Topics Covered:

• Robbie Ferguson and Rachel Xu present live from the Category5 studios in Barrie, Ontario.
• Introducing the new live viewing page for Category5 Technology TV.
• Viewer Question: Are you using a green screen?
• Santa Claus pays a visit and extends a very special greeting to Rachel Xu, courtesy of magicsanta.ca.
• Viewer Comment: Greeting from India.
• Greetings to new viewers.
• Viewer Question: How can I connect to a Windows share on my NAS from my Linux computer and output a list of all the files in that share?
• Connecting to a Windows share the typical way from within the Linux GUI.
• Installing smbfs on Linux using the apt-get command.
• Creating a mountpoint in Linux to connect your NAS to.
• Mounting a samba (Windows) network share to your Linux machine using the mount command and smbfs.
• Demonstrating a few of the different "simple" commands to list files in Linux.
• Piping bash (Linux terminal) commands into a text file using either overwrite method or append.
• Viewer Question: Which movie software is better, Moovida or XBMC?
• Viewer Question: Can you explain what the speed of SD memory cards means?
• Using Google to quickly convert megabits to megabytes.
• The effects of SD card speed on both video and still digital cameras.
• Understanding the class rating of SD cards.
• Top Stories from the Category5.TV newsroom.
• What "sandboxing" means.
• Rachel's Question: Is the Pogoplug simply USB storage?
• Remeniscing when flash drives were more than $100 for less than 100 MB.
• Robbie's use of a Brother MFC scanner to scan directly to USB flash drive, and then plug the drive directly into the Pogoplug to share and backup.
• Viewer Comment: The star over your head needs to be turned down.
• Viewer Comment: The Pogoplug software is not working on my computer.
• The advantages and disadvantages of Pogoplug software vs Pogoplug hardware.
• Important Notice: Apparently some cashiers have been ringing through orders at the checkout with "cash advance", and then pocketing the money. Check your receipts as you check out.
• When forwarding email, use BCC to protect yourself, friends and family from viruses and spammers.
• Why Robbie always checks the ATM before inserting his debit card.
• Feature: Making your Internet faster ... for free.
• What DNS is and what it does for you.
• Why DNS really matters: it's not just about getting to the page, but every single http request required to generate and navigate the web site.
• Obtaining GRC's free DNS Benchmark tool, which works on Windows, or via wine in Linux or Mac OS.
• Running DNS Benchmark on Linux using wine.
• Generating a custom name server list in DNS Benchmark.
• Understanding the "orange" redirecting DNS servers generated by DNS Benchmark.
• Running a DNS Benchmark to determine the fastest DNS servers for your Internet connection.
• Using Linux Network Connections tool to edit your DNS settings directly on your Linux computer. Note: this can be done on both Windows and Mac OS, but the process is simply a little different. Simply use a search engine and search for change dns windows xp, change dns windows 7 or change dns mac os according to your needs.
• GRC DNS Benchmark's advantage over other products such as namebench: it not only offers the fastest servers, but also lets you see their reliability.
• Christmas gift for Rachel Xu: a Christmas pickle.
• Contest: Click Race. Congratulations to Jot who won the Pogoplug and Knightstarr who won 250 Category5 Viewer Points as the runner up.
• Viewer Comment: The reason I'm so good at clicking the mouse is from playing Planet Calypso.

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Links to Relevant Web Sites:

• Category5 Mobile Site: mobile.cat5.tv
• Magic Santa: magicsanta.ca
• Video Bitrate Info on Wikipedia: wikipedia.org