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Episode 120 - Unboxing the Pogoplug 2 |
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Recorded Live January 5, 2010.
- Unboxing the Pogoplug 2.
- What's faster: Popping a bag of microwave popcorn, or setting up your Pogoplug 2?
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Topics Covered: - Tonight's coffee: with 1/3 the poison.
- Greetings to new viewers.
- Discussions about the weather.
- A few viewers are still encountering problems with our stream after switching to Justin.tv.
- Viewer Question: Why did you make the switch to Justin.tv instead of using Ustream.tv?
- Viewer Question: Could someone recommend a backup solution for OSX? I heard Time Machine is not very reliable.
- Viewer Question: Can you shed any light on why VYM has been loading at inconsistent speeds? It had been taking forever to load, and now it loads fairly fast. I don't understand what has changed.
- Jot received his Pogoplug 2, and Dave Fear received his Brother printer! Category5.TV viewers win cool prizes.
- Viewer Comment: Techzilla is going to broadcast live at CES.
- Viewer Comment: Your step-by-step to using unMenu worked; thank you!
- Viewer Question: My new nVidia card has an HDMI port. Is that bi-directional? Can I plug my PS3 into it to play Playstation 3 games on my computer monitor?
- Nice echo! :)
- Feature: Unboxing the Pogoplug 2. From start to finish, what's faster: popping a bag of microwave popcorn or setting up your Pogoplug 2 cloud computing device?
- Setting up your Pogoplug.
- Activating your Pogoplug.
- Creating a folder and uploading an image to your Pogoplug using the web interface.
- Viewer Question: How do you plan to use your Pogoplug with your unRAID box?
- Viewer Question: I know someone who plugged their Drobo into their Pogoplug. Can you do the same with unRAID?
- Viewer Question: What are the transfer rates of the Pogoplug?
- Viewer Comment: In Europe, I had to use a different plug with my Pogoplug.
- Category5 Technology TV Newsroom: Opera Software has a new version of the Opera web browser, and a new CEO. Seesmic has acquired Ping.fm. SuperOS has beat Ubuntu as the #1 Linux distro in 7 days on distrowatch. Intel not playing fair: a crippled compiler for AMD processors lands them a court settlement. Star Trek Online beta demo starts next week.
- Christy plans to dress up as a Tribble.
- Viewer Comment: Category5.TV is available on the Roku set-top device!
- Seriously--how do you pronounce "Roku"?
- Category5 Technology TV has been opted-in to the Roku service for quite some time, and uploads its videos every week.
- Viewer Comment: Desktop Drapes provides a cool wallpaper system for Ubuntu Linux.
- Using Desktop Drapes to auto-rotate your Linux desktop wallpaper on Ubuntu.
- Viewer Comment: I mentioned previously about a right-click tool for Linux that gives you the MD5 for a file. The page I got it from is here: http://digfor.blogspot.com/2008/10/calculating-hashes-for-lazy-ones.html
- Spam spam spam spam spam. Microsoft offers the Category5.TV news desk a £500,000 reward by email!
- A little about Fishing and malicious email.
- Christy's Comment: No bank will ask for your password online or by phone.
- Viewer Comment: My dad got an email from the FBI the other day.
- Beware: the email you think is from Mom might be from someone else.
- Viewer Question: What about URL shorteners? How can you be safe with those?
- Viewer Comment: I've always wanted to write back to the spammers from Nigeria that promise millions of dollars.
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