Category5 Technology TV with Robbie Ferguson
Category5 Technology TV with Robbie Ferguson
Category5 Technology TV with Robbie Ferguson.
Based in Ontario, Canada, Category5 Technology TV has been producing tech-centric video (with a Linux bias) since 2007.
From tech tips to showing Linux and open source software some love, Category5 Technology TV answers viewer questions and offers a vast resource for those interested in alternative technology.
It's not all about Linux. But we're not ashamed of our unending love for the open source OS. We feature current tech news, maker tech, tips and tricks for various platforms (including - GASP - Windows) and more.
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now do how to get movies you bought from vudu and download on a usb or dvd so you can have what you bought.
hey how do i autosave the server
So Jeff, about "not doing Starbucks"? We have our favorite specialty local/regional coffee shops that we frequent 🙂 We count on our loyal customers to know where to get quality SBCs and home automation products that don't require proprietary servers (we're looking at you, Wyze), and we're super thankful for those customers. 😄 Gotta check with our marketing team to make sure I did that right...
Keep in mind, too, that I've "hacked" the firmware (with one Wyze themselves provided) that gives me RTSP support on the WyzeCam, and have them connected to our real surveillance DVR (via RTSP) - so it's not all proprietary if you know your way around. But easy for novice users who may not know how to do such things. What would you recommend in place of the Wyze devices?
We timed that ameriDroid subscription notification to Jeff just right -- he got it during the drive! Glad to hear our staff are doing their jobs. LOL!!
Nailed it! 😅
That Airtag theory is crazy... We totally could see this as a thing.
Scary, but legit!
Unreal Tournament GOTY WAN party. Who's in? 🎮🎮🎮🔫🔫🔫
Did you enjoy the RECAP feature at the start of this video? We'd love to hear your thoughts on how we paused production for a few weeks to allow comments to come in on our previous episode, and then address them in the next (with some crazy maths)!
We learned so much together!
There is nothing that is called a to fast Micro SD card!!!!! You want everything you can press out of it. The more the better. Nothing is to fast on Micro SD Cards..... So the greater the better.
A lighting hit and mine wont turn on. The lights aren't on. How do I fix ?
Lots of LED flicker in the recording. I was wondering why, at one point, the car behind you was flashing its lights. 😁
Our cameras are 60 Hz and we record at 24 frames per second. LED bulbs turn off and on at a rate of between 100-120 "flashes" per second, and sometimes we get in sync! With Data Drive, I decided to let stuff like this pass. What you gonna do? 😋
@@LinuxTechShow just an observation. I knew it had some technical reason for it. Cameras pickup things that our eyes do not. Although, sometimes our brains do and we get headaches from it. 😁
Reminds me of kzread.info/dash/bejne/kXhtp7NuqdLVfpc.html
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Jeff's face at the coffee order was priceless!
He's picturing a fish! 🐟🐟🐟☕
So many people start their sentences with "So... ". 😁 Makes me nuts.
So what you're saying is it's annoying. 😅
@@LinuxTechShowSo much so!
I see left turning Canadians don't always yield the right of way either. Shame shame.
Please tell me it wasn't me! Timestamps, or it didn't happen!
@@LinuxTechShow it wasn’t you. You made a right turn after a pickup truck made a left directly in front of you.
PHEW!
19:20
That intersection (Bradford, Ontario at Holland Landing and Bathurst, 44.105803, -79.518008) is in fact a 3-way stop. The truck in front of me was first, then I was next, then the one you see turning left behind me. While they were a little closer than they probably should have been, they had the right of way compared to the vehicle behind me. Now, that doesn't excuse their speed at 19:52 when they overtake me at double the speed limit 😂
Another weight consideration is that as you use the gas the weight of the vehicle decreases. Battery weight remains constant. Put that in your algorithm and weigh it.
Don't make me do this! 😂
Watching this in July 2024. Does this still work? Do you have an updated video?
Very Entertaining and Infromative at the same time. Definitely, a like, a subscribe and a share ...
