Category5 Technology TV - Viewer Question Extravaganza

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This episode is sponsored in part by: Liquid Image, Music Pro Barrie, Planet Calypso & Pogoplug.

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Robbie Ferguson and Christa Wells present live from the Category5 studios in Barrie, Ontario.
Viewer Question: What is the stardate?
Viewer Postcards. Thanks to Dennis / Mathman47 for sending in his postcard.
Viewer Question: When I visit the mobile web site on my tablet, it erroneously directs me to the main web site.
Viewer Photos: kgoosie sends a photo of his kids watching Category5 TV.
Viewer Question: I'd like to create tutorial videos of operating systems and software. Should I invest in a video capture card, or a good microphone?
Robbie shows the Blue Yeti Pro, and recommends it as the ideal mic for podcasters, screencasters and overall best bang-for-the-buck.
Robbie and Christa unbox the Blue Yeti Pro live on the air.
Christa's Comment: The Blue Yeti Pro seems very heavy duty.
The Blue Yeti Pro is a huge microphone, nearly twice the size of a standard studio mic.
Viewer Question: I have Ubuntu installed on a 16 GB MicroSD card, and would like to do virtualization on this card. Therefore, I would like to keep the host OS as small as possible. What do I need to get the minimal install of Ubuntu up and going?
Robbie warns of the possible unreliability of MicroSD cards (and any flash media for that matter).
Installing LXDE on Ubuntu Minimal using apt-get.
Viewer Comment: Teasing Eric about his yellow shirt was harsh. He's not the only famous guy who looks like a Canary. See this photo of Kevin Kline.
Top Stories from the Category5.TV Newsroom.
Christa's ears.
The Vulcan Salute: is the thumb out, or in? Proof, from Wikipedia.
Viewer Question: How can I stream 3 cameras with camera switching and audio coming through a separate audio mixer? I'd like to also record to disk in HD while broadcasting the conference.
Using Wirecast to switch between multiple cameras.
The fact about true HD recording, on the fly.
Viewer Question: Is the streaming and recording done all from one computer?
Desktop Presenter lets you capture your computer screen to Wirecast directly through your network.
How Category5 uses Wirecast, a 1080p camera and digital zoom to allow closeup shots with little quality loss.
Christa hesitantly admits that Robbie has the moves like a vulcan.
Music Video: "Moves Like a Vulcan", a spoof of Maroon5's Moves Like Jagger.
Christa thinks Robbie's lucky Zech is too young to be embarassed by his dad.
Viewer Tip: To install Gnome 3 on Ubuntu 11.10, search for the gnome-shell package.
Viewer Comment: I was looking for a BIOS update for my own motherboard and noticed that your new server's board has an update that allows up to 3TB hard drives and improved timing features.
The Thermaltake Level 10 GT is on sale for $80 off until November 30th!
Why you may or may not upgrade your device's firmware.
Viewer Question: I love the unRAID Calculator! Is there any way to make it into a standalone script?
Obtaining and launching Prism on Linux.
Adding a web site to Prism to make it run like a desktop application.