Online Tonight� with David Lawrence

Fault Tolerant Cruelty

This and that about tech and pop culture - if it's the weekend, it must be Online Tonight with David Lawrence.

The RuntimeDownload

Instant messaging fun, the Cubs win the division, paying for Kazaa, plugins for Palm devices, comments in Excel - it must be the weekend - it's time for Online Tonight!

Helloworld

ICANN's responses, Verisign's wildcards, minimum requirements for new machines, how borders make friends and enemies, a chance to win one of ten hot CD players and more. It's the weekend, it's my birthday, and it's Online Tonight with David Lawrence.

MCSE Men

Cross platform CDs, firewalls, anti-virus software, file-sharing woes, browser issues, us charging for the downloading of audio and more - it's Online Tonight for the weekend of September 13, 2003!

Note: we had technical difficulties with our recorded audio during the last 15 minutes of hour 1. The logger had to be restarted, and the first hour was lost from the three hour show. People can hear the first 45 minutes of the 1st hour since the hours are all available when you buy the full show.

The Cron Job

Video cards coming loose and wreaking havoc, installing software without disabling your anti-virus software, how to create an emergency boot disk, where to get a free and very effective firewall, deleting temp files, how ports are scanned and more.

Jeepers Beepers!

Audri Lanford, the arrested Blaster author, Beth Anderson from Audible.com, DVD burners, finding an icon in MacOS X's Dock, blocking the SoBig.F virus, NetZero's marketing claims, stupid hard drive tricks, off-brand anti-virus software and more.

My CTO's Daughter

Dan Grigsby, what a blog is, training for Adobe Premiere, whether Mac users are vulnerable to SoBig, Blast or Nachi, how to connect two or more iPods to one shared iBook, how I triage issues, dial up connection via wireless, Internet Explorer Script errors, what anti-virus software I recommend, how my FAQs are organized, whether or not humans are responsible for the virus problems we faced this week and more.

Open Source

"Improvements" at maps.yahoo.com, recording audio from your VCR, what an FTP client is, short FireWire cables, 802.11a/g hotspots, how to make security settings match on various machines, how get rid of the Blaster/LoveSan/MSBlast virus and more.

best-of-best-of-best-of-OLT

It's the best of the David Lawrence Show, all dressed up like Online Tonight.

S.W.A.T.N.E.R.D.S.

Learning HTML code for web design, how to scan your machine for BugBear or MiMail, why lawrence@aol.com was not working last weekend, the right phone for both Bluetooth and PalmOS, credit card fraud and how to protect your credit card numbers and more.

C#biscuit

Hey! We just released a new Guide: 10 Quick Steps to Losing Weight, by Mr. Cranky! Here's the BitPass link:

Here's a preview of what downloading audio (not streaming - that will still be free as long as our affiliates offer free streams of their station's signals) will be like after Monday:

And in case you want to get a head start on everyone (those who have already contributed via PayPal to the bandwidth fund will get credit matching their contributions):

(normally will be priced at $60 for the year, but we're starting late.)

Hour 1: We discuss the news of the day, happenings in pop culture, ways to defrag a Mac, whether a Lindows machine would be good for a work-at-home alternative, tweaking ZoneAlarm with AOL Broadband, and we take your calls at 1-800-39-ONLINE, your emails at david@onlinetonight.net and instant messages at screen name Lawrence on America Online on anything you want to talk about.

[Due to technical difficulties, hour 1 of the show is not available, and the full shows are of the final two hours.]

Hour 2: We discuss the news of the day, happenings in pop culture, how we help people of various skill levels, a recalcitrant CNN videoPass account and playback, how to transfer older Macintosh data between an OS 8 machine and a new OS X box, and we take your calls at 1-800-39-ONLINE, your emails at david@onlinetonight.net and instant messages at screen name Lawrence on America Online on anything you want to talk about.