Robert Heron (TechTV)

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name = Robert Heron

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ExtremeTech Audio podcast
this WEEK in TECH audio podcast on TWiT.tv (network).
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website = [http://dl.tv DL.TV]
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Robert Heron (Born 1969) was a laboratory correspondent on the TechTV show "The Screen Savers". He is one of the regular panel members on "This Week in Tech", a podcast released every Monday. He is a High Definition Television Analyst for "PC Magazine". Heron is a regular guest on the ExtremeTech podcast hosted by Loyd Case. He currently appears as a host of the IPTV show "DL.TV".

TechTV

Heron has appeared on The Screen Savers several times. He is an expert tweaker, and, at the 2004 Intel Developers Forum, Heron beat 40 other system engineers and won with almost 630 Frames per second on "Quake 3". He is a master of tweaking the BIOS of a computer and he did the tweaking on UGM 8.0 on 2-24-2004. Heron was a long time TechTV laboratory correspondent, and has said on "DL.TV" that he misses working for TechTV.

History

Robert is a lifelong technologist who credits games (electronic, board, and variants) as the nurturing force behind his foray into personal computers. One of his fondest memories is how he almost failed to graduate from high school after unleashing a malicious program (known today as a virus) he had crafted on the school's then state-of-the-art PC network - a dozen or so Radio Shack TRS-80s that shared a "massive" 5MB hard drive.

Trivia

* Heron does not install anti-virus software onto his PC, however, he once recounted a story where he was infected by spyware and used the online virus scanner "Trend Micro" to remove it before it could do any significant damage.
* He has repeatedly expressed his grudge against the Apple Quicktime Player, because of the way the player takes over all files even though you uncheck the box that says not to do so during the installation.
* He frequently expresses his distrust of defragmentation programs, saying they are a waste of time.
* He never graduated from college.

External links

* [http://dl.tv DL.TV Official Site]