Category5 Technology TV - Viewer Question Extravaganza (Solo Style)

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Notes:
This episode was 10 minutes late when live, so if you are following along in the chat logs, 7:10pm is actually the start of the video. 7:45pm in the chat logs is just 35 minutes in.

The feature previously scheduled for this time slot (Creating a Virtual Machine of Your Real System - Part 2) has been rebooked for September 17th (Episode 313).

This episode is sponsored in part by: Eco Alkalines.

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Robbie Ferguson presents live from the Category5 studios in Barrie, Ontario.
Viewer Comment: This reminds me of the old days when Robbie would do the show solo, with no co-host.
Using TeamViewer, Robbie is able to help with specific computer issues for Category5 TV viewers.
Greetings to those in the chat room.
{play 6:36}Viewer Comment: Thank you for the lesson on ffDiaporama. I've been looking for something for Linux that would compare with ProShow Gold but would run on Linux and that did it.
{play 7:58}Viewer Postcard: Dennis Kelley sends a postcard from an 1800's era village in Michigan, USA.
{play 11:25}How to send Robbie a private message in the chat room during a live broadcast.
{play 12:15}Viewer Question: Do you have a Disneyland in Canada? No - but we have Canada's Wonderland, which was cool when both it and Star Trek were owned by Paramount, but is now just a themeless theme park.
{play 13:00}Viewer Comment: I found your site when looking up some Linux stuff for kids. Can I suggest you add approximate times to the show notes of individual broadcasts? We have! But it is not retroactive to very old episodes.
{play 15:32}Viewer Question: I got Ubuntu 13.04 working! The only problem I have now is that I have about 10 too many partitions after several failed attempts to get Linux installed. Can they be converged into one?
How Robbie got going with Linux by using a separate hard drive.
{play 22:03}Thank you to viewers who have been able to send in donations. Robbie explains what donations are helping with at this time: the Studio D renovation. To help fund the project, Robbie has taken on extra work as a volunteer, where all proceeds are going toward the studio build.
Using the Category5 radio feed (available via our Mobile Site) uses less bandwidth than the video feed, which is perfect for cellphone use.
{play 27:07}Top Stories from the Category5.TV Newsroom.
- A transit system traveling at 4,000 miles per hour has been proposed by Elon Musk.
- TOR users are being urged to stop using Microsoft Windows.
- The latest security breach: An Android app that lets you spray rich people with their own toilet water.
- Resistive RAM can place 1 TB of data on a single chip at 100x the performance of a mechanical hard drive.
{play 38:04}Viewer Comment: I thought I'd pass this information on to you and your viewers: I discovered that it is now possible to backup your Blu-ray movies using free software in Linux using MakeMKV. Check out cat5.tv/mkv for a script that installs MakeMKV on Linux.
- Robbie describes why DVD/Blu-ray backups are important to him.
{play 43:07}Viewer Question: Jim calls in to ask: On Ubuntu 13.04, you can't right-click on a drive to format it. Is there a way to add that?
{play 49:34}Viewer Comment: Thanks to Robbie's persistence in promoting effective backups, I finally setup a good off-site backup solution.
- How Robbie learned to backup the hard way.
- Viewer Comment: A backup is only a backup if you can effectively restore it.
- Why consumer CD/DVD media should not be trusted for backups even though pro optical media lasts for many, many years.
{play 56:53}Viewer Question: I'm on Ubuntu 13.04. I can watch past episodes, but can't watch live. I installed Flash but it didn't help. Is there something else I need to install?
{play 58:49}Viewer Question: Is there an add-on for LibreOffice that will allow automatic translation to other languages? My wife wrote a book that is available worldwide, and I'd like to translate it to various languages. I'd rather use Linux, but can't find a tool. Is there anything you recommend?
- Not a LibreOffice extension, but instead an online translation service that allows you to upload a LibreOffice ODT file, and then download a translated copy. It's available at freetranslation.com.