guys, to the big up-and-comers. And, of course, the really big games that everybody covered, like Halo and everything. Oh, you mean the one that no one got to play? Yeah, the one that nobody got to play. It was behind closed doors. You could watch another video. Ooh, I'm going to stay in line. I'm not kidding. There was people staying in line for four hours to watch a trailer. Yep.", "start": 75.98, "end": 104.93, "words": [] }, { "id": 4, "text": " Oh, and they were standing in line under a gigantic screen that was playing a trailer. Right. Was it the trailer that they were going to see? I hope it wasn't the same trailer, because that would be sad. I'm just wondering how much trolling really goes on by the game manufacturers. Oh, well. Unless Halo 4 is a game about standing in lines, nobody got to play that game. Nice.", "start": 104.93, "end": 124.98, "words": [] }, { "id": 5, "text": " And if it is, I've got to say, though, that they had some very accurate demos there. Yeah, Microsoft was just one of the companies that really disappointed us with their booth setup. Although Microsoft as a whole, just like in my opinion, failed miserably. They did fail. They did fail. I mean, there is a couple things. And we'll get back into it a little bit deeper. But they really did fail with their press conference. In reality, they should have just said, hey, you know what, guys? We don't have anything for you. We'll see you next year. And then next year come out with the 720.", "start": 124.98, "end": 152.94, "words": [] }, { "id": 6, "text": " Typically, I think that's pretty much what Microsoft has to say every year. Well, that's what they should have done this year. This year, they just put filler and try to say, oh, hey, here's a cool gadget that nobody will freaking use ever. After a lot of people said that about Microsoft this year, they've come forward and said, well, guess what, guys? The 360 is going to be viable for at least two more years. Yeah, well.", "start": 152.94, "end": 173.44, "words": [] }, { "id": 7, "text": " Well, we'll see if that actually happens. The 720, well, I'm sure we'll have a 720 announcement by next year. I seriously doubt it'll be called the 720, though. Well, I know. That's just a code name for it. I want to go ahead and take an opportunity to toss this out there that are good friends over at Nerd Junkies. Those guys are awesome. They are. They are great guys. They were instrumental in me getting a lot of my CES stuff done, and I really have to say thank you very much to them for...", "start": 173.44, "end": 198.53, "words": [] }, { "id": 8, "text": " hanging out with you guys and maybe showing you guys how they do things because they really, if you're into gaming at all, you should be checking out Nerd Junkies. These guys are the up-and-comers. These guys are going to be taking out some of these other really big gaming sites. These guys are the guys that are going to do it. These are the next guys that are going to dominate the gaming industry when it comes to reviews and stuff like that. These guys are awesome. Prior to E3, Rob and I had not met them. Yeah, I've got to say. It was just Mike.", "start": 198.53, "end": 228.19, "words": [] }, { "id": 9, "text": " I was a little nervous because, you know, I was basically told, well, you're going to be sharing your whole trip with them. And I was like, man, they better be cool. Yeah, I was worried they were going to pull up in a Prius and a Fedora. Wow. Anyway. I mean, they did get along with Mike, so I kind of figured. I know. That's what I was worried about. They couldn't be that cool.", "start": 228.19, "end": 246.48, "words": [] }, { "id": 10, "text": " But it turns out that they were very cool guys, and they made the trip for us. We had a very good time. They were really cool guys. Joel and Clay over there at Nerd Junkies, you guys are awesome. All the listeners should check them out. Crash their site again. We crashed it the first time. Let's crash it again. Nerdjunkies.com. And their E3 coverage is ours. We were with them the whole trip, and ours is theirs. Everything that they did, they were nice enough to share with us, so a lot of the stuff that we're going to be talking about wouldn't have been possible without them. They gave us some pointers on video because they do a lot of video. They have that down pat. And we gave them a lot of pointers on audio.", "start": 246.48, "end": 275.86, "words": [] }, { "id": 11, "text": " because, well, that's what we do. You're listening to us right now. Oh, my word. Ermagerd. Ermagerd. Ermagerd. All right. If you'd like to be part of the show, 7511041. One of the things that we're going to talk about this week that I think that we need to sort of push out, in addition to any of the gaming stuff. Now, we know that some of you had requested updates about your favorite games. We did our very best to cover that stuff for you guys. After the first break, we're going to come to that stuff.", "start": 275.86, "end": 305.65, "words": [] }, { "id": 12, "text": " One of the things I want to throw out for the week, though, is that there's been a lot with weak passwords and wireless security. Or none, yeah, no passwords.", "start": 305.65, "end": 313.49, "words": [] }, { "id": 13, "text": " It's one of the things that we want to fix for you. What's a password? So there's a lot of people out there that have these wireless networks, and they don't realize that they're really putting themselves at risk or exposing themselves. Right. Not only are you losing bandwidth, but, man, there's security issues. Right. Very, very big security issues. And you can get in trouble when somebody else does on your wireless connection. Because it's your responsibility. One of the things that we want to do is try to help you out with that. So for the rest of this month, right, so the rest of...", "start": 313.49, "end": 341.12, "words": [] }, { "id": 14, "text": " June. June. We're going to do $65 wireless security setups at your home. So if you have a wireless network already.", "start": 341.12, "end": 350.4, "words": [] }, { "id": 15, "text": " and you'd like it properly secured, we'll come out and do it for you. Or if you don't even know if it's secured. I mean, if you don't know if it's secured or whatever the case might be, give us a call. We'll come out and check it out. We'll drive out there as long as we're within city limits. We'll drive out there, and we'll get checked out for you. If it's not secured, we'll secure it. If it is secured but not properly secured, for example, if it's using WEP standard, when you should be using WPA standard, which is much stronger.", "start": 350.4, "end": 372.32, "words": [] }, { "id": 16, "text": " or WPA2 even, we will go ahead and make those settings correct. And for $65, that's a great deal. It is. So you can give us a call down at the shop at 304-8300 to get