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Category5 Technology TV
Weekly live digital TV show with Robbie Ferguson focused on topics of interest to tech minds. Ask your questions and get live answers. Recipient of 2014 and 2017 Top 100 Tech Podcasters award.
Viewer Question Extravaganza
- Episode 569
- August 15, 2018
- 713
This week's show is controlled by you - our viewers! Topics such as installing common Windows fonts on Linux, where to download retro game ROMs from, and many more.
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Monitoring Your Digital Assets with NEMS Linux
- Aug 8, 2018
- 5,885
The Frugal Audiophile's Paradise
- Jul 25, 2018
- 7,101
Biometrics and You
- Jul 18, 2018
- 6,396
A Long Term-Supply SBC and an Improved Photoshop Alternative
- Jul 11, 2018
- 8,354
Raspberry Pi as a Development Web Server - Part 2
- Episode 433
- January 5, 2016
- 752,919
We continue setting up our Pi web server with PHP and a strong Linux firewall (CSF/LFD). We also get things going on deploying MariaDB, but haven't quite got there yet. On GIMP Tips, we look at creating gradients and how to make the edges super-smooth.
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Making Windows 8/8.1 Look and Feel Like Windows 7
- Nov 12, 2013
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Creating a Promotional Poster in GIMP
- Jan 12, 2016
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Zorin OS 11 - Linux for Windows Users
- Jan 19, 2016
- 728,271
LED Bulbs, Fitness Through Tech and Making Kids Fly
- Jan 26, 2016
- 703,206
The Category5.TV Newsroom
A weekly tech-centric news broadcast with a Linux bias (Part of Category5 Technology TV).
Top Stories for the Week of August 15, 2018
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- A neat feature of many modern laptops is the ability to power them up through the USB port. Unlike the rectangular USB ports of old, the newer type—USB-C—can carry enough power to charge your machine.
- A flaw in a US bank's computer software led to 625 customers not receiving government loan assistance to which they were entitled—and 400 of those lost their homes as a result.
- In a lawsuit filed in late July by Nintendo of America against two ROM distributing websites, the company states that the sites are “built almost entirely on the brazen and mass-scale infringement of Nintendo’s intellectual property rights.” Those who run the sites though, have a different story.
- Sir Patrick Stewart will reprise his iconic role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in a new Star Trek series for CBS All Access.
Top Stories for the Week of August 8, 2018
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- Two men who masterminded various Coinvault ransomware infections will carry out 240 hours of community service as punishment for compromising thousands of computers and profiting around $12,000 from their users.
- The German state of Lower Saxony plans to follow Munich's example, and migrate 13,000 users from Linux back to Windows.
- Google has followed the lead of Apple by banning crypto-mining apps from its Play Store.
- Microsoft is finally doing something about the way Windows 10 handles updates. And it’s using machine learning to accomplish the task. If it’s successful, updating Windows 10 should, in the future, become much less annoying.
Top Stories for the Week of August 1, 2018
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- Amazon has reported record-breaking quarterly profits helped by a rise in online sales and demand for its cloud services.
- Google's sister-company Waymo has announced a trial in which its self-driving cars will ferry shoppers to and from a nearby Walmart store to pick up their groceries.
- Children could be banned from owning drones weighing more than 250g under a new proposal from the Department for Transport in the UK.
- A competition helping to drive development of the futuristic hyperloop transport system has been won by engineering students from Munich.
Top Stories for the Week of July 25, 2018
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- According to research published in Nature, machine learning can help robots perform chemistry experiments faster than human scientists.
- A prolific hacking group has struck again, this time stealing close to $1 million from Russia’s PIR Bank.
- Just when we started to think autonomous vehicles were looking good, someone has developed a GPS spoofing device that can send them driving straight into oncoming traffic.
- If you think hackers are all bad, think again as we look at a hardware hacker who has solved the issue of Amazon's Alexa devices: what if the user can’t speak or hear?
Top Stories for the Week Of July 18, 2018
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- Engine maker Rolls-Royce has designed a propulsion system for a flying taxi which it says could take to the skies as soon as early next decade.
- It seems even Amazon can't quite handle its own success: Shoppers in the US and elsewhere struggled to access Amazon's website as one of its biggest annual sales, Prime Day, went underway Monday.