"getty images" is a disgusting website, just like the likes of it (e.g. Alamy, iStock). They steal images from the internet, watermark them and sell them as their own copyrighted images! Disgusting and outrageous! I always use such images (if I can only find them there) by removing the watermark (with AI it's an easy process) and using them. And getty images can suck it! :D
_So, Anyway_ … That is the title of John Cleese's autobiography. The story and pictures of the old Lan party reminds me of the time I was mistaken for undercover police. :D A friend of mine (the one with the big RAID server) was scheduled to come visit me in july 2004. He lived about a 7 hours drive from my old flat, so me and two friends drove down in a SAAB 9000 to get him. We met him downtown in the smal willage he lived in and drove to his flat 2 minutes away. When we got to his appartment, he wanted to bring his computer along, so one of my friends went inside to help him carry his computer, the CRT screen, and the required accessories. This was at a time when the news was filled with cases from around the world of mostly young men who was arrested for pirating music and so on. So one of his neighbours thought he was being arrested by the police for computer crimes… :D We still laugh at this story 20 years later. :-)
Ha! That's quite the story! I'd be afraid of neighbours thinking I was walking off with someone's gear. Those days are gone, but I did enjoy them. Can't believe the gear we used to shift just to have a game night.
hello pinecraft os 4.0 crashes on installation (pi4 8gb + ssd 64gb) maybe i did wrong. thanks for your work.
The distro that Robbie was talking about that has it's explisit purpose of ripping CDs that you insert into a cd drive, there are two of those. Daphile and VortexBox. Daphile is still being maintained. Latest release was exactly a month ago, as of writing this comment. Speaking of backups. A good friend of mine told me in 2002 about a neighbour who had - at the time - the perfect backup solution. The family had 3 Windows XP systems and all of them was configured to backup the documents folder which contained all documents, pictures and music - and automatically backed up this to the other 2 computers in the network. And it worked flawlesly. It never failed once. Then one day the lightning hit a powerline feeding the home, and fried all 3 computers… Nothing was recoverable. They lost everything stored on a computer. Another friend of mine has a system of offsite storing of a harddrive. So a few years ago he bought Six 8 TB harddrives. 1 is mounted in a computer. 1 is mounted in a MyBook Live Nas box. 2 is mounted in a Synology Nas box, configured in RAID1 1 is stored offline is a safe in his home. The last one is stored in a safe on the other side of town at a friends family's house. The one in his safe is periodically connected to a system and he sync his internal dedicated 8TB backup drive to this external drive. This external drive in his safe is 3 or 4 times a year being swapped out with the one at his friends house.
I'm with Robbie. I have all my albums as OGG, MP3 and M4A files - depending on how it was aquired. (I don't convert them as that lowers the quality.) When I _Buy_ music, I exclusively buy CDs and Rip them. In about 2007 I used a whole week ripping all my CDs to the Ogg vorbis format, using 3 Mandriva Linux computers at the same time. And I did nothing but rip CDs during that week. And it was about time, as 4 of the CDs was in the condition that it was to late to rip them - the computers could not read them… I still have all of the physical CDs in a few boxes in a storage room upstairs. But nowadays I mostly rip the audio from KZread using a well known command line utility. :-) This is legal _In my country_, as we have a specific section in our equivalent to the copyright law which says something to the effect that if you have legal access to something, you are legally allowed to copy it for personal use. And in Norway personal use includes giving copies to your family and close personal friends. A legal expert commented on this when the law was changed in 2005 and said that 200 colleagues at work are Not close personal friends. :-) In 1982 the Ministry of Culture established a fund with the specific purpose of providing financial compensation to rights holders in Norway for legal copying for private use of music and video. Meaning that my copying from KZread is actually compensated via this fund, and no rightsholder organization has ever disputed this «deal». I do not use any streaming service of any kind, with the exception of KZread - and I use KZread anonymously without logging into it. I use Firefox for my normal usage, and have a dedicated Chromium browser for logging into KZread to upload videos and on rare occations like this one comment on videos. I almost never comment on youtube. IRC forever!! ;-) This also means that I don't subscribe to youtube channels the normal way, I subscribe using KZreads RSS feed on an RSS reader - Liferea in my case - which every channel still has. And no, they no longer publish the existence of this feature - but they still maintain it.
Captain Pike (from the Starship Enterprise)? Or Space Fish?
The PinecraftOS for the 1.21 version doesn't work in the raspberry, it freezes on the boot.
@@dextreme5251 you should be posting that as an issue on the GitHub.
You are a life saver! Thank you man!
This is great content. Thanks for sharing. I will look through the rest of your content and post any questions I have. Cheers
Thanks. I also started a separate channel after this video, which focuses exclusively on video production. kzread.info
I use WPS (on linux) because just prettier than libreoffice. I understand libreoffice can do much more than WPS, but compatibility with word much better with WPS and looks very similar.