that scheduled if you're interested. And the truth is a lot of people don't realize how their network is set up, and really they could use a lot of help securing it. And in addition, you get us to sort of sit down and teach you what it's about to have stronger passwords and how to.", "start": 372.32, "end": 397.86, "words": [] }, { "id": 17, "text": " Protect yourself online. I got at least a dozen calls over the week about hacked Yahoo accounts and hacked other mail accounts where they were wondering, well, what do I do to fix this? And it's easy to avoid in the first place. Oh, absolutely. Even the little things like what you name your network. I mean, you don't want your network named like your last name or anything. Right. Because people are going to know exactly who you are at that point. Or your address. Or your address. Yeah, exactly. Or like, you know.", "start": 397.86, "end": 422.75, "words": [] }, { "id": 18, "text": " free wireless signal for anyone. That's mine. And the password's password. Come at me, bro. Actually, honestly, if I saw a signal that said that, I'd probably not... I'd probably stay away from it. If it just said, like, free signal, please use it. I would definitely not use it. But that's definitely not something that most normal users are thinking about. Especially the... There are some of us that are, you know, meaning technically inclined people that are...", "start": 422.75, "end": 452.13, "words": [] }, { "id": 19, "text": " Not necessarily all that nice, right? That's true. You don't want somebody who's out war driving to show up in front of your house or in your alley using your Wi-Fi signal and getting you in trouble. Right, and especially for businesses, too. I mean, there's a lot of businesses out there who don't realize that they don't have secure networks. Especially small businesses, and I have to say this because...", "start": 452.13, "end": 473.73, "words": [] }, { "id": 20, "text": " You know, a long time ago, maybe 10 years ago, I went around, and I was just cruising down the road, and I noticed all these open Wi-Fis. And I was just like, okay, I'm going to go and tell these people. And they got really mad. And it was all of these little mom-and-pop businesses, and they were the worst offenders. You know, what's funny is before I met up with the guru, I did the same thing. You know, I went around, drive around, see if I can help a business out. And they got mad, every single one of them. Whereas I like to go around, and I'm not necessarily helping them out, but no. So I'm going to go ahead and say this.", "start": 473.73, "end": 503.02, "words": [] }, { "id": 21, "text": " small business owner or somebody within a small business. And you should probably get us down there to take a look at the networks because especially in the really small.", "start": 503.02, "end": 511.79, "words": [] }, { "id": 22, "text": " Right. They tend to have the worst security ever. Oh, yeah. It's very true. And there are things that can happen. You can end up losing credit card information or all kinds of records that are on the network that people don't even think about. Let's say you have a coffee shop. Let's say this coffee shop's on Campbell. Let's say you have a coffee shop and you want to provide free wireless to your patients. There's a way to do that. There is a way to do that. But a lot of these companies, they provide free wireless. They just have an open signal. But it's also on the same network as the rest of the computers. It's not segregated. You have to segregate that.", "start": 511.79, "end": 541.78, "words": [] }, { "id": 23, "text": " Well, I mean, unless you're, I don't know, feeling lucky. Yeah, and if your password is password123, you're doing it wrong. Hey, Mike, change my password. 12345. He's like, stop the presses, change all the passwords. He has all his luggage. So there's lots of news in passwords. Now, what brought this up? What made me start thinking about it? The LinkedIn thing? Well, somebody else, one of my friends that likes to help provide content,", "start": 541.78, "end": 569.79, "words": [] }, { "id": 24, "text": " They had emailed me and said, did you see that thing about LinkedIn and all of that? And I had heard about it, but I really didn't pay a whole lot of attention to it. Mainly because it's LinkedIn. What are you going to hack on LinkedIn, really? I mean, are you going to get my business contact? Come on over. He went to stupid university. But it turns out that they were using the same style of passwords as, like, eHarmony and there was one other place. I can't remember the name of it. Don't mess with somebody's eHarmony account. They get all bent out of shape. I'll tell you.", "start": 569.79, "end": 599.7, "words": [] }, { "id": 25, "text": " She loves cats. I was going to say it. I was going to say it. But they were using unsalted hashes, which means that when they stole the database, they stole millions of people's passwords. And there are lots of people out there that use the same password for just about everything.", "start": 599.7, "end": 616.58, "words": [] }, { "id": 26, "text": " So, you know, in eHarmony, man, that's at the top of the list. Did you say unsalted hashes? Yes. I like my hash brown salted. You can't get those at McDonald's. Maybe they're trying to save on cholesterol. But they were weaker passwords is really what it came down to. Weaker encryption on the password database. Right. And so they were pretty easy to hack, and then you end up with passwords for just about everybody out there. And if you get somebody's LinkedIn password.", "start": 616.58, "end": 642.3, "words": [] }, { "id": 27, "text": " As an example, I mean, there are things that you can do with that account to potentially hurt them or to get other information about them. So it's really important that you have strong enough passwords. And there are rules. There are rules. It's like unwritten rules. In fact, most of them are written on how to keep yourself safe online. And so if you need any help with that, give us a call. 751-1041. We'll see what we can do to help with that. In the meantime...", "start": 642.3, "end": 669.54, "words": [] }, { "id": 28, "text": " is the Computer Guru. It's definitely time to take a break. 