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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.
SBC in the Enterprise Data Center with Bo Lechnowsky (ameriDroid)
- Episode 616
- July 10, 2019
- 3,030
Bo Lechnowsky, the founder of one of the world's most well-respected Single Board Computer stores, joins the Category5 team to discuss how far SBCs have come, how he and his company are currently using the tiny supercomputers, and how these pocket-sized (and some bite-sized) computers are revolutionizing the enterprise data center.
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Powerful "Desktop" Computer... Itty-Bitty Living Space
- Jul 3, 2019
- 1,016
25 Years of FreeDOS and 1 Week of Mario Battle Royale
- Jun 26, 2019
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Building a Web Server with an ODROID-N2
- Jun 19, 2019
- 1,171
Pinebook $99 Laptop: But Wait, There's More
- Jun 12, 2019
- 1,165
[Brutally Raw] First Impressions of a $99 Laptop
- Jun 5, 2019
- 987
Making Windows 8/8.1 Look and Feel Like Windows 7
- Episode 321
- November 12, 2013
- 755,742
Not a big fan of the new "start screen" on Windows 8? We'll show you how to return the traditional Start Menu to the latest version of Microsoft's desktop operating system.
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Raspberry Pi as a Development Web Server - Part 2
- Jan 5, 2016
- 753,727
Creating a Promotional Poster in GIMP
- Jan 12, 2016
- 738,306
Zorin OS 11 - Linux for Windows Users
- Jan 19, 2016
- 729,567
LED Bulbs, Fitness Through Tech and Making Kids Fly
- Jan 26, 2016
- 704,064
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 May 8, 2019
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- The UK "taxman" has fallen foul of the GDPR, agreeing to wipe 5 million voice recordings used to make biometric IDs.
- Did your Firefox browser break over the weekened? You're not alone. In fact, virtually everyone who uses Mozilla's popular browser encountered this issue, and we'll tell you why.
- On Tuesday, Google began rolling out a new feature that allows you to configure how long it can save data from all of the Google services you use, like maps, search, and everything you do online.
- Researchers have taken steps towards an iconic Star Trek medical device.
Top Stories for the Week of May 1, 2019
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- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS has reached its end of life, five years after it was first released.
- Amazon's AI automatically tracks and fires warehouse workers who it determines to be unproductive.
- Nintendo's hybrid Switch console now stands at 34.74 million units, which surpasses the sales of the incredibly popular N64.
- Elon Musk has revealed his Neuralink startup is close to announcing the first brain-machine interface to connect humans and computers.
Top Stories for the Week of April 24, 2019
- 272
- The last major Windows update broke some systems with particular antivirus software installed, and it’s seemingly getting worse.
- Marcus Hutchins, the security researcher who stopped WannaCry, has plead "guilty" to the malware charges we reported in 2017.
- Samsung has pushed back the launch of its highly anticipated folding smartphone after multiple reviewers reported the screens broke within days.
- Microsoft's Azure machine learning tech is being put to good use in a grant program designed to give computing resources to scientists working on environmental sustainability programs.
Top Stories for the Week of April 17, 2019
- 161
- Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp experienced outages on Sunday — which brought down their systems worldwide for over two hours. Now, single point of failure is being blamed, and we're looking at decentralized solutions like BitCoin for an answer.
- Microsoft has admitted that its Outlook.com security breach was worse than the company initially revealed.
- Sony has finally released the first details about its upcoming PlayStation 5 console.
- Nintendo fans, you may want to update your bucket list; the world's first Super Nintendo theme park is set to open its doors next year.
Top Stories for the Week of April 10, 2019
- 157
- A piece of malware has been found on both iOS and Android that has been stealing contacts, audio, location data and more for several years.
- Sony has created a colossal 16K screen which will soon be on display in Japan.
- A newly-discovered privilege-escalation flaw in the Apache web server allows malicious users to gain root access to the underlying OS.
- Astronomers have revealed the first ever image of a black hole that exists in a galaxy called M87, 500 million trillion km away.
Top Stories for the Week of April 3, 2019
- 152
- Mark Zuckerberg says regulators and governments should play a more active role in controlling internet content.
- TP-Link's all-in-one SR20 Smart Home Router allows arbitrary command execution from a local network connection.
- Office Depot and Support.com have settled out of court and coughed up $35m after they were accused of lying to people that their PCs were infected with malware in order to charge them cleanup fees.
- Effective immediately, Microsoft is ending all ebook sales in its Microsoft Store for Windows PCs.
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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.
Christ's Death Changed All The Rules
- Episode 190
- April 19, 2019
- 242
In 1 Corinthians 15:1-3 Paul speaks to the church in Corinth about Christ's death on the cross. Paul, being a scholar in the law, knew the rules and regulations (Old Testament) for the atonement of sin through animal sacrifice and how Jesus rewrote the play book on forgiveness of sins by His death.
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Goals
- Jan 25, 2019
- 208
A Friend of God
- Jan 18, 2019
- 467
Beyond The Breakers: Part 2 - Destination
- Jan 11, 2019
- 243
Beyond the Breakers: Part 1 - The Compass
- Jan 4, 2019
- 281
The Authority of The Word of God
- Episode 21
- September 4, 2015
- 340,916
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
- 339,342
Mental Illness & Jesus: Part 2
- Aug 28, 2015
- 339,246
Mental Illness & Jesus: Part 1
- Aug 21, 2015
- 337,877
Camp
- Sep 18, 2015
- 336,787
The Pixel Shadow
Minetest (The Free Minecraft Alternative) runs on Linux, Mac and Windows, and we'll show you how to play.
Super Smash Bros Ultimate with Piranha Plant DLC
- Episode 26
- February 3, 2019
- 499
The new Piranha Plant DLC is out, and Mortimer (Zech), Daddo (Robbie) and Blackout (Liam) play Super Smash Bros Ultimate, featuring the new Piranha Plant downloadable content.
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Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - TPS Let's Play Nintendo Switch
- Jan 1, 2019
- 697
Discovering Xanadu
- Apr 23, 2017
- 5,947
The Mysterious Room
- Apr 9, 2017
- 3,696
Surviving TPS-Domes with BaldNerd (Part 4)
- Apr 1, 2017
- 4,633
The Basic Survival House in Minetest
- Episode 1
- December 6, 2015
- 149,850
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
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VanessaE's Public "Creative Building" Server in Minetest
- Jan 10, 2016
- 146,675
Protect Your Structures in Minetest
- Jan 17, 2016
- 143,325
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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