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Category5 Technology TV - Robbie Ferguson & Hillary RumballDon't miss this week's live broadcast! This Tuesday night at 7pm Eastern.  [Click Here] for your local show time.

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Episode 106 - Undertanding Parity in 60 Seconds
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Recorded Live September 29, 2009.
  • Special Feature:  Understand Parity in 60 seconds.  How does a parity drive make your data redundant when it is not large enough to store all the data on your array?

Topics Covered:

  • Welcome to first-time viewers. 
  • Somehow, we get sidetracked to the weather.
  • Viewer Question:  How can I get the episode to show up in the same window as the chat?
  • Christy's Question:  Are TheAppleDudes users of Apple computers?
  • Viewer Question:  Are there any new episodes of The Meat?
  • Viewer Question:  Is there a Backstage Pass camera tonight?
  • Viewer Question:  When I run Miro on Ubuntu, it quits with some videos.  Any suggestions?
  • Viewer Comment:  That was a weird bug with the video renderer under Miro.
  • Viewer Comment:  I got engaged to my wife in Victoria, BC.
  • Viewer Question:  Are you going to be running any apps on your unRAID server?
  • Viewer Question:  I have a single SATA drive in my computer.  If I move the drive onto a different SATA port and then install another hard drive on the first port, will the original drive become my D:\ drive?
  • Viewer Question:  In Ubuntu Jaunty, I changed a password for my account, but I have to type in my old password to connect to wireless due to the default keyring.  How can I fix this?
  • Viewer Question:  My Vista PC won't boot; it gets stuck on the Gateway symbol.  What's going on?
  • Viewer Question:  I just got a KVM Switch with audio.  I'm trying to setup two computers, but I need to know how to save the settings so the cable will work.  Any thoughts?
  • Viewer Comment:  If your computer boots without the battery, leave it out as a defective battery could damage the system.
  • Viewer Question:  Is there a way to hide network share icons from your desktop while leaving the mounted devices?
  • Viewer Question:  Is there an advantage for the average home users to use dual network cards?
  • Viewer Question:  I've been having trouble getting surround sound to work on Ubuntu with my SoundBlaster Audigy card.  How can I get that to work?
  • Viewer Question:  A while ago, I bought a Canon PIXMA iP2500, and cannot get it to work on Kubuntu.  How do I get it to work?
  • Viewer Question:  I've tried adjusting levels on my sound mixer on Ubuntu Linux but there is still no sound coming out of the surroud sound speakers.
  • Changing which audio system your Linux computer uses.
  • Special Feature:  When your Parity drive is less than the size of your array, how is it that it is able to rebuild a drive if a harddrive crashes?  After all, it's not big enough to hold all the data on the array.  How Parity works--in only 60 seconds.
  • Why a Parity drive-based parity array, such as unRAID, is "better" than a striped parity array.
  • Viewer Question:  Are you still using the latest beta version of unRAID?

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