751-1041, when we come back, we're going to talk about the games that you requested and see if we can shed some light on all of the things that are gaming that you want to know about. This is the Computer Guru Show, and we'll be right back. That was something, man. Welcome back to the show!", "start": 669.54, "end": 707.3, "words": [] }, { "id": 29, "text": " Turn it off! This is the Computer Guru Show. My name is Mike, here to deal with your technology needs and treat you like a real person in the process. Give us a call, 751-1041. We'll see what we can do to help you out with whatever is ailing you, technology-wise. But today, we're talking about games. Why does it have to be ale? I'm not much of an ale person. I like beer myself. Oh, really? Well, we're going to talk about vidya games. Virg. Virg. Virg. Virg. Virg. Virg.", "start": 707.3, "end": 732.34, "words": [] }, { "id": 30, "text": " If you guys don't know what that's about, we'll have to put a link up. Yeah, because it's hilarious. You know what? I think we're going to make a spot on the website somewhere. It could be in the forums. Our favorite memes. It's just going to be called Get Learned on the Internet. On the Internet. Because we're going to teach you about the Internet. All right, man. So where were we, Randall, this last couple days? Oh, well, okay. So we've been in California, Los Angeles, if you will, at the LA Convention Center.", "start": 732.43, "end": 761.68, "words": [] }, { "id": 31, "text": " And, you know, it was fun. We got down there Monday. Of course, we drove all through the night. And, man, we were dead on our feet the first day, weren't we? Yeah, quite literally. Man. That'll not protest too much. We had to get, like, you know, something. I don't know. Yeah, okay, good job. Okay, good job. Tell that story again, bro. Yeah, cool story, bro. Anyway, we were at E3, and it was actually pretty awesome because we got to play a lot of...", "start": 761.68, "end": 784.06, "words": [] }, { "id": 32, "text": " Upcoming video games. A lot of games that will be out this year and up into next year as well. Yeah, actually, I was kind of sad to see that a lot of the really fun games were like, this game is so cool, I can't wait to play it. And it's like, it'll be out in March 2013. 2013, yeah. So, you know, you've got to handle a lot of games. A couple of games that you guys requested, one of which was, I've got to put this one out there. Oh, don't say it yet. From the very beginning. I got you. I got you. Elder Scrolls. Okay. Somebody had called up and said, hey, we want to know about the new Elder Scrolls. Check that out. And you know what? I've got to say a little bit of something here because.", "start": 784.06, "end": 813.92, "words": [] }, { "id": 33, "text": " If you guys have listened to the show, Bethesda in general is one of my favorite video game making companies because they have some awesome titles. The least of which lately has been Skyrim. And then there's the Fallout series, which is awesome. And before that, they had Morrowind, which is part of the Elder Scrolls. And we knew going into E3 that they were going to be announcing something. And everybody had said it was going to be an MMO version of Elder Scrolls.", "start": 813.92, "end": 836.74, "words": [] }, { "id": 34, "text": " Something along those lines. And I said I didn't think it was going to be an online game because Bethesda has never made one before. Right. Even though they said that they were going to. Right. It looks like it is going to be an Elder Scrolls online game. Well, as far as we can tell. And that's all we know about it. Yeah, it's amazing. We pulled into L.A. and we get into the convention center to get our press passes and everything. And one of the hotels, Hotel Figueroa, which is right across the street from the convention center.", "start": 836.74, "end": 860.22, "words": [] }, { "id": 35, "text": " Every year somebody buys that spot to paint or put their banners on or whatnot. Well, this year was Elder Scrolls. And they actually hand-painted for like two weeks.", "start": 860.22, "end": 870.86, "words": [] }, { "id": 36, "text": " You know, two big old murals. I thought it was three. It was three buildings. Three big murals. I mean, this building was a 40, 50-story building. You can see a picture of it if you go to our website and go to the photo stream. I took a picture of it. So they definitely made sure they had a presence there at E3. I mean, they advertised it all outside E3 and everything. When you get in E3, though. And when we were coming into town and I saw that, I was like, oh, this is awesome. We're going to get to know about it finally. Exactly. And it even says Elder Scrolls online. So it was really cool. We get into E3. I'm like, all right, we have the Bethesda booth, and we've got to check it out.", "start": 870.86, "end": 900.3, "words": [] }, { "id": 37, "text": " Because on the map, their booth looks huge. It was a huge setup. You've got to check this out. So we get there, and yeah, the booth is pretty big. But it was bleak. It's a big black box surrounding the entire booth. At one point, there is a little desk.", "start": 900.3, "end": 914.54, "words": [] }, { "id": 38, "text": " for the media, which we are. And if you go up to that desk and say, hey, I'm media, can you tell me something about the... They tell you to go to our website. Go to our website, because that's where the information is. They had absolutely nothing for us. If you were at media, one of the big medias, like IGN or something like that, and you set up a meeting with Machinima, you set up a meeting with them three weeks ago, then you might have been able to go in there and check it out, but...", "start": 914.54, "end": 935.01, "words": [] }, { "id": 39, "text": " For everybody else, they said, just go to our website. And I kind of want to be like, you know this is E3, right? This is where you announce video games. Right. And I was like, why are you even here? I mean, then they had some people out front handing out some terrible speakers. I mean, they didn't have to tell us everything. I didn't expect to know everything about the game right away. No, just something. Not even a trailer, though. Not even a trailer of the game. Nothing. So, Bethesda, I'm sorry, but right now, I'm not a fan of you guys at this current moment. Yeah, they failed on that one. That was absolute garbage. Now, however, Bethesda...", "start": 935.01, "end": 964.3, "words": [] }, { "id": 40, "text": " Bethesda did not set the tone for all of E3 because there were a lot of companies there that did it the right way. Yeah, there was, actually. There was. You know, I like Square Enix. I like Square Enix. They have a lot of good stuff. They have a bunch of new games to mention. One of which I think Mike's a big fan of, Hitman. Isn't that a Square Enix? Yeah, I believe that was it. I completely dig the Hitman series. Hitman 2? So you're a little stoked about that? Yeah, you know, and I've completely forgotten about the game because it's been...", "start": 964.3, "end": 990.4, "words": [] }, { "id": 41, "text": " many years since the last update for the game. Right. And Hitman is one of the, I like that entire style of game where you get sort of the stealthy, I don't like the, you know, run around with a machine gun, whatever.", "start": 990.4, "end": 1003.98, "words": [] }, { "id": 42, "text": " And I want something that you have to think about because it's sort of a puzzle game. Right. It