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Recorded Live December 29, 2009.
- Christy is off tonight.
- Robbie introduces a few of his "more geeky" Christmas gifts, including Star Trek novels, a modernized flashlight, 5.1 speakers for his computer, and his un-branded V2 MP3 Player.
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Topics Covered: - Viewer Testimonials.
- Viewer Question: When I install compiz-fusion-unsupported on Ubuntu 9.10, the Snow plugin won't activate; it unchecks itself. How do I get this to work?
- Viewer Comment: When a compiz-fusion plugin unchecks itself, it means another plugin is conflicting with it.
- Robbie's Christmas gifts: four new Star Trek books, a Duracel LED flashlight, a digital pressure cooker, an off-brand MP3 player with a 3" touch screen and a set of Logitech X-540 5.1 surround sound speakers for his computer.
- Wirecast starts echoing Robbie's microphone, but changing cameras fixes it.
- Viewer Comment: I don't want to buy an Apple product.
- Robbie's thoughts about proprietary MP3 players (such as the iPod Touch).
- Viewer Comment: Sansa makes good MP3 players.
- Viewer Comment: People slam the iPod Touch and iPhone way too much. It's a fantastic device. iTunes is what lets it down.
- Viewer Comment: The Android works much better than the iPod Touch.
- A brief mention of what Google Goggles does for Android users.
- Google Goggles: a Bing killer? (LOL!)
- Viewer Comment: My PogoPlug 2 is en-route. My son has already received his unit, and we've been playing with it while watching your show. Thank you for your incredible effort; your show is always interesting and entertaining.
- Viewer Comment: I've done some testing on Justin.TV's Adobe Flash issues, and nothing seems to work.
- Viewer Question: I have two 250 GB hard drives and two 1 TB hard drives. I'd like to install Ubuntu 9.10 solely on one of the 1 TB drives. What is the best way to partition the drive?
- Viewer Comment: eSATA would be better than USB for your external hard drive if you're installing an operating system on it.
- Viewer Comment: If you have a spare drive, put the OS on that.
- From the Category5 TV Newsroom: USB 3.0 - a new standard and a new feature included in Linux, including Ubuntu Karmic Koala which provides throughput speed of up to 5 Gigabits per second (!!) to your external device. Microsoft's appeal in the i4i XML patent case has been lost, and they have until January 11th 2010 to comply with the patent or lose the legal right to sell Microsoft Word in the USA. Ubuntu 10.04 plans to boot in two seconds.
- Viewer Comment: Corel Wordperfect could get a boost from the ban on Microsoft Word. (how about OpenOffice.org?)
- Viewer Question: Where is Christy?
- Viewer Comment: That was a great interview on the PogoPlug. I've sent it on to other IT personnel. Thanks for that!
- Viewer Question: I have an x64 Ubuntu 9.10 Server system with 12 GB of RAM. I use it a lot with Virtual Machines in VirtualBox. Do you think I should have 2x the amount of my RAM allocated to the swap partition?
- Viewer Question: I'm enjoying Karmic 9.10. Thank you for the tip on Metacity; it worked to allow me to access functions that Compiz broke access to. My question: how do I delete different menu items from the Grub menu?
- Setting how many (howmany) kernel entries to show in Grub's menu.lst configuration file.
- Viewer Question: What kind of camera setup do you have at Category5.TV?
- Viewer Question: Your step-by-step tutorial on installing unMenu on unRAID worked--thank you. I noticed you use Sun Virtual Machine. Is this a free version? How does it differ from VirtualBox?
- Viewer Comment: The live video this week is superb.
- Happy new year from Category5.TV.
- Viewer Question: In the new year, will you upgrade the show name to Category5e?
- Viewer Question: What is the "Y2K Scare"?
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