Shout out for the 10.0.0.1 crew, you just happen to use the same DHCP scope as me too though lol ;)
@@stuarthamilton679 my fridge is talking to your toaster!
The instructions were good but it still failed. It gives me an incompatible client error. Any chance you could tell me how to update?
Fair warning, I'm just a dad that can follow instructions. I don't have a clue how this works.
for a “stable” stand that’s the most unstable mount for soldering
my charge port doesn't work
I had to buy tires recently for a hybrid suv. The tires made for it were more expensive than for the gas version because they had to accommodate the extra weight.
Wow! And yikes! See, I might not have thought about that when purchasing a new hybrid (which I haven't done yet). Do you suspect the more expensive tires will give you longer life? Or are you expecting them to wear out quicker than normal?
@@LinuxTechShow According to the tire shop owner, who also happens to be a friend, they will last about as long as a regular tire on a regular car. Since I only bought them a month ago, I can't verify that.
So where I theorized that tires wouldn't last as long, it seems they've accounted for my weight theory by instead charging more and making them last the same time. Interesting! Thanks for your feedback. I hope you enjoyed the show.
@@LinuxTechShow I definitely enjoyed it. It is good to see you are back making content again.
That means a lot - thank you! We've worked so hard to keep the business from folding throughout the pandemic, and here we are on the other side, so very excited to be finding new ways to bring regular content. I can't wait to see where this goes! Thanks for joining us for The Drive!!
Do I need static IP for the server?
Pickup truck classifications of 1/2 ton, ton, 2 ton are the payload sizes. What it can carry. I looked up tires for a Tesla Model 3 and one place has them for between $700-1000USD with 70,000 mile warranties. I listen to many different types of music including older stuff and all of it is most definitely NOT online.
Thanks for the truck clarification! A quick Google search confirms "A ½ ton pickup can weigh between 4,500 and 7,500 pounds-so that's clearly not how the vehicle got its name." Holy cow, those are expensive tires! Though if they are warrantied for that many miles, sounds like a buy-once, replace on warranty kinda deal. I agree re. music... and a lot of my collection is actually on vinyl, which I don't tend to rip. There's radio, and there's my own collection, and when I play my own collection, I appreciate tactile... even vintage... platforms. There's something not quite right about listening to a classic soul record from the mid 1900's on an online streaming platform. It's just not the same enjoyment. Cheers!
I am working on Linux Mint. It is the best for desktop
you unreal engine trekkies have ruined youtube the real virtual tour of the enterprise d with Riker talking about the ship and crew was way better it was short and sweet and he talked about data you and all these fan made virtual tours have push the real tour video off youtube SO I HATE YOU give me back my D AK
If you have a yard, build a buried "data bunker" in your back yard and you'll have something about as good as off-prem but immediately accessible and with no cloud fees. And it can even have power and network so you can back up to it as desired. And you can line it with shielding to protect against EMPs if you want to go that far.
Now we're talking! I'm thinking I'll move my server rack into the bunker, put a neon Molson Canadian sign in the lounge, and maybe, just maybe, a pool table. 😂 Seriously though, your idea does sound doable... with a shovel, some waterproofing and a day's work, it shouldn't be too difficult to create a small data safe. I like it! Now, wish me luck as I suggest it to my wife.
We're working on a solution for automated photo/video backup from your phone to your OWN cloud server. And you can look at what's on the cloud server at any time.
We need that photo tool...
The deduplication feature of the webcam software I created for the resort was based on the open source code found here: github.com/jhnc/findimagedupes - Hopefully that gives you a good starting point to adopt similar functionality into your own application.
+1 Musical Interlude at 17:00
According to Grok AI: The weight of a Toyota Camry can vary depending on the specific model and trim level, but on average, a 2024 Toyota Camry has a curb weight of around 3,310 to 3,579 pounds (1,501 to 1,623 kg). When comparing the weight of a Toyota Camry to a similar-sized EV, such as the Tesla Model 3, the Tesla Model 3 is slightly heavier. The Tesla Model 3's curb weight ranges from 3,582 to 4,072 pounds (1,625 to 1,847 kg), depending on the specific model and battery pack size. Therefore, on average, a Tesla Model 3 is around 272 to 762 pounds (123 to 346 kg) heavier than a Toyota Camry.
Perfect answer - thanks, Grok AI (and Ameridroid1) :)