is. If you don't do it exactly right, you have to redo the mission in a lot of cases. And so those are the kinds of games I like. I like the puzzly type games. I mean, the only exception to that would be Team Fortress. Right. Of course. But you didn't hear anything about that. No. Unfortunately, Valve, they were not there in force. But to be fair with Valve, they didn't say that they were going to. Right. Yeah. They, in fact, came out and said, we're not going to announce everything. It was everybody else was like, they're going to announce something. Valve said, no, we're.", "start": 1003.98, "end": 1033.36, "words": [] }, { "id": 43, "text": " Or not. So, as far as your favorite company over there, Rob, I mean, they weren't the only ones on the fail bus, though, right? No, there was a ton of companies that just really didn't do it right this time. And one of them was one of the biggest companies in the world, not even just in video games, Microsoft. Their whole setup was just full of fail. You know, if they had just not done a press conference at all and just had their booth out there, it would have been fine. And, you know, the Halo 4, because there was a big presence there. That's great.", "start": 1033.36, "end": 1061.98, "words": [] }, { "id": 44, "text": " But the problem that I had with Microsoft was that, I mean, it's fine that they announced their smart glass, whatever. I may not like it, but it's still something. It was the fact that they spent, I'd say, probably 60% of their conference showing video games.", "start": 1061.98, "end": 1075.78, "words": [] }, { "id": 45, "text": " And Microsoft is not a video game company. They make hardware and, you know, the software for the Xbox. They don't actually make the video games, and so I felt like it was kind of... Sometimes they do. I mean, Microsoft does have a game development division. Right, but I mean, they certainly aren't the ones who made Call of Duty 2 or Black Ops 2, you know, and they devoted 12 minutes of their time to that. If they're going to show video games, they should show games that are exclusive to their platform, like, for example, Halo 4. Or Gears of War. Or Gears of War. That's exclusive only to Microsoft. But it was a footnote in their conference. I mean, literally...", "start": 1075.78, "end": 1105.58, "words": [] }, { "id": 46, "text": " Halo 4, they sort of teased almost like a live-action movie at the very beginning, which I was very excited about that originally, but they were right into gameplay, and it was over within a matter of minutes. It was absolute garbage. I know that we've said a lot of bad things about some of the people there, but there were a bunch of games that I was really, really excited about, and I kind of wanted to take a moment to mention those games because they got me very excited. Okay, we only have a little bit, so hurry up. You've got three minutes, man. Do it. Well, I'm not going to go into detail. I just want to say that the five games that made my list this time were Assassin's Creed 3. Awesome.", "start": 1105.58, "end": 1135.46, "words": [] }, { "id": 47, "text": " Then we had Planetside 2, which is an FPS MMO. That one really surprised me. I want to go into more detail about that one. I have a giveaway for that one, too. Then there's Borderlands 2, which was awesome, and we can talk more about that later. The Metal Gear Rising game that's coming out. And then, finally, the most exciting one was Quantum Conundrum for me. And this is a game that most of you probably have not heard of, but I promise you will within the next couple weeks.", "start": 1135.46, "end": 1161.3, "words": [] }, { "id": 48, "text": " It's an absolutely amazing game. If you're a Portal fan of any sort. Or just even a puzzle game fan. Yeah, if you're a Portal or original Tomb Raider fan or something like that of any sort, this is the game for you. It's going to be amazing. I think any game with the word conundrum in the name is really worth playing. And in Quantum? Come on. That is some kind of word. Yeah, right?", "start": 1161.3, "end": 1183.01, "words": [] }, { "id": 49, "text": " Quantum conundrum. So we actually have a lot of hands-on with most of these games we're talking about right now. We're going to have all the video up on our site probably by the later on this afternoon. There's also already a good amount of content on the site if you want to go check it out. Right. We have a lot of articles on there, our picks and everything. We're going to go into more detail here after the break, I assume. But, man, we had a lot of fun. Really a lot of pictures and just a blast. I just want to say if you guys want to follow along kind of what we're talking about, go to gurushow.com slash E3, and you can see the stuff that we're talking about right now. There you go. Rob's very proud of his PlayStation picture.", "start": 1183.01, "end": 1212.54, "words": [] }, { "id": 50, "text": " That picture came up great. I'm not a photographer by any means, and I was just snapping random pictures. You know, what's funny is when I first saw that go up on a site, I'm like... He stole that from someone. I'm like, where did he get that stock photo? It looks like it. It's a very nice picture. Okay. You done? I appreciate photography. I knew Mike would appreciate it, because when we came by his house before we left, he was literally taking photos of something. He was. He was taking a picture of a spider.", "start": 1212.54, "end": 1239.06, "words": [] }, { "id": 51, "text": " I was doing video of a spider that was making a spider web right outside my door. Did you ever get that to make that happen? It's still on the camera. Still on the camera. I haven't done anything with it yet. Good job. Good fall through. I have not done anything with it. That's a great fall through. I think he was trying to train the spider to weave a fedora for him. Nice. You know.", "start": 1239.06, "end": 1256.82, "words": [] }, { "id": 52, "text": " I wore a fedora in public once. One time, but that was enough. One time. You know, it was funny. We told the nerd junkies about it, too. And I even admitted to them. I was like, he wore it once in public, and that was it. But we still give them a hard time about it every day. You know, to be fair, though, I have never worn a fedora. One time is too much, sir. You wear a mullet every day, though. A mullet. A mullet. Wow. Mullets. Oh, mullets are awesome. And if I did have one, I would be even cooler. And pork chops, really? Yeah, that's right. You got some chops going?", "start": 1256.82, "end": 1285.66, "words": [] }, { "id": 53, "text": " That's fine. I'm surprised you're not a vegetarian. Let's go ahead and take a break. This is the Computer Guru. All right, the news approaches. When we come back for a little bit more gaming news, we're going to take some of your phone calls to 751-1041. We're going to talk about ways that you can be a D-bag on the Internet in the ways you shouldn't be. We can fix that. This is the Computer Guru Show, and we'll be right back.", "start": 1285.66, "end": 1308.94, "words": [] }, { "id": 54, "text": " The Computer Guru. We'll get your problem solved. Call 751-1041 to talk with the guru now. On 104.1 The Truth. Oh, Tony, you didn't fail me on that one. Almost, though. Almost. 