- If you can't beat 'em, join them! It would appear Facebook's claim that they will no longer be building an Internet-toting drone may have been in the wording. They're working with Airbus, and Airbus will build it.
- The Atari VCS Console runs a custom Linux distro called “AtariOS.”
Top Stories for the Week of July 11, 2018
- 1,394
- New homes in suburban England will need to be fitted with electric car charging points under a government proposal to cut emissions.
- A migrating, tagged, male white stork—known to the Polish environmentalists who were tracking him as “Kajtek”—blipped out of contact on April 26.
- Amazon's move into retail has largely hinged around opening or acquiring brick-and-mortar stores. But this holiday season, the online retailer will reportedly try something different: printed catalogs.
- For the past several years, Google has moved toward a more secure web by strongly advocating that sites adopt HTTPS encryption. And within the last year, they've helped users understand that HTTP sites are not secure by gradually marking a larger subset of HTTP pages as “not secure.” Effective this month with the release of Chrome 68, Chrome will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure.”
New Every Day
Join Jeff Weston and Pastor Lawrence Crews as they sit down for a practical heart to heart conversation each week exploring everyday life as a Christian in today's society.
Once And For All
- Episode 160
- August 10, 2018
- 1,254
What does it mean when the Bible tells us that God's will was for us to be made holy by the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all time? Jeff and Lawrence explore what it really means: Once, for all time.
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The Healing, Transformational Power of God - Part 2
- Aug 3, 2018
- 1,244
The Healing, Transformational Power of God - Part 1
- Jul 27, 2018
- 1,240
5 Love Languages of Kids
- Jul 20, 2018
- 1,325
Bearing Fruit ... For Others
- Jul 13, 2018
- 1,299
The Authority of The Word of God
- Episode 21
- September 4, 2015
- 340,509
Being an effective witness for Christ starts with one truth: the Bible is the infallible Word of Almighty God. Join Carrie Webb, along with her father and guest, Rob Webb, as we explore the divine nature of the Word of God.
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Jesus' Claims to Deity
- Sep 11, 2015
- 339,054
Mental Illness & Jesus: Part 2
- Aug 28, 2015
- 338,997
Mental Illness & Jesus: Part 1
- Aug 21, 2015
- 337,567
Camp
- Sep 18, 2015
- 336,511
The Pixel Shadow
Minetest (The Free Minecraft Alternative) runs on Linux, Mac and Windows, and we'll show you how to play.
Discovering Xanadu
- Episode 24
- April 23, 2017
- 5,334
A mysterious teleportation gate hidden deep beneath BaldNerd's dome whisks BaldNerd and MangleFox70 away to the strange, unknown land of the Xanadu, where the locals are able to eat bananas and corn, bounce around in a massive soccer field and take a minecart ride through the depths of the underworld.
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The Mysterious Room
- Apr 9, 2017
- 3,279
Surviving TPS-Domes with BaldNerd (Part 4)
- Apr 1, 2017
- 4,295
Surviving TPS-Domes with BaldNerd (Part 3)
- Mar 19, 2017
- 7,953
Surviving TPS-Domes with BaldNerd (Part 2)
- Mar 11, 2017
- 6,691
The Basic Survival House in Minetest
- Episode 1
- December 6, 2015
- 149,183
On the first episode of #thepixelshadow we'll get things started with the basics of Minetest with a simple goal: to build a house using nothing but resources which we've chopped down, dug up or crafted in survival mode! Here are the main topics of this episode: - Mining wood and stone. - Crafting wood sticks. - How to make wooden planks. - Crafting a furnace. - Smelting glass from sand. - Granting fast and fly privileges. - Making a pickaxe. - Crafting fancy doors using VanessaE's Home Decor mod. - Crafting a storage chest. - Crafting ladders. - Crafting a survival house. Hope you enjoy the show! Please give us a thumbs up, subscribe and share!
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Building a Mine in Minetest
- Jan 3, 2016
- 149,144
VanessaE's Public "Creative Building" Server in Minetest
- Jan 10, 2016
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Protect Your Structures in Minetest
- Jan 17, 2016
- 142,720
Our First Build Battle
- Jan 24, 2016
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Immersive Nature Sounds
Relax, study or work with peaceful natural sounds recorded in 360 VR.
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