Category5 Technology TV - Viewer Question Extravaganza

Viewer Question Extravaganza

S05E28
April 3, 2012

Robbie and Eric work through a slew of viewer questions, give away a copy of Telestream Wirecast and announce our Earth Day giveaway contest. Eric also plays a live set of original songs.

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Notes:
The Enterprise NCC-1701-D is 642.5 Meters long. Nowhere near Robbie's guess of 5 kilometres, but still, pretty big.

This episode is sponsored in part by: Eco Alkalines, Garden Gate Farms and Cordery Electric.

Topics Covered:

Robbie Ferguson and Eric Kidd present live from the Category5 studios in Barrie, Ontario.
Toughts about Earth Hour vs. Earth Day.
{play 8:59}Viewer picture from Afghanistan.
{play 12:11}Viewer Questions
Viewer Question: How can I use SFTP with Filezilla Client, and also how do I connect to my site by SSH?
Category5 does its hosting with Dreamhost.
Why you'd choose SFTP over FTP when transferring files to and from your web server.
Connecting to SSH via the Linux terminal, even if it is hosted on an odd port.
Viewer Question: What is the easiest way to backup my entire Debian system in such a way that if I have a crash, I can restore the entire computer quickly?
The alternative version vs "free" version of Clonezilla.
Why you'd use Ethernet instead of WiFi when creating an image of your computer.
Understanding the difference between an image and an incremental backup.
Viewer Comment: As people are asking about accessing the old Category5 TV episodes, I thought I'd point you toward the Wayback Machine's archive of the site located on archive.org.
{play 26:03}Top stories from the Category5.TV Newsroom.
Thoughts about BlackBerry.
{play 31:54}Announcing our Earth Day giveaway in partnership with Eco Alkalines batteries.
Eric is annoyed at all the junk he gets on Facebook.
Greetings to those joining us in the chat room.
Viewer Question: I just upgraded my VirtualBox, but now I can't get Mint to go fullscreen. It's just a square in the middle of the screen. Why can't I get it to fill the screen?
{play 42:38}Wirecast giveaway! Congratulations to Jens Jarke!
{play 44:22}Live Musical Performance. Eric Kidd takes the stage and plays a couple original tunes.
Announcing our upcoming feature which will save you a ton of money.
The Category5 studio line is 254-5-CAT5TV
Send in your postcards!

Links to Relevant Web Sites:

Category5 on Tech Podcast Network: cat5.tv/tpn
Clonezilla: clonezilla.org
Category5 on Twitter: @category5tv
Robbie on Twitter: @RobbieFerguson
Eric on Twitter: @KiddEric

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