751-1041 if you'd like to be part of the show. Let's get a couple calls out of the way, shall we? We shall. Let's talk to Kay. Hello, Kay. How are you? I'm fine. How are you? I'm wonderful. Well, I am, too, almost. Almost. By the way, I absolutely dislike the timeline.", "start": 1325.17, "end": 1353.28, "words": [] }, { "id": 55, "text": " Oh, yeah, I'm not a big fan of the timeline either. I think it's horrible. Anyway, I've got a problem with my desktop. All right, lay it on me. I downloaded, well, it updated 20, good old Microsoft, updated 20 updates. You must have Windows XP still. No, I don't. I have Windows 7. And it didn't update automatically on its own like a long time ago? It didn't automatically. No, no, it didn't. And I went to turn my computer on in the morning, and it was crazy.", "start": 1353.28, "end": 1383.26, "words": [] }, { "id": 56, "text": " Crazy. I couldn't tell you what was on the screen anymore because this was a couple weeks ago. Okay. So I tried it again. I tried to restore, and it didn't work. So describe the craziness, though. It just came up with something was a driver, something about a driver. Okay. Okay. And so I did the restore. They did their self-repair, you know. All right. And it didn't work.", "start": 1383.26, "end": 1412.7, "words": [] }, { "id": 57, "text": " So I pulled out my laptop, and I've been using that. And then one day I just said, huh, I'm going to try it again. So I did. I turned it on. It did the restore, and it was working. It was fantastic, and I was dancing. I was dancing. Dancing, all right. And that's really not my style anymore. So anyway, I went to unplug my laptop.", "start": 1412.7, "end": 1439.65, "words": [] }, { "id": 58, "text": " And I unfortunately unplugged the power cord to my desktop. Oh, no. Oh, noes. I went to plug it back in, and I got the blue. Yes, you did. I did. And it said, if you haven't gotten this before, we'll try the repair. And, you know, did the whole thing. And it came back up, and it said, I have an uncorrectable hardware error.", "start": 1439.65, "end": 1468.64, "words": [] }, { "id": 59, "text": " Okay. Okay. Now, first of all, you don't ever take the repair feature for Windows 7 as truth. Oh, okay. Because a lot of times it's like, I don't know what to do. So I'm just going to give you some type of vague error message. Devastating error. I can't do anything. Okay. You're like me. So did you try restarting after that? Did it work after that? No. All right. I have my laptop out again. Okay.", "start": 1468.64, "end": 1496.88, "words": [] }, { "id": 60, "text": " Usually what happens in this case where it says that type of problem, especially given that you unplugged it, usually means a corrupted registry. Oh, okay. And luckily that's fairly recoverable, but the built-in repair often has trouble doing that. Ah. So I should bring it down to you? I think that's a pretty good idea. I like this plan. I don't know why I didn't do it right away, but I thought, well, I'll just call in and see.", "start": 1496.88, "end": 1527.15, "words": [] }, { "id": 61, "text": " Sometimes you need confirmation, right? Yes, exactly, exactly, and I certainly do. You need the confirmation, so bring it down here and we'll take care of you, okay? Okay.", "start": 1527.15, "end": 1538.62, "words": [] }, { "id": 62, "text": " Thank you. I appreciate the call. Well, I appreciate the info. I'm not going to trust Microsoft anymore. Well, you can go ahead and still trust them. Just don't unplug it. Don't unplug it, yeah. There you go. See, that was pretty stupid, wasn't it? I should follow the cord. All right, follow the cord. There you go. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you.", "start": 1538.62, "end": 1557.66, "words": [] }, { "id": 63, "text": " What was it? We had that caller that said that they had a problem with their computer, so they just put the computer in a closet for like a year. Did that behave? Well, they were hoping it would behave, and it didn't work. Yeah, you can't put your computer on timeout and expect it to work. Go sit in the corner until you know how to behave. Oh, man. Whoa. I tell my kids that. It doesn't work for them either.", "start": 1557.66, "end": 1582.21, "words": [] }, { "id": 64, "text": " What are you doing over here thrashing in the studio? I'm just standing up the chair. Randall's going insane. Okay. All right. All right. Let's talk to Tom. Hey, Tom, how are you? Good. How are you? I'm great. How can I help you? Well, I just set up a new business domain for my small business through GoDaddy, and I wanted to get my email set up on some new service and wanted to see if you could provide any recommendations. I've been using Gmail for a while, and I wanted to see if there's any other options.", "start": 1582.21, "end": 1611.89, "words": [] }, { "id": 65, "text": " like maybe Microsoft 365, something where I can set up a website, just real basic, and use Outlook for my email client. Or if you had any other options, it would be decent for somebody on a budget. So when it comes to your mail services you currently have, are there features right now that you wish you had? Well, you know, when I first started with business email, I was pretty much born and bred on Outlook 2003.", "start": 1611.89, "end": 1637.65, "words": [] }, { "id": 66, "text": " And I got really used to that and then trying to switch over to anything other like Gmail, like with reading pains, the conversation thread. Even if you turn off the conversation view with Gmail, it just still doesn't show its outlook. Well, as it turns out, we offer a hosted exchange. How about that? That you might be interested in. Yeah. Now, as far as the website portion of it, what kind of budget are you talking about over here? Well, you know.", "start": 1637.65, "end": 1666.56, "words": [] }, { "id": 67, "text": " Like any startup business, shoestring budget. So I'm definitely willing to talk about it, I guess, probably offline. Of course, of course. Ray, well, one of the things that you can at least look at, I mean, at least for the very limited budget, is that you already registered your domain with GoDaddy.", "start": 1666.56, "end": 1683.62, "words": [] }, { "id": 68, "text": " And for a very nominal fee, they do have their built-in templates, which aren't all that great. I'll tell you that right now. And if you wanted to go a little bit better than GoDaddy and not have to still pay a bunch of money, there's a do-it-yourself place like Squarespace. That's a little bit better than GoDaddy. But it's better to have a little bit of skill to be able to do that.", "start": 1683.62, "end": 1704.93, "words": [] }, { "id": 69, "text": " Yeah, I'm trying to, you know, not just insult GoDaddy here, but almost anything is better than GoDaddy's website builder. Yeah, we're asking the web developer. Yeah, Rob's the web dude. In fact, like, yeah, if I just went to a website and it didn't have anything on it, it was just a blank white page, and then the person said, well, the alternative was GoDaddy stuff, I would have been like, oh, good job, that's great. All right, that is for the extremely impaired budget. Right, right. But there are some options that we can talk with you about. You can give us a call down at the shop.", "start": 1704.93, "end": 1731.97, "words": [] }, { "id": 70, "text": " Okay. And set that up with Rob. Rob will be in on... Monday. Monday and... Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. There you go. In fact, if you like, hang on the line right now. Tony will get on the phone with you, get your contact information, and Rob will make contact with you. I will. Sounds good. Sounds great. All right, appreciate the call. All right, and yeah, I didn't hang up on him. Yeah, what line was that? You remember? No, but Tony does. So that was line four. Look. All right. All right, so... Tony's like, I have no idea what you're talking about. Line four.", "start": 1731.97, "end": 1760.18, "words": [] }, { "id": 71, "text": " All right, let's talk to Robert. Hello, Robert. How are you? Very good. This may sound cynical, but that GoDaddy thing, those templates are set up to frustrate you enough to want to buy their web design service. You know, you're exactly right. I just got to give you bonus points because you said something bad about GoDaddy, and your name is my name, so you're awesome. Okay, then. Hey, is there any difference between shutdown and restart in terms of, like, straightening your computer out?", "start": 1760.18, "end": 1790.56, "words": [] }, { "id": 72, "text": " I mean, should you shut it down every once in a while? Well, shutdown makes your computer not come back on and then restart. Really, Rob? Really? Really? Sort of the answer I had, too, so yeah. That's not what he was asking. Functionally, they're no different, right? With the exception of you can have some latent memory problems. However, that really only applies to older machines. Right. So on the newer machines, they're functionally identical with the exception of one of them comes back up. Okay. Second question. Our drive just sits there.", "start": 1790.56, "end": 1824.75, "words": [] }, { "id": 73, "text": " blinking at me when it's plugged in i assume that thing is heated and moving am i right well depends on the drive is it sort of like a really slow like a kind of a breathing blink or is it uh yes you're right slow breathing blink right so is there anything preventing me from popping the usb out of the front of my computer and let that thing cool down well it's probably not doing anything if it's sleeping now most of the usb drives if you're using your standard power settings under like windows 7", "start": 1824.75, "end": 1850.72, "words": [] }, { "id": 74, "text": " the drive will go to sleep after it's not been used for a while, which means that it stops spinning and it's just sitting there waiting for you to use it. Oh, okay. In most cases, is it a newer external drive or how old is it? Yeah, it's under a year. Right, so it's going to sleep. Even though it's blinking? Yeah, and the blinking just says, hey, I'm plugged in and waiting for commands. Hey, blinkin'. But it does generate heat in there, and those backup drives can fail, am I right? Oh, yes. Oh, okay. So you need a backup for your backup?", "start": 1850.72, "end": 1880.27, "words": [] }, { "id": 75, "text": " Well, so you can back up all your backup. That's right. Your primary copy, which is on your hard drive, is your backup for the backup. Yeah. All right, so you have two copies. Oh, good.", "start": 1880.27, "end": 1892.77, "words": [] }, { "id": 76, "text": " See more meme stuff. That was perfect. Yo, dog. We're just like backup. Put a drive in your drive. All right. Did you have another question on there? No, that's it. Thanks for everything, guys. No problem. Thanks for the call. It's funny. That was an ongoing joke the whole time we were at E3 with Nerd Junkies. We're like, yo, dog, we heard you like scaffolding, so we put scaffolding in your scaffolding so you can build what you build. We got to put, Rob, we got to make that happen. You know what? My boss telling me to build a section on a site for memes, I can do that.", "start": 1892.77, "end": 1920.22, "words": [] }, { "id": 77, "text": " This, I think, is going to be fun. This is the Computer Guru. That'll be the only thing I get done this week. No, it's not going to be the only thing you get done this week. All right, give us a call, 751-1041. We're going to talk about being online D-bags when it comes to advertising on Google and ways that you can better advertise yourself. That's it. Search engine optimization.", "start": 1920.22, "end": 1945.04, "words": [] }, { "id": 78, "text": " The do's and don'ts and the truths about it, because a lot of times you're being lied to. This is the Computer Guru Show, and we'll be right back. All right, Tony, you've got to turn on your mic for this one. What just happened? Yeah, what was that? Tony's going to explain right now. Does it have Tourette's or something? Yeah, pretty much. No, I put in extra things again, and for some reason, it fires off one of those little sound effects that you just heard. Yeah.", "start": 1945.04, "end": 1996.27, "words": [] }, { "id": 79, "text": " Don't know why I fired them all at the same time. Well, no, after I fired the first one and two, I went, I'm committed now. Ladies and gentlemen, Too Tough Tony. Thank you. Thank you very much. Assistant producer. Sorry, ladies. He's taken.", "start": 1996.27, "end": 2020.85, "words": [] }, { "id": 80, "text": " All right, so part of that, I think, was there's some subconscious in there that when I was on James T's show on Thursday, for our Tech Thursday bet, I was sort of giving him grief, right? I was saying, wow, you know, James' show, his producer is all over the sound effects as far as making sure that there's stuff in there to make it a little more interesting. For example, when James T says it's a celebration, there's usually something there.", "start": 2021.04, "end": 2047.73, "words": [] }, { "id": 81, "text": " Tony wasn't ready for it, though. We're on a different level. I know, I know. He can't get that. I know that. But I was just really kind of messing with him, right? But now I think he's just hitting buttons at random now. Just randomly. I need some sort of gif of him.", "start": 2047.73, "end": 2065.25, "words": [] }, { "id": 82, "text": " Pulling levers. I had something to say, but it's too mean. I can't say it. That smile on his face over there just means I have no idea what I'm doing. I was going to do a Clerks 2 reference. He's like, this monitor's not even a touch screen. You just wait until after the show. That's what's going to happen. Tony's going to take us outside and kick our butts in the parking lot. That's what's going to happen. Because he's too tough. Too tough. All right. 