Month: February 2009

074.08 – Thoughts About Internet Media

Posted by on February 20, 2009

On this episode of The Meat, Robbie and Christy discuss how the Internet has revolutionized the way we watch and access our television programs and changed the way we interact with multimedia. 1 minute 24 seconds.

074.07 – Viewer Question – Using Pidgin to Access Category5’s Chat Room

Posted by on February 20, 2009

On this episode of The Meat, Robbie shows you how to setup our Freenode IRC chat room on Pidgin Instant Messenger. 4 minutes 5 seconds.

074.06 – Life Saving Technology – The Defibrillator – Pt. 2 of 2

Posted by on February 20, 2009

Part 2 of 2 - Robbie and Carrie paid a visit to St. John Ambulance. On this episode of The Meat, we discuss some practical questions you may have about defibrillator technology with Mia Nagasaki-Kelly from St. John Ambulance. We answer your questions about the safety of using a defibrillator on a child, what to do if the person in need of defibrillation is wet, what to check for before using a defibrillator, using a defibrillator on someone who has an internal pacemaker, and more. 9 minutes 53 seconds.

074.05 – Life Saving Technology – The Defibrillator – Pt. 1 of 2

Posted by on February 20, 2009

Part 1 of 2 - Robbie and Carrie paid a visit to St. John Ambulance. On this episode of The Meat, we learn how to deal with a situation where a defibrillator (A.E.D.) may be needed. We'll learn how to use defibrillator technology, and review how to perform CPR. 9 minutes 38 seconds.

074.04 – Viewer Question – Burning CDs While Booted From Ubuntu Live CD

Posted by on February 20, 2009

A viewer tried using the Ubuntu live CD to backup a computer to CD-R media, but cannot eject the Ubuntu CD. On this episode of The Meat, Robbie explains this behaviour and how to get around it. 2 minutes 19 seconds.

074.03 – Viewer Question – VirtualBox Seamless Mode and VMWare Unity Mode

Posted by on February 20, 2009

On this episode of The Meat, Robbie describes Seamless Mode and Unity Mode in VirtualBox and VMware respectively. 3 minutes 9 seconds.

074.02 – Christy’s Question – Broadcasting Internet Radio

Posted by on February 20, 2009

On this episode of The Meat, Christy asks Robbie about setting up an Internet radio station, and Robbie explains some of the challenges, and ideas on how to approach such a project. 5 minutes 23 seconds.

074.01 – Viewer Question – Video Chat Application for Linux

Posted by on February 20, 2009

On this episode of The Meat, a viewer asks for an audio and video conferencing software that is available cross-platform. 1 minute 6 seconds.

Quick Tip: Sort by directory size

Posted by on February 14, 2009

If you've got files hidden around your system and you don't know where they are, you can use a quick command to track them down. Try this:


sudo du --max-depth=1 /home/ | sort -n -rs

073.12 – Viewer Question – Saving Files Larger Than 4 GB On External Hard Drive

Posted by on February 13, 2009

On this episode of The Meat, Robbie explains why a viewer is unable to copy files larger than 4 GB in size to their external hard drive, and what they can do to fix this behaviour. 2 minutes 14 seconds.