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Recorded live January 20, 2009
- Robbie's Favorites: Google. More than just a search engine.
- Feature: Backing up your files in Mac OS X Leopard using Time Machine.
- Followup Feature: Thoughts to ponder about backing up files in Linux.
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Topics Covered: - Viewer Testimonials.
- Feature: Canadian Correspondent Tyler Steingard joins us to look at conducting our data backups on Mac OS X Leopard.
- The Mac OS X filesystem structure.
- Using Finder in Mac OS X Leopard to browse your files.
- Navigating Mac OS X to your user's data folder to find your Desktop files, Documents, Movies, Music, etc.
- How much time your backup takes using Time Machine on Mac OS X.
- Manually running a backup in Time Machine.
- Using the Time Machine settings in System Preferences to configure your Time Machine backups on Mac OS X.
- Using the Time Machine interface to recover a deleted file on Mac OS X Leopard.
- Viewer Comment: TimeVault is worth the mention for a Linux alternative to Time Machine.
- Viewer Question: Have you ever used Mac OS 9?
- Viewer Question: What happens if you upgrade to the latest version of Mac OS? Is your Time Machine backup backward compatible once you upgrade?
- Final thoughts about Mac OS X data backups.
- The sneeze-stopping robot.
- Watching Category5 Technology TV live through your iPhone.
- Viewer Question: Could you recommend a system cleanup tool for Ubuntu Intrepid?
- Viewer Question: I just purchased a blu-ray Burner. Can I burn regular CD's on that drive, or do I have to use a regular CD burner in addition to my new drive?
- Viewer Question: Could you recommend a program that could get files back that have been deleted from an Ubuntu filesystem?
- Viewer Question: I want to build my first computer for gaming and multitasking with a budget of up to $1,000 USD. I was wondering, do you have any tips for what hardware I should buy?
- Robbie explains motherboards, processors, RAM (dual-channel) and other items to help you buy the parts for your computer build.
- Viewer Question: How do you know the power supply you buy will fit your computer's form factor?
- The main / key points to keeping your computer cost down when building a new computer with the intention of upgrading down the road.
- Viewer Question: I upgraded the RAM in my computer. Should I also increase my swap partition size?
- Robbie's Favorites: Google. Using some of the more advanced features of the Google search engine such as looking up maps, local businesses based on postal / ZIP code, conducting currency conversions, converting measurements, checking the weather, finding global times, etc.
- Episode 70. Unbelievable.
- Carrie's Question: What is "Swap Space"?
- Why does more RAM make your computer faster?
- A couple mentions about data backups in Linux, and what we want to approach in the near future, such as backing up our files to a separate hard drive, using a web-based backup service, and saving your hidden files such as your Mozilla Firefox bookmarks file.
- Viewer Question: Will you be talking about RAID?
- Why is China so high for viewership this month?
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