751-1041 if you'd like to be part of the show.", "start": 2065.25, "end": 2088.02, "words": [] }, { "id": 83, "text": " Ermagerd. Ermagerd. Alright, Assassin's Creed. Assassin's Creed, yeah. So the new Assassin's Creed, Assassin's Creed 3. You know, it looks really good. A lot of good graphics. Everything you expect from Assassin's Creed. Yeah, you don't have to fight dinosaurs in this one. No, no, no. This one actually is based all around the American Revolution, though. So it looks really good, and I'm excited about it. Actually, the PlayStation Vita...", "start": 2088.3, "end": 2114.56, "words": [] }, { "id": 84, "text": " Has a little spin-off of it as well, only available for the Vita. It's a female assassin. So, yeah, it might be pretty good. I don't know. The jury's still out on that. Of course, that franchise, what are you guys laughing about? What? Mean, horrible jokes that I can't say. So many things that cannot be said. So many things I can't say. The Assassin's Creed franchise is a really good franchise.", "start": 2114.56, "end": 2136.86, "words": [] }, { "id": 85, "text": " It should be very good. I don't know how they're going to portray the, you know... What? What are you looking at me for? You're talking. I'm making eye contact. Anyway, that's how communication works there, buddy. I'm just going to be quiet for a little bit. Stop it. The burnish are coming. The burnish are coming. I almost... Anyways, I had something a little bit meaner, but I'll tell you guys later. I'm really looking forward to Assassin's Creed 3. It should be a very good game. Though I know the one Rob's excited about is Planetside 2, though.", "start": 2136.86, "end": 2166.34, "words": [] }, { "id": 86, "text": " Yeah. Oh, man. So what is Planetside 2? I didn't even know about this game before we went to E3. Right. And we're walking by, and there's this big old line for Planetside, and we're like, what's this about? So we go up there, and the guy's like, well, you guys are media, so you can... Yeah, we flash right in there. All right, well, planets are round. They don't really have size. Ooh, nice. Well, anyway...", "start": 2166.34, "end": 2184.72, "words": [] }, { "id": 87, "text": " Mr. Jokey Jokerson over there. Sony, SOE, Sony Online Entertainment, because they have such bad security problems, they're just having to give their games away for free. That's not why. That's not why. But, no, they have a bunch of games that they're doing free-to-plays now. And it's not just free just to play, but it's also free to buy. You don't have to buy them at all. Everything about the game is free. Right. Now, a lot of these games are going to feature micro-purchases, which means you can purchase weapon upgrades. Right. Things like that. But, I mean, there's no upfront cost, and you don't have a subscription fee. And the guy who we talked to from Sony said,", "start": 2184.72, "end": 2214.1, "words": [] }, { "id": 88, "text": " Yes, there are micro-purchases, but you can get all those same things just by playing the game. Yeah, by playing harder. So you don't actually have to purchase anything if you don't want to. You just want to play harder. That's like the Team Fortress model. Just like Team Fortress, exactly. And I actually like that model of a game because there's some nights where I don't want to grind a quest over and over to get one item, and I can just go purchase it or something. As an example, my favorite game on the iPad is similar to that, Tower Madness. Right, yeah, right. You can purchase upgraded weapons and extra map packs. Yeah, right.", "start": 2214.1, "end": 2243.07, "words": [] }, { "id": 89, "text": " Really, seriously. He still plays it today, yeah. I've had that game for two years, right? And I still play it. I can't believe you still play that game. That's crazy. It's awesome. But anyway, the thing that makes Planetside 2 so amazing is that it's a persistent world first-person shooter.", "start": 2243.07, "end": 2256.94, "words": [] }, { "id": 90, "text": " Meaning that most of the time when you play a first-person shooter online, it's instance-based. So you load into a level, and then everybody plays, and when you're done, it's all gone. In Planetside, you could log in six months later, and something that you blew up in the game is still blown up. So it's like an MMO first-person. Yeah, it's an MMO FPS. So is it just going to be like a pile of rubble? Eventually, the whole planet will just be leveled. But it's just so cool. And then they tied it in with their website, and they have an Android app, so you can voice chat with your friends even when you're not playing the game. Are there missions that you can do?", "start": 2256.94, "end": 2286.22, "words": [] }, { "id": 91, "text": " You have to go rebuild stuff that's been blown up. I hope so.", "start": 2286.22, "end": 2290.61, "words": [] }, { "id": 92, "text": " No world reset. It's going to be called... You're going to walk in there and it's just a wasteland. Where in the wasteland? In the wasteland. No, this game is actually really cool. We have some behind-closed-door video exclusive to E3. Yeah, I couldn't believe that the guys were nice enough. I kind of jokingly was like, can I film this? Yeah, go for it. So we have good video, good audio. Go to our website, gurushow.com slash E3. It'll be in the top five category.", "start": 2290.61, "end": 2316.66, "words": [] }, { "id": 93, "text": " And you'll scroll down. It'll be there. You can watch the full video. It's actually really, really cool. I'm really excited about it. And it's not going to be out for several more months. Actually, I don't think it's going to be around until the end of next year. However...", "start": 2316.66, "end": 2327.28, "words": [] }, { "id": 94, "text": " I have several beta keys that I will be giving away. Yeah, I was going to say, I think we have something a little bit exciting to tell the listeners here. I do. I got some beta keys for this game. Now, the game hasn't even gone out into beta yet. It's not even in closed beta yet. Right, but as soon as it does, these keys will give you that invite. So, let's go ahead and give away a couple of the forums this weekend. What do you think? Yeah, that sounds good. Excellent. We've got a bunch. So, Rob will make that happen. We'll give away a couple of the forums, and we'll give