Category5 Technology TV - Pump Up The Volume

Pump Up The Volume

S05E30
April 17, 2012

Robbie and Hillary look at the iFrogz BOOST Near-Field Audio speaker and answer a slew of viewer questions.

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

Topics Covered:

Robbie Ferguson and Hillary Rumball present live from the Category5 studios in Barrie, Ontario.
Hillary and her spandex.
Congratulations to Agamotto for getting a new job.
{play 3:30}Viewer Postcards. Thanks to invinciblemutant who sent a postcard from Malaysia.
{play 5:33}Viewer Testimonials.
{play 7:53}Viewer Voicemail.
{play 10:58}Viewer Questions.
Viewer Question: Is it possible to have my external IP on my panel or desktop so I can see it easily without having to go to a web site?
Viewer Comment: The new Category5 web site (V3) is very fast, even on my cellphone!
Creating a bash script to automatically grab your external IP address from externalip.net and generate a conky script to display your IP address on your Linux desktop.
Adding a script as a cronjob (scheduled task) in Linux using crontab.
Installing conky on Linux using apt-get.
Adding an application to auto start (startup applications) in Linux.
Viewer Question: I'm having some problems with my Realtek RTL8139D network card. How do I get rid of the netrom bootmenu?
Viewer Question: How do I add WhatPulse to auto start in Ubuntu?
The issue with WhatPulse and Synergy.
{play 28:57}Top Stories from the Category5.TV Newsroom.
{play 33:43}The Category5 branded USB Flash Drive.
{play 38:05}Hillary is rough with her gear.
{play 39:58}Hardware Feature: The new BOOST Near-Field Audio amplifying speaker from iFrogz.com lets you pump up the volume of your iDevice without wires, wifi or pairing.
Robbie and Hillary test the iFrogz BOOST speaker with the iPod Touch 4 (success) and HTC phone (fail).
Viewer Question: I'm using TightVNC to connect to my virtual machine. Using the web browser interface, I don't get the VirtualBox popup. Is this normal?
Viewer Question: How do I get my VirtualBox server to see my unRAID server?
Viewer Question: Do I need to setup a workgroup on my unRAID server to access it from my Windows computers?
Robbie awards random viewer points to the first 3 viewers in the chat room that don't have Apple devices.
Robbie's story about a lady who got a virus on her new Windows computer.
Linux is a viable alternative OS to Microsoft Windows.
{play 57:09}Contest Details: Win a year supply of Eco Alkalines batteries!

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Hillary on Twitter: @HillaryRumball
MP3's of Eric's Music Performance: cat5.tv/eric
Category5 WhatPulse Team: cat5.tv/pulse
Category5 Calendar: cat5.tv/calendar

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