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On This Week's Show:

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.

Have a question for Robbie?  Use the Interact section of Category5.tv to get your answers during the show!

In the meantime, check out the latest broadcast below, or visit the Episode Index to catch previous episodes.
Episode 76 - Viewer Question Festival
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Recorded Live March 3, 2009.
  • Answering viewer questions by the handful.
  • Farewell to Carrie for a couple months.

Topics Covered:

  • Viewer testimonials.
  • Viewer Comment:  I just found your podcast.  It is very helpful.
  • Viewer Comment:  They need to make a cure for cancer.
  • Discussing Carrie's temporary departure.
  • Viewer Question:  I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 and just found out that most software has a copyright notice.  Why do people put a copyright on Open Source Software?
  • Backstage Pass - a cool feature for registered viewers.
  • Viewer Question:  Is there a list of webcams that work on Ubuntu?
  • Viewer Question:  Due to Category5, I now have a rotating cube.  How can I keep applications and icons separate on individual windows?
  • Viewer Comment:  Your show is becoming unstoppable.
  • Viewer Question:  Can you make a show on how to make DVD photo slideshows on Linux?
  • What the number versions of Ubuntu mean.
  • Viewer Question:  I downloaded and installed samba-doc-pdf from Synaptic Package Manager.  Where did it place the files?
  • Viewer Comment:  You can also use the command line command dpkg -l samba-doc
  • Viewer Question:  Is there an Ubuntu program that would allow me to stream movies to my XBOX 360?
  • Viewer Comment:  I loved Ubuntu Tweak from last week!
  • Congratulations to John and Laura Hunt on their marriage.
  • Thoughts on marriage.
  • Viewer Question:  I would like to change my boot screen on Ubuntu 8.10.  Can you help me?
  • Looking for the .so file for your usplash theme.
  • Using startup-manager to change your startup options in Ubuntu Linux.
  • Viewer Question:  Can you make your own usplash screen easily?
  • Viewer Question:  I have a network in my house.  The shared printer on my Ubuntu desktop works from my Windows computers, but not my Ubuntu laptop.  I get an authentication error.  What is wrong?
  • Viewer Question:  I love your show and watch every week.  I have a problem.  How do I use K3B to burn my audio CDs from MP3 files?  It works only with WAV files.
  • Installing extra codecs in K3B for MP3 and FFMPEG decoder support.
  • Carrie's favorite things she learned during her time at Category5.TV.
  • Viewer Question:  Has Carrie checked out Heroes yet?
  • Viewer Question:  You could blog about what an evil dictator Robbie is behind the scenes.
  • Viewer Question:  I just saw episode 75 and passed on the info to a friend.  In the past year I've had reliability problems with AMD processors.  I'm thinking about converting to Intel.  What is your opinion on the reliability of AMD processors on extended use?
  • Viewer Comment:  I've been running AMD processors for years and have never seen any issues.
  • Carrie's Question:  What is a processor?
  • Working through the hiss problems.
  • Why we have trouble keeping up with the chat room.
  • Viewer Question:  Have you looked at the nVidia beta drivers for Linux?
  • Viewer Comment:  The secret (with regards to reliability of processors) is to match your peripherals with your motherboard.
  • Viewer Question:  Have you had a sneak peak at Windows 7?  If yes, do you think it's a big improvement over Windows Vista?
  • Viewer Question:  Could you tell me what a RAID is?  My son's PC pauses on bootup, prompting for a RAID.  What is this?
  • Farewell to Carrie -- for a couple months.
  • Viewer Comment:  Carrie should try Ubuntu on her laptop.
  • Category5 - it should be preinstalled on Ubuntu.
  • Using dual-booting to help make the transition to Linux easier.

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Notes:

Whoopsie:  I said "Phenom" when talking about AMD's "low-end" processor.  I meant to say "Sempron".  Their names rhyme too much.

Carrie's mic was severely windy tonight (breath noise).  We'll have to get her a windscreen.

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