away a couple more next week, and so on and so forth. So, that means if you guys are interested in playing Planetside 2, when it comes out, I mean, we don't know when it's going to be open for beta. Right. But when it is, you know, if you guys are interested in that.", "start": 2327.28, "end": 2354.54, "words": [] }, { "id": 95, "text": " Check out the forums this week, and you'll see, you know, we'll be talking about it on there. We'll tell you how you can. We'll figure something out. We'll give it away. We'll figure out how you can get one and get your hands on it. And you'll probably be able to play with us because I know I'm going to be playing. I'll be there. Absolutely. Excellent. So let's go ahead and recap on some of the specials that we've got going on. We still have the existing special of No Diagon Shop, at least until next week, until the end of this upcoming week. Right. And then for the rest of the month now, if you have a wireless network and you want to make sure that it's secured or get it properly set up and secured.", "start": 2354.54, "end": 2384.37, "words": [] }, { "id": 96, "text": " $65. As long as you're in the city limits, it is travel. If you're outside, we'll still do it. Right. But you just have to pay for travel at that point. It's a smoking deal. So if you want to get in on that deal, go ahead and call the shop at 304-8300. Or you can go by and see us at 510 East Fort Lowell. Howard's down there waiting for you. He better be.", "start": 2384.37, "end": 2402.69, "words": [] }, { "id": 97, "text": " Or else. If not, I need to hire somebody. Let me know. You guys have no idea what we're talking about. 751-1041 if you'd like to be part of the show. And put your technology issues on the table. We'll see if we can help you out with them. No promises. I'm just kidding. Yeah, really.", "start": 2402.69, "end": 2424.08, "words": [] }, { "id": 98, "text": " Google has done something that they haven't done ever, really. They're giving us information about their search engine. Well, sort of. They're clearing up some misconceptions about it. Now, they're not necessarily giving you the skinny on how they actually do it. But what they're doing right now is the most that they've ever revealed about how their search engine works. Up until now, if anybody were to ask Google, how does your search engine work, they would say, well.", "start": 2424.69, "end": 2446.56, "words": [] }, { "id": 99, "text": " And then they'd run away. They'd see magic. They'd walk away. More importantly, what they're doing is they're saying how it's not working. They're destroying the misconceptions that people have put in place. Because people basically said, well, if Google's not going to tell us, we're just going to make stuff up. Well, we're going to speculate. And Google's taking these speculations and saying, well, wait, wait, wait. You're wrong. You're hot, you're warm, you're cold. Right. And that's pretty much what it is. They're not given specific details, but they are saying, well, it doesn't really work that day, and this is why, or here's where our focus is.", "start": 2446.56, "end": 2475.62, "words": [] }, { "id": 100, "text": " And a lot of people who are in web development and whatever, or at least have web pages. They all have their own theories. They have these misconceptions about it because they feel that they're being punished for some reason. Now, don't get me wrong.", "start": 2475.62, "end": 2487.71, "words": [] }, { "id": 101, "text": " Google does rank you based off of certain elements within the page. But if you're doing everything correctly and you know that you're not doing anything specifically wrong, Google's not going to punish you just because they don't like you. Right, and they're also not going to, you know, a lot of people are saying, well, you know, the people with paid advertisements show up ahead of us, and they're like, well, they always show up in the paid areas, but they don't get any boost in the regular search. Right, and the natural search is you don't get any benefit there.", "start": 2487.71, "end": 2514.06, "words": [] }, { "id": 102, "text": " So it's these types of things, and we'll put a link to that on the website also just so you can get to that particular article. And it's pretty interesting. It's not very long of a read, but at least it gives you a better idea of what Google and what their focus is. And the bigger part, at least for me, what I got out of it was that Google's focus is on making sure that you, the user doing the search, gets the most relevant data possible from them in the shortest amount of time.", "start": 2514.06, "end": 2539.97, "words": [] }, { "id": 103, "text": " Whereas a lot of people are saying, well, I feel that I should be ranked higher because of whatever factors, but that's really not the case. They're trying to be neutral. They're trying to take in all these things into account, like geographic location. Based on where the user is that's searching. Right, and also off of things that the user has previously searched for. So there's lots going on there when it comes to how they're making that determination of information to show the particular user.", "start": 2539.97, "end": 2566.58, "words": [] }, { "id": 104, "text": " Now, while we're on the subject of SEO, before we get to the break here, there are a lot of misconceptions about SEO. I'd say that most of it is misconceptions. Right. And there's a lot of companies out there that they are just quite literally ripping you off. SEO is search engine optimization. It's kind of like the magical stuff that makes you higher on Google, supposedly. Right. And here's the thing about it. See how nobody knows exactly what works for Google? It's all.", "start": 2566.58, "end": 2591.95, "words": [] }, { "id": 105, "text": " And I'm okay with the one-time deals. I'm okay with charging a certain amount of money for a one-time deal that you're going to get better placement or somebody's going to take the time to go through your page, especially on a complex page, and make all of that work to your advantage. Because there are specific things that need to be done to a website to have it be higher ranked. Now, I'm just going to go ahead and single out one particular group of individuals doing this type of stuff.", "start": 2591.95, "end": 2619.14, "words": [] }, { "id": 106, "text": " And that's going to be the phone book companies. Yes. And when we come back from the break, we're going to talk about that. This is the Computer Guru. Those guys are a ripoff in every sense of the word. I do not like them. That's right. If you are still in the phone book, oh, I feel for you. I feel so bad for you. But we're going to straighten you out after the break. This is the Computer Guru Show right here on 104.1 The Truth, Tucson's News Talk FM.", "start": 2619.14, "end": 2645.94, "words": [] } ] }