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Weekly live digital TV show with Robbie Ferguson focused on topics of interest to tech minds. Ask your questions and get live answers. Recipient of 2014 Top 100 Tech Podcasters award.
Debian Stretch Release Celebration
- Episode 509
- June 21, 2017
- 96
Debian Stretch is the latest stable version of the famous Linux distribution and to celebrate, we'd like to introduce you to Linux, Debian and a suite of included free software.
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Unveiling Kingston's 2TB USB Flash Drive
- Jun 14, 2017
- 9,463
Viewer Questions and a Power Meter
- Jun 7, 2017
- 27,982
Encrypted Drives Without a Password on Linux
- May 31, 2017
- 10,910
Linux Commands That Make Jeff Laugh Uncontrollably
- May 24, 2017
- 27,738
WannaCry - The Latest On This Nasty Ransomware
- May 17, 2017
- 38,727
Raspberry Pi as a Development Web Server - Part 2
- Episode 433
- January 5, 2016
- 752,016
We continue setting up our Pi web server with PHP and a strong Linux firewall (CSF/LFD). We also get things going on deploying MariaDB, but haven't quite got there yet. On GIMP Tips, we look at creating gradients and how to make the edges super-smooth.
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Creating a Promotional Poster in GIMP
- Jan 12, 2016
- 736,195
Zorin OS 11 - Linux for Windows Users
- Jan 19, 2016
- 727,261
LED Bulbs, Fitness Through Tech and Making Kids Fly
- Jan 26, 2016
- 702,321
Expand Your Raspberry Pi Storage
- Feb 9, 2016
- 674,707
The Category5.TV Newsroom
A weekly tech-centric news broadcast with a Linux bias (Part of Category5 Technology TV).
Top Stories for the Week of June 21, 2017
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- Canada's broadcast regulator has ruled that cellphone networks may no longer charge fees for carrier-unlocking handsets nor sell new phones locked to their network.
- Online retail giant Amazon is buying Whole Foods in a $13.7bn deal that marks its biggest push into traditional retailing yet.
- Apple's chief executive has confirmed it is developing a self-driving car system.
- A European Parliament committee is proposing that end-to-end encryption be enforced on all forms of digital communications to protect citizens.
- The latest chapter in the Star Trek saga finally has its premiere date -- with the 15-episode season set to be released in two chapters.
Top Stories for the Week of June 14, 2017
- 1,798
- The days of listening to the captain speaking on a flight may be numbered, according to Boeing.
- Fake books – powered by clickfarms – are gatecrashing Amazon’s charts. And despite being aware of the issue for well over a year, Amazon has thus far failed to resolve it.
- Pursuing more efficient sources of renewable energy has led to many iterations of the battery. But researchers just brought a really interesting new version to the table, one made from potassium ions and trash.
- Parker Brothers Concepts, the same Florida-based custom vehicle shop that built a TRON-inspired electric motorcycle, has now designed and built a new NASA rover for humans to drive around on Mars.
Top Stories for the Week of June 7, 2017
- 1,726
- Microsoft Rewards is planning to pay people to use Bing instead of its competitors.
- Toyota will be the first US automaker to use "Automotive Grade Linux", also known as AGL. They'll be including it in the 2018 Toyota Camry.
- Apple may be the biggest tech company in the world, but some of the biggest tech stories in recent years haven't involved Apple much at all.
- Albert Einstein predicted that whenever light from a distant star passes by a closer object, gravity acts as a kind of magnifying lens, brightening and bending the distant starlight. Yet, in a 1936 article in the journal Science, he added that because stars are so far apart "there is no hope of observing this phenomenon directly."
Top Stories for the Week Of May 31, 2017
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- It’s been a bad month for Windows 7 users. The widespread WannaCry ransomware hit a ton of Windows 7 machines, and now a new bug has been discovered that will slow down and crash Windows 7 and Windows 8.
- A business school in Paris will soon begin using artificial intelligence and facial analysis to determine whether students are paying attention in class.
- A new malware called 'Judy' is now infecting millions of Android smartphones globally close on the heels of 'WannaCry' holding PCs at ransom.
- Intel has unveiled its new X-series platform: Up to 18 cores and 36 threads.
Top Stories for the Week of May 24, 2017
- 1,675
- Dubai is constantly pushing the envelope for a "smart" city, and now a robotic police officer is making its rounds on city streets.
- Amidst the noise of the WannaCry attack, Canada's largest telecom company, Bell Canada, had 2 million of its customer records stolen by unknown hackers.
- The rebooted Nokia 3310 has gone on sale, nearly 17 years after the original made its debut.
- For years, Yahoo Mail has exposed a wealth of private user data because it failed to update widely used image-processing software that contained critical vulnerabilities. That's according to a security researcher who warned that other popular services are also likely to be leaking sensitive subscriber secrets.
- Ever wonder where they get the strange names for paint colors? It could be worse: it could be up to AI.
Top Stories for the Week of May 17, 2017
- 1,722
- Would you pay more to get your Netflix fix? How about on weekends, when the urge to binge strikes hardest?
- It sounds like science fiction, but smartphones with batteries that fully charge in just five minutes could be available to consumers next year.
- MP3, the format that revolutionized the way we consume music since the 90s, has been officially retired -- in a manner of speaking.
- Games company ZeniMax, which successfully sued Facebook-owned Oculus for $500 million earlier this year, has filed a new lawsuit over Samsung’s Gear VR headset.
- To say 2017 is a dangerous year to be online is an understatement. With reports of 200,000 computers infected in 150 countries this past weekend, mankind’s newest cyber enemy, WannaCry, takes online threats to a new level.
New Every Day
Join Jenn Wagar and Carrie Webb as they sit down for a heart-to-heart discussion each week, addressing many of the issues Christians face in their day to day lives, and building your faith and focus through relevant conversation.
Car Conversations: Destination Unknown
- Episode 103
- June 16, 2017
- 1,805
It's so much easier to pursue the call God places on our lives when we know the end game. This week, let's discuss what it means to step out in faith, get up out of your chair and go--even when you don't know what the end result will be.
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Car Conversations: Get Out Of Your Chair
- Jun 9, 2017
- 1,756
Money Matters - Part 4: Get Your Money Working For You
- Jun 2, 2017
- 1,843
Money Matters - Part 3: Surrendering Our Finances to The Lord
- May 26, 2017
- 1,661
Money Matters - Part 2: Budgeting
- May 19, 2017
- 1,669
The Authority of The Word of God
- Episode 21
- September 4, 2015
- 340,104
Being an effective witness for Christ starts with one truth: the Bible is the infallible Word of Almighty God. Join Carrie Webb, along with her father and guest, Rob Webb, as we explore the divine nature of the Word of God.
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Jesus' Claims to Deity
- Sep 11, 2015
- 338,751
Mental Illness & Jesus: Part 2
- Aug 28, 2015
- 338,693
Mental Illness & Jesus: Part 1
- Aug 21, 2015
- 337,265
Camp
- Sep 18, 2015
- 336,194
The Pixel Shadow
Minetest (The Free Minecraft Alternative) runs on Linux, Mac and Windows, and we'll show you how to play.
Discovering Xanadu
- Episode 24
- April 23, 2017
- 4,028
A mysterious teleportation gate hidden deep beneath BaldNerd's dome whisks BaldNerd and MangleFox70 away to the strange, unknown land of the Xanadu, where the locals are able to eat bananas and corn, bounce around in a massive soccer field and take a minecart ride through the depths of the underworld.
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The Mysterious Room
- Apr 9, 2017
- 2,619
Surviving TPS-Domes with BaldNerd (Part 4)
- Apr 1, 2017
- 3,719
Surviving TPS-Domes with BaldNerd (Part 3)
- Mar 19, 2017
- 7,394
Surviving TPS-Domes with BaldNerd (Part 2)
- Mar 11, 2017
- 6,207
The Basic Survival House in Minetest
- Episode 1
- December 6, 2015
- 148,375
On the first episode of #thepixelshadow we'll get things started with the basics of Minetest with a simple goal: to build a house using nothing but resources which we've chopped down, dug up or crafted in survival mode! Here are the main topics of this episode: - Mining wood and stone. - Crafting wood sticks. - How to make wooden planks. - Crafting a furnace. - Smelting glass from sand. - Granting fast and fly privileges. - Making a pickaxe. - Crafting fancy doors using VanessaE's Home Decor mod. - Crafting a storage chest. - Crafting ladders. - Crafting a survival house. Hope you enjoy the show! Please give us a thumbs up, subscribe and share!
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Building a Mine in Minetest
- Jan 3, 2016
- 148,364
VanessaE's Public "Creative Building" Server in Minetest
- Jan 10, 2016
- 145,541
Protect Your Structures in Minetest
- Jan 17, 2016
- 141,869
Our First Build Battle
- Jan 24, 2016
- 138,091
Nature Sounds of Ontario, Canada
Relax, study or work with peaceful natural sounds from Ontario.
Tech Snippets
The Drone Zone
Drone unboxing, flight demos and reviews.
Fall Flight with the FreeX MCFX-01
- Episode 8
- September 26, 2016
- 241
A fall flight over Haliburton Ontario.
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CX-STARS Flight Demo - The Drone That Fits in a Controller
- Aug 28, 2016
- 9,592
CX-STARS Flight Demo - The Drone That Fits in a Controller
- Episode 7
- August 28, 2016
- 9,592
Cheerson CX-Stars are a fun beginner drone or handy little carry-along for those times you want to fly but can’t take your larger drones.
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Syma X5C-1 Speed Trap
- Oct 10, 2015
- 1,209
How To Fly Any Quadcopter Nano Drone Multi-Rotor
- Dec 24, 2015
- 618
Syma X5C-1 Flight Demo
- Oct 5, 2015
- 287
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