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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.

  • Feature:  Basic Photo Manipulation Part 7: Creating panoramic images with a standard digital camera.

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Episode 112 - Virtualizing with VirtualBox
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Recorded Live November 10, 2009.
  • Feature: Prepping your Ubuntu system for a VirtualBox installation of Windows 7.

Topics Covered:

  • Greetings to new viewers.
  • Viewer testimonials.
  • Christy tricks Robbie into discussing the weather by expressing concern for viewers affected by Hurricane Ida.
  • Viewer Question:  Is it possible to capture the sound of my Linux Mint operating system directly?
  • Viewer Question:  After uninstalling the testing version of The Gimp, I reinstalled the stable version, but now I get an error when loading it.  How can I fix that?
  • Viewer Question:  I can print wirelessly to my Epson printer from Windows.  Will I ever be able to do that from Linux?
  • Viewer Question:  Is there a good Internet Radio application for Ubuntu?
  • Viewer Question:  Rhythmbox is good.
  • Viewer Question:  Have you installed Windows 7 with a new copy since October 22nd?  I bought the Pro version, but then found out my computer does not support virtualization.  Do you know anything about this?
  • Viewer Question:  This weekend I tried to dual-boot Windows XP with Ubuntu 9.10, but after rebooting it says there is a grub error: no such disk, error 22.  Is there a way to fix this?
  • Is there a reason to use encryption on your home computer?
  • Viewer Comment:  Super Grub Disk works well but can mess up with multiple distros.
  • Viewer Question:  Can k9copy do forced subtitles?  Also, does it support multiple cores?
  • Setting the preferred language of subtitles in k9copy.
  • Feature:  Virtualization with VirtualBox: a free virtualization product from Sun.  How to obtain and install VirtualBox (full version, not OSE) on an Ubuntu system.
  • How virtualization may save a great deal of money (big picture) in a server environment.
  • Viewer Question:  Why wouldn't you recommend the Open Source Edition of VirtualBox?
  • Adding users to your vboxusers group on Linux so you can access and use VirtualBox on Ubuntu.
  • Compiling your VirtualBox kernel module.
  • The specs we're using to install VirtualBox.
  • Viewer Comment:  I will re-visit VirtualBox.
  • Viewer Comment:  If you had installed using the repositories, you would not have had to go through all these steps.
  • Viewer Comment:  I have both Windows 7 Virtual PC and VMWare Player running simultaneously and they perform really well.
  • Running VirtualBox for the first time.
  • Viewer Submission:  The brand new TTX02 Mavizen electronic motorcycle: powered by Linux.
  • Will you be demonstrating how to connect an XBOX 360 to your Ubuntu PC?
  • Viewer Comment:  The Tip of Texas Linux Users Group watches Category5 Technology TV.
  • Viewer Question:  What content does parity contain?  What if a second drive failed?
  • Robbie disclaims his ineptness at RAID.
  • Why Robbie likes Parity Drive based arrays (like unRAID) better than striped parity arrays (like traditional RAID).
  • How do you know your disk is bad in an array?
  • Robbie emphasises the difference between RAID, Network Attached Storage, and a proper backup solution.
  • Viewer Question:  I'm looking at doing computer repairs as a profession.  Where can I start getting experience?
  • Viewer Comment:  I think you missed the boat badly with regards to using Ubuntu One as an off-site backup service.  Off-site backup is essential.

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