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Episode 78 - Creating PDF Documents |
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Recorded Live March 17, 2009.
- Answering viewer questions.
- Feature: Saving PDF documents in Mac OS X, Linux and Windows without having to buy commercial applications.
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Topics Covered: - Viewer testimonials.
- Viewer Question: Why do you favor apt-get over aptitude?
- There is freedom in Open Source.
- Viewer Comment: I have no idea what you're talking about.
- Viewer Question: When my son's computer boots up, it sits at a screen saying it is waiting for RAID before finally booting into Windows XP. What does this mean?
- Robbie uses too much power to keep the coffee warm.
- Viewer Question: Could you do a series of shows about how to use VirtualBox, or how to do virtualization?
- Viewer Question: Why would people buy the commercial virtualization products when there are great products available for free?
- Obtaining VirtualBox with USB 2.0 support for your Ubuntu system.
- Robbie talks briefly about virtualization products under Ubuntu Linux.
- Adding your user to vboxusers group on Ubuntu Linux so you can use VirtualBox.
- Viewer Comment: You can get VMWare for free in the Server edition.
- Viewer Question: Would you ever consider doing more pre-recorded segments on Category5 Technology TV?
- Carrie did her first backup on Windows Vista.
- Thinking redundantly toward your data backups.
- First impressions of NOD32 antivirus software: it's much less intrusive than other products such as McAfee.
- Creating PDF documents in Windows, Linux and Mac OS using the free OpenOffice suite with advanced features such as image compression, security and encryption.
- Carrie's Question: If I sent an encrypted PDF file to someone by email, how would I give them the password?
- Viewer Comment: OpenOffice 3+ will open .DOCX but not save it.
- Viewer Question: Will OpenOffice allow you to edit existing PDF documents?
- A print driver that prints directly to PDF - the free CutePDF Writer for Windows.
- Viewer Question: What do you think of the iPhone app for ustream.tv?
- Viewer Comment: It doesn't matter what you put in your PDF file; it will always print and display correctly from any system.
- Viewer Question: What do you think of Open-Xchange?
- Viewer Question: What is a good text editor for Windows 2000?
- Viewer Question: Have you tried Jaunty?
- Viewer Question: I've installed Apache, mySQL and PHP in Ubuntu 8.10 through Synaptic Package Manager. Which GUIs can I use to transfer files to my web server and how can I administer it?
- Viewer Comment: VSFTPD is lighter.
- Viewer Question: I've just installed Easy Peasy on my EeePC. I want to change settings in xorg.conf but it won't stick. How can I set up this setting?
- Viewer Comment: I wonder if you or any of your viewers have tried the Eye-Fi. It would be really cool.
Links: Notes: Robbie had to reboot his computer during the live show because he was monkeying with his compiz settings this week and had not rebooted. Keywords: linux, windows, technology, tv, robbie ferguson, ubuntu, free, download, view, tv, television, podcast, vodcast, video podcast, streaming video, ustream, category5.tv category5 technology tv, tech tv. No one has commented on this article. |
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