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Recorded Live October 6, 2009.
- Special Feature: Protecting your entire network from pornography and other potentially unwanted web sites using the free OpenDNS service.
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Topics Covered: - Viewer testimonials.
- Shouts out to new viewers.
- Viewer Question: My mother-in-law uses Outlook Express and gets a lot of spam. How can I help her cut that down?
- Viewer Question: I got my new computer and wonder, is it a good system for running Ubuntu?
- Why it's cool to use a separate hard drive for your Linux /home folder.
- Viewer Comment: It was actually a 160 GB drive in my computer.
- Viewer Question: Has anyone tried Swiftfox?
- Viewer Question: Is there an open source alternative for Exchange server?
- Viewer Question: Is Epiphany a clone of Firefox?
- Viewer Question: I have an Open Networks 624W router and have bricked it. Is there a way to redeem it?
- Viewer Question: Is there a noticable speed difference if I were to add a second 10,000 RPM hard drive to my computer and run it as a striped RAID?
- Viewer Question: What files would I need to transfer from OpenOffice on Ubuntu to get access to items such as my custom dictionary on a Windows installation?
- Viewer Question: I have a RAID 1 on my computer. Will I have any trouble installing Ubuntu via an external USB CD-ROM drive with that configuration?
- Viewer Question: Do you read or write files more?
- Robbie's Story Minute: An ~85 year old couple looking for a simple computer experience fell in love with Ubuntu Linux.
- Help us make year #3 the best it can be: vote in the community poll.
- Viewer Question: If I put movies on my external hard drive on Windows XP, will I be able to watch it on Ubuntu?
- Special Feature: Using OpenDNS to filter pornographic material (or other unwanted sites) from your entire network.
- Configuring DD-WRT to use OpenDNS.
- Creating an account with OpenDNS so you may configure network filters.
- Configuring the Windows client for automatic IP updating on OpenDNS.
- Setting up your network on OpenDNS.
- Setting content filtering based on filtering levels or custom filter settings.
- Viewer Comment: OpenDNS is in fact faster than my ISP's DNS server.
- Viewer Comment: Porn was a frequent problem in my last IT-oriented job amongst management.
- Viewer Comment: You are fantastic! :@) I was able to print from the forum, and even a PDF. Thanks for your help!
- Viewer Question: I have two wifi routers and keep getting kicked off wireless. Any suggestions?
- Viewer Question: Do you have any thoughts about the quality of ethernet cable ends?
- Viewer Question: How good is the false-positive rate and response times for OpenDNS?
- Viewer Question: Can you block specific sites only with OpenDNS (such as just blocking Wikipedia or Facebook?)
- Viewer Question: Could you make the show an hour longer?
- Robbie's bonus 600 GB for unRAID--now at 3.2 TB of network storage space.
Links: Notes: In addition to my response regarding transferring movies on an external drive between Windows and Linux, I would like to also mention that if the files from Windows contain DRM protection, you probably will not be able to play them on Linux. Keywords: linux, windows, technology, tv, robbie ferguson, ubuntu, free, download, view, tv, television, podcast, vodcast, video podcast, streaming video, ustream, category5.tv category5 technology tv, tech tv. No one has commented